About Me

by barnaby

Hi, by profession I advise on Mergers & Acquisitions. I’ve been doing this for 20 years. This means I help clients buy and sell companies, and raise funds. I also work with clients to ‘create value’ for their businesses – through using analytics to identify and prioritise performance improvement opportunities, and later to implement them.

I’ve worked on some of the biggest deals going and have the wrinkles to prove it. Cities I have lived and been based for work include:

  • London
  • Shanghai
  • Jakarta and
  • presently Hong Kong.

I’m also a photographer and walker; two passions which happily coexist!

I initially set up this site to mostly showcase my photography – something I discovered a passion for when first working in Hong Kong in 2010 – but I’m also hoping to using it as a journal for things I’m learning, and a medium to publish writing and thoughts on investments and other topics.  

Outside of the content on this site, i’m the author (and for many took the images) of the following papers:

Financial Inclusion in Indonesia

Insurance in Indonesia

Finance in Indonesia

Retail payments in Indonesia

An Introduction to Decentralised Finance

Decentralised Exchanges and Automated Market Makers

Asia Pacific Insurance Opportunities

The collapse of FTX

The rise of the tech giants in China

Virtual Assets 2025 outlook