Francis Menassa is the CEO and Founder. Menassa cut his teeth as a Relationship Manager in private banking at Merrill Lynch, which he joined in 1996. In 2001, Francis joined Credit Suisse as a Wealth Manager in Private Client Services. In 2008, Francis and a colleague went independent and set up their own private wealth management firm, Plurimi Capital, where Francis served as the Chief Operating Officer, Partner and Head of Business Development. After more than two decades in the City, Francis established JAR Capital in 2014.
CEO
Achal looks after the Wealth Management and the Corporate Business for JAR and has been associated with the Financial services industry for the past 23 years. He started his career with Standard Chartered Bank and has held Senior Management positions with Citibank in London and Kotak Mahindra in India. He holds an MBA Degree from McGill University, Canada and an Engineering Degree in Computer Sciences from India.
Managing Director
Ulric joined JAR Capital Limited in the Summer of 2018, a financial industry professional with over 30 years’ experience gained in blue-Chip organisations such as Merrill Lynch and Barclays Private Bank. Whilst working in these blue chip institutions rapid progression followed culminating in senior VP-level roles at Merrills, working for the MENA region and at Barclays, working directly for the COO of IPB Barclays Private Bank.
Vice President
Vladimir has joined JAR Capital coming from the Asset Management industry, where he progressed from an equity trader to a Fund Manager at Integral Capital Management. Before this, Vladimir was also working in AML, Compliance and Corporate Structures roles. He holds a BSc in Finance and an MBA from Webster University, and reads for an Executive MSc in Finance at the London School of Economics.
Vice President
Robert Dunbar is our Compliance Officer and MLRO. With over 15 years compliance and regulatory experience, Robert has been a member of the team since 2017. Robert has worked in a variety of roles from focused remedial projects to generalist in house advisory for both large multinational corporations and small boutique investment and asset management firms. Always focused on customer outcomes, Robert enables JAR to adopt regulatory best practice throughout our operations.
Compliance Officer
Having graduated from the University of Bristol with an Upper Second Class Degree in Philosophy & Economics (BSc), Archie joined JAR London at the beginning of 2017 - looking after and managing all aspects of JAR’s relationships with its Private Clients, Trading Counterparties, and Custodians.
Senior Associate
Vincent started his career Lloyd's Private Bank before moving to HSBC Private Bank and on to start his own business. A fully qualified financial adviser, Vincent now advises businesses and builds relationships with corporate and individual clients. He specialises in developing high value, long standing, corporate partnerships. Vincent has joined JAR concentrating on our onshore offering. Vincent is a holder of the UEFA B football licence and helps develop young players at a number of clubs.
Business Development Manager
Talal joined JAR Capital in July 2017 as a Senior Finance manager on the back of 6 years’ experience with a large private Wealth Manager. Prior to this Talal worked in the technically demanding field of Mechanical Engineering and has utilised the analytical skills gleaned in that industry, along with guidance from our experienced Finance Director, to build out and fine tune JAR’s financial operations.
Senior Finance Manager
Practising licenced Chartered Accountant from Deloitte London Financial and Insurance Group moving post qualification to Deloitte transaction advisory. Head of Finance and Planning for FTSE100 Financial Institution. Treasurer for European Arm of a second largest Japanese Financial institution. CFO / CFO cover for number of financial institutions and private equity ventures both Europe and USA.
Chief Financial Officer
JAR Capital's Chief Legal Officer, Peter Young began his legal career in 1998 gaining experience in tax in London firm K&L Gates. Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and Gibraltar, he has a broad range of multi-jurisdictional funds experience including specialist knowledge of technology investments. He is a licensed Experienced Investor Fund director bringing his legal and tax experience to several Gibraltar funds of which he is the regulated director.
Head of Legal
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