About us
Oyster Capital Finance was established as an ethical and transparent funding partner for SME’s. As a business partner we look to structure loans at a cost-effective interest rate to help our clients achieve strategic and profitability goals.
Goal - To provide financial solutions and assist SME ‘s in strategic growth opportunities by making funding accessible and efficient. Arrange and Provide Loans from $500,000 to $100 million. Please inquire about qualifying here.
Additionally, if your company requires loan amounts that are below our targets, we have direct relationships with lenders that specialize in providing these loans. These lenders efficiently structure and provide loans to qualified parties. Click here to see if your company qualifies.
Gerry Hoare, CEO/COO
Co-founder. Gerry has over 35 years banking and lending experience covering risk, operations and managing branches. Invoice finance experience at Lloyds Banking Group. Ex MD at Enterprise Finance Europe (Band of Ireland) which grew from a new start business to a portfolio of over £400m in 3 years. IF, MD at Investec ABL, he has been involved in setting up and running 4 European ABL’s and founder of DealBureau Advisory. Has raised over £400m of facilities for Fintechs over the last 8 years.
He has provided consultancy to several alternative lenders and Siemens Financial Services on establishing lending operations, covering everything from origination, systems, credit, risk, operational controls, and procedures.
Jeremy Halford, CRO and Investment Analysis
Co-founder. Jeremy is an experienced financial professional with over 20 years of international financial experience advising, investing, and structuring deals with a wide range of companies. As an investment banker at Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Restructuring Group, Jeremy advised unsecured creditors in complex cross border transactions based on fundamental valuations and enforcement of creditor rights. Subsequently, Jeremy transitioned to the buy side as an investment manager for several credit funds including Agilo Ltd., Arrowgrass, Deutsche Bank. In this capacity, he invested, structured, and managed asset based and cash flow loans, distressed financing deals and growth capital investments.
In addition to these capital market focused roles, Jeremy was a Managing Director of the Commercial and Industrial division of Tiger Capital Group, an asset-based lender and liquidation firm, where he led a team that sourced, executed, and monitored short-term loans and asset dispositions.
Most recently, he has worked on behalf of companies as an interim CFO/CRO to realign strategies, manage cash and improve operations to fit changing market realities.