The Team

Ian Cordwell

CHAIRMAN

• Ian joined De Lisle as independent chairman in January 2024 providing a wealth of financial services experience.
• He is a Chartered Accountant with 35 years’ experience in retail financial services (25 years at Board level) and has held a variety of roles ranging from CFO and CIO to Group Marketing and Group Operations in organisations including M&S Financial Services, LV= and Police Mutual. He currently holds several non-executive directorships in financial services.

Richard de Lisle

CEO & LEAD PORTFOLIO MANAGER

• Richard co-founded De Lisle Partners in 2005. He is the firm’s CEO and lead portfolio manager of the VT De Lisle America Fund.
• He has 40+ years’ experience investing in the US and has first-hand knowledge of numerous market cycles, including the move from value to growth and back again.
• He started his career at Merrill Lynch in 1979 and rose to become Managing Director of Dean Witter International. Since 1996 Richard has been the manager of the Emmanuel College Endowment Fund.

Jonathan Lang

CHAIR OF INVESTMENT COMMITTEE

• Jonathan has 25+ years’ experience investing in the US, including as an institutional broker in US equities at Merrill Lynch, J P Morgan and Prudential Bache where he managed the US institutional equities office.
• He has a degree in economics from Emmanuel College, Cambridge and has taught economics in various educational institutions, bringing a wealth of macroeconomic experience to the team.
• Jonathan was a seed investor in the VT De Lisle America Fund.

Gill Charlton

HEAD OF RESEARCH & ESG

• Gill joined De Lisle in 2021 to enhance the firm’s research capabilities, with a specific focus on in-house ESG research. She now interacts with holdings more generally as a research analyst including fact-finding trips to the US.
• Gill also heads up De Lisle’s intern programme.
• Previously Gill spent most of her career at The Telegraph as a section editor and investigative journalist.

Dan Scott-Lintott

INVESTMENT ANALYST

• Dan joined De Lisle in May 2024 as an investment analyst to capitalise on his knowledge of the US market and, in particular, small-cap companies.
• He began his career in financial services in 2017 at an IFA in Edinburgh before joining Investec (now part of Rathbones) in 2020 as an Associate Investment Manager and latterly a Fund Research Analyst specialising in US fund selection.

Sarah de Lisle

HEAD OF COMPLIANCE

• Sarah co-founded De Lisle Partners in 2005, working alongside Richard de Lisle. Sarah provides a compliance and oversight function at De Lisle Partners and is the registered MRLO. Previously Sarah was an analyst at Othon, a privately held US investment fund.
• Sarah is supported by Caen Consulting, which provides compliance and risk support services to Sarah and the wider De Lisle team.

Richard Stevenson

CHIEF OF STAFF

• Richard has over 30 years’ experience in business, education, senior leadership and recruitment. He is responsible for the commercial activities of De Lisle Partners including finance, distribution and outsourced partners.

Isabelle Cordwell-Riant

INVESTMENT AND FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT

• Issy is a chartered accountant (ICAEW) who previously worked at a top 10 audit firm RSM as an audit manager specialising in financial services in Jersey.
• As well as investment accounting, Issy’s work includes delivery of De Lisle’s strategic growth plan, analyses of the fund performance and oversight of outsourced partner relationships.

Lillian Avon

COMPANY PA & ADMINISTRATOR

• Lillian is responsible for providing administrative support to the De Lisle team. She has 30 years’ experience in C-suite executive support and managerial roles in professional and financial services, creative industries, the public sector and the oil and gas industry.