Jan Pilkington-Miksa
Director
Jan has spent a working life in financial services in the UK and the US. After four years at Warburg Investment Management (the predecessor to Mercury Asset Management), he joined a US securities firm in London and shortly thereafter co-founded a US stock broking firm, David Allsopp and Partners Limited, developing investment ideas for institutional investors in the UK, Continental Europe and latterly the US.
The firm was acquired by a US financial services company in 1985 and in 1986 Jan relocated to New York to establish a corporate finance capability for the acquiror. In 1988 he returned to the UK and joined Merrill Lynch as a director in their Mergers and Acquisitions group. In 1990 Jan co-founded Ferghana Partners, a respected advisor on global transactions in the pharmaceuticals and life sciences industries. Since 2002 Jan has served on the board of a number of companies in the UK, including Ilex which he founded in 2010.
Jan's particular skills lie in a cross-disciplinary approach to strategic business development, acquisitions, fundraising, financial management, planning, administration and governance, combined with a deep knowledge and experience of global equity markets.