Simon Sacerdoti

Biography

Simon qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1997 with Levy Gee (now part of RSM), and subsequently spent time in the corporate finance teams at BDO and Ernst & Young, advising public and private clients on a wide variety of UK and international transactions from fund raisings through to exits. In 2007, Simon joined Dowgate Financial Advisers, a small-cap corporate finance boutique which specialised in AIM. In 2009, he became one of the four founding partners and AIM qualified executives of Cairn Financial Advisers, which is now one of the largest advisory firms in AIM by number of clients. He left Cairn in 2012. He is also one of the two founders, and until 2015 was CFO/COO, of an innovative payments start-up, WeSwap, where, as well as strategic and general leadership, he held specific responsibility for finance, operations, customer service, compliance and fraud/risk management. He started working with Destiny Pharma in September 2015 and was appointed to the Board as CFO in April 2016. Simon is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and holds an MA in Mathematics from Balliol College, Oxford.  

Research Interest

Simon qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1997 with Levy Gee (now part of RSM), and subsequently spent time in the corporate finance teams at BDO and Ernst & Young, advising public and private clients on a wide variety of UK and international transactions from fund raisings through to exits. In 2007, Simon joined Dowgate Financial Advisers, a small-cap corporate finance boutique which specialised in AIM. In 2009, he became one of the four founding partners and AIM qualified executives of Cairn Financial Advisers, which is now one of the largest advisory firms in AIM by number of clients. He left Cairn in 2012. He is also one of the two founders, and until 2015 was CFO/COO, of an innovative payments start-up, WeSwap, where, as well as strategic and general leadership, he held specific responsibility for finance, operations, customer service, compliance and fraud/risk management. He started working with Destiny Pharma in September 2015 and was appointed to the Board as CFO in April 2016. Simon is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and holds an MA in Mathematics from Balliol College, Oxford.