Slade is responsible for leading and managing GP relationships. Slade has over 15 years of private equity and banking experience.
Prior to co-founding NLC, Slade was Co-Head of Capital Call Financing and the Head of GP Financing at Investec’s Funds Solutions team. Slade was one of the original members to join Investec’s Fund Solutions team and during his time ran and executed over €5.5bn of fund finance transactions globally across 30 fund managers and 45 funds including capital call, secondaries, GP led, NAV, and GP financing.
Slade formed part of the Fund Solution’s investment committee and was instrumental in originating and developing deep client relationships which drove turnover growth by more than 8 times and saw the team increase from 4 to over 20.
Slade started his career in South Africa and moved to the UK in 2008 as part of Investec’s treasury team to build out the institutional deposit base.
Slade holds a Bachelor of Information Systems from Bond University and is a Chartered Management Accountant.
