Rory is running as an independent candidate for Mayor of London. This follows almost ten years as an MP, during which time he served as Secretary of State for International Development, Prisons Minister, Minister for Africa, and Minister for the Environment. Rory resigned from the cabinet in July following the election of Boris Johnson, and subsequently resigned from the Conservative party.Rory has been a public servant for twenty nine years. After a brief period as an infantry officer he joined the UK Diplomatic Service, serving overseas in Jakarta, as British representative to Montenegro in the wake of the Kosovo crisis, and as the coalition Deputy-Governor of two provinces of Southern Iraq following the intervention of 2003. On leave from the Foreign Service he walked for 21 months crossing Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal, staying in 500 village houses on the journey.He has written four books, presented three BBC television documentaries, and was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his work in Iraq.
Keynote
Thought Leadership
George Brooksbank
Fairway Capital
George is a Prime Central London real estate and finance specialist with close to 20 years experience. He set up Fairway Capital in 2016 with the sole purpose of launching a Fund to take advantage of prevailing market conditions, fundamentally the scarce supply of best-in-class turnkey stock in Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Mayfair. He has been working on the concept since the EU referendum, analysing previous crashes and dips in the market and firmly believes the opportunity is now.
He has extensive knowledge and experience within the target market having been involved with over 50 projects, including the redevelopment of Margaret Thatcher’s former home on Chester Square. He also founded the Fund’s development partner, Leconfield Property Group, in 2010 and advises a number of family offices in the MENA region on property and finance.
Keynote
Alternative Investment Fund
Real Estate
Payden & Rygel
Keynote
Asset Management - Large
Broad Range
Charlie Cannon-Brookes
Duke Royalty
Charlie Cannon Brookes is an Executive Director of Duke Royalty, he has over 20 years investment experience. He is a Director of FCA authorised and regulated Arlington Group Asset Management Limited (AGAM). Through AGAM, Mr. Cannon Brookes has been active in a variety of different investment management mandates and corporate finance transactions. In addition, he has successfully led a number of IPO and RTO transactions on the London markets. Prior to AGAM he worked for Arlington Group plc, an AIM quoted investment company and managed all of its public equity portfolio, as well as Jupiter Asset Management, ABN Amro and Barclays de Zoete Wedd. He has extensive fund management experience and has advised and sat on the board of a number of different funds, trusts and other operating public companies.
Keynote
Private Company
Asset Financing
Jim Creighton
Creighton AI
Jim Creighton is the CEO of Creighton AI where he is responsible for the overall management of the firm, managing the research agenda and leading the R&D work.
His extensive experience in investment management and research includes CIO roles at Northern Trust, Deutsche Asset Management and Barclays Global Investors. Earlier in his career he worked with Harry Markowitz, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, to develop minimum variance strategies that are still in use today.
From 2006 he has focused on applying machine learning to global stock selection and portfolio construction, developing a long list of innovations applying machine learning to investment strategies, which forms the foundation of Creighton AI.
Jim has an MSC in Actuarial Science from Northeastern University in the US, a BSc in Mathematics from Dalhousie University in Canada, and is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and the Society of Actuaries.
Keynote
Asset Management - Boutique
Broad Range
Dr. Francis Wedin,
Vulcan Energy
Dr Francis Wedin is founder and CEO of Vulcan Energy Resources.
Dr Wedin was previously Executive Director of successful ASX-listed Exore Resources Ltd (ASX:ERX). During this time, he discovered two new JORC lithium resources on two continents in under a year, including Lynas Find, which was bought by Pilbara Minerals and is now in production supplying the Chinese market (ASX:PLS).
Francis has a PhD and BSc (Hons) in mineral exploration, is a Fellow of the Geological Society, and a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He is bilingual, and is currently concluding an MBA in renewables.
Keynote
Private Company
Commodities, Lithium
Corporates
Company backgrounds and useful links.
Rory Stewart
Rory is running as an independent candidate for Mayor of London. This follows almost ten years as an MP, during which time he served as Secretary of State for International Development, Prisons Minister, Minister for Africa, and Minister for the Environment. Rory resigned from the cabinet in July following the election of Boris Johnson, and subsequently resigned from the Conservative party.Rory has been a public servant for twenty nine years. After a brief period as an infantry officer he joined the UK Diplomatic Service, serving overseas in Jakarta, as British representative to Montenegro in the wake of the Kosovo crisis, and as the coalition Deputy-Governor of two provinces of Southern Iraq following the intervention of 2003. On leave from the Foreign Service he walked for 21 months crossing Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal, staying in 500 village houses on the journey.He has written four books, presented three BBC television documentaries, and was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his work in Iraq.
Keynote
Thought Leadership
Fairway Capital
George Brooksbank
Fairway Capital is a boutique investment management firm who have launched an Opportunity Fund to take advantage of an opportunistic time within the Prime Central London (“PCL”) residential property market. Partnered with Leconfield, a luxury developer with comprehensive in-house resources (construction, Joinery, Architects, Interior Designers and various professionals), they have exclusive access to value-add opportunities in the ‘golden postcodes’ of Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Mayfair.
The Fund will focus on prime garden squares, delivering a premium product to a market where stock is in short supply. The Fund provides investors a professionally managed means of accessing PCL real estate in a tax efficient vehicle combined with a guaranteed exit and capital protection (via a Put Option) whilst delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns.
Keynote
Alternative Investment Fund
Real Estate
Payden & Rygel
Payden & Rygel is one of the largest privately-owned global investment management firms; founded in 1983, we are a leader in the active management of fixed income and equity portfolios. Payden manages over £90 billion in assets for a varied client base, including Family Offices, Pension Funds, Central Banks, UN Agencies and other institutional investors. For over three decades we have partnered with our clients; we have a history of customising portfolios, understanding investment challenges, designing solutions that fit clients objectives and providing an unparalleled level of service. At Payden & Rygel we remain solely accountable to one interest – you, our clients.
Keynote
Asset Management - Large
Broad Range
Duke Royalty
Charlie Cannon-Brookes
We provide capital to profitable, long-term businesses. We allow business owners to retain control without dilution and remove re-financing risk, enabling management to focus on growth. We provide capital in exchange for rights to a small percentage of future revenues and are truly aligned to our royalty partners. The percentage payable is reset annually, subject to a ceiling and a floor, according to your revenue performance.
Keynote
Private Company
Asset Financing
Creighton AI
Jim Creighton
Creighton AI (CAI) is a science based investment research company founded in 2007 and located in San Francisco and London. It focuses on the application of a differentiated factor set, combined with AI, to predict returns of individual stocks globally. The differentiated factor set is important in improving predictive accuracy over the standard quantitative approach and the use of AI is another differentiator in the way it helps to link sets of factor values to future returns.
CAI continues to refine and improve the performance of its investment strategy and is confident that through the inclusion of other asset classes it is capable of providing its clients with even higher risk adjusted returns.
The firm is made up quantitative professionals with experience from some of the most successful quantitative asset managers in the world, including Barclays Global Investors (now Blackrock), Deutsche, Goldman Sachs, Aspect Capital and Winton.
Keynote
Asset Management - Boutique
Broad Range
Vulcan Energy
Dr. Francis Wedin,
Vulcan Energy Resources Ltd. is the owner of a lithium-rich geothermal brine project in the Upper Rhine Valley, Germany, at which it intends to establish a lithium production and processing facility (the Vulcan Project) for the production of battery quality lithium hydroxide with net zero carbon footprint. Such an operation, producing premium Zero Carbon Lithium™, is likely to be the first of its kind in the world and aims to reduce the carbon footprint of the Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) raw materials supply chain, in line with the stated goals of major car manufacturers.
Production of Zero Carbon Lithium™ is achieved through co-production of baseload, geothermal renewable energy, from the same brine production wells that are used to produce lithium, to power its lithium processing and production facilities.
