Spot Ship

Founder & Co-CEO

Bringing to life the AI platform, which enables ship brokers to increase their speed of fixing a ship from days to minutes

Leader of strategy, fundraising and partnerships

Founder & CFO

Improbable

-Established and oversaw  strategic partnerships function. Reporting directly to CEO and CFO, I led a cross-functional team to enable effective negotiations. This contributed to us gaining a choice of two mega cap go-to-market partners
-Led research into video game success drivers to produce an estimated probability distribution of revenue for different characteristics of games. This persuaded our GM of America to change his monetisation strategy
-Spearheaded the initial steps of building an investing function, both in research and in fielding questions during pitches. This included financial modelling of potential portfolio companies, as well as an aggregation for estimating theoretical portfolio returns

Strategy & Partnerships

RWC Partners

-Produced fundamental research on UK and European stocks to aid fund manager decision-making across sectors, consistent with a value investing approach
-Held coverage responsibilities for eight of the funds’ holdings, of which six were original recommendations
-Gained experience in chairing meetings with company management, screening for new ideas, meeting with investment consultants and pitching stocks for inclusion in portfolios

Investment Analyst

Orbis Portfolio Management

-Researched potential new investments from a bottom-up generalist perspective, resulting in publishing & presenting investment recommendations to the investment committee
-Earned responsibility to manage an Analyst Recommended List in December 2014, and delivered c. 3% average annual outperformance
-Held coverage responsibilities for six of the funds’ holdings

BlackRock

-Summer internship position within Blackrock's Fundamental Equity division.
-Rotations with the European Style Diversified and UK investment teams
-Gained experience in stock pitching following bottom-up research

Summer Analyst (Fundamental Equity)

Founder & CEO of Spot Ship, the Future of Shipping | Entrepreneur, Angel Investor and Speaker | INSEAD MBA 20J

Entrepreneur on a mission to bring shipping into the 21st Century, using AI to drive climate benefits. Believer in the power of software to change the world, from a background in value investing. Holder of INSEAD MBA and Cambridge MA in Natural Sciences.

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