Oliver Schofield has extensive work experience in various roles across different companies. Oliver started their career as a Finance Summer Intern at Wellcome Trust in 2012. Oliver then worked as a Summer Intern at Balderton Capital and as a Commercial Analysis Intern at The Hut Group in 2013. Later that year, Oliver also had a Winter Vacation Scheme role at Allen & Overy.
In 2014, they joined RBC Capital Markets as Leveraged Finance and worked there until 2018. From 2018 to 2019, Oliver worked at Goldman Sachs in a Leveraged Finance role.
In 2019, Oliver joined LDC as an Investment Director. Oliver held this position until the present time.
More recently, Oliver has taken on multiple Non-Executive Director roles. In 2021, they became a Non-Executive Director at Hybrid. In 2023, they joined Idwal and The Barrister Group as Non-Executive Directors.
Oliver Schofield's education history begins in 2008 when they attended King Edward's School, Bath, and completed their GCSEs. From 2009 to 2011, they pursued A Levels (A2) at the same institution. In 2011, Oliver enrolled at the University of Oxford, where they studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2014. During their time at Oxford, in 2012-2013, they also engaged in the OPAL Vantage P&E program, focusing on French studies. In 2014, they attended the CISI (Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment) and earned a Certificate in Corporate Finance. Later, in 2016, Oliver began their studies in the CFA Programme at the CFA Institute, the duration of which is unspecified.
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For over 40 years, LDC has been the trusted investment partner for ambitious management teams. Part of Lloyds Banking Group, our experience, scale, and relationship-based approach have helped hundreds of management teams across the UK to grow their businesses, their way. Since 2012, the businesses we’ve supported have grown four times more than the national average, increasing in value by a cumulative £7bn. We offer strategic support, challenge when necessary and provide flexible growth capital as either minority or majority shareholders. This means we can help management teams to deliver a range of different growth strategies – including making acquisitions, investing in operations or sales and marketing, broadening products and services, or expanding overseas. With a national network of 10 offices, our teams live and work right across the UK. By combining local relationships with national scale, we’re able to build trusted relationships from day one. Our experience has seen us invest in companies across more than 50 sub-sectors, supporting the whole of the UK economy, through good times and bad.
