Stafford Capital Partners: Celebrating 20 years!
The Planting of the Acorn
Stafford Capital Partners began life as two companies. Quay Partners was established in 2000 as the result of a coffee meeting of three founders in Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia. Two of those Founders, Geoff Norman and Stephen White, still remain with the company today. Stafford Timberland was founded in 2003 by Geoff Norman and Richard Bowley, two people who met for the first time in 1990 in an office in Stafford Street, London. The merger of the two companies resulted in the name Stafford prevailing largely because no-one outside Australia seemed to agree on how to pronounce “Quay”. Stafford seemed like an easier ask, and the logo of the Timberland business was adopted by the combined company.
The logo of the company is a stylised acorn. An appropriate symbol for a company which began as a start-up 20 years ago, and has a significant investment footprint in the timberland sector. We‘ve grown from one office in Sydney to 7 offices throughout the world, with London becoming the Head Office following the appointment of our London based CEO Angus Whiteley in 2013. Early investors in Stafford funds will recall with fondness that the London office used to be based on a barge on the Regents Canal in London.
We’ve moved to more solid foundations since then. But the spirit of entrepreneurship, integrity, openness with investors, and “doing the right thing” in everything we do, remain unchanged since those early days as a start-up funds management business.
We place great importance on building long term partnerships with all our investors.
Email: InvestorRelations@staffordcp.com
About Stafford Capital Partners: Stafford Capital Partners is a leading private markets investment and advisory group with a global presence and USD %%AuM%% billion under management and advice* from over %%numClients%% institutional investors across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the US. Founded in 2000, the firm has specialist investment teams in infrastructure, timber, agriculture, private equity, and private credit. The team consists of over 60 professionals investing from offices in Austin, Boston, Curitiba, London, Seoul, Sydney and Zurich. Stafford Capital Partners is a member of the Principles for Responsible Investment.
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