Lindsey McMurray

Managing Partner at Pollen Street Capital

Speaker

Lindsey McMurray founded Pollen Street in 2013 and is the Managing Partner as well as Chairman of the Investment Committee. Lindsey has been investing in private equity and credit for over 25 years. Lindsey has built Pollen Street into a fast growing, purpose led asset manager investing with the mega-trends across financial and business services, with a diversified AUM base across private equity and senior secured credit.

Before she founded Pollen Street, Lindsey led the team managing the £1.1bn Special Opportunities Fund within RBS and spent six years as a Partner at Cabot Square Capital, focusing on investments across Financial Services, real estate and other asset backed investments. Lindsey has a First-Class Honours degree in Accounting and Finance and studied for an MPhil in Finance from Strathclyde University.

Outside of work Lindsey is a keen runner having successfully completed the Marathon Des Sables in 2007 and 2011. She also supports several charities with a particular focus on mentoring children in state schools, supporting climate action initiatives through producing documentary films as well as supporting the speech and language charity, Auditory Verbal UK, that provided early years therapy to her daughter Grace.