Meet the Team
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We have a rounded team, with accounting, banking, marketing, industrial and private equity backgrounds. This diversity helps us to best prepare companies and manage deals, so getting our clients to realise the greatest value in any deal.
Stephen Frazer
Stephen is the founder partner of Frazer Hall and has worked in mergers and acquisitions for 20 years, personally completing more than 100 buy or sell transactions. His former roles have included working for a private equity house as Investment Director and, more recently, Managing Partner in Manchester for a national practice of chartered accountants. He is also a Founder-Director of the Viking Fund, an early-stage technology fund.
In his limited spare time, Steve is to be found outside, ideally in the hills climbing, but otherwise running, hiking or cycling. He lives in the Pennines as he can’t live in Nepal.
e: stephen.frazer@frazerhall.com
t: 07770 986 763
: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-frazer/
Graham Niven ACA
Graham qualified as a Chartered Accountant with what is now KPMG, then spent many years in industry holding director positions in both national and international organisations in Finance, Operations, Logistics and Customer Services. In 2005 Graham established his own personal debt advice business focussing mainly on IVA’s and then moved into the business funding sector three years later. His focus for the last 8 years has been raising funding (both debt and equity) for growing businesses in the North-West. He sits on Creative England’s Investment Committee.
A Yorkshire-born, Everton-supporting son of Scottish descent, Graham thinks he can continuously bring down his personal best for running 5k and can write scripts, based in gritty northern settings, full of irreverent humour.
e: graham.niven@frazerhall.com
t: 07866 568322
: https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-niven-9ab9b61a/
Joe Frazer, Senior Analyst
After graduating with a master’s degree in civil engineering at the University of Bristol, Joe qualified as a chartered accountant with first time passes at Mazars in London, before joining PWC. Having worked as an audit manager across a breadth of clients, he was keen to widen his experience into transactional work.
Joe plays eleven a side football, is a regular at the gym and is a passionate Leeds United fan. In their holiday time, he and his wife enjoy global travel – but still loves Yorkshire.
e: joe.frazer@frazerhall.com
: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-frazer-4a63bb102/
Claire Paye, Director, Marketing Communications
Claire’s portfolio career has coalesced on supporting SMEs. Her background includes retail banking, corporate banking, and assisting UK companies to export worldwide. Her broad experience and wide range of contacts ensures she can identify potential buyers or investors.
Outside of work, Claire is an FA referee, and can be found on the football pitches of Hampshire. She is also the director of the Mwezi Foundation, a charity which gives solar lights to schools in Kenya.
e: claire.paye@frazerhall.com
: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-paye/
Jane Pover FCCA
Jane qualified as an accountant in 1989, and she worked in both manufacturing and distribution sectors before joining Frazer Hall in 2010. She’s primarily responsible for research and analysis as well as managing the finances.
Jane lives outside Halifax and is a keen traveller – she loves to visit new countries and enjoy new experiences. Other hobbies include watching any sport on tv and indulging her new-found love of yoga.
e: jane.pover@frazerhall.com