Meet the team

Fran Radano is a Senior Investment Manager on the North American Equity Team. Fran joined the company in 2007 following the acquisition of Nationwide Financial Services’ equity investment management team, where he had served as a senior equity research analyst providing fundamental research coverage for the consumer discretionary and consumer staples sectors since 1999. Previously, Fran was a research analyst and vice president at Salomon Smith Barney. Prior to that, he was an associate trader at SEI Investments. Fran received a BA in Economics from Dickinson College, and has also earned a MBA in Finance from Villanova University. He is a CFA® Charterholder. 

Susan Rice, appointed on 17 March 2015, is a chartered banker and also chairs Forth Green Port. Her previous roles include managing director of Lloyds Banking Group Scotland, chair and chief executive of the bank Lloyds TSB Scotland plc, a director of the Bank of England and a non-executive director of J Sainsbury's plc, SSE plc, Big Society Capital and Charity Bank. She sits on the advisory group to P-CAN, the UK's Place-Based Climate Action network and chairs the Global Steering Group of GEFI, the Global Ethical Finance Initiative. She was a member of the First Minister's Council of Economic Advisers and President of the Scottish Council of Development and Industry and, until recently, chair of the Scottish Fiscal Commission, the Financial Services Culture Board and Scottish Water. Originally from the United States, her early career was at Yale and Colgate universities and then at NatWest Bancorp. In 2000, she became the first woman to head a UK clearing bank.

Karyn Lamont, appointed on 18 September 2018, is a chartered accountant and former audit partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers until December 2016. She has over 25 years' experience and provided audit and other services to a range of clients, including a number of investment trusts, across the UK's financial services sector, including outsourcing providers. She is the audit committee chairman of  Scottish Building Society, iomart Group plc and Scottish American Investment Company plc.

Charles has over 25 years of investment management experience. He was a co-founder of Findlay Park Investment Management, a US boutique asset management house established in 1997, and deputy chief officer with joint responsibility for managing Findlay Park American Fund until his retirement from the firm in 2016. Prior to co-founding Findlay Park, Charles was an investment manager at Hill Samuel Asset Management and an analyst at Framlington Investment Management. He is a non-executive director of Polar Capital Technology Trust plc.