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KATHERINE PRIESTLEY Executive Producer


Katherine Priestley is the co-founder of the alternative asset investment firm Lincoln Vale that is based in London and Boston, with five hedge and private equity funds currently within the firm.

 

Ms Priestley is also a director of KP Productions that have created and produced a number of theatrical works over the last 10 years, enjoying audiences in the UK, Europe and Japan.

 

Productions have included staging a dramatic showing of the internationally recognised artist Enrique Martinez Celaya in London, but more typically focuses on productions around the incredible talents of Helena Kaut-Howson (artistic director), and Kathryn Hunter and Marcello Magni (performers). Shows include Full Moon, King Lear, Yerma and Faithful Russlan, which have all been highly acclaimed critically. Ms. Priestley also played a significant role in the showing of the Gryphon Trio's Constantinople recently at the Royal Opera House, Lindbury Studio.

 

For the past nine years, Ms Priestley has headed up her Family Investment Office based in the UK. She has extensive experience in portfolio construction, especially alternative investments such as hedge funds and private equity. From 1991 through 1998, Ms. Priestley served as CFO of a family business in the mineral extraction industry. Earlier in her career, Ms. Priestley provided merger and acquisition tax consulting for Chuo Coopers in Tokyo, Japan from 1988 through 1990; and prior to this she worked in corporate finance for National Westminster Bank International in London from 1986 through 1988.

 

She currently serves as a Board Director of the Pitblado Foundation, which makes annual donations in support of medical charities and the arts. She also awards a Fellowship For Research in Cancer to St. Barts Hospital in London.

 

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