In 2015, after over twenty years of investment management experience, Jacob founded Antipodes Partners. Antipodes is an award winning pragmatic value manager of global and Asian equities, offering long only and long-short strategies. The portfolios are now supported by a team of 24 investment specialists and two traders.Prior to Antipodes Partners, Jacob spent 14 years at Platinum Asset Management where he was most recently the Deputy Chief Investment Officer and a Portfolio Manager of the flagship Platinum International Fund. On resigning from Platinum in November 2014, he had direct portfolio management responsibility for over $3.5bn in FUM and was responsible together with the CIO for the firm-wide ($25bn in FUM) implementation of the investment process. He also served as Portfolio Manager for the Platinum Unhedged Fund for over 7 years to May 2014, achieving 5.7% p.a. outperformance after fees and the Platinum Japan Fund for just under 7 years to November 2014, achieving 9.9% p.a. outperformance after fees.Prior to joining Platinum, Jacob was Head of Technology and Emerging Industrials Research at UBS Warburg Australia. He commenced his investment career in 1994 as a trainee investment analyst at high conviction, value oriented Australian equities manager, Tyndall Australia.Jacob holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Sydney.Portfolio management track-record:- Platinum International Fund (long biased): 10% sub-portfolio from Apr-11 (15% sub-portfolio from Apr-14) to Nov-14, record not public- Platinum Unhedged Fund (long only) from January 2007 to May 2014: According to major global surveys, one of the top ranking global long only funds (5.7% p.a. outperformance after fees)- Platinum Japan Fund (long biased) from January 2008 to November 2014: According to major global surveys, one of the top ranking Japan funds (9.9% p.a. outperformance after fees); the highest alpha generated by any Platinum fund over this period