Richard Cheesman

Director: Business Development and Funding

Richard has worked for many years in the development and financing of stadium projects. At ISG Richard is responsible for working with clients to develop their stadium projects and to act as a liaison between clients and ISG’s various funding relationships.

He was educated at Cambridge University where he gained a degree in Mathematics before joining WestLB, the large German Bank. At WestLB Richard was involved in providing financing to several large transactions including management buy-outs and public-to-private take-overs.

Whilst at WestLB, Richard worked on the successful financing of Wembley Stadium and the creation of a successful, bankable financing package for the project. The financing was completed in September 2002.

In 2004 Richard left WestLB and became a founding partner at Clearbrook Capital, a London based private equity firm. He was involved in ten acquisitions for Clearbrook during his time there including the acquisition of Bastion in 2006.

Richard now works full time for ISG and brings his expertise of linking project and business plan development with financing sources to ISG’s clients.

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