Our People

Paul is a Chartered Financial Planner with over 25 years’ experience.

He provides financial advice for clients and their representatives, enabling them to make informed decisions to ensure they maximise their lifestyle without jeopardising their future security.

Paul is a member of the personal injury and Court of Protection team, providing financial advice and tax structuring for personal injury claimants and clients in later life, working with Court of Protection deputies, trustees and individual clients.

In his spare time he is a director for Cranleigh Riding for the Disabled.

Brad joined Rathbones as a financial planner in 2021 and provides specialist advice to clients and their representatives within Rathbones’ Court of Protection team. With over 10 years’ experience in helping clients to maximise and protect their wealth, he brings a range of experience from a variety of different roles and is passionate about helping clients to achieve all of their financial planning objectives.

Brad holds a master’s degree in Commercial Law from the University of Edinburgh and prior to this, lived in Denmark and Belgium where he gained a first class honours degree in European Business Management.

Angus joined Rathbones Investment Management as Regional Director for the Glasgow office in May 2015 and became Head of Scotland, at Rathbones, in June 2021. Angus has over 25 years’ experience in the wealth management sector, attending to the needs of individuals, trusts, charities, and pension schemes.

Angus is a Chartered Wealth Manager and a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investments. In satisfying his clients financial requirements he draws drawing upon his extensive private client investment management experience having worked exclusively in this specialist area for Greig Middleton, Murray Johnstone, Aberdeen Asset management and Brewin Dolphin. He is involved personally in several charitable and personal trusts and believes that exceptional client service develops long and lasting relationships.

Angus is married with 3 daughters and enjoys being their taxi service, walking his dog, Pepper, and every now and then hitting a golf ball.

Nik is an investment director with 20 years’ experience in financial services. He joined Rathbones as an investment director in 2018 and manages discretionary investment portfolios for private individuals, trusts, charities and pension funds within a longstanding team.

Nik graduated with a degree in European Business Studies from Middlesex University in 1996 and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.

He started his career at Merrill Lynch in 1997 moving to Julius Baer in 2012 when they acquired Merrill’s international business.

Kirstie joined Rathbones in February 2013 to assist in establishing the Newcastle office. Previously she spent over 25 years working for Lloyds Private Banking and Lloyds TSB Independent Financial Advisers. Kirstie is part of the specialist personal injury and Court of Protection team at Rathbones and has advised deputies and trustees in this area for over a decade.

Kirstie qualified as a Chartered Financial Planner in 2007 and became a Fellow of the Personal Finance Society in 2008.  She specialises in the provision of holistic financial planning to high-net-worth individuals.

James was one of the founding members of the Rathbones Newcastle office when it opened in the city in 2013.  Prior to that he was a Director at UBS Wealth Management. He has 22 years investment industry experience and specialises in the management of private client, trust, offshore and pension fund portfolios.

James graduated in Law from Newcastle University in 1998, holds the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment (CISI) Diploma and is a Chartered Fellow of the CISI.  James currently sits on the Appeals Committee of St Oswald’s Hospice charity and is a former trustee of the Great North Air Ambulance Service.

Abby recently graduated with a first class History degree from the University of Birmingham and has since begun their career with Rathbones Trust Company in 2023. Abby assists case managers with their administrative tasks.

Abigail joined Greenbank in 2018. She started her career with Computershare Investor Services in 2011 working in the correspondence and then gilts and structured product teams.

She specialised as a dividend officer at Computershare from 2016 paying dividends for a number of FTSE 100 clients.