People

Below are the details of FTC's Principal Officers.

Andrew Garner

Andrew Garner

Company Chairman & founder. Andrew has extensive experience at board level as Chairman, CEO and Managing Director across a wide range of sectors in public and private businesses in the UK and overseas, including but not limited to: heath care, consumer electronics, heavy engineering, distribution, factoring, venture capital and finance.

Reece Garner BA Hons

Reece Garner

Associate Director. Reece joined the Company over a year ago in the role Researcher and Analyst. Reece studied politics at Exeter University and concentrated on international markets and the respective trade.

Tim Sykes ACA, BSc Hons

Tim Sykes

Associate. Financial Analyst, Tim has acted as Chief Financial Officer at various public and private companies. His background is in private equity, corporate finance and M&A. He has been involved in over 100 corporate transactions from fund raising, through to lead advisory and due diligence. Tim qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG and has a 1st class honours degree in Mathematics.

Chris Brown

Chris Brown

Associate. Based in Canada, Chris brings 11 years experience in the field of Venture Capital and orchestrating joint ventures. His strengths revolve around negotiating on behalf of funding groups in regards to finalising private placements in special situations for Resource, Financial Services and Technology Companies. Chris has worked with numerous Companies for IPO, secondary funding and Project Financing in excess of $350,000,000 CAN while also managing secondary marketing initiatives on Canadian, US and German Exchanges.

Roy Butterworth FCCA, MBA

Roy Butterworth

Associate Director. Roy also shares a large and varied commercial background and brings a wealth of international experience to the business having acted in most positions as FD, CEO and Chairman in a variety of companies. Roy particularly has significant hands on experience dealing in financial instruments, hedging and trading commodities.

Grahame Sewell FCA

Grahame Sewell

Associate. Experienced entrepreneur who has lived in five countries with strong experience in technology and healthcare. Grahame also has experience in financial services, retail and mining. A chartered accountant, he has worked with high growth companies in senior management positions at Lotus Development (software), Reebok and Alliance UniChem.

Dave Robinson ACMA

Dave Robinson

Associate. A licensed Financial Advisor based in Singapore, Dave has previously acted in the role of CEO and FD of UK and US listed companies and has extensive experience of living and working in Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. Dave represents FTC in the region as well as being a fund promoter with an extensive access to the HNW investor base.


Gary Rimmer

Gary Rimmer

Associate Director, Structured Finance. Gary has over 30 years experience in banking having enjoyed a successful 20 year career in Lloyds with senior roles in providing sophisticated capital market and international trade finance products to major international corporate clients. More recently Gary has been involved in acting as lead advisor providing structured debt products to public and private businesses alike including a track record extending 10 years with both Andrew Garner and Roy Butterworth, having provided structured finance to public and private companies in which they were involved.

Associate Directors

We also have number of internationally experienced Directors located in various different countries throughout the world, acting in a consultancy role and available to provide local knowledge when required.