ROBERT MASON

Robert joined Lord North Street in May 2007 as a specialist adviser and has responsibility for Private Equity investments.  He spent six years in the British Army, including serving in the Falklands war, and in 1983 joined JP Morgan where he worked with Adam Wethered.  He started the European Leveraged Transaction Group for the bank in 1987.  In 1989 he founded European Acquisition Capital, an independent Private Equity investment firm.  He successfully raised and invested more than €500 million in three funds before leaving the business in 2006.

He is an Oxford graduate and rowed in three Boat Races.