Our Team
Panos Simou ● Chartered MCSI, FCMI
Head of Department
With over 42 years of relevant experience in the financial services industry, Panos is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, and a Member of the Dutch Restructuring Association. He often jokes about when he first joined the industry, apparently the dinosaurs were still walking the earth. Alongside the many years he spent in client-facing roles and dealing in the markets as a stockbroker, Panos has also established and managed a number of free-standing financial services departments for a number of firms. His coal-face experience also includes two appointments as a Compliance Officer. His passion outside the ‘day job’ has always been motorcycling and he has covered close to 1,000,000 miles during his 30 years of riding in all weathers. During his biking days, he also spent considerable ‘evaluation time’ in most hospitals in the South of England, but somehow Panos has never let the ‘day job’ ball slip. These days he spends all his free time trawling through market news-flow, interrogating his Reuters terminal for valuation anomalies, reading through 500-page prospectuses and comprehensively looking under the bonnet of corporate bond issuers.
Email: Panos.Simou@365IM.co.uk
Alex Dunkley ● DipFA, ACSI
Independent Financial Adviser
With over 19 years of relevant experience in the financial services industry, Alex is a qualified independent financial adviser from the London Institute of Banking & Finance and an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. He also holds an AAT accounting certificate and is an enthusiastic hands-on team member, having developed his client-facing skills and impeccable work ethos running the admin and logistics function for a financial services department alongside Panos. At age 16 he was the youngest ever winner of the Southampton Singles Snooker Championship. Having attained a top-5 position in the country, he was also invited to represent England at senior level. Alex ran the Birmingham Half-Marathon in 2016 and the Great South Run in 2018. These days, he has little time for visits to local garden centres and invests most of his free time with his young family.
Email: Alex.Dunkley@365IM.co.uk
Will Baird
Client Administation
With over 10 years of relevant experience in financial services, including some 3 years of number-crunching and credit control, Will joined our team from Hampshire County Council to support the client admin and logistics function. He developed his client-facing skills supporting Insurance Brokers for Ageas and his attention to detail and ability to use initiative whilst working as a part of a team are essential ingredients for his role. He holds an FA level 1 coaching badge, enjoys parenthood, and in his spare time he plays football and golf. He has previously held a Liverpool FC season ticket for some 3 years.
Email: Will.Baird@365IM.co.uk