Who Is behind London Capital & Finance?

By J Drew -

Who are the People behind London Capital & Finance?

On the Information Memorandum supplied to all investors there are three people listed as the management team of  London Capital & Finance, however there are other people who are listed as shareholders or directors of the company and Security Trustees
  • Martin Binks
  • Katherine Simpson
  • Michael Andrew Thomson also known as Andy Thomson
Andy Thomson and Katherine Simpson are also listed as directors of  London Capital & Finance

Katherine Simpson
Katherine Simpson, London Capital Finance
Katherine Simpson, London Capital Finance, Image: Facebook
As well as working for LCF, Katherine Simpson also runs her own HR consultancy business JDS HR Ltd based from Deal in Kent. One can only assume her role at London Capital & Finance was as a figurehead as running her own consultancy in parallel and having only 6 staff at LCF it wouldn't have been a demanding HR role.

 Michael Andrew Thomson also known as Andy Thomson

Andy Thomson took over LCF from Simon Hume-Kendall who setup the company in 2012.

Andy Thomson, CEO London Capital & Finance
Andy Thomson became CEO of London Capital & Finance in 2015 and is also owner of the company with over 75% shareholding. Andy Thomson is also director of his daughter's horse riding company GT Eventing along with his wife Debbie Thomson.

Robert Mannering Sedgwick 

A solicitor that was acting as director of LCF as well as many of the companies that they loaned money to. Disqualified for 12 months in 2018 for his role in a carbon credits scam. He was the director of many companies loaned money by LCF as well as the LCF Trustees
Martin Binks was previously Head of Finance and Compliance at Novum Securities Limited
Martin Binks was previously Head of Finance and Compliance at Novum Securities Limited
Martin Binks - Image:LinkedIn
He was listed in the Information memorandum in 2016 but appears to have left LCF shortly afterwards. Did he quit because he found out what was going on?
Simon Hume-Kendall

Set up  London Capital & Finance in 2012 when it was called Sales Aid Finance. He left and Andy Thomson took over. He is director of many companies that  London Capital & Finance have lent money to and is Chairman of companies that have failed to file their accounts in time with Companies House such as London Power Management and London Group LLP
Simon Hume-Kendall
Simon Hume-Kendall

List of company directorships for Simon Hume-Kendall - many have failed to complete their statutory reporting of accounts to Companies House. Surely the Chairman is responsible?



Kevin Allan Maddison

Listed as a director of LCF since 2017

Floris Jakobus HUISAMEN

Listed as a director of LCF since 2017

Paul Careless

Runs Surge Financial in Brighton that sold LCF and Blackmore Bonds.


Surge Financial was the marketing arm running the call centre for LCF and providing sales leads to LCF via comparison websites run from the same offices.

The Surge Financial social media pages show plenty of examples of how much money they were making and the extravagant perks the staff enjoy.

 Photo below showing the activities at Surge Financial including the car run by Paul Careless, a Ferrari GT4 Lusso registration HF18CYA

Connections between London Capital & Finance and Associates?

The common link between the "LCF management team" seems to be horse riding and equestrian activities. According to his LinkedIn profile Martin Binks is director of My Blockstock plc, Katherine Simpson is a keen rider according to her Facebook as is Andy Thomson and his family.

LCF have sponsored various horse riding events and offered prizes of up to £60,000 for the Osborne Horse trials

London Capital Finance sponsorship & corporate hospitality
Another person linked to LCF is Spencer Golding who has been linked to stables lent money by LCF and has links to the Cornish timeshare village that LCF have loaned money to according to the Evening Standard. He is disqualified as a company director and according to This Is Money was linked to a timeshare scheme that led to investors being persuaded to purchase additional properties.
Katherine Simpson, Director of LCF
JDS HR Ltd
8a Alfred Square, Deal, Kent,
CT14 6LU
www.jdshrsolutions.co.uk/testimonials
https://twitter.com/jdshr

Michael Andrew Thompson, Director of LCF

Chief Executive Officer @ London Capital & Finance Plc
CEO @ International Resorts Group Plc
Managing Director @ One Monday Ltd
Relationship Director @ RBS


Comments

  1. Bertie26 March 2019 at 06:44

    8% over 3 years in today's environment? one would have thought the FCA would have been on that in a flash ?

    ReplyDelete
  2. wiljaxon26 March 2019 at 12:10

    Thanks for taking the time to research these people.

    ReplyDelete

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