Press Release: London, UK
27 May 2020
Small Cap Awards
Small Cap Awards 2020 Shortlist Announcement
Virtual Awards Webinar Event to take place on Thursday 25th June
The Small Cap Awards is an annual opportunity to recognise outstanding achievement focused on smaller quoted companies. The Shortlist of nominees has now been confirmed.
The winners in each category will be announced on Thursday 25th June at the Awards Webinar and will celebrate success for UK listed Small Caps.
The Small Cap Awards Dinner was originally scheduled to take place at the Montcalm Hotel on the 25th of June.
Under the circumstances however, it was felt that a virtual awards ceremony would provide the best available opportunity to celebrate the best of the UK Small Cap community.
Since its founding in mid-2012, the Small Cap Network has successfully enabled the small and micro-cap sector to meet, share updates and insights and foster new ideas and opportunities. The awards have always shone a light on the best companies and individuals in the community across eleven categories.
The Small Cap Awards committee is delighted to have the continued support of Hamlins LLP as headline partners for the awards.
Daniel Bellau, Corporate Finance Partner and Head of Corporate at Hamlins LLP said:
“We are delighted and proud to be the long term sponsors of this event. As specialists working with small cap quoted companies we consider that , right now, it is more important than ever that we recognise the very best that small cap community has to offer.”
The shortlist has been selected by a judging panel comprised of leaders in the Small Cap sector and is Chaired by Claire Noyce, CEO at Hybridan LLP. The full judging panel and award categories and shortlisted companies can be viewed here:
https://smallcapnetwork.co.uk/2020-awards/.
The winners in each category will be announced on Thursday 25th June at the Awards Webinar to be held in London and will celebrate success for UK listed Small Caps.
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Notes to Editors
The eighth annual Small Cap Awards Webinar will take place from 4pm on Thursday 25 June 2020 in London. To register for a place please go to the web address below:
https://smallcapnetwork.co.uk/events/
2020 Award categories:
IPO of the Year
Diaceutics
Brickability Group
Essensys
Argentex Group PLC
Loungers
Pebble Group
Company of the Year
Yourgene Health
Volex
Renalytix AI
SDI Group
Ergomed
Judges Scientific
Executive Director of the Year
Matt Jones - CEO of Blancco Technology Group
Giulio Cerroni - CEO of Ixico
Lyn Rees - CEO of Yourgene Health
Jennifer Winter - CEO of Animalcare
Peter Harrison - CEO of Bioventix
David Cicurel - CEO of Judges Scientific
Transaction of the Year
Centralnic Group - Team Internet
Rockrose Energy - Marathon Oil and Marathon West of Shetland Limited
Kape Technologies - Private Internet Access
Amryt Pharma - Aegerion
Totally - Greenbrook Healthcare
Inspiration Healthcare acquisition of Vio Holdings
Technology Company of the Year
SRT Marine Systems
Oxford Metrics
Blackbird
Avacta
Blancco Technology Group
Reneuron
Innovative Financing of the Year
Yu Group PLC
Simec Atlantis Energy
1pm PLC
Symphony Environmental
Impact Company of the Year
Good Energy
Eden Research
ITM Power
Inspired Energy
Jubilee Metals
Ilika
Analyst of the Year
Kartik Swaminathan, Arden Partners
Peter McNally, Panmure Gordon
Jens Lindqvist, Investec
Lorne Daniel, Finn Cap
Kai Korschelt, Canaccord Genuity
George O'Connor, Stifel London
Journalist of the Year
Simon Thompson - Investors Chronicle
Michael Taylor - Investors Chronicle
Mark Shapland - Evening Standard
Joanne Hart - Mail on Sunday
Emma Agyemang - Financial Times
Hannah Godfrey - Professional Adviser
UK Smaller Companies Fund Manager of the Year
ASI UK Smaller Companies - Harry Nimmo
JPM UK Smaller Companies - Georgina Brittain and Katen Patel
M&G Smaller Companies - Garfield Kiff and Rory Alexander
Invesco UK Smaller Companies Equity (UK) - Jonathan Brown
TM Cavendish AIM B - Paul Mumford
Kames UK Smaller Companies - Elaine Morgan
VCT Manager of the Year
Amati AIM VCT PLC – Dr. Paul Jourdan, David Stevenson, Anna MacDonald
Unicorn AIM VCT PLC - Chris Hutchinson
Octopus AIM VCT 2 PLC - Kate Tidbury
Maven Income and Growth VCT 1 PLC - Bill Nixon
Seneca Growth Capital VCT PLC - John Davies
Hargreave Hale AIM VCT 1 - Oliver Bedford
The judging panel consists of:
(Chair) Claire Noyce Managing Partner and Chief Executive at Hybridan
Dale Bellis
Director of the AiM Investment Team at Maven Capital Partners UK LLP
James Faulkner
Editor-in-Chief at Master Investor
Guy Feld
Fund Manager at Canaccord Genuity Fund Management
Richard Gill
Head of Research at Align Research
Connor Grimes
Investment Manager at Seneca Partners
Helen James
Partner, HW Fisher
Ms Alexandra Lindsay
Investment Director, Calculus Capital
Judith Mackenzie
Partner & Head of Public Equity at Downing LLP
Anand Sambasivan
Co-founder & CEO of PrimaryBid Limited
Dominic Weller
Fund Manager at Octopus Investments
Simone Westerhuis
Managing Director, LGB Investments
Gervais Williams
Head of Equities at Premier Miton Group plc.
www.smallcapawards.com
www.smallcapnetwork.co.uk
Twitter @sce_club #smallcap2020
For more information contact:
Registration Queries: lou@smallcapnetwork.co.uk
Other queries: info@smallcapnetwork.co.uk
About the Sponsors:
About Hamlins LLP
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About Master Investor
Master Investor Ltd. is a UK based investment media and events company, backed by visionary entrepreneur, Jim Mellon, amongst the top 10% in the Sunday Times Rich List.
In today’s world of ever greater uncertainty, a growing number of people are taking their financial future into their own hands. Master Investor is there to provide private investors with the intellectual stimulation necessary to make that journey.
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https://masterinvestor.co.uk/