Huw Shakeshaft is Founder and Senior Partner at TransAtlantica Partners, a high-level, relationship-driven, corporate advisory company and political briefing group.
Huw, a former world championship athlete, has a wealth of knowledge gained from over 35 years of experience in global international finance and related sectors. His diverse knowledge has stemmed from years of living and working in many of the world’s core financial hubs such as London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore and New York. Huw specialised in personal account fund management, working on behalf of high net worth private clients in the global financial markets in Tokyo. Over the years, Huw’s knowledge and expertise has seen him deal with established names in the financial world such as Hambros Merchant Bank, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and J.P. Morgan. With his global experience, non-partisan political interests and expertise in asset management, business start-ups and strategies, Huw has built strong relationships with a personal network of many high-level and leading figures in varied sectors. These sectors include corporate finance, politics, entertainment and sport.
In addition, Huw is a political advisor and public speaker, briefing politicians, lawmakers and businesses on Brexit and the underlying state of the EU. In 2019, Huw was a Keynote Speaker at the European Funds Finance Symposium in London.
Huw studied at the University of London, graduating as a Bachelor of Education and an Executive Master of Business Administration.