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Julian Hanson-Smith Partner (44)

An entrepreneur and private equity investor, and between 2001-5 was a Principal at Lake Capital, a US-based private equity firm specialising in the business services sector, responsible for investment activity in the UK. Prior to that, he was COO of Lighthouse Global Network, and was the company's senior executive responsible for 12 operating companies spanning its three core communications competencies. In 1986 he co-founded Financial Dynamics, a company he built to become one of Europe's pre-eminent consultancies specialising in business communications for corporate clients. He led an MBO of the company and, in 1999, its successful sale.

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