Team

Ignacio Arambarri

Europe

Education

• MBA, IESE Business School – University of Navarra
• BC, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Ignacio Arambarri

Europe

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Ignacio has extensive experience in crisis situations spanning different sectors, holding senior level positions on several projects.

Prior to joining Sandton, Ignacio was a Director at Noraction, where he was responsible for operational restructuring and “turnarounds,” as well as advising both investors and creditors in those situations. Before Noraction, he was a Senior Associate at Alvarez & Marsal, advising several operational and financial restructuring processes in different sectors and countries. Ignacio began his career in corporate finance as a Financial Analyst and Controller at EADS (Airbus), and subsequently as the CFO of Salvesen Logistics.

Emmanuel Atlan

Europe

Education

• ESSEC Business School 
• Neoma Business School

Emmanuel Atlan

Europe

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Emmanuel has 10 years of experience in restructuring advising investors on distressed lending and/or buy-outs as well as assisting management teams of businesses in difficulty.

He started his career with PwC's Business Recovery Services team in Paris. In 2014, he moved to London to work for THM Partners where he worked on international restructurings in Iceland, Germany, France, the UK and Italy. He joined Sandton Capital in February 2020.

Alexandra Bohne

North America

Education

BS, University of Tampa

Alexandra Bohne

North America

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Prior to joining Sandton, Alex was a fund accountant at Ultimus Fund Solutions focusing on mutual funds and ETFs. 

Toby Bundy

UK

Education

Bsc, University of Bristol

Toby Bundy

UK

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Prior to joining Sandton, Toby qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) with Grant Thornton UK. He then worked as the CFO of a SME focused distressed and special situation firm based in London before moving into interim CFO/FD positions for businesses with a focus on those with restructuring requirements or an element of distress. He has held senior positions within fashion, construction and commercial property, wholesale food, and financial services.

Andy Foster

UK

Andy Foster

UK

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Before joining Sandton as a Senior Advisor, Andy ran Lloyds Banking Group's Mid Corporate Business Support operation across the North and Scotland.

Appointed at the height of the financial crisis in 2008, he and his teams assumed responsibility for some of the Bank's most challenging, complex, and sensitive positions.  Previously, Andy led the Leveraged Finance team for Lloyds in the North, structuring debt in support of private equity backed management buy-outs, originating and transacting over £500m of deals personally.  Before this, he spent the majority of his 34-year career in corporate relationship management, encompassing both SMEs in the Midlands and global corporates in the City.  He pioneered a strategic advisory offering to a group of the Bank's mid corporate clients.  He has extensive transactional, operational, and financial restructuring and performance improvement experience across a broad range of sectors and businesses.  Based in York, Andy is well known to business communities across the North and is an active member of the Institute for Turnaround.

Catherine Francq

Europe

Education

• MSc, Free University of Brussels

Catherine Francq

Europe

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Catherine serves as Controller for Sandton Operations (Europe) in Luxembourg. Before joining the company, she worked as senior accountant at Fiduciaire Treuconsult SA. She has also been Head of Network Management Correspondent Banking with both Notenstein Privatbank in Switzerland and Banque du Luxembourg.

Colby Gibbins

North America

Education

• BBA, University of Texas at Austin

Colby Gibbins

North America

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Colby's background includes investment banking, distressed debt, and commercial banking.

Colby most recently worked for Chiron Financial where he was responsible for leading the execution of financing, sale, and financial advisory assignments across a number of industries and situations. Prior to his experience at Chiron, Colby had credit underwriting roles at both Societe Generale and Macquarie Group where he worked with clients in the energy sector. Colby has a BBA in Finance with a minor in accounting from the University of Texas at Austin.

Ian Green

UK

Ian Green

UK

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Ian joins Sandton having led PwC’s UK Restructuring practice. He was responsible for the UK’s largest restructuring team of 800 and was subsequently made PwC’s Northern Regional Leader responsible for all disciplines. He played a key role on notable assignments, including UK Coal, Lehman Brothers, Phones 4 U, Petroplus, and Carillion.

Dimitri Korvyakov

North America

Education

• MBA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• BBA, Freed-Hardeman University

Dimitri Korvyakov

North America

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Dimitri serves as Chief Financial Officer for Sandton Capital. He was most recently the Senior Fund Controller at the Rohatyn Group. Prior to Rohatyn, Dimitri worked in corporate finance and tax consultancy for Ernst & Young. He is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).

Jay Lee

North America

Education

BBA, University of Texas at Austin

Jay Lee

North America

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Jay joined Sandton Capital from GulfStar Group.

Jay joined Sandton Capital from GulfStar Group, where he was an associate executing sell-side engagements for privately held middle market companies. His transaction experience spans manufacturing, distribution, and services sectors throughout the United States. Prior to joining GulfStar Group, Jay was with Frost Bank in both lender and credit analyst roles.

Jordan Levy

North America

Education

• BA, Bucknell University

Jordan Levy

North America

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Jordan has held portfolio company management and turnaround advisory roles, in addition to his experience in private equity, distressed debt and investment banking.

Before joining Sandton, he was a founder and head of M&A for National Pecan Company, a private equity platform created to build one of the world’s largest pecan growers. Prior to National Pecan, Jordan worked for Mellon HBV Alternative Strategies, where he was responsible for the origination and management of debt and equity securities with a focus on distressed middle market investments across a variety of industries. Prior to that he was with Loughlin Meghji + Company, a turnaround/restructuring management consulting firm that provides debtor and creditor advisory services. Jordan began his career at CIBC Oppenheimer in their corporate finance group.

Javier Martin

Europe

Education

BC, Universidad Pontificia Comillas

Javier Martin

Europe

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Javier joins Sandton Capital Partners with previous experience in different areas of investment banking, such as M&A, DCM and ECM, after having worked in the investment banking divisions of Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and ING. Additionally, he has previous experience from working in Spanish law firm Cuatrecasas and also in Deloitte. Javier holds a dual degree in business administration and law from Universidad Pontificia Comillas, and he has done international exchanges in Singapore Management University and SciencesPo Paris. He is fluent in Spanish, English and French.

David Meckler

North America

Education

• MBA, Wharton School of Business
• BA, University of Chicago & Yale University

David Meckler

North America

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David’s experience includes advising hedge funds and private equity firms on special situations across credit, equity, rates, and FX.

Prior to joining Sandton Capital, David worked on the cross-asset sales desk at Goldman Sachs. Before Goldman, he received his MBA from Wharton, and before that he played 10 years of professional hockey for the Los Angeles Kings Organization and the Red Bull Hockey Organization in Germany & Austria.

Matt Meehan

UK

Education

• MBA, Wharton School of Business
• BA, Amherst College

Matt Meehan

UK

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Matt's experience includes over 35 years of investing in Private Equity, Management Turnarounds, Distressed Debt, and Special Situations with a recognized expertise in Europe.

Prior to joining Sandton Capital, Matt worked as a PM for two firms, Eos and MeehanCombs with the majority of the portfolios invested in European distressed credits, restructurings and special situations in multiple jurisdictions.  During that time, he invested over $3 billion in more than 200 companies across the credit spectrum.  Prior to that, Matt was a partner at Stolberg, Meehan and Scano as well as Weiss, Peck and Greer investing in turnaround buyouts and restructurings. Earlier in his career, Matt worked as a crisis manager and invested in distressed credits at The First Boston Corporation.

John Meuchner

North America

Education

B.A., Trinity College 

John Meuchner

North America

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John serves as a Head of Marketing and Investor Relations for Sandton Capital.  Prior to joining Sandton, John spent two years at Aurelius Capital Management, a stressed/distressed credit and event-driven investment manager, where he led Investor Relations and Marketing.  Before that, he spent two years with Graticule Asset Management Asia, a global macro hedge fund, and two years with Greenwich Associates, a consulting firm dedicated to the financial services industry.

Ad Noordzij

Europe

Education

MBA, University of Oregon
BA, University of Nyenrode

Ad Noordzij

Europe

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Ad has an international background of more than 30 years in advisory, restructuring management and finance.

He was Head of Restructuring for EMEA and APAC at the Royal Bank of Scotland from 2008 and, prior to that, for Europe and South America at ABN AMRO Bank, responsible for the distressed wholesale and mid-market as well as project finance and real estate lending portfolios. Ad was also with Alvarez & Marsal Restructuring, where he was involved in assignments in the Netherlands, France and South Africa.  Based in Amsterdam and having worked on numerous international transactions across Europe, he is well known to the restructuring communities in the Netherlands and other European countries.  Ad is a member of the Dutch Restructuring Association.

Rael Nurick

North America, UK, Europe

Education

• MBA, Harvard Business School
• BC, University of Witwatersrand

Rael Nurick

North America, UK, Europe

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Rael's background includes investment banking, distressed debt and private & public equities.

Prior to co-founding Sandton Capital, Rael worked at Knighthead Capital Management where he invested in distressed bank loans, high yield bonds and other hybrid securities. Prior to Knighthead, Rael was on the principal investing team at GoldenTree Asset Management where he invested in debt and equity securities in a variety of industries. Rael also worked on the investment team, as a generalist, at private equity firm Vestar Capital Partners. Earlier in his career, Rael worked in the leveraged finance group in the investment banking division of Credit Suisse.

Robert Orr

North America

Education

• MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
• BA, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)

Robert Orr

North America

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Rob's background includes distressed debt, commercial banking and management consulting for financial institutions.

Rob has covered a wide range of geographies and industries since joining Sandton in 2010. Prior to Sandton Capital, Rob was part of the 2005 founding team at Square 1 Bank, where he held a variety of general management and corporate development roles in growing that institution to over $1 billion in assets. Prior to that, he was a management consultant, most recently with The Monitor Group. At Monitor, he had extensive experience advising financial institutions and other large corporate clients on growth strategies. 

Robert Rice

North America

Education

• MBA, UCLA Anderson School of Management
• BA, Wake Forest University

Robert Rice

North America

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Bobby's experience includes investment banking, distressed debt and private equity.

Prior to opening the Los Angeles office for Sandton Capital, he was Managing Partner of RCR Financial, an investment firm targeting distressed bank loans. Bobby was previously President of KWP Financial, the distressed debt investment division of Kennedy Wilson. Bobby was also a private equity investor with CKE Associates. Bobby began his career as an investment banker with Merrill Lynch and Chase Manhattan Bank.

Kate Roman

North America

Education

BBA, Baruch College

Kate Roman

North America

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Kate serves as Controller for Sandton Capital. Kate was most recently the Senior Analyst at Man Global Private Markets, an investment engine of Man Group. Prior to Man Group, Kate worked in banking and capital markets audit at Ernst & Young.

Jack Stewart

North America

Education

BBA, University of Massachusetts Amherst 

Jack Stewart

North America

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Prior to joining Sandton, Jack previously worked at Miller Buckfire where he advised clients on financial restructurings, recapitalizations, and other special situations.

Andrei Strambeanu

North America

Education

William Paterson University of New Jersey, MBA, Accounting

Andrei Strambeanu

North America

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Prior to joining Sandton Capital, Andrei worked as a staff accountant with Broadscope Fund Administrators serving clients in the infrastructure core plus space.

Kenneth Van Spankeren

North America

Education

BS, University of Texas at Austin

Kenneth Van Spankeren

North America

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Before joining Sandton, Ken worked at Santander Bank in credit underwriting and portfolio management, handling financing for various transactions across numerous industries.

Andrew Wenger

North America

Education

MBA, Columbia Business School
BA, Duke University

Andrew Wenger

North America

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Before joining Sandton, Andrew was a senior investment associate at Obsidian Point Partners, focusing on private transactions in the lower middle market. 

Tom Wood

North America, UK, Europe

Education

• MBA, Wharton School of Business
• BS, University of Virginia

Tom Wood

North America, UK, Europe

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Tom's experience includes investment banking, distressed debt and public equities.

Prior to co-founding Sandton Capital, the majority of Tom’s investment experience was as a generalist with the middle market distressed debt fund of John Levin & Co.. Tom was also an investment analyst covering cyclical public equities for Viking Global and Calypso Capital. Prior to his capital investing experience, Tom was a vice president in the leverage finance group of Credit Suisse. At the start of his career, Tom was an investment banking analyst in the Global Energy Group of Merrill Lynch.