Hawksmoor's Crowley: We want to be the most important player in the South West

Looking back at ten years of being in business

John Crowley, CEO of Devon-based Hawksmoor Investment Management, speaks to Natalie Kenway about becoming the stand-out investment manager in the West Country, positioning the firm for its next phase of growth and attracting younger investors

John Crowley, CEO of Hawksmoor Investment Management since its launch in 2008, had a varied career prior to founding the Devon-based business. After university he consecutively became a broker, a classical singer, an institutional stockbroker and then a solicitor. He moved to Devon in 1993 to pursue a solicitor career but became aware that law firms were starting to develop investment departments. "I saw an opportunity to weave together the two strands of my CV, having been in the City as an institutional stockbroker and having qualified as a solicitor, to start a little investment de...