Sarasin Bread Street

Alex is Head of Sarasin Bread Street, Sarasin & Partners’ private markets business, where he is a Partner. He previously co-founded Bread Street Capital Partners and held senior investing roles at Janus Henderson, Aberdeen Standard Investments (now abrdn) and Deutsche Asset Management.

He became Head of Private Equity at Aberdeen in 2009, and subsequently Global Head of Private Markets Investment Oversight. He has managed several investment companies (Aberdeen Private Equity Fund Ltd; Henderson Alternative Strategies Trust plc) and has run portfolios for corporates, local authorities and endowments.

Alex is an Alderman of the City of London, has held various non-executive directorships and chaired multiple governance structures including the City’s Audit & Risk committee.

Holding an MA in Economics and Accountancy from Aberdeen University, Alex has passed Säid Business School’s Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme and is an associate member of the UK CISI.

Jack joined Sarasin in 2023 as an investment analyst on the Bread Street team. He is responsible for the due diligence on private market opportunities.

Prior to Sarasin, he worked as an investment analyst at Cabot Credit Management, and as an analyst at Boston Consulting Group.

Jack graduated from the University of Warwick with a BSc in Economics and has passed CFA Level 3.

Guy is a Senior Adviser at Sarasin Bread Street, the specialist private markets business of Sarasin & Partners LLP formed in 2022. Immediately prior to this Guy was at Bread Street Capital Partners, which he joined having previously held lead investing roles at Aberdeen Standard Investments (now abrdn), SVG Advisers, Hermes UOB and Greenoak Capital Management (the private equity arm of Granville plc, now Robert W Baird & Co).

Guy has over 30 years private equity investing experience and has an extensive and long-established network of manager and investor relationships. At SVG Advisers he was Chief Investment Officer and lead manager of the Schroder Private Equity Fund of Funds and SVG Diamond programmes, portfolios he continued to manage at Aberdeen. Guy has served on the Advisory Boards of leading private equity managers across buyout, growth and venture strategies. He is a Non-Executive Director of Schroder Private Equity Fund of Funds III and IV plc.

Guy has a BA in Business Administration from the Bristol Business School (now part of University of the West of England) and is a Chartered Accountant qualifying with Arthur Andersen in London.

James is a Partner in Sarasin & Partners LLP and co-heads Sarasin Bread Street, a specialist private markets business formed in 2022. Prior to this he co-founded Bread Street Capital Partners, held senior investment, product and capital markets roles at Aberdeen Standard Investments (now abrdn), SVG Advisors, Nomura and Merrill Lynch, and started his career at Dresdner Kleinwort in 1985.

James has a long track record of private market investing and has launched and managed investment funds for all types of institutional and professional investors. These include innovative private equity collateralised fund obligations and Aberdeen Private Equity Global FOF plc, an Irish Stock Exchange listed fund. At Aberdeen he was responsible for all European clients’ private markets portfolios, with then over £8bn of assets. He is a Non-Executive Director of Oxford Capital, an award-winning venture capital firm investing into early stage UK companies in the Digital and Artificial Intelligence sectors.

James attended St Catharine’s College, Cambridge University, and graduated with an MA in Natural Sciences. He has an MBA from London Business School.