Gresham House has strengthened its strategic equity team with the appointment of investment managers Amber Stone-Brown and Cassie Herlihy.

Ms Stone-Brown and Ms Herlihy join the investment team led by UK equity specialist Ken Wotton and portfolio managers Adam Khanbhai, Brendan Gulston and Laurence Hulse.

The pair will work across Gresham House’s range of UK equity funds, including the LF Gresham House UK Multi Cap Income Fund, Strategic Equity Capital plc and the Baronsmead VCTs. They will apply the team’s private equity approach to investing in both public and private companies.

Working in EY’s UK Financial Services Strategy and Transactions team since 2013, Ms Stone-Brown has specialised in the banking, capital markets and insurance sectors, as well as wealth and asset management. In her new role, Ms Stone-Brown will draw on her seven years of experience across the transaction life cycle to support the team’s engagement with both public and private companies.

Ms Herlihy was part of the corporate broking team at Citi prior to joining Gresham House, and previously spent two and a half years at Investec. She has experience advising listed UK listed companies across the market cap spectrum in areas such as investor engagement, corporate transactions and capital raising activity.

Ken Wotton, managing director, public equity at Gresham House, said: “While investors have started to return to the UK market, we believe the value potential across the market remains substantial. There remain tremendous growth prospects in underappreciated companies across public and private markets, which the addition of Cassie and Amber will help us identify. Their transactional experience makes them a good fit for our hands-on team and will allow us to maintain high levels of engagement across our investments.”

The announcement follows the appointment of Chris Elliott as head of wholesale retail funds last month to improve the reach of the Gresham House Strategic Equity funds among the UK discretionary and advisor community.