The Gore Browne Investment Advisory Committee
We created the Advisory Committee immediately after the firm was founded, and it is designed to provide us with specific expertise to support our investment decisions.
Our advisory team is chaired by Simon James, and comprises independent practitioners who are experts in commercial property, pooled funds, hedge funds, private equity and investment strategy. We use their expertise at quarterly investment meetings and on an ad hoc basis, to advise us on asset allocation and alternative investments.
Nigel Blanshard
Nigel is the founder of Culross Global Management (set up in 1992), which specialises in selecting and investing in hedge funds of all kinds. He spent the first 16 years of his career managing institutional fixed income funds at Cigna and subsequently at Century Asset Management as Chief Investment Officer.
Chris Keen
Chris is a colleague of Nigel Blanshard's, who joined Culross Global Management in 1998. He initially worked at W & Greenwell & Co before joining United Bank of Kuwait (UBK) in 1975, becoming Chief Executive in 1986. Chris began UBK's Fixed Income Asset Management business which grew to $3bn by 1998. He is Chairman of the Aston Mansfield Charitable Trust.
David Oakes
David is the founder of Mercater, a specialist fund of funds manager (set up in 2003). He has over 20 years' experience of assessing and selecting investment funds. He started Henry Cooke Lumsden's managed funds business and led it for 12 years. In 1994 David joined Cazenove to run their Chester office and also set up their managed funds service.
James Robinson
James has over 25 years investment experience gained initially at Cazenove and then Mercury Asset Management. In 1990 James joined Henderson Global Investors becoming Chief Investment Officer of Investment Trusts and manager of Witan Investment Trust in 2000. He set up their hedge fund business in 1999 which had grown to $1.5bn by the time he left in 2005.
Michael Soames
Michael was a partner of Knight Frank for 28 years responsible for Commercial Property, and then Group Corporate Development director of Regus. Michael is a non executive director of Isis Property Trust and has been on the board of Development Securities PLC since 2002.
Hugh Stewart
Hugh has 25 years experience in private equity and venture capital. After 13 years at Electra Private Equity Trust, Hugh founded Strathdon Investments in 1997. In 2006 he left to form Shackleton Ventures which focuses on secondary purchases of venture and development capital investments and which has recently raised its second fund.