Clare is using her near 20 years of advising and investing across all consumer sectors, to specialise in luxury brands, recognising a lack of strategic investing in smaller companies. Being one of the few female senior investors in private equity, Clare is using her knowledge and experience as an investor and also a consumer (over 80% of consumer purchases are female led), to create this new investment platform.

Clare is a Founder Partner at Eaton Gate Limited. Prior to this, she was a Managing Director & COO for Macquarie Capital in EMEA. She has over 19 years of advisory experience covering several leading Private Equity firms in Europe as well as family offices. She also represented investors in key Boards tied to principal investments as well as a member of the Board of Macquarie Capital in Europe.

Before Macquarie, Clare was an early Partner at Aletheia Partners LLP, advising on mandates with an enterprise value in excess of €5 billion since 2002, covering retail, media and consumer industries primarily in Germany and the UK. Additionally, she has been particularly active in raising €3.4 billion of debt capital. The Enterprise Value of principal investments sums to €2.1 billion (with an investment return of 3.9x on invested capital).

Prior to Aletheia Partners, Clare worked in the Private Equity Group at KPMG, part of the original team to establish this new unit for the partnership covering 13 private equity houses in Europe.

Clare holds LLB in Law from Glasgow University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business and Finance from University of Strathclyde. She has also qualified for her Fellowship (FCA) from ICAEW.