People

Icebreaker Management Services Limited acts as the administrator and advisor to all the existing Icebreaker LLPs and offers this expertise to future LLP members.

Caroline Hamilton: Caroline is the Managing Director of Icebreaker Management Services Limited and Icebreaker Management Limited. The Icebreaker business model is her brainchild and she has been its principal architect since inception in 2003.

Throughout her career, Caroline has been involved with enabling small businesses to grow and with exploiting know how and other rights. For many years, she was a financier to the film and television industry, and before that she was a member of the structured finance team at Dresdner Kleinwort.

Caroline is also well known as a speaker and polar explorer.  She was leader of the only all-women expedition to ski to the North and South Poles.  This involved masterminding the expeditions’ sponsorship and marketing strategies, as well as travelling through the most extreme conditions on earth.
Previously Caroline was instrumental in developing gap insurance for the film and television industry. During ten years as an advisor to insurance companies, she was involved with more than fifty international productions.

Caroline graduated in 1985 with a Natural Sciences degree from Girton College, Cambridge, where she was also a triple blue.

Tim Jeynes: Tim is a Director of Icebreaker Management Services Limited.  He has worked with Caroline since 1996 and with Icebreaker LLPs since the first LLP was formed in 2004.

Tim heads the investor relations team at Icebreaker Management Services Limited and he is also responsible for much of the day-to-day administration of the Icebreaker LLPs.

Tim has 20 years’ experience of the know how and creative industries.  His previous senior positions include sales and marketing for ICAP, which successfully pioneered new global interbank foreign exchange dealing and broking software systems. Tim was also an important member of Spottiswoode & Spottiswoode, which launched and sold the Blueprint range of software packages to companies throughout the UK. 

Tim has considerable experience of the film and television industry.  He has co-ordinated numerous Section 48 “sale and leaseback” transactions, and been involved with the structuring and monitoring of a large number of film and television risks for insurance companies.

Tim graduated in 1986 with a Geography degree from St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge.

William Brilliant: Will is qualified to practice as a solicitor in England & Wales and Australia.  He is the inhouse lawyer and Company Secretary of Icebreaker Management Services Limited.

Previously, Will was a senior associate at Clifford Chance in London and at DLA Phillips Fox in Sydney. He was also seconded to the group legal team of Barclays Bank plc.  Will played a central role in several high profile film finance matters involving Hollywood Studios, as well as in cases involving international banks and insurance companies. In Australia, he worked on intellectual property disputes, including a dispute over medical patents between the University of Western Australia and a major public company.

Will graduated in 1999 with an English Literature degree and in 2001 with a Law degree, both from the University of Sydney.

Yorkabel Soquar, Anna Draycott and Hannah Barttelot: Yorkabel, Anna and Hannah are key members of the Icebreaker investor relations team. Their role includes processing applications and assisting in the closings of Icebreaker LLPs. 

Yorkabel, Anna and Hannah also act as chief liaison officers for existing and new LLPs.  This role includes enabling Members to communicate with each other and assisting them to participate in the activities of the LLP, circulating information and arranging meetings and events for the LLP.

Previously, Yorkabel worked for the NHS Connecting for Health programme co-ordinating the activities of around 60 people, organising events and helping to develop a project delivery framework. She was also a member of the sales team at BUPA Wellness.  Anna worked for JP Morgan Chase in its Fund Accounting Department. She supervised a team of six administrators, managing their work allocation and development, delivering appraisals and procuring full training.  Hannah travelled the world and worked principally in the hospitality and catering industry, culminating in managing a bar and fine dining restaurant with 80 covers in New Zealand.

Yorkabel graduated in 2002 with a History and Economics degree from Manchester University. Anna graduated in 2004 with a Law and Psychology degree from the University of the West of England, Bristol.  Hannah graduated in 2003 with a Social Science degree from Brighton University.

Matt Hodson and Jay Blackman: Matt and Jay are consultants and, as key members of the Icebreaker sales team, they are responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with independent financial advisors and other introducers and professionals.

Previously, Matt was a Business Development Manager at Drummonds Bank. As such he was instrumental in providing numerous loans to enable investors to become members of limited liability partnerships. Jay was a branch manager of a busy and successful residential lettings agency and in charge of a team of six, before he set up and ran his own similar operation.  Subsequently, Jay became a mortgage advisor giving independent mortgage advice.

Matt started his career as a professional footballer. He was trained through the youth system at Wycombe Wanderers and became a senior player there before moving to Hayes FC. He made frequent appearances in the non-League premier division and was also part of the England Schoolboys set up. 
Jay’s qualifications include Certificates in Mortgage Advice and Practice.

PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS

Leading Tax Counsel
Andrew Thornhill QC
Pump Court Tax Chambers
16 Bedford Row
London WC1R 4EF

Solicitors
Stevens & Bolton LLP
The Billings
Guildford GU1 4YD

Auditors
Cheesmans
Chartered Accountants
4 Aztec Row
Berners Road
London N1 0PW