LionFish announces key appointments

LionFish has announced the appointment of its board of directors, senior advisers and key management following its acquisition in July by funds managed by Foresight Group:

• Gavin Wells has been appointed Chair. Gavin spent 15 years at Citigroup as Managing Director, overseeing various FX trading businesses. Since 2008, Gavin has been in various C-suite, senior management and strategy roles at the intersection of technology and finance.

• Graeme Scott has been appointed Finance Director. Graeme has held various CFO positions for over 20 years at high growth firms such as Tradeweb, the Property Software Group and CIPHR. Graeme led the spin out of FirstAssist Legal Expenses Insurance Limited from a larger in 2010, and the sale of FirstAssist to Burford in February 2012.

• Anna El-Erian has been appointed Senior Adviser. A corporate lawyer by training, Anna has over 30 years’ experience across Investment Banking, Private Equity and corporate management and restructuring.

• Adrian Harris has been appointed Senior Adviser. Adrian has had a long and successful career spanning over 34 years as a Solicitor in private practice in the City of London. He has been the Managing Partner of the London offices of two multinational American law firms, O’Melveny & Myers LLP and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, guiding the offices through periods of significant structural and cultural change.

• John Evans has been appointed Senior Adviser. Qualifying in 1981, John spent much of his career as a senior Litigation Partner at Ashurst LLP and has practised as a CEDR-accredited Mediator since leaving Fulbright & Jaworski (now Norton Rose Fulbright) in 2013.