Advisory Partners
Bay Tree is supported by highly experienced executives with extensive business networks.
Dr. Robert Easton
Dr. Robert Easton is a former Partner of Carlyle, the global alternative asset management company. During his 19 years at the firm he performed a number of roles as an investment professional, leading investment teams and funds in buyout and technology investing, while serving on multiple portfolio company boards.
Robert is a past Chairman of the British Venture Capital Association and a serial investor in technology driven, small and start-up businesses. He is an Investment Committee member and Investor with Oxx, a B2B SAAS growth capital fund, and with Melior a lower mid-market firm in Ireland.Robert has had a variety of engagements in the higher education sector at both Imperial College and Oxford University, where he was a Pro-Vice-Chancellor and currently sits on a number of University boards and committees.
He is also a Trustee of Cancer Research UK, a Fellow of the British Heart Foundation and a Trustee of the Young Vic Theatre. Philanthropically, he funds causes in conservation, science, sport, music, higher education, and sub-Saharan Africa.
Keith Butler-Wheelhouse
Keith had the first 25 years of his career with Ford in different locations around the world followed, in 1987, by leading an MBO of General Motors business in South Africa.
He spent four years in Sweden as President of Saab Automobile and a Director of General Motors and a Non-Executive Director of Atlas Copco AB.
He was Chief Executive of Smiths Group PLC, the FTSE global technology company, for 12 years, during which time it acquired or disposed over 20 businesses a year ranging in values from £5m to £5bn.
Kenton Fine
Kenton is the Chairman of the Servest Group. He has in excess of 25 years’ experience in the global services industry having founded his first business in the waste management sector in 1989.
Having sold that business in 1996 he established Servest and has together with the management team created a leading multinational Facilities services group operating in a number of geographic regions throughout the UK and Africa.