Gresham House, a specialist alternative asset manager, has added to its strategic equity team with the appointment of investment managers Amber Stone-Brown and Cassie Herlihy.

The pair will work across Gresham House’s range of UK equity funds, including the LF Gresham House UK Multi Cap Income Fund, Strategic Equity Capital plc and the Baronsmead VCTs – applying the team’s private equity approach to investing in both public and private companies.

Working in EY’s UK financial services strategy and transactions team since 2013, Stone-Brown focused on the banking, capital markets and insurance sectors, as well as wealth and asset management, during which period she also qualified as a chartered accountant.

Herlihy was part of the corporate broking team at Citi prior to joining Gresham House, and previously spent two and a half years at Investec. She has experience advising listed UK listed companies across the market cap spectrum in areas such as investor engagement, corporate transactions and capital raising activity.

Gresham UK equity specialist and strategic equity team leader Ken Wotton said, “While investors have started to return to the UK market, we believe the value potential across the market remains substantial. There remain tremendous growth prospects in underappreciated companies across public and private markets, which the addition of Cassie and Amber will help us identify. Their transactional experience makes them a good fit for our hands-on team and will allow us to maintain high levels of engagement across our investments.”

Stone-Brown commented, “It is an exciting time to be joining Gresham House, given the impressive growth it has achieved in recent years and the success of the strategic equity division despite ongoing volatility. I look forward to working with Ken, Brendan and the team as we take our range of funds to the next level.”

Herlihy added, “The impressive track record of Gresham House’s Strategic Equity division has been delivered by its highly experienced team of specialist investors. I look forward to joining this dynamic team at an important stage of its development and supporting in the origination and execution of new investments in an improving macro environment.”