Surinder Sidhu

Surinder studied Business and Accountancy at Monash University, Melbourne Australia and is an Australian CPA. He also holds a Master in Applied Valuation, Finance and Investments from Securities Institute Australia. Surinder has over 25 years’ experience in the finance industry where he started his career with Ernst & Young before moving into investment banking where he was a leverage financier executing private equity transactions in Australia for nabCapital and in London for Straumur, an Icelandic investment bank. In the latter, post crisis, he managed an asset portfolio of over €400m which he helped divest after undertaking extensive restructure and reorganisation of the assets under management. Many of these assets were distressed and involved extensive negotiation between creditors and equity stakeholders. He has also undertaken pre-pack acquisitions from administrators of distressed assets and managed these before divesting same for a profit.

He is now a Director, Debt Finance in a new fintech called OakNorth focussing on the underserved SME market having helped built a loan book of over £1.25b in 30 months.