Gavin Cowling joins FW Capital's North West Fund for
Loans’ Team
17th May 2011
FW
Capital, the company which manages The North West Fund’s £35m
Business Loans Fund has appointed Gavin Cowling as Senior
Investment Executive, further strengthening its investment team in
the North West.
The Liverpool and Manchester-based team is led by Fund Manager,
Gary Guest. Cowling joins Investment Executive, Philip Hargreaves
in Manchester, while Senior Investment Executive, Simon Berry and
Investment Executive, Carol Bolland are based in Liverpool.
Cowling has 30 years’ business banking experience and has
previously held business development roles at Barclays, Alliance
and Leicester and RBS.
The North West Fund is a £185m evergreen fund financed by the
European Regional Development Fund and the European Investment Bank
(EIB).
Recent FW Capital investments from the North West Fund for
Business Loans include Tuff X Processed Glass and Totalpost
Services, with more applications in the pipeline.
Commenting on the appointment, Fund Manager, Gary Guest said:
“Gavin is a well-known and respected lender in the Manchester area.
We’re delighted he’s on board and sharing his considerable lending
expertise. We now have a highly-skilled team with a great deal of
knowledge of deal structuring.”
Manchester-based Cowling will now use his lending expertise to
structure the right debt investments to help businesses in the
North West grow.
Cowling is pleased to join FW Capital: “FW Capital has already
made a number of investments from the North West Fund for Business
Loans. Interest is growing and I’m looking forward to helping
businesses make the most of our debt investments and to make the
North West Fund for Business Loans a success.”
FW Capital manages the £35 million Fund, which makes loans of
between £50,000 and £250,000 to viable small and medium-sized
businesses (SMEs) based in the North West of England.
Andy Leach, Chief Executive of The North West Fund said:
“Gavin’s appointment represents a further strengthening of the
investment team being assembled to deliver The North West Fund for
Business Loans. With the early momentum of the fund now translating
into a steady flow of high quality investment opportunities,
Gavin’s years of lending experience will add greatly to the
capabilities and capacity of the FW Capital team as enquiries and
investment levels increase.”
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