"Less than 1 per cent of the available information is of significance."
James has over 40 years of investment experience. He was a partner of Baillie Gifford for 30+ years with approximately twenty years as the lead manager of the flagship portfolios and most recently was Non-Executive Chairman at Kinnevik AB.
Of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust and the Vanguard International Growth Fund and aggregate portfolio responsibilities of over $100bn. He led the push into high growth but long-term investing in private as well as public companies which led to large and early investments in companies such as Amazon, Bytedance, Alibaba, Tesla, ASML and Spotify and more recently Nvidia. He is also a Senior Advisor to Antler, a Trustee of Johns Hopkins University and a Foundation Fellow of University College, Oxford.
“With the advent of AI technology, I don’t think there could be a more exciting time to be a long-term investor.”
Morgan has 20 years of private and public market investing experience, having executed or managed 50+ investments across a wide range of sectors, geographies, and asset sizes. She has built an extensive sourcing and advisory network and has been an invited speaker to investment panels at Harvard, MIT, Pennsylvania State University, and Italian Tech Week. Prior to Lingotto, Morgan worked at Belfer Management, Pzena, THL Partners, and Goldman Sachs. Although classically trained, Morgan grew up in a family of creatives and has spent much of her life challenging traditional thinking and norms. She received her MBA from Harvard Business School where she was selected as a Rock and Lebor Fellow for entrepreneurship.
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“Fortune favors the prepared mind.”
Hansen grew up in the Bay Area. His debut novel, The Expat, was named by the New York Times as one of the best thrillers in 2024. Prior to becoming an investor, he was trained in management consulting and studied English at Harvard University.
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“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
Deepak grew up in Detroit. Prior to becoming an investor, he was an instructor and scientist; his patent-pending research spans ML, life sciences, and robotics and has been published in Science. He received his doctorate from MIT and studied engineering at Caltech.
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“The future is built by optimists.”
Ileana was born and raised in a small village in Southern Italy. Prior to becoming an investor, she was a scientist-founder-operator in AI, life sciences, and robotics. She received her doctorate from Stanford University as a Knight-Hennessy scholar.
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“The more I learn, the less I know.”
Clemente was born and raised in a multicultural household in Mexico City. Prior to becoming an investor, he was trained in investment banking and studied Chemistry and Philosophy at The University of Chicago. He graduated as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School.
