Northern Gritstone appoints Eve Howarth as Co-Investor and Capital Manager

Northern Gritstone, the investment business focused on science and technology-enabled businesses in the North of England, today announces it has appointed Eve Howarth as its Co-Investor and Capital Manager.

Eve joins from Lazard where she worked in its real estate and venture teams. Her experience includes Assura's £250m 20:80 joint venture with the Universities Superannuation Scheme, Pragmatic's £182m Series D capital raise and Northern Gritstone's £312m first close capital raise.

Eve will manage the relationships with Northern Gritstone’s growing co-investor community who have already supported Northern Gritstone’s 30 investments to date into early-stage companies.

Prior to Lazard, Eve participated in Deloitte’s University Scholar Scheme program in both its Corporate Tax and M&A Transaction Services (TS) teams.

Duncan Johnson, CEO of Northern Gritstone said ‘Eve has a capital raising background working on scaleups, joint ventures with some of the UK’s largest pension funds, as well as Northern Gritstone’s own initial £312 million fundraising. We’re delighted she has joined us to help build out such a key part of Northern Gritstone’s business.’  

Eve Howarth, Co-Investor and Capital Manager, Northern Gritstone said ‘I'm delighted to join Northern Gritstone and leverage my capital-raising experience in support of building ambitious science and deep tech companies in the North with our co-investor community.’