James Caan, CBE is a serial entrepreneur, private equity investor and one of the UK's most recognised business figures. As founder and CEO of Hamilton Bradshaw, a Mayfair-based private equity firm with a portfolio turnover exceeding £150 million, James has spent over four decades building, scaling and realising businesses across real estate, professional services and beyond.

His involvement with GILLARD Atelier reflects a considered investment in a business he believes is positioned to become a defining force in high-value design and construction. For developers and investors working at the upper end of the market, James brings to the board a level of strategic credibility, commercial network and growth capital that few can match.

A Harvard Business School alumnus and CBE for services to entrepreneurship, James understands what it takes to take an ambitious business from vision to scale, and to attract the right partners along the way.