James Barber Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Citizen Mint provides investors access to private investment opportunities across multiple asset classes, with expert sourcing and due diligence that delivers attractive returns with positive impact on society and the environment.

Luxembourg, LU

Co-Founder and Non executive Partner at MoreThan Capital, a global investment and advisory firm founded, backed, and powered by a global community of 100+ business leaders, focused on investing in and helping companies on the verge of scaling-up, enter new markets and transform from start-ups into high growth businesses. MTC supports early-growth companies.

AMP Investment Partners is a private investment company and business platform founded by alumni of Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program. Our purpose is to leverage the breadth and depth of our collective knowledge as well as global reach of our Partner base to identify unique investment and business opportunities aimed at long term value.

Edmonton, Alberta, CA

• Accountable for C$168b in assets across 32 pension, endowment and insurance funds. The primary objective was to deliver sustainable long term investment performance by leading a team of approx 150 investment.
• Managed C$55bn in capital across private equity, real estate, infrastructure, renewables, private credit and venture capital by leveraging best in class long term partnerships and internal capabilities.
• Collaborated with clients to increase allocation to return seeking private investments while managing liquidity and capacity constraints.
• Initiated strategic review of capabilities and analytical platforms to enhance platform integration and improve research insights and decision making
• Co-Chair of the Investment Committee where all significant investment decisions across the multi asset platform were evaluated and approved. Participant in a number of other governing and management committees and teams.

Edmonton, Alberta, CA

• Lead a team of 50 investment professionals responsible for the internal and external management, research, and trading of over $65 billion in global equity and hedge fund investments.
• Developed a strategic mindset to the institutionalization of a multi-strategy investment platform through a focus on people, process, partnerships and product.
• Member of the Executive Committee, collaborated with peers and contributed to key strategic initiatives on AI, data & technology, ESG, culture, client strategy, and the overall effective management of the firm.

Seattle, WA, US

• Oversaw and managed $100B equity investments across global, emerging, regional, and single country equity portfolios. Integrated global investment philosophies and processes that spanned portfolio management, manager.
• Active member of the Investment Strategy Committee overseeing investment decisions across all asset classes. Chaired numerous other committees and worked closely with the Executive committee on developing and executing.
• Developed internal multi factor investment strategies, along with ESG, Income and portfolio optimization capabilities that grew AuM from $9B to $50B.
• Championed state of the art analytical platform to integrate qualitative research with quantitative analytics and custom risk tools to drive investment decision making.
• Re-engineered implementation platform that reduced cost, improved flexibility and increased value- added customization for clients with a combination of external providers and internally developed capabilities.
• Speaker at numerous conferences on topics covering investment process, manager selection, portfolio construction, smart beta, and risk modelling.

Seattle, WA, US

• Led portfolio strategy, manager selection, manager monitoring, and portfolio construction for all European and UK equity funds.
• Chair of Equity Portfolio Management Sounding Board; Member of Multi Asset and Direct Investment Sounding Boards. Co-Chair of European Model Portfolio Committee.
• Key contributor to project team that developed Russell’s global portfolio management process and re-engineered risk and analytical platform to align with the investment process.

Oaks, PA, US

• Managed portfolio strategy, manager research, manager monitoring, and portfolio construction for all European and UK equity products. Co-chaired global quant group.
• Portfolio Manager for Global Unconstrained and Global Managed Volatility Funds.
• Member of Global Equity Management Committee & European Management Committee European Management Committee

Oaks, PA, US

Advised institutional clients on issues such as asset liability management, investment strategy, performance attribution and plan restructuring. Including asset class research and investment strategy research and capital markets forecasting along with developing numerous quantitative models and techniques for portfolio construction.

Parktown, Gauteng, ZA

Delivered expert testimony in the Supreme Court and provided litigation support for transactions involving fixed income and derivative instruments. Also performed company valuation work, statistical analysis and asset liability modeling. Developed innovative analytical and data solutions to client and industry problems

Advanced Management Program

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, International Exchange Student

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance

Bachelors Of Science, Statistics & Economics

Education record

Venture Capital Executive Program