Spokespeople

Lothar Mentel
CEO & Chief Investment Officer
Lothar co-founded Tatton in 2012, and has overseen its growth to becoming a leading discretionary fund manager in the UK. His passion is to make the highest quality investment management available to most investors and is driven to ensure Tatton provides investors consistent repeatable investment performance coupled with the highest possible service standards.
In an investment management career spanning three decades, was previously Chief Investment Officer at Octopus Investments and designed and launched the Barclays Multi-Manager fund range He has also held senior roles at NM Rothschild, Threadneedle and Commerzbank Asset Management.

Justine Randall
Chief Commercial Officer
With 25 years’ financial services experience, Justine is our Chief Commercial Officer and leads our distribution, marketing and proposition teams. A part of the Tatton family for over 6 years, she is a regular industry speaker, raising awareness of MPS overall and championing our goal to bring down the cost of investing. Justine is a passionate leader and thrives working at the forefront of our distribution teams engaging with our strategic partners and IFA advocates.

Jim Kean
Chief Economist
Jim brings more than 30 years’ investment experience to Tatton, directing our strategic and global market research. He is responsible for the macro allocation and heads the investment analyst function.

James Saunders, CFA
Head of Portfolio Management
James leads the portfolio management team at Tatton, maintaining and developing our asset allocation. He and his team focus their analysis on fund selection, performance attribution processes.
James previously acted as Portfolio Manager at Sandaire, Investment Analyst at Lord North Street Limited and Trader at Tibra Capital. A CFA charter holder, James holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick and an MSc in Quantitative Finance & Risk Management from Newcastle University.

Astrid Schilo
Chief Investment Strategist
Astrid runs Tatton’s tactical multi-asset allocation and has well over 20 years of financial market experience. She has a long pedigree in identifying investment themes, dissecting cyclical and structural drivers, encompassing regional and global trends. Throughout her career, she has covered major asset classes – foreign exchange, fixed income and equities and served, among other roles, as Exane BNPParibas Chief European Economist.
Astrid is also tri-lingual in English, German and French and holds an MSc in Economics / Public Financial Policy from the London School of Economics.

Claire Bennison
Director of Investment Solutions
Claire created and directs our Bespoke Portfolio Service. Drawing on 30 years of financial services experience, Claire’s role is to extend our managed portfolio service to find the right solutions for more complex and high net worth clients.
Claire joined us from Brooks Macdonald, where she was Director of Services and Products, having previously been Head of Currencies and Technical Analysis at Barclays.

Roddi Vaughan-Thomas
Head of Communications and Marketing
Roddi directs and manages the marketing and communications output of Tatton, overseeing the brand and its footprint, ensuring the provision of clear accessible communications and content for IFAs and their clients. Roddi has over 25 years’ experience directing and managing communications for financial services firms, having previously qualified as a Financial Adviser. With extensive agency experience, Roddi has helped develop numerous market-leading investment and wealth management brands and products to the IFA sector.
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