"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 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. James is a Trustee of Johns Hopkins University, a member of the Investment Committee of University College, Oxford, and a non-executive Director at Heart of Midlothian Football Club.
"We are at the beginning of an innovation super cycle, which means we need to think differently and in decades. That which is difficult is often most durable."
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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“Technology matters only when it moves society forward.”
Connor grew up in San Diego. Now at Lingotto, he partners with ambitious founders building category-defining companies. Prior to Lingotto, Connor spent over four years doing venture-growth investing at Spark Capital, where he worked closely with startups such as Anthropic and Baseten prior to their inflection stage. Previously, he was at Silver Lake Partners and Morgan Stanley. He studied economics at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating summa cum laude.
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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.
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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.
“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.
"The companies worth owning for the next decade are the ones solving problems that actually matter."
Taylor was born and raised in Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Lingotto, she was trained in investment banking and impact investing. She holds a Master's in Public Policy from Georgetown University and a B.S. in Finance from Pennsylvania State University.
