Team

A team unified by client focus and shared values.
With deep individual track records of building, operating and scaling regulated investment businesses.

Investment, technology and distribution leaders with deep experience across global asset and wealth management. All of the team have shared working history, several across multiple firms and two decades, and it shows in the trust, the collaboration and the pace at which the team moves.

Founder, Chairman

Julian Ide

Asset management leadership

25 years leading global asset managers, including the UK's fastest-growing for three consecutive years. Former Vice Chair Franklin Templeton, CEO Old Mutual Global Investors, and CEO Martin Currie.

Led post-acquisition integration at Martin Currie and Franklin Templeton, driving commercial growth across EMEA. Having competed hard for the best investment talent, Julian sees AI as the unlock: consistency, scale, and no star-manager risk. Cambridge Law.

Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Bill Jooste

Platforms & technology

Track record of building regulated investment platforms from scratch and leading technology firms serving asset and wealth managers. Former CTO AMX, EVP InvestCloud, Global Operations and Change at Investec AM and Credit Suisse AM.

Bill has a long history of delivering innovative solutions in the investment industry and is passionate about realising the potential of AI in investment management. Deep knowledge of investment operations and technology. MBA, University of Cape Town.

Co-founder, Head of Business Development

Daniel Parnaby

Distribution & client coverage

Worked for a major fintech building its businesses across the Nordics, Central Europe and Asia. Career in platform technology helping asset and wealth managers expand distribution and deliver individualised investment solutions to their customers.

Has introduced a number of firms into the Saudi Arabian market and is active in the broader Middle East as a business development and introducer specialist. LSE graduate.

Co-founder, Investment Specialist

George Ssali

Systematic investing

George builds and runs systematic strategies across asset classes, and has done so for almost two decades. Most recently, he was a Portfolio Manager on Lazard Asset Management's Equity Advantage team, the firm's systematic equity group; before that, a Portfolio Manager at Ninety One Asset Management (formerly Investec Asset Management), running global cross-asset risk premia strategies; and, earlier still, Head of Quantitative Research (SA) at Macquarie. He invests with the planet in mind.

He holds a Master of Finance from INSEAD and a BSc in Electrical Engineering, summa cum laude, from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Co-founder, Solution Architect

Andy Earl

Architecture & data

Andy has over 30 years experience designing and delivering technology solutions for the asset management industry. Most recently he was Solutions Architect at InvestCloud for 6 years, designing cloud based solutions for asset and wealth managers. Prior to that Andy was Head of IT Architecture at Investec Asset Management (now NinetyOne) for 7 years, responsible for the functional and data architecture. Andy spent much of his early career at PwC Consulting in the Investment Management Group, designing and implementing system solutions.

At Thinking Capital he owns the platform architecture, ensuring the investment engine, data layer and client portal are built to institutional standards from day one. Cambridge Economics.

Strategic Advisor

James Hand

Investment process & strategy

James was Co-Chief Investment Officer of Investec Asset Management (now Ninety One), with responsibility for investment process conformity and performance across equities, bonds and multi-asset. As Co-Head of the 4Factor Equity team he ran the flagship 4Factor Global Equity Strategy, a structured quantitative and qualitative investment process, and grew assets ten-fold to over $35bn for institutional investors worldwide. He also founded the firm's ESG team and led its alternative risk premia research.

Since 2017 James has co-founded and built Giki, a B Corp whose sustainability platforms are used by over 150,000 people and clients including Accenture, NatWest and Adobe. He advises Thinking Capital on investment process and strategy. Cambridge Economics.