Steve has been in the superyacht industry for over 30 years. He previously ran one of the largest technology integrators for superyachts in Europe before starting SMART Technology Advisers, the leading independent technology consultancy in the industry. Over his career, Steve has been involved in over 50 superyachts that are over 60m in length and led the team that designed over 10 world-first technological innovations.
Tom is a Snr. Technology Consultant at SMART who has worked on 16 superyachts, the majority being over 80m. He designed the first superyacht IMAX Movie Theatre with Dolby Atmos – a hybrid system of the two leading brands.
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John Matthews
AirX
AirX was born when a family-run business bought incorrect assets in the boom. John took over operations and within months of his leadership, the company was brought back from the brink of bankruptcy, establishing a new tier in Malta as the company’s new headquarter turning profits following the start of John’s leadership in 2010.
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Lifestyle, Air
Marcus Allen and Aarash Ghatineh
Cult Wines
Marcus Allen, Director of Business Development
Marcus joined Cult Wines in 2014 to create the Agency division of the business, building a global network of best-in-class intermediaries such as Private Banks, Wealth Managers and Family Offices. The Agency team is the fastest growing area of Cult Wines and has enabled the firm to grow from £10m to £140m AUM in the last 6 years. Marcus joined from the financial sector, having previously been with banks such as RBS and Goldman Sachs.
Aarash Ghatineh, Executive director
One of the founding team members at Cult Wines, Aarash has played a crucial role in the growth and success of the business over the last decade. Aarash has predominantly been responsible for building and managing the Global Sales operation at Cult Wines, overseeing more than £200m of sales in that time. His market experience is second to none, having been through two bull and bear markets during his tenure, giving him first-hand experience of navigating investors through all market conditions.
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Girado & Co
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Company backgrounds and useful links.
Smart Advisors
Steve Puckering and Tom Richardson
SMART Technology Advisers Ltd is the leading independent technology consultancy for UHNWIs. Founded in 2012, SMART is based in Hessle, Yorkshire.
SMART is a multi-disciplinary team of experts who work collaboratively and interdependently as part of the owner’s team to design technology systems that meet their exact needs. Whilst protecting their interests by managing the technology risk in a superyacht and/or residential new build or refit project.
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Yachts, Technology, Lifestyle
AirX
John Matthews
Headquartered in Malta with offices in the UK, Germany and USA, with over 300 employees, AirX owns and operates a very diversified fleet. As a Business to Business operator they have no direct clients, and have positioned themselves as the ‘Brokers’ Airline’.
AirX recently bolstered it maintenance and aircraft management capability with the opening of AirX Jet Support in Diamond Hangar at Stansted.
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Lifestyle, Air
Cult Wines
Marcus Allen and Aarash Ghatineh
Cult Wines was founded in 2007 with a mission to bring a new level of professionalism to fine wine portfolio management. We are the world’s leading wine investment company with assets under management of £140 million. Headquartered in London, we have offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore. Our clients include private individuals and the clients of family offices, wealth managers and private banks.
Our clients benefit from our deep market insight, and our investment in proprietary data, analytics and risk management processes, which we use to structure and actively manage well-diversified portfolios of the most exclusive and sought-after wines.
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Girado & Co
20 years after starting work at Bonhams and 10 years after founding and running RM Sotheby’s European division, Max Girardo set up Girardo & Co in London in 2016. The company has always been keen to remain small, agile but also extremely competent and professional. Every car is sourced and processed by the team with specific attention to future proof its history and condition, hence giving our clients the comfort and peace of mind that is mandatory when investing strongly in these sort of vehicles.
We are entrusted with managing single sales or whole collections alike and we are proud of our remarkable rate of returning customers.
