Jim Mellon

Former Fund Manager
Worth over £500m

With an estimated fortune of £530m, the entrepreneur and former fund manager made his fortune investing in emerging markets in the 1990s, and notched up the AIM market's greatest ever success when he co-founded UraMin in 2005 with $100,000 and sold it in 2007 to Areva for $2.5 billion.

 

Jim gained a masters degree in politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford and then worked in fund management in Asia and the USA before establishing his own investment business, Burnbrae, in 1991. He is the chairman and co-founder of Regent Pacific Group Limited and a director of Charlemagne Capital Limited and various other investment companies.

His investments include a substantial property portfolio in Germany and the Sleepwell Hotels chain. Jim spends most of his time on start-up ideas and investing.

Now mainly involved in the property and alternative energy markets, he makes 20 to 50 trades a day in "just about everything".

 

 

Jim Mellon will be speaking at the Master Investor 2012 event, so be sure to get your ticket to witness the exclusive presentation and commentary.