Our Team
An independent partnership combining institutional market experience with systematic research. Both founders are directors and active investment partners, sharing responsibility for portfolio decisions and risk oversight.
Wesley Pearce
CO-FOUNDER
Wesley Pearce is an entrepreneur and investor with a background spanning business leadership, property investment, financial markets and championship-winning motorsport.
His commercial foundations were established within his family’s 777 Group, where he gained experience across a range of roles from an early age before progressing into senior management. This provided a practical grounding in running businesses, managing resources and allocating capital.
Wesley co-founded Pearce Property Group, with interests across residential property, commercial assets and land in Surrey. He also built a successful hospitality business supplying luxury American motorhomes to racing drivers and festivals, and founded Wiggy Supplements, appearing on the BBC’s Dragons’ Den.
Alongside his business career, Wesley has competed successfully in both car and motorcycle racing. A multiple race winner and podium finisher in Ginetta GT racing, he won the G56 Am championship in the British Ginetta GT4 SuperCup in 2022. His international motorcycle racing career includes finishing runner-up in the 2018 Bahrain Superbike Championship and competing in the British Supersport Championship.
Wesley has traded foreign exchange and equity markets privately since 2016 and holds a Level 5 Diploma in Applied Financial Trading, completed through the London Academy of Trading. From 2023 to 2025, he worked as a portfolio manager at Axiom Wealth Management under Paul Courtney, before co-founding Pearce & Plenty Capital with him.
At Pearce & Plenty Capital, Wesley developed the firm’s systematic investment framework and leads its research, portfolio implementation and analysis. A committed value investor with a long-term perspective, he draws inspiration from the principles of Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett.
His business experience informs his assessment of company fundamentals and intrinsic value, while competitive motorsport has reinforced the importance of preparation, disciplined decision-making and respect for risk. Working alongside Paul Courtney, he applies these principles to portfolio construction and ongoing risk oversight, with a focus on preserving and growing capital over time.
Paul Courtney
CO-FOUNDER
Paul’s career in financial markets began in 1982 with the opening of the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE). Over the following 18 years, he established a strong foundation in institutional trading, working with some of the City’s most prominent financial institutions, including JPMorgan and Merrill Lynch, during a defining period in the evolution of global derivatives markets.
At the age of 25, Paul was appointed Assistant Vice President at First Chicago, subsequently part of Bank One, where he took responsibility for the bank’s London Financial Futures operation. His role involved developing the business, strengthening its international presence and building a high-performing team, supported by regular engagement with colleagues and counterparties in New York and Chicago.
In late 1999, Paul left the City, taking a team with him to establish Axiom Wealth Management. The venture focused on private investment capital, bringing together a close network of friends and family within a flow- and event-driven investment framework.
With a primary focus on global futures and equity markets, the strategy drew on his extensive experience of market structure, trading dynamics and international financial markets. The move into a more entrepreneurial investment environment applied the knowledge and relationships developed over nearly two decades in the City to a privately focused investment operation.