Lindsey McMurray

Lindsey McMurray founded Pollen Street in 2013, is the Managing Partner as well as Chairman of the Investment Committee, and also serves as a non-executive director on the boards of several portfolio companies. Lindsey has been investing in private equity and credit for over 25 years, with a focus on financial and business services.

Lindsey has built Pollen Street into a fast-growing and high-performing private capital manager that invests aligned with the structural growth trends across financial and business services. Since 2013, the company has grown by delivering top-tier returns and manages over €6bn AUM across private equity and asset-backed credit with investors comprising leading pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations, asset managers, banks, and family offices from around the world.

Prior to founding Pollen Street, Lindsey led the team managing the £1.1bn Special Opportunities Fund within Royal Bank of Scotland and spent six years as a Partner at Cabot Square Capital, focusing on investments across Financial Services, real estate and other asset-backed investments.

Lindsey has a First-Class Honours degree in Accounting and Finance and studied for an MPhil in Finance from Strathclyde University.

Outside of work, Lindsey is a keen runner having successfully completed the Marathon Des Sables in 2007 and 2011. She also supports several charities with a particular focus on mentoring children in state schools, including as a long-standing trustee of the charity Future First, supporting climate action initiatives through producing documentary films as well as supporting the speech and language charity, Auditory Verbal UK.