Hartmut has ten years of experience in private equity and corporate finance. He joined from Frankfurter Beteiligungs-Holding, where he was working in investing private equity in distressed and restructuring situations. Prior to that, he worked for the private equity team of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and London, having trained with Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and New York. He graduated from the University of Karlsruhe with a Degree in Business Administration and Industrial Engineering.

Emma Corbally joined Augusta as the Office Manager in London in December 2006, having graduated with a Diploma with Distinction from Queen’s Business & Secretarial College in London, in July 2006. She has previously worked for law firm Gibson Young and her skills include PA and executive management support.

John Edwards has 17 years' experience of providing corporate finance and M&A advice to clients on mid-market transactions. He joined Augusta & Co in early 2007 to develop Augusta's mid market corporate finance advisory practice in the UK. After qualifying as a chartered accountant, he joined Hill Samuel Bank where he became a director of Hill Samuel Securities and then joined Close Brothers Corporate Finance where he was a Director. For the 4 years prior to joining Augusta, he was a Managing Director of Amethyst Corporate Finance.

Dieter has worked for over 20 years as a Banker. Prior to joining Augusta as a Senior Adviser he was Head of Falke Bank, a German private bank focused on Mid Market corporate finance and Asset Management. Prior to Falke Bank, he was a member of the management board of Westdeutschtsche Landesbank and with the Damiler Benz AG. He started his career in the corporate finance team of Deutsche Bank AG in both Germany and New York. He graduated from the University of Munich with a Degree in Business Administration and gained his doctorate at the University of Konstanz.

Justin FitzHugh spent six years in Industrials M&A/IB at JPMorgan in London, where he worked on a broad range of private and public sector transactions including United Technologies' acquisition of Chubb plc. After JPMorgan, he gained an MSc (with Distinction) in Energy Policy from Imperial College London before moving to ILEX (now Pöyry) Energy Consulting, where he worked on management and economic consulting projects in the power sector. He joined Climate Change Capital at the start of 2006, working on project finance, private equity and M&A mandates across the clean energy and carbon credit sectors. He joined Augusta in August 2008.

Gabrielle joined Augusta as Business Manager in December 2007 to manage the rapid growth of the Company. She trained as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young in Melbourne, Australia, and gained financial management experience at General Electric, Australian Unity and AXA UK. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne.

Lucinda joined Augusta as Marketing Manager in March 2006. Lucinda has ten years of experience in Marketing and Public Relations, and graduated with a Master of Arts Honours degree from Edinburgh University in Art History in 1998. Lucinda speaks French.

Benjamin Hall joined Augusta in June 2008. He was most recently a member of the multi-sector advisory team at Evercore and had previously completed an internship with UBS in New York. He graduated in 2006 from the London School of Economics with an LLB in Law.