Richard Abbott HBV Trustee Director & Chief Executive
Richard joined HBV as Chief Executive in 2003.  Originally qualifying in banking, he managed Eastern Bloc, Syndicated and UK High Growth start-up finance prior to branching out into SME (small/medium enterprise) development in 1990. Specialising in small business ever since, he has delivered advice, development and business rescue consultancy to start-ups and SMEs in the UK and overseas.  An ‘SME specialist’ MBA, he has managed and delivered public funded business support for enterprise support organisations and early model Business Links.  Locally, he chaired Inspire, Hackney’s Education Business Partnership for several years, and he also serves on the board of Blue Hut, a youth club in Shoreditch.

Andrew Balgarnie HBV Chair and Trustee Director
Andrew Balgarnie is a Partner of Connaught Capital Partners LLP. Andrew was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley & Co, the US investment bank, where he spent 18 years in New York, London and Moscow. Before coming to HBV he was a Trustee of Groundwork West London. Andrew is Chairman of Regents Park Cricket Club, a community cricket club for young people. He is also a volunteer RFU youth rugby referee. He was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Adrian Haxby HBV Trustee Director
Adrian Haxby is a Managing Director in UBS Investment Bank where he runs the UK Mid Cap Corporate Broking and Advisory team.  Adrian read Classics and Modern Languages at Oxford University.  He joined Price Waterhouse (now PWC) in 1981 and qualified as an ACA before moving to SG Warburg, one of the principal constituent firms today of UBS in the UK, in 1985.  He has worked in a variety or roles for UBS in London, Paris and Frankfurt with a focus on mergers & acquisitions and capital raising for listed companies.  He is a member of the UBS Community Affairs Committee and became a trustee of HBV Enterprise in 2006.

Brian Marsh HBV Trustee Director
Brian is a former Hackney councillor, a resident representative for Hackney Homes, a lifetime trade unionist, and has been a resident of Shoreditch since 1959.  During the 20 years that he  served as a Hackney councillor, he has represented Hackney on a number of London-wide bodies (section 101), maintaining strategic functions between the GRC and the GLA.  Brian has a particular interest in transport, environmental and business development matters. “It is important to make our environment a friendlier place to live and a safer place. I want to see more community cohesion and to bridge the divide between the old and young.”

Grishma Parmar HBV Trustee Director
Grishma is a Senior Consultant with over 5 years corporate experience with PwC and currently working in a Financial Services Company.  She was previously a Non-Executive Director for a registered charity known as the South London Vanza Community for two years and assistant secretary for over a year.

Dipesh Santilale HBV Trustee Director
Dipesh is a senior associate in the corporate team at CMS Cameron McKenna, a leading international law firm where he has been since commencing his training as a solicitor in 2001.  He has substantial experience of acquisitions, mergers, restructurings and corporate finance transactions and has acted for a number of entrepreneurs and start-ups on initial investments, IPOs, corporate acquisitions and disposals, as well as providing ongoing corporate and commercial law advice.  Dipesh graduated from King’s College London in 2000, where he studied Law with European Legal Studies and completed a diploma in German law at the University of Heidelberg.  In addition to his work in supporting HBV, he has also been involved in a number of community and Asian organisations, organising fund-raising events and raising awareness for issues concerning young Asians within the UK, including speaking at charitable events and previously on a UK-wide Asian radio station.
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Ayesha Fisher Company Secretary
Ayesha graduated from the London School of Economics in 2003 and has worked at Credit Suisse in Marketing and Events for the Graduate Recruitment function for over four years covering Europe, Middle East and Africa.

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