Robin Saunders is Managing Partner of Clearbrook Capital Partners LLP, a private investment and advisory group. Clearbrook focuses on growth companies across a variety of sectors operating in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America. Robin has led over $30 billion of transactions across 15 countries.
Prior to founding Clearbrook, Robin was a leading corporate banker specialising in securitisation and principal finance. From September 1998 to December 2003, she was Managing Director of the Principal Finance Group and the agency Asset Securitisation group at WestLB AG. Her WestLB transactions included the purchase, finance and/or refinancing of Formula One, Wembley Stadium, Odeon Cinemas, Telecom Italia, MidKent Water and Pubmaster among others.
Robin is a Visiting Fellow at the Said Business School, University of Oxford and an enthusiastic supporter of the arts.
The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Matthew Hancock, has appointed Idris Elba, Robin Saunders, Andrew Smith and Phil Stokes to the Board of the BFI from 10 May, each for four-year terms.
Robin is the Founder and Managing Partner of Clearbrook Capital Partners, a private investment firm specialising in growth companies engaged in Financial Services, business services and property sectors. Clearbrook has investments in asset management, specialty finance banks, infrastructure finance and property backed operating companies across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the US.
WestLB
Global Head
Sep 1998 - May 2004
London, UK
Robin was appointed Global Head of Principal Finance and Securitisation of WestLB in 1998.
Robin was an early member of the Asset Securitisation Group at Citi in Chicago and then London. Her clients included companies such as Coca-Cola Bottling, Ryder Trucks, Carolina Freight Corp. She had a short stint at Cit in London during 1992 in the European Securitisation Group.
Robin completed her credit and capital markets training at the Northern Trust Company in Chicago and New York. She later served in the Export and Trade Finance group as an originator and product specialist.
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