Graeme Scott

Graeme joined LionFish as Finance Director in July 2023. He is a Chartered Accountant and has a portfolio of part-time CFO, non-executive and board advisory roles.

Graeme qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1995 and quickly took on senior finance roles for companies including FTSE 100 company 3i Group Plc, and BrokerTec, the e-brokerage for fixed income securities acquired by ICAP Plc for $240m in 2002. From 2002 to 2010, Graeme led the international finance team of Tradeweb, a Nasdaq-listed financial services company. At Tradeweb, Graeme oversaw growth in revenues from $10m to $90m, became the interim group CFO and led the launch of an electronic trading platform for equity options.

Between 2010 and 2021, Graeme was the full-time CFO for 4 private equity backed companies which included Firstassist Legal Expenses Insurance Limited, the leading litigation insurance specialist backed by the private equity firm Equistone. During his time at FirstAssist, Graeme oversaw growth in EBITDA from £5m to £9m, led the firm’s acquisition by Burford Capital Plc in 2012, and was part of the team that developed Burford’s UK litigation funding offering.