Robin Saunders
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Last Updated: 22 Sep 2026
Co-Founder, Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer
London, GB
Profile Verified by The Marque
Last Updated: 22 Sep 2026
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In Their Own Right
Biography
Robin Saunders is a founding partner of Clearbrook and its Chief Investment Officer, with more than 30 years’ experience leading and managing investments across Europe, the US and the Middle East. Over the course of her career, she has been responsible for investments and related managed assets in excess of $30bn and is recognised for combining rigorous capital markets discipline with a strong commercial instinct for value creation and risk management.
Robin began her career at Northern Trust in Chicago before moving into senior roles at Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and Westdeutsche Landesbank, specialising in capital markets and principal finance investments. This early grounding in structured finance and complex transactions underpins her later work as an investor, where she has led deals across multiple sectors, ownership models and jurisdictions.
She currently serves as Chair of PensionPay Ltd, a non-executive director of NWS Music Group Ltd and as Senior Director at Quarterhill Inc. Robin has held a wide range of board positions spanning infrastructure, consumer, regulated utilities, financial services and media. Her previous directorships include Formula One Holdings Ltd, Pubmistress, International Stadium Group, BHS, Whyte & Mackay, Odeon Cinemas, Mid Kent Water, Harbourmaster Capital Management, Hawk Group, the UK Office of the Rail Regulator, Seamless Distribution AB and other private and public companies. Across these roles, she has worked closely with founders, families, private equity sponsors and public market investors, often in situations involving growth, restructuring or strategic repositioning.
Alongside her board and investment work, Robin is actively engaged in education and transatlantic exchange. She is a Visiting Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, a Governor of the British Film Institute and formerly a Commissioner of the UK-US Fulbright Commission.
The Record
Background
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2004 — Present
Co-Founder, Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer
Clearbrook Capital Partners LLP
Robin is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Clearbrook Capital Partners, a private investment and advisory firm specialising in growth companies engaged in healthcare, financial services, business services and property sectors. Clearbrook has investments in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the US.
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1984 — 1988
Credit Analyst, Associate in Trade Finance Group
Northern Trust Asset Management
Robin completed her credit and capital markets training at the Northern Trust Company in Chicago and New York. She later served in the Export and Trade Finance group as an originator and product specialist.
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1991 — 1992
Vice President, Corporate Asset Funding
Citigroup
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1996 — 1998
Managing Director of Asset Backed Securities and Co-Head, Principal Finance, Europe
Deutsche Bank
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1998 — 2004
Managing Director, Asset Securitisation & Head of Global Principal Finance Group
WestLB (Now: Portigon AG)
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1988 — 1991
Vice President of Corporate Asset Funding; Associate in Trade Finance Group
Citigroup
Robin was an early member of the Asset Securitisation Group at Citi in Chicago. Her clients included companies such as Coca-Cola Bottling, Ryder Trucks, Carolina Freight Corp.
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1992 — 1996
Managing Director of Asset Backed Securities, Europe
Chase Manhattan Bank
In The News
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6 May 2022 · GOV.UK
Robin Saunders reappointed to the Board of the BFI
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Formative Years
Education
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Florida State University
Finance
Areas Of Focus