Richard Sansom
Chief Financial Officer, NewSmith Capital Partners
Richard Sansom is Partner and Chief Financial Officer of NewSmith Capital Partners, responsible for
financial management and control.
Richard has extensive experience of the financial services industry, having worked in the investment
banking industry for 15 years, including having served as Group Finance Director of Smith New Court Plc,
prior to its acquisition by Merrill Lynch in 1995. Following that acquisition Richard worked in a number
of positions at Merrill Lynch, latterly as Controller for the Firm’s European region, until leaving in
2000 to join on-line investment bank Wit Soundview. Before joining NewSmith in 2006, Richard was Group
Finance Director of the insurance broker Heath Lambert.
Richard qualified as a chartered accountant with Touche Ross in 1983, and has a BSc Honours degree in
Economics from the University of Aberystwyth.
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