The Team

Your Caldey team is perfectly suited to the needs of entrepreneurs. With one foot anchored in the corporate world, and the other in our own business created entirely from scratch, we understand, at a highly personal level, the concerns and ambitions of people selling and investing in businesses.

With this unique knowledge and experience, we can get the best kind of deal done – one where both parties are happy with the result.

Adrian Dray

Prior to founding Caldey, Adrian spent 30 years advising entrepreneurs and investors across a multitude of sectors. His experience covers fund raising, acquisitions, strategic advice and eventual sale, in all stages of the economic cycle. Adrian’s particular expertise is structuring complex deals and maximising value for clients through a focus on the value drivers and financial potential of businesses.

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Janine Vitali

Janine is an experienced director and advisor who has held senior positions in a number of corporate organisations and has worked closely with entrepreneurs. As well as roles within private equity firms, Janine has acted in an advisory and board capacity on a number of mandates, with a key focus on operations, commercial and people strategies, turnarounds, acquisitions and transformations.

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“I had previously sold one business and knew that to achieve the best result for me and my fellow shareholders I needed an Advisor totally dedicated and focussed on delivering that outcome. Caldey made a huge difference and delivered way beyond my high expectations. Their commitment and determination to find solutions that worked both for us and the PageUp team during the transaction process was amazing; I am certain that we wouldn’t have been able to achieve this great result without the drive and innovative thoughts of Adrian and Janine.”

Andy Randall, Founder, CEO and largest shareholder of eArcu

“Adrian and Janine from Caldey were introduced to me over a year ago when we were engaged with other potential funding partners. From that initial support role, they have become truly trusted advisors; their dedication, commitment and professionalism to Avnio and me personally has been invaluable during this period in what is a challenging time in a two year old rapidly growing and evolving tech business. Their support has been constant, and they have been available evenings and weekends closing this key round of fund raising.”

Tobias Dawes – Founder, Avnio

“I have been working with Adrian for almost 20 years – his dedication to us as a client has been first class; his focus on our objectives and his attention to detail during negotiations made a huge positive difference to our outcomes”

David Simpson, Millgate Homes

“Adrian has led the advisory work from the management buy back to the final sale of the business over a 10 year period. He was always focused on what was important and was always accessible; I appreciate he always has a number of assignments competing for his attention at any one time, however I always felt that we were his prime client”

Alan Bennie, Vice Chairman and Co-Founder of Vivid Toys

“Adrian and Janine were invaluable in maximising the value of a 5th generation family owned business for its 100 plus shareholders. Janine and Adrian work through the complexities of 3 very different businesses with varied dynamics and presented the businesses in a manner that demonstrated their respective full potential to the buyer. After delivering such great results they continue to support the board through the buy-out of the legacy defined pension scheme that allowed the shareholders to receive consideration beyond mine and many others expectations”

Jonathan Hopson, CEO and shareholder of Camp Hopson

“Adrian was my advisor when A-Gas was a small business and I needed to buy out my business partner. He did a great deal with my first private equity partner and became mine and my fellow A-Gas shareholders’ trusted advisor as we grew the business from those humble beginnings to the global business that was sold to KKR at the point of my retirement. His commitment and determination to ensure that we achieved great deals from all our equity partners made a real difference to us all”

John Rutley – Founder and CEO of A-Gas

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