Gavin Rees heads HSBC Innovation Banking UK’s Strategic Fund Solutions (SFS) team, headquartered in London. The SFS team provides banking, FX and specialist fund financing solutions to over 250 venture capital and private equity managers. The team focuses on emerging fund managers, through to mid-cap managers in the UK and the Nordics. Products include capital call, NAV, management company and GP lines of credit.

Gavin has over 30 years of specialist commercial banking experience, including 7 years in securitization covering a range of retail and commercial asset classes, followed by 19 years in funds finance in the US and Europe. He was a founder member of the WestLB funds finance team in New York, before establishing Barclays’ European funds finance practice in London, from where he joined HSBC Innovation Banking, formerly SVB UK, in 2016 as the head of the European SFS business.

Gavin has a BA in PPE from Oxford University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is the Executive Sponsor of HSBC Innovation Banking UK’s Pride Employee Resource Group.