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Joanna Scott

Chief Business Development Officer, London

joanna@growthlending.com Connect on LinkedIn

Joanna has a strong track record of lending to high growth UK SMEs, with particular expertise in high growth tech, financial services and healthcare sectors across multiple structures. In her spare time, Joanna is a passionate classical musician and regularly performs in some of London’s best venues with the City of London Choir.

18 years’ experience working with UK SMEs to achieve their financing goals
8 years at Growth Lending overseeing UK origination and fundraising
Previously Director at finnCap (now Cavendish Plc), raising equity for high-growth listed and private SMEs

Adam Brinn

Managing Director, London

Tel: +44 (0)75193 75314 adam@growthlending.com Connect on LinkedIn

When not trying to keep up with two very active children, Adam can be found in the gym, playing football or relaxing on the golf course. Motorsport is his favourite hobby, but he also has a passion for rock music and has recently taken up learning to play the guitar.

14 years’ experience of financing SMEs and corporates
Studying for a Bachelor’s degree in business management and accounting
Previously worked for OakNorth, Metro Bank and Barclays

Chris Mears

Regional Head, Bristol

Tel: +44 (0)77617 47307 chris@growthlending.com Connect on LinkedIn

Chris loves living and working in the beautiful south west. When not running around after his four daughters, he will have a go at most sports and outdoor activities – mainly to justify a busy social life. He is also an enthusiastic, if destructive, handyman.

MBA qualified
Previously spent 17 years in commercial and corporate banking
Previously spent 18 years as an army officer, deployed around the world

Sean McCormick

Director: Debt Finance, Manchester

Tel: +44 (0)78855 94190 sean@growthlending.com Connect on LinkedIn

Sean possesses 15 years’ Corporate Banking experience across several lending institutions, including Barclays, Santander, OakNorth and Growth Lending.

Having worked on a wide range of sponsor and non-sponsor transactions, spread across multiple sectors, deals have ranged from venture capital, growth capital and private equity buyouts, right through to large syndicated PLC transactions.

Sean has a passion for enabling businesses and management teams to accelerate growth, with a particular focus on his local market in Manchester and more broadly across the north of the UK.

Dan Hewitt

Director: Healthcare Debt Finance, London

Tel: +44 (0)74292 17777 dan@growthlending.com Connect on LinkedIn

Based in Cambridge and London, Dan has a national role supporting our Health and Social Care clients. He has worked in Commercial and Corporate Banking for 20 years and has spent the past decade financing healthcare operators across multiple sub-sectors.

Dan enjoys providing finance to a sector which plays such an important role in local communities and protects the most vulnerable among us.

20 years’ of banking experience
More than a decade specialising in Health and Social Care finance across sub-sectors

James Cooksey

Director: Debt Finance, Midlands

jamesc@growthlending.com Connect on LinkedIn

James is a Chartered Accountant with more than 25 years’ experience across corporate finance advisory, leveraged finance and SME growth capital, including a 3 year role as CFO of a multi-site manufacturing business.

He has a track record of originating, structuring and delivering complex event-driven transactions while building trusted relationships with management teams, shareholders and private equity investors.

Natalie Walker-Owen

Associate Director: Debt Finance, Manchester

Tel: +44(0)78910 77086 natalie@growthlending.com Connect on LinkedIn

Natalie likes to keep busy, spending most weekends brunching with friends and hiking or kayaking in the Peak District. She loves travelling and one of her favourite trips was to Finland, where she took husky rides, played in snow three feet deep and slept in glass domes under the northern lights.

Chartered Accountant – ACA (2016)
Six years’ experience in financial advisory at Grant Thornton
Two years’ experience in portfolio management at RoundShield Partners

Bryony McIver

Associate Director: Debt Finance, London

Tel: +44 (0)77411 37994 bryony@growthlending.com Connect on LinkedIn

Bryony has a decade of experience in financial services and has worked in private credit specifically since 2019.

Previously holding a senior role within the Growth Lending portfolio team, Bryony now brings her relationship management skills to the front office, having experienced first-hand the positive impact of structured investment on companies’ growth trajectories.