Jim has over 40 years of experience in the financial markets and is one of the most respected experts in Emerging Market Trading and Sales.    

Jim’s long banking career has spanned Argentina, The Bahamas, Panama, and Paraguay, London, Miami, and New York.  From 1982 until 1987 he was Executive Vice President of National Westminster Bank (USA) Inc. heading the International Banking Division  and sat on the Restructuring Committees of Argentina, and Peru. In 1988, as Managing Director of Midland Bank plc, he set up the Group’s Emerging Markets Trading & Sales Desk in New York.  In 1997, he established the Emerging Markets Fixed-Income Group and oversaw the Distressed Bonds Trading at Credit Lyonnais Securities in New York.   

From 2001 until 2007, Jim was the Chief Investment Officer of Petercam Capital which advised two European-based funds of hedge funds.  Most recently, he has been Senior Advisor to the Greylock Global Opportunity Fund, an Emerging Markets Fixed Income hedge fund established in 1997 and based in New York. 

Jim holds a BS in Economics with honors from the London School of Economics and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in London.  He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Emerging Markets Traders Association.