Nicholas Hornby
The path from working at a large institution to founding a boutique wealth manager has been well trodden, not least by Nicholas Hornby and James Spence.
Both now managing partners of Cerno Capital, Mr Hornby previously worked at Cazenove Capital and CLSA. Meanwhile, Mr Spence worked at WI Carr, Paribas, HSBC and UBS.
The pair met while working in Hong Kong in the 1990s, but it was not until 2007 that they founded C...