The investment house set up by one of the UK's most renowned figures has added to its ranks with a raft of hires.

Woodfood Investment Management, the firm set up by widely-lauded industry figure Neil Woodfood in 2014, has added six new figures to its team. 

Three investment analysts have joined the investment team and will work closely with fund managers, Paul Lamacraft, Saku Saha and Stephen Lamacraft.

Lucinda Crabtree has worked in various analyst roles covering the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors at a number of investment banks, including Panmure Gordon, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan. 

Richard Lockington joins from Duff & Phelps, the global valuations advisor, where he was senior associate working on valuations of intangible assets and businesses. Harry Raikes joins from Envestors, an FCA-regulated corporate finance advisor, where he evaluated proposals and conducted due diligence for unquoted companies.

The operations function has also been bolstered by three new hires.

Mohammad Sohail joins from Ruffer as dealing and trade operations specialist to assist Grant Wentzel, head of trading. James Coats, formerly head of operations at MSK Capital Partners and Dominic Eccles, a lead operations analyst at BP’s asset management arm have joined the firm to add further support to its operations functions.

The firm oversees £12.5 billion ($19.3 billion) of client assets. It was established by Woodfood last year after leaving Invesco Perpetual, where he had built a reputation as being one of the strongest-performing asset managers in the UK.