Finance Connect Podcast: Simon Everidge on partnership, culture and growth at Rigby Capital

The latest episode of the Finance Connect European Equipment Finance Podcast, sponsored by Alfa, is now available, featuring Simon Everidge, Managing Director at Rigby Capital UK.

Joining host Richard O’Donohue, Simon Everidge discusses the evolution of Rigby Capital, its approach to technology finance and how a combination of strong partnerships, culture and continuous improvement has supported the company’s growth.

Everidge has spent more than eight years at Rigby Capital, following a career that has included senior roles at GE Capital and Dell Financial Services, as well as a period outside the finance industry with Unipart. He explains how those different experiences have influenced his approach to leading Rigby Capital today.

A key theme of the conversation is the importance of culture. Everidge discusses the work undertaken at Rigby Capital to focus not simply on what the business does, but how it does it – creating an organisation centred around its people, values and long-term relationships.

The episode also explores Rigby Capital’s evolving funding strategy and its relationship with Lombard. The collaboration, which began formally in 2023, has since generated more than £100 million of origination and supported around 150 customers, with Everidge outlining the potential to take the relationship further across Lombard and the wider NatWest business.

Looking ahead, Everidge discusses where he sees further opportunities for Rigby Capital, including addressing the “white space” of customers traditionally paying cash or using existing banking facilities, developing new funding solutions and making greater use of automation and AI to improve processes.

The conversation also considers international expansion, including developments in France, Spain and the UAE, and what Everidge’s experience outside financial services taught him about leadership, process improvement and the value of making many small improvements rather than relying on a single transformational change.

For equipment finance leaders, the episode provides an insight into how Rigby Capital has developed its business and why Everidge believes culture, collaboration and incremental improvement can be just as important to sustainable growth as strategy itself.

The full episode is available now on the Finance Connect European Equipment Finance Podcast, as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and Amazon Music