Quantuma appoints Shaun Hampton-Matthews as director
As Quantuma reports growth across its service lines, the consultancy has strengthened its asset based lending team with a new director hire. Shaun Hampton-Matthews arrives at the firm with more than four decades of experience in the sector.
Quantuma Chief Executive Carl Jackson said of the news, “Shaun’s appointment is part of a strategic plan as Quantuma, and more broadly, the K3 Capital Group, of which we are part, target substantial growth over the next few years, following investment from the European arm of the US Private Equity firm, Sun Capital Partners, Inc, earlier this year.”
According to Jackson, Quantuma is already seeing revenue expansion across all its service lines – both in the UK and overseas. Citing a “frenetic” 2023, he added that the firm had seen “record breaking and industry leading growth”. Other operators in the restructuring sector – where Quantuma primarily, but not exclusively, focuses its energies – have endured losses in the last 12 months, with the number of zombie companies rising, and offsetting the number of restructuring and administration projects there would otherwise be.
But with Quantuma diversifying its mandates and attracting new talent, it has been able to boost growth in spite of that. As the latest arrival at the firm, Hampton-Matthews will help continue this trend into 2024, by broadening Quantuma’s asset based lending offering. He arrives as a director, with a national remit to work with like-minded colleagues from the firm’s 18 UK offices, as it continues to develop its relationships with the asset based lending community.
Hampton-Matthews commented, “I am delighted to have returned to a professional services environment and to have joined a firm as ambitious as Quantuma. I am very much looking forward to working with a very experienced, multi-disciplinary team here at Quantuma, and playing my part in the ongoing success of the firm in the coming years.”
He brings a wealth of experience to Quantuma, from a 40-year career spanning banking, asset based lending and restructuring work. This included a 15-year stint with the Lloyds Bank Group, as well as the last 25 years with Big Four firm KPMG – and its spun-off restructuring arm Interpath – where he headed asset based lending client account management nationally.
Asset-based lending is the business of loaning money in an agreement that is secured by collateral. An asset-based loan or line of credit may be secured by inventory, accounts receivable, equipment, or other property owned by the borrower. The global asset-based lending market was valued at $561 billion in 2021, and is projected to reach $1.7 trillion by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 12.2% to 2031.