Our Team

Jakob is currently chairman of BRL and a Swedish national with some 38 years of investment banking experience. Began his career with Samuel Montagu & Co Ltd (now HSBC Investment Banking) in 1982 to the end of 1985. In 1983 he founded Fil à Fil Ltd, a shirt retail business, of which he was Managing Director through to 1987 when the business was sold to Next plc. From September 1987 to 1999 he worked at Kleinwort Benson where he held several senior positions including Managing Director and Head of the Nordic Corporate Finance as well as Natural Resources & Forestry Sector. In 1999 he became a Director/ shareholder/co-founder of NewMedia Investors Ltd/ Spark Ventures plc. In September 1999 he co-founded and was CEO of EO plc, an online share distribution platform.

He was also a co-founder of AllIPO plc. In November 2002 he founded Libertas Capital and was Executive Chairman of Libertas Capital Group plc from 2003 to 2009 and was until August 2011 the Senior Partner of Libertas Partners LLP. In 2011, he founded Noble Tree Property Asset Management Ltd which is now owned 100% by Noble Tree Foundation Limited (a UK registered charity focusing on housing for vulnerable people of which he is the co-founder, CEO and a trustee. Since July 2012 he is the chairman of Boustead Agriculture Ltd. Since December 2013 he is a Senior Adviser to European American Capital, a FCA regulated firm, and chairman of Boustead & Co Ltd. He has completed over $60 bn of a wide range of corporate finance transactions of which $6bn have been in the renewable energy sector. He holds a Certified Diploma in Accountancy and Finance (C.Dip.A.F.), is a Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (M.C.S.I.) and has a B.Sc (Econ) from University College London