Abi Amor
Business Development & Marketing
Abi is responsible for Rockworth’s business development, marketing, events and public relations.
She has over fifteen years’ experience managing brands and teams through digital change at companies including Sainsbury’s, HarperCollins and Amazon. Abi set up The SME Growth Agency supporting SMEs on marketing strategy and programmes to drive growth and she is a non-executive director of The Frisby Stereotest, a company producing a medical diagnostic test for binocular vision.
BA (Hons.) European Business Administration, Middlesex University & Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures, International Affairs, NEOMA Business School, Reims, France
Google Squared Digital Marketing & Leadership
E: abi.amor@rockworth.co.uk
T: +44 (0)1865 784 896
M: +44 (0)7973 295 616
Claire Wheeler
Manager
Claire is responsible for company and market research, as well as financial analysis and information preparation associated with our lead advisory and transactional work.
Before joining Rockworth, Claire qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Deloitte in London and then worked at Fast Track, the leading research and events company, where she researched the fastest-growing private companies in the UK and wrote articles for publication in The Sunday Times.
ACA, ICAEW
BSc (Geography), Durham University
E: claire.wheeler@rockworth.co.uk
T: +44 (0)1865 784 896
M: +44 (0)7825 777 104
Dominic Riley
Chairman, Partner Fund
Following an MBA at London Business School, Dominic spent a long corporate career in senior marketing, business development and management roles including the BBC and Reed Elsevier.
As Head of Marketing at the BBC he launched bbc.co.uk onto the internet in 1997 and he founded handbag.com, one of the UK’s leading content websites and one of the first to reach over 1 million certificated monthly users. As CEO he sold Hawksmere to the Washington Post in 2008 and since then has acted as Chairman and non-exec Director at over a dozen businesses, helping owners to grow their businesses and prepare them for sale.
See more on the Partners Fund.
To get in touch with Dominic, please use the main Rockworth number on +44 (0)1865 784 896
Debbie Naude
Associate Director
Debbie has over 17 years’ management consultancy and Investment Banking experience across multiple sectors. Her previous experience includes Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in South Africa and London, and UBS Warburg, London.
MBA (Finance), Imperial College, London
BCom Marketing, (Hons), University of Pretoria
E: debbie.naude@rockworth.co.uk
T: +44 (0)1865 784 896
John Buckley
Manager
John is responsible for financial analysis, valuation and due diligence aspects associated with Rockworth’s transactional work.
Previously John worked for Dublin-based hedge fund administrators State Street Alternative Investment Solutions and HedgeServ, dealing with clients with AUMs ranging from £25m to over £1billion and responsible for calculating NAVs for dealing date valuations and analysis. He went on to work in Business Transformation, where he was involved in the analysis, deployment and adoption of business information systems.
BBus (Hons) Accounting, Cork Institute of Technology
FACCA, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
E: john.buckley@rockworth.co.uk
T: +44 (0)1865 784 896
M: +44 (0)7824 645 234
Lawrence Price
Managing Director
Lawrence has over 18 years lead advisory corporate finance experience working with privately owned companies. Lawrence’s work includes sales, acquisitions, MBO/MBI and fund-raising, with completed transactions ranging from £1m to £100m in value.
With experience of over 100 transactions, Lawrence was lead advisor on the sale of Morgan Motor Company Limited to Investindustrial, Rubicon Drinks to AG Barr, Kittiwake Developments to Parker Hannifin Inc and Core Design to Omnicom Inc.
At Rockworth, Lawrence has launched Value-Vault, an online resource tool designed to help businesses highlight areas for potential growth, improve commercial management, and to prepare for a successful change of ownership.
Prior to founding Rockworth Management Partners, Lawrence headed up the Thames Valley office of a London-based corporate finance firm, worked in TMT corporate finance with Longacre Partners, now part of Jefferies, and was Operations Business Manager for the British American Racing Formula One team.
Lawrence sits on the financial services panel of Said Business School Oxford, and is non-executive director to two private businesses.
MBA (Finance & Entrepreneurship), Imperial College Business School, London
Advanced Corporate Finance, London Business School
MEng (Aeronautical Engineering), Imperial College, London
E: lawrence.price@rockworth.co.uk
T: +44 (0)1865 784 896
M: +44 (0)7900 212 669
William Aylward
Director
William is responsible for managing transactions within a range of sectors including industrial manufacturing, leisure, marketing, publishing and business services.
Recent deals include the sale of welding, cutting and fume-extraction equipment Weldability Sif to Indutrade AB, the sale of laser cutting and engraving machinery manufacturer Cadcam Technology to Summa BV, the sale of hotel and spa facilities provider Clarice Leisure to Bannatyne Fitness, the sale of digital marketing business Pinnacle Marketing to Next Fifteen PLC, and the sale of industrial fastenings wholesaler Young Black to Indutrade.
William also led the market-mapping consultation for the French specialist engineering company Segula Technologies to help them explore options for their UK M&A strategy in the automotive sector.
Prior to Rockworth, William worked for Alchemy Partners, the London based Private Equity fund.
BASc (Engineering Physics/Applied Physics), University of Bath
MEng (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Imperial College, London
E: william.aylward@rockworth.co.uk
T: +44 (0)1865 784 896
M: +44 (0)7795 123 144
Zuzana Valkovic
Director
Zuzana leads the pre-transaction preparation, financial analysis, financial modelling and due diligence process for many of our transactions.
Prior to Rockworth, Zuzana worked in the transaction advisory services team of KPMG in Vienna. Her transaction experience includes work across a range of industries including telecommunications, manufacturing, packaging, banking, postal services and logistics, conducting buy and sell side financial due diligence on deals valued from £1m to £100m.
MSc International Management / CEMS, Vienna University of Economics and Business
BSc Business Administration, Vienna University of Economics and Business
E: zuzana.valkovic@rockworth.co.uk
T: +44 (0)1865 784 896
M: +44 (0)7982 752 380
Associates and Advisory Panel
Whilst Rockworth works across various sectors, team members tend to be sector specialists. We also work with individuals currently in senior roles in industry (Chairman, CEO etc) to provide additional insight into particular projects.