Robin Hindle Fisher

Business Experience

Robin became a business coach following a 27 year executive career in the fund management industry. He held senior positions at CEO, partner and managing director level at a number of leading organisations and remains a non executive director in the sector.

Robin’s coaching and mentoring work with clients is underpinned by his experience in senior leadership roles and on boards as well as by extensive coaching training (Ashridge Business School, the Metanoia Institute and others). At Phillips & Drew Fund Management he was initially an equity portfolio manager and ultimately CEO with responsibility for the UK operations of UBS Asset Management, over 400 staff and relationships with major institutional clients. He was involved in creating UBS’s retail investment business in the UK as well as the merger of Phillips & Drew with its sister companies within UBS.

In addition to P&D, Robin was a partner at Governance for Owners LLP, a Managing Director at Deutsche Asset Management, a public company board director at Henderson Administration (now Global Investors) and a graduate trainee at Kleinwort Benson. Prior to Hay Hill, Robin worked as a business coach at Praesta Partners. He is Chair of the social impact investment company Better Society Capital and a Non Executive Director of the investment management firm Oldfield Partners.

Robin is married and has two daughters and a granddaughter. He is a Governor of the disability charity the Motability Foundation and has been a trustee in the third sector since 1999. A passionate supporter of Wales’s rugby team, he also enjoys walking and now distant memories of the 2009 London Marathon.

Professional Expertise

Robin’s clients value his ability to combine practical understanding of business with strong personal empathy and a deep interest in organisations. He particularly enjoys working with senior leaders in practitioner-led organisations, client focussed teams, career transition and people businesses undertaking mergers, acquisitions or restructurings.

Education, Qualifications, Professional Positions

PhD, Professional Practice - Professional Development Foundation

MA, Coaching Psychology – Metanoia Institute

MSc, Executive Coaching – Ashridge Business School

Sloan MSc, Management, Leadership & Strategy (with distinction) – London Business School

BA Hons, Politics (with absolutely no distinction) – Durham University

Accredited Master Executive Coach – APECS

Accredited Coach – Ashridge Business School (EMCC Master Practitioner) 

Chair, Better Society Capital

Non Executive Director, Oldfield Partners

FCA Senior Manager Function holder

Governor (trustee), the Motability Foundation

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

 
 

Clients

Robin has coached clients at organisations including:

abrdn
Apollo Management
Aviva Investors
Barings
BC Partners
BP
CVC Capital Partners
Capital One Carne Group
Close Brothers
Coutts & Co
The Crown Estate
HgCapital Hollyport Capital
John Lewis Partnership
Lazard Asset Management
Legal & General
Low & Bonar
M&G Investments
McKinsey & Co
Miller Insurance Services
Morgan Stanley
Nomura International
Northleaf Capital Partners
Pantheon Ventures
Prudential
Royal Bank of Scotland
Schroders Shaftesbury Capital
Shawbrook Bank
Talbot Underwriting
Tradeweb
UBS
Vitruvian Partners

Robin Hindle Fisher is an APECS Accredited Master Executive Coach