Corporate Finance Partner
Key contact details
ranjan@pa-capitalpartners.com
M: +44(0)7970 753 846
Ranjan is an experienced corporate advisor with a background in corporate finance and investment management. She works across a range of sectors, with a particular focus and interest in Clean and Renewable energy; Digital/On-line technologies; Retail and Mobility.
As an experienced non-executive director, Ranjan has advised boards of regulated financial services companies and early stage companies. She also acts as part-time or interim finance director for clients.
Ranjan works with clients that range from start-up companies to pre-IPO companies, helping shape strategy and preparing companies to secure investment or scale-up. This includes very early stage companies involved in the commercialisation of technology or at proof of concept in their development.
She has over 15 years investment experience having spent her early career as a fund manager. She was Investment Director at Knox D’Arcy Investment Management, one of the first activist fund managers in the UK. As Investment Director, she was responsible for investments in the UK small & mid-cap sector and the closed end funds sector. In addition, she managed the private equity investments made by the group. As an activist investor, her team were responsible for implementing strategies to realise value for shareholders in underperforming companies. This involved implementing operational profit improvement programs, buy and build strategies, financial restructuring, share buy backs and the sale of non-core assets.
Ranjan is a qualified as a chartered accountant having trained with Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC). At PwC, she worked in the business assurance financial services team and in the lead advisory team providing valuation, strategic and corporate finance advice. She holds a BA (Econ) Hons degree from Manchester University.