Our People

Christopher is an investment director and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.

He manages investment portfolios for charities, trusts, pensions and private clients including some with ethical criteria. He also enjoys working with independent financial advisers.

After graduating from Bristol University, where he had an army scholarship, Christopher served for seven years in a cavalry regiment. He started at Rathbones in 2002, where he trained, and as investment director worked in Bristol and Exeter. In 2012 he moved to Brewin Dolphin as divisional director before rejoining Rathbones in 2016.

Christopher is an investment director based in the Winchester office. He specialises in managing portfolios for private individuals including the investments held in their associated trusts, pension funds, private companies and charities.

He is an individually Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment and won the FT Extel Prize awarded by the Institute for its diploma examinations in 1996/97. After graduating from Cambridge University, he trained with Smith & Williamson Securities and Wise Speke Limited before joining Rathbones Group in 1997.   

Christy heads up the tax advantaged investments proposition at Rathbones, where she is responsible for delivering a structured approach, with thorough due diligence, that will provide clients greater opportunity to invest in this space. Prior to joining Rathbones, Christy was involved in advising, identifying, and executing financial strategies, and supporting UHNW families at Fry Family Office. Christy is a Certified Financial Planner, who started her career working alongside accountants and solicitors to best support their clients.

Christy has a degree in Business Management from the University of Stellenbosch, in South Africa, where she specialised in Corporate Finance, Investment Strategies and Financial Planning.

Clare is an investment director and provides discretionary management for a longstanding client base. These cover private clients, corporate clients, charities and trusts. She is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

Clare joined Rathbones in July 2010 following the acquisition of the Bank of Scotland Portfolio Management Service from Lloyds. She had been with portfolio management service for 25 years and during this time was involved in all aspects of private client investments and managed private client portfolios for the latter 17 years.

Bill joined Rathbones in April 2020 as Client Development Director in the Aberdeen office. He Is responsible for client development activities across the North East of Scotland.

Before joining Rathbones, Bill spent over 20 years with Aberdeen Asset Management in a number of client relationship roles. Prior to that, he spent 10 years with Mitsubishi Finance Int’l in London managing institutional equity portfolios.

Clive is an investment director with 35 years’ experience in private client fund management. He has been actively involved in the management of portfolios for larger complex family structures, including the management of bespoke family funds.

Clive is a member of the Rathbone Investment Management Investment Executive Committee. He is also on Rathbones' committees for Strategic Asset Allocation and UK and International Stock Selection. He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment and has an honours degree from London University. Prior to his career in the financial services, Clive served in the regular army as a commissioned officer with the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.

Clive joined Rathbones in 2000, prior to which he spent 15 years at Kleinwort Benson as a wealth manager. Throughout this period, he was also actively involved in the research and stock selection process, was deputy chief investment officer and in his earlier years was research manager for the oil, gas, utility and pharmaceutical sectors.

Corinne Bathgate is an investment director at Greenbank specialising in the management of ethical portfolios for private clients, trusts and charities. She is a graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Bristol. Corinne currently holds the Masters in Wealth Management and is a chartered member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. She has also been awarded the CFA UK Level 4 Certificate in ESG Investing.

Corinne joined Rathbones in April 2007 and previously worked as an economic analyst.

Craig is an investment director and manages portfolios for private clients, trusts and charities. He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

Craig graduated from the Aberdeen Business School, Robert Gordon University in 1996 with an honours degree in Commerce and joined Speirs & Jeffrey later that year. Speirs & Jeffrey was fully integrated with Rathbones in July 2019.

Craig Brown is the senior investment specialist for the Rathbone Multi-Asset Portfolios and Managed service. Craig joined Rathbones in November 2018, bringing 15 years’ financial services experience, including time with Barclays Wealth & Investment Management, and Citibank. Directly prior to joining Rathbones, Craig was a multi-asset portfolio manager at Beckett Asset Management, constructing a range of portfolios for discretionary clients. He is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.