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Jim is an entrepreneur with a flair for identifying emerging global trends enabling him to build a worldwide business empire. He is amongst the top 10% in the “Sunday Times Rich List” (Britain’s equivalent to the Forbes list). He is often described as the British Warren Buffett and he predicted the Credit Crunch of 2007-08 in a book entitled “Wake Up! Survive and Prosper in the Coming Economic Turmoil”. Jim followed this with “The Top 10 Investments for the Next 10 Years” (2008) and subsequently “Cracking the Code” (2012), “Fast Forward” (2014) and, most recently, “Juvenescence” (2017). His monthly “Mellon on the Markets” column in Master Investor Magazine has gained him cult status among investors. He holds a master’s degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University. He is on the Board of Trustees of the Buck Institute in California, a trustee of the Biogerontology Institute, and a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.

Designation

The man the Daily Mail dubbed “The King of the Short Sellers”, Evil Knievil (aka Simon Cawkwell) is Britain’s most feared bear-raider. A big man with a bigger reputation, Evil Knievil famously made £1 million by short selling shares in Northern Rock during its collapse. At this year’s show, Evil dons one of his panamas (he is a don after all) and considers documents that have gone across his desk over the last year.

Investment Specialist

Stewart joined Baillie Gifford in December 2019 and is an Investment Specialist for Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC. Before joining, he was a Portfolio Director at Cazenove Capital where he worked for over 14 years. Stewart graduated MA in Political Economy and Management Studies from the University of Aberdeen in 2001.

Managing Director, J.P.Morgan Asset Management, The Mercantile Investment Trust

Guy Anderson, Managing Director, is a portfolio manager within the Unconstrained Portfolios sub-team of the J.P. Morgan Asset Management International Equity Group – Behavioural Finance Team in London. Guy is Head of UK Mid and Small Caps and manager of The Mercantile Investment Trust. Prior to joining the firm in 2012, Guy was an investment analyst at Breeden European Capital and at Pendragon Capital, having started his career at Oliver Wyman. He obtained an M.Eng (Hons) in Engineering from Oxford University and is a CFA charterholder.

CEO, Netwealth

Charlotte Ransom, Chief Executive Officer, Netwealth Charlotte is the co-founder and CEO of Netwealth, an award-wining UK wealth manager. Having started her career at JPMorgan, Charlotte spent 20 years at Goldman Sachs, serving as a partner for 10 years. Her leadership roles spanned relationship management, marketing and product development in the Securities Division. From 2006 to 2011, Charlotte was head of Institutional Wealth Management and the Market Solutions Groups for Europe, Middle East and Asia in the Investment Management Division.

Head of Client Advisory, Netwealth

Matt Conradi, Head of Client Advisory, Netwealth Matt has over 10 years’ experience in discretionary wealth management as a portfolio manager, advising and investing on behalf of high and ultra-high net worth private clients at Julius Baer and Merrill Lynch in London. Matt is a CFA charter holder

CEO, WiseAlpha

As founder and CEO Rezaah is responsible for driving the strategic growth of WiseAlpha. Rezaah is an entrepreneur who started his career in the M&A and Leveraged finance teams at Deutsche Bank. He helped structure and execute numerous multi-billion debt financing and advisory transactions. He then worked at a multi-billion hedge fund investing in senior secured loans, high yield bonds and distressed debt. Rezaah has also been a board director and strategic advisor to TeleColumbus, a large cable television business in Germany. Rezaah studied Economics at the University of Cambridge and Management at the Judge Institute, University of Cambridge.

CEO, QuotedData

Ed Marten, CEO, QuotedData Prior to founding QuotedData in 2013, Edward spent 10 years in investment banking with Cazenove (now JP Morgan Cazenove) and before that, Collins Stewart (now Canaccord Genuity). At Cazenove Edward focused on Investment Trusts, working with the number-one Extel-rated team, and broadened his focus to Pan European equities, servicing a global investor base and raising over €1 billion for companies. After this, Edward set up a new equity agency broker in 2010 that was subsequently sold to SpareBank1Markets, part of the second biggest savings alliance in Norway.