David Charters

David Charters is chairman of New Financial and one of its founding backers. He has been a banker, independent corporate finance adviser and principal investor for more than 30 years, having joined SG Warburg in 1985 and Deutsche Bank in 1995. He was one of the founders of Partner Capital and holds a wide range of non-executive and charitable trustee roles. Before joining Warburg he worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. David has published six books on life in the City of London, including the acclaimed No Tears and a series of (semi) fictional books about a banker called Dave Hart. He studied languages at Cambridge.