Our people

Aarti joined 17Capital in 2025 and has over 18 years’ corporate banking experience, including over 8 years of syndicated loans experience.

Aarti previously worked at SMBC Bank International where she worked as a Facility Agent in the Loans Capital Markets team. Aarti holds a Commerce and Financial Accounting degree from the University of Bombay.

Abigail joined 17Capital in 2023 and has 6 years’ experience in accounting.

Abigail previously worked at Langham Hall, where she started as an Assistant Accountant in 2019 before becoming a Fund Accountant, then earlier this year moving into an Assistant Manager role within their Business Development team.

Alejandro joined 17Capital 2023 from Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) and has over 20 years of in-vestments experience, most recently, as a Portfolio Manager in Public Equities.

Alejandro holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, an MBA from University of Ottawa and is a CFA charter holder.

Alex joined 17Capital in 2022 from AnaCap Financial Partners where he had been a Credit Fund Accountant since May 2020.

Alex Walker joined 17Capital in 2018 and has over 15 years experience in marketing having previously spent 12 years leading the marketing for the Corporate & Institutional Banking division at Investec. Prior to joining Investec, Alex worked at Close Brothers. Alex holds a bachelor’s degree (Hons) from Newcastle University and a Chartered Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Alyssa Whittam joined 17Capital in July 2023 as a People Associate.  Alyssa has over 6 years’ work experience focused primarily in HR within both the financial and professional services industry.

Alyssa studied at Nottingham Law School and Nottingham University and holds a LLB (Hons) in Law with Psychology and an MSc in Psychology.

Andy joined 17Capital in 2021 from Newcore Capital and was previously at Dixon Wilson. Andy studied at the University of Nottingham.

Andrew joined 17Capital in 2023 from Barings where he spent the last 9 years primarily as a fundraiser in the EMEA business development team. Andrew studied at Loughborough University and is a CAIA charter holder.

Anthony joined 17Capital in 2022 from Blackstone, where he was an Associate on the GP Stakes investment team. Prior to Blackstone, Anthony held roles at Warburg Pincus and PwC and studied at Fairfield University.

Antonia joined 17Capital in 2023 from Apax Partners. Previously, she worked for 3 years as a Researcher at Results International, a corporate finance advisory firm, and started her career at Graphite Capital.

Ari joined 17Capital in 2025 and brings a wealth of experience in financial services, of which 14 years’ were spent at Barclays. For the majority of his time there he worked in structuring roles and since 2018 was focussed purely on NAV Financing, where he covered origination and structuring.

Ashling joined 17Cpaital in 2022 from MUFG where she started her career in 2020 after completing her BSc Economics degree at the University of Nottingham.

Augustin is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at 17Capital having co-founded the business in 2008. Augustin is a member of the investment committee, working globally on NAV financing transactions.

Prior to co-founding 17Capital, Augustin was a Director with Deloitte Finance in Paris, where he advised financial investors and lenders on distressed investments. He previously held positions at Duhamel Fine Art, ATKearney & Paribas. Augustin holds a degree in economics from Paris IX Dauphine University, and a Masters in Management from ESCP Europe.

Barney joined 17Capital in 2025. Prior to this he was atEY-Parthenon where he worked as a M&A Analyst supporting private equity funds and large corporates with M&A transactions.

Barney has a BSc in Physics from the University of Leeds and a MSc in Computational Finance from UCL.

Becky joined 17Capital in 2019 from Ernst and Young and studied at Lancaster University.

Ben joined 17Capital in 2024 and has 11 years’ client service experience having previously worked at Schroders and Cazenove Capital in the Business Development Services and Wealth Management teams.

Benjamin has extensive experience covering request for proposals and due diligence questionnaires across public and private markets strategies.

Bindu joined 17Capital in 2023 and has 15 years HR experience. Previously working at Rothschilds & Co as a Learning Partner working with Global Advisory, Wealth Management and Merchant Banking to identify, design and execute learning and development activities and solutions.

Bipasha joined 17Capital in 2024 and has nearly 15 years’ of expertise in treasury and fund management. Prior to 17Capital she was a Fund Management Vice President at Pantheon, with previous roles at HG Capital, Diploma PLC and KPMG.

Bipasha holds a 1st class honours degree in Materials Engineering in Medicine from Queen Mary University and is ACA and AMCT qualified.

Caroline joined 17Capital in June 2023 and brings over two decades of experience. She held Investor Relations and Client Service roles previously at Brevet Capital, Fortress Investment Group and Mount Kellett Capital Management.

Caroline studied English Literature and Psychology at Binghamton University.