Ex-Artradis exec sets up advisory business with Kroll duo

Former managing director and portfolio manager at Singapore hedge fund Artradis, Ian Roberts, has co-founded an investment/corporate finance advisory boutique called Blackpeak, which launched yesterday. The firm has completed its first round of capital-raising, part of which has been subscribed by Vulpes Investment Management, the firm that Steve Diggle founded after the Artradis firm he co-founded was wound up. Roberts is joined by Jack Clode and Chris Leahy, both former execut…