Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Ian Hannam is founder of Hannam & Partners, a leading investment bank with sector expertise in natural resources and financial services. As an angel investor, he has invested in digital banking startup Revolut. A former Captain of the 21 SAS, Ian started his career as an engineer. He was posted overseas and managed large construction projects in Nigeria, Ghana, Hong Kong, and Oman. He spent more than 30 years at Salomon Brothers and then JPMorgan. Appointed Chairman of Equity Capital Markets in 2000, he became Vice-Chairman of JPMorgan and Chairman of Global Debt and Equity Capital Markets before leaving the end of 2012. He came up with the idea of, and was the driving force behind, the bank's joint venture with Cazenove in the UK in 2005. Also known as the ‘King of Mining’, he helped float mining heavyweights BHP Billiton, Vedanta and Xstrata; bought together Glencore and Xstrata in a $90 billion deal, and pioneered JPMorgan’s mining activities in Afghanistan and Kurdistan.