Bio

Sarah started her career with McKinsey & Co, but rapidly realised her passion lay in working with SMEs rather than large multinationals. She has spent over 15 years in general corporate finance in the small and medium enterprise sector. Ten of those were spent working with companies in Dublin with Corporate Finance Ireland (now part of Duff & Phelps), and more recently in the UK working as an adviser to private equity firms and their portfolio companies with Liberty Corporate Finance, and to SMEs with Price Bailey. She has worked on deals from under £10m to over £50m, and in sectors as diverse as financial compliance, veterinary services, restaurants, online services, media and manufacturing, and with a range of different private equity firms, including MML Capital, ECI Partners, Livingbridge, August Equity and Sovereign Capital. Sarah has a first class degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from the University of Texas. Outside work, Sarah can usually be found with her trainers on, pounding the streets. She has run many marathons and ultra-marathons including the Marathon Des Sables in Morocco, and the Jungle Marathon through the Brazilian rainforest. On a sunny day she can sometimes be found enjoying the more leisurely activity of a round of golf.