Ian Hannam is a Co-Founder of Hannam & Partners. He is a Co-Founder of Centar and serves as its Chairman. Formerly, Chairman of Global Capital Markets at J.P. Morgan, he has worked on over 300 transactions in over 40 countries in a 30 year period. Hannam's capital markets experience includes transactions for BHP Billiton, Xstrata, BT, SABMiller, Pakistan Telecom, Rio Tinto, Rosneft, and HSBC. He is responsible for introducing to the London market - and growing into leading blue-chip stocks - several of the major diversified mining companies (BHP Billiton, Xstrata). He is a former Captain in the Territorial Army and has degrees from Imperial College (BSc Eng) and London Business School (MBA, MSc Econ). He is also a Chartered Civil Engineer (MICE, CEng, FEANI).