PlotSet

Co-Founder

Eeagli

Data Visualisation Consultant and Creator

Vontobel Asset Management

Associate Director - Editorial Manager

Unigestion

Worked on setting up a document automation system and wrote thought leadership pieces on private equity, hedge fund strategies and factor-based investing.

Senior Content Writer

Fidelity Worldwide Investments

Part of the thought leadership team at Fidelity. Responsible from producing white papers and ground-breaking research with investment management teams.

Senior Investment Writer

Gartmore

Sat on the fixed income desk next to the Head of Credit. Produced desk reports, serviced the needs of clients and sales, and handled press requirements.

Fixed Income Specialist

HSBC Global Asset Management

Part of a global five-person sales team that won USD 41.2 billion assets under management over the course four years from sovereign wealth funds and central banks.

Institutional Sales - Middle East, Sovereigns and Central Banks

Bestinvest

A one-year work placement where I brought in GBP 50 million in net new money from high net worth clients as a result of a successful project I ran.

Associate

Data Storyteller and Investment Writer, Founder of Eeagli (LinkedIn Top Voices 2022 - Finance)

I make data dance because when numbers come alive you can see the world for what it is.

I’m James Eagle, a data visualisation specialist, keynote speaker, and seasoned investment writer with two decades of experience in asset management and banking industries. I’ve developed unique techniques that transforming complex topics into clear, compelling stories.

What I Do:

→ Data Visualisation: I bring stories to life through visuals that cut through the noise, revealing truths you might miss that help you start conversations that matter.

→ Thought Leadership: My upcoming book, From Chaos to Clarity (launching July 10), explores how data visualisation could help save humanity from a world drowning in data.

→ Keynote Speaking: When step on stage I ignite the room, bringing data to life through my powerful animated visualisations.

→ AI Innovation: I'm building an AI language model that lets you upload and explore massive datasets, uncover the hidden stories beneath the numbers, and transform these discoveries into powerful visual narratives.

→ Social Media & Communication: I consult with companies of all sizes to help them tell better stories online, bridging the gap between complexity and clarity.

Why It Matters: Because data, when brought to life, has the power to shift perspectives, shape strategies, and ignite new ideas.

James Eagle

AI is starting to look like a closed loop of money.

Goldman Sachs Research have drawn the picture here really well. Their network map of AI partnerships is basically a wiring diagram for circular finance. 

On top of that, a lot of this hardware is being depreciated over 6 to 8 years even though the tech cycle runs on something closer to 2 or 3. Michael Burry has been shouting about this for months. The same names appear on almost every line. Chips, cloud, equity, services. All bouncing around a tiny club that is amplified by the dollar and America’s ability to pull in global capital.

This is not about fraud. It is about concentration and fragility. If the forecasts are wrong and AI infrastructure is overbuilt, whose revenue survives once the circular money slows down? And whose story quietly falls apart?

I will create any data visualisation idea you have on this story. I really want more clarity on these risks. I want to see them. Comment below please

Source: Editor Allison Nathan, Goldman Sachs Research, Top of Mind, "AI in a Bubble"

Co-founder of PlotSet | Turn complex data into beautiful, ready-to-share data visualizations. The best bit is no coding required.

This looks like another tech rout, but this chart tells a more interesting story. Returns over the past month are not moving in one direction, they are spreading out.

Some giants like Google and Amazon sit comfortably above zero with double digit gains. Others including Tesla Meta and Oracle are deep in the red. Dispersion is widening, even though every bubble in this chart is a company worth more than $5 billion.

That is what makes data visualisation useful. You can see in seconds that this is not a blanket rout but a market that is starting to separate winners from losers.

In a world of richer dispersion, would you rather own the broad tech index or a concentrated basket of names you believe can justify their valuations? The question is can any of them justify there valuations?

Bitcoin has wiped out its 2025 gains and broken below 100k. The move has been brutally fast, and that speed matters because it looks like panic selling rather than a calm reassessment. See the data visualisation below.

The driver sits in the AI trade. 

Reports suggest OpenAI lost around $8bn in the first half of 2025, with revenue running in the low tens of billions, and it has been marked at about a $500bn valuation in recent secondary deals. NVIDIA now makes up roughly 8% of the S&P 500 raising concerns of concentration risk. Palantir has traded at more than 500 times earnings. 

When large investors finally began to question these valuations, they raised cash by selling their highest risk position first. That was Bitcoin.

Why Bitcoin? Because the same hedge funds, family offices and macro traders who own the big AI names also hold bitcoin as their most speculative asset. When confidence in tech wobbles, they do not sell NVIDIA on day one. They cut Bitcoin to reduce risk. Bitcoin has therefore become the pressure valve for AI anxiety.

You can see the split in the data. Bitcoin is down about 28% in six weeks and roughly $1.2tn has been wiped off the wider crypto market. By contrast, the Nasdaq is only a little off its highs despite the well publicised sell off in tech in recent days.

If Bitcoin is now the first place institutional doubt shows up, what does that tell us about where tech valuations go next? How do you read this story?

Music: Hidden Enigma by Dream Cave, Epidemic Sounds

This is a post from my personal branding coach Tima Elhajj. It's really worth reading because it mirrors my story. I usedto feel like I didn't have an identity in the companies I worked for. I was a cog in a machine. Invisible. That's why I started writing on LinkedIn back in 2016.

So this is what happened:

1. I started to connect with people in other companies, but in the same industry. If I didn't do that, I wouldn't have had the network to scale the business I have today.

2. I gained an outsider perspective, outside the company's walls. I never realised how much I didn't know by learning from others whom I would never normally have conversed with.

3. My self-esteem improved and sense of value as I now knew people on LinkedIn who valued my thoughts.

This was all before I started data visualisation and becoming a Top Voice. What I got from developing a personal brand was access to opportunities I would have never otherwise had. It was liberating. So please post and please show yourself here on LinkedIn.

Elevating Personal Brands with Elegance on LinkedIn across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and the wider Arab region

Each week I’m seeing a pattern.

Executives who aren't job hunting. They're soul searching.

They have the title, the salary, the respect. 
But they're asking themselves: 
"What else is there?"

If anything they love their job. 
They respect their organisation and they care about the people they work with. 

They just understand something that most are too afraid to face.
There is more.
And they’re ready for it.

Ready to share the wisdom they've learned. 
Ready to influence beyond their organisation. 
Ready to build something that is bigger than them. 

One executive told me: 
"I've spent 20+ years doing this and I love it, but where to from here?"

Another said: 
"I love my job. But I also want to write the book I've been outlining in my head for a decade."

The common thread?
They're looking for expansion opportunities.

- Advisory roles that leverage their expertise. 
- Consulting that lets them choose their impact. 
- Books that capture their methodology. 
- Keynotes where they shape the next generation. 

The beautiful part? 
Building your brand makes you more valuable. 

- Your company benefits from your elevated thought leadership. 
- Your team gets inspired by your growth. 
- Your industry gains from your insights. 

And you? You get to [*** fill in the gaps ***]

And it doesn't require leaving what you love.
It requires expanding who you are.

❤️

OTIUM

I am CFO, Co-Founder and Co-Owner of Montres Otium SA.

OTIUM is a Swiss watch manufacturer that produces exceptionally rare timepieces that fuse traditional craftsmanship with the latest innovations and technologies. Without exception, each OTIUM timepiece is 100% manufactured in Switzerland by artisans, ensuring unparalleled levels of chronometric excellence.

OTIUM - Powerful, Precise, and Extraordinary; Worn by the Few.

Chief Financial Officer

Aegler SA

I was Co-Founder and Co-Owner of Aegler SA.
 
During the early start-up phase of the company I took on the roles of Chairman and CFO.

Within a timeframe of eight months we set up the company, designed the first watch and movement, and pre-launched the brand during the Geneva Watch Days in September 2022.

Co-Founder and Co-Owner

Time Zone Co., Ltd.

I was CFO, Co-Founder & Co-Owner of award-winning watch retailer Time Zone, Thailand’s Leading Independent Watch Specialist.
 
Time Zone was the brainchild of Ralf Calebow and Erik Meijer. Both Erik and I are passionate about watches and we love to share this passion. Together with our team we took our clients by the hand to guide them through the world of independent watch making.
 
Time Zone offered the finest timepieces, focussing on technically unique and aesthetically distinctive pieces. We curated and presented the finest independent brands. Additionally, we offered a carefully selected collection of mainstream brands to suit every level of affordability. We aimed to provide our clients with the highest level of service in a comfortable and luxurious atmosphere.
 
Time Zone offered over 16 brands in several boutiques in Bangkok: a 154 square meter multi-brand boutique. Furthermore a Jacob & Co and a Jaquet Droz mono-boutique in Gaysorn Village and the TZ Watch Clinic, our service, repair and bespoke design center, in the President Tower Arcade.
 
Amongst other, Time Zone was the exclusive partner in Thailand for:
 
Backes & Strauss
Benzinger
Bremont
Buben & Zorweg
Certina
Christian van der Klaauw
Czapek & Cie
Montres DeWitt
Graham
Jacob & Co
Jaquet Droz
Kerbedanz
Louis Erard
Schwarz Etienne 
SevenFriday 
and Speake-Marin.

Narcissus Group Co., Ltd.

I was CFO of Narcissus Group.

Narcissus Group was the official and exclusive representative of Philipp Plein in Thailand with a 198 square meter boutique in Bangkok at ICONSIAM.

BNP Paribas

From 2001 until 2018 I was Group Accounting and IFRS Specialist at former DAB Bank AG, Munich. DAB Bank AG was a bank specialized in brokerage services and was listed on the German stock market from 1999 onwards. 

Due to my outstanding performance and achievements within the Accounting and Financial Department (amongst them having contributed significantly to the successful implementation of SAP as the main accounting system), I was promoted to “Manager” and “Senior Manager” in 2003 and 2009, respectively.

My primary responsibilities were:
1. Solely responsible for the preparation of the Consolidated Financial Statements in accordance with IFRS for the Annual Reports and Quarterly Reports of DAB Bank Group.
2. Solely responsible for the disclosure of the Consolidated Financial Statements including the “Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements” of the Annual Reports and Quarterly Reports of DAB Bank Group.
3. Mainly responsible for the reconciliation of the Individual Financial Statements of DAB Bank AG from German GAAP (HGB) to IFRS.
4. Support of daughter companies in accounting related guidelines regarding recognition, valuation and disclosure.
5. Solely responsible for all accounting related fundamental questions regarding recognition, valuation and disclosure in accordance with IFRS.
6. Responsible as stand-in for the monthly valuation of DAB Bank AG’s treasury portfolio. 
7. Responsible for purchase price allocations (PPA).
8. Solely responsible for the mark-to-model valuation and impairment tests related to companies and assets (participation in daughter companies, securities, client bases, goodwill asf.).
9. Project responsibility for the accounting side with regards to the implementation of new banking products.
10. Main contact person for audits (internal and external) and coordinator of the year-end audit (KPMG, EY, Deloitte, PwC a.o.).

Senior Manager - Group Accounting & IFRS Specialist

From 1999 until 2001 I was part of DAB Bank’s marketing team. Additionally, I took on the role of business support executive.

My main responsibilities were:
1. Acquisition of new customers via inbound and outbound marketing channels.
2. Answering questions related to all of the bank’s products and services.
3. Execution of all kinds of securities transactions.
4. Support of clients with regards to securities including rules and best practices pertaining to stock-, bond-, foreign currency-, and derivatives-markets.

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DAB Bank AG was a former subsidiary of HypoVereinsbank AG, Munich (which eventually was purchased by and merged with UniCredit S.p.A., Milano). In 2014 the majority of shares of DAB Bank AG were purchased by BNP Paribas S.A., Paris. In 2015 DAB Bank AG was delisted from the German stock market and eventually merged with BNP Paribas S.A., Paris.

Inbound & Outbound Marketing and Business Support Executive

Commerzbank AG

I was an apprentice for two years at Dresdner Bank AG (which was later on bought and merged with Commerzbank AG) which entailed 50% participating in hands-on practical daily work and 50% school attendance in order to learn the theoretical basics of banking. The German Banking Apprenticeship sets a very good foundation with regards to banking knowledge. Voluntarily I participated in extra curricula which meant additional workload. However, due to this I am entitled to call myself “Finanzassistent” (Financial Assistant).

Bankkaufmann / Finanzassistent (Commercial Diploma in Banking)

I am CFO, Co-Founder and Co-Owner of Montres Otium SA.

OTIUM is a Swiss watch manufacturer that produces exceptionally rare timepieces that fuse traditional craftsmanship with the latest innovations and technologies. Without exception, each OTIUM timepiece is 100% manufactured in Switzerland by artisans, ensuring unparalleled levels of chronometric excellence.

I was also Co-Founder and Co-Owner of Aegler SA. During the early start-up phase of the company I took on the roles of Chairman and CFO.
 
From 2019 until mid-2022 I was CFO, Co-Founder & Co-Owner of award-winning watch retailer Time Zone, 
Thailand’s Leading Independent Watch Specialist. In December 2021 Time Zone received the Robb Report “Best of the Best” Award in the Luxury Watch Retailer category.

From 2021 until mid-2022 I was CFO of Narcissus Group, the official and exclusive representative of Philipp Plein in Thailand with a 198 square meter boutique in Bangkok at ICONSIAM.

From 2001 until 2018 I was Group Accounting and IFRS Specialist at former DAB Bank AG, Munich. DAB Bank AG was a bank specialized in brokerage services and was listed on the German stock market from 1999 onwards. I was solely responsible for the preparation of the DAB Bank Consolidated Financial Statements in accordance with IFRS for the Annual Reports and Quarterly Reports of DAB Bank Group. Additionally, I was responsible for the disclosure of the Consolidated Financial Statements including the “Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements” of the Annual Reports and Quarterly Reports of DAB Bank Group. 

From 1999 until 2001 I was inbound & outbound marketing and business support executive at DAB Bank AG.
 
DAB Bank AG was a former subsidiary of HypoVereinsbank AG, Munich (which eventually was purchased by and merged with UniCredit S.p.A., Milano). In 2014 the majority of shares of DAB Bank AG were purchased by BNP Paribas S.A., Paris. In 2015 DAB Bank AG was delisted from the German stock market and eventually merged with BNP Paribas S.A., Paris.

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