Speaker Profile: James Mitchell

James ran the Transition Management businesses at Barclays Invest Bank (1yr) and previously Goldman Sachs (10yrs), he started his career at Goldman in Equity Portfolio Trading in 2000. He has lead and executed more than 50 multi billion pound transition management exercises, achieving significant investment portfolio change for large institutional asset owners whilst mitigating market risk and cost. Over this time his clients have included many European Governments, the majority of the largest DB Pension Funds in the UK, UK Insurers (Zurich, LV), and Large Family offices, with an estimated value of transition assets of more than £250bn across global Fixed Income, Equity, Derivatives and Foreign exchange markets. Has over 20 years of experience in the physical execution of asset transitions between Asset Managers and has deep understanding of Asset Manager capabilities, both investment outcomes and operational capabilities.