Jonathan has been Chief Investment Officer of the Group and a member of the executive committee since its launch. He is also Vice Chairman of the Board.

Jonathan has 35 years of experience in investment management, asset allocation and manager selection. Prior to Stanhope, he was Chief Investment Officer of Newton Private Investment Management, a member of Newton’s Executive Management Committee and manager of one of the firms leading pooled funds investing in equities and bonds. Previously he held senior positions at Principal Investment Management where he managed institutional and private client portfolios and BZW Portfolio Management where he worked as a portfolio manager from 1987 until 1994.

A Fellow of the Securities Institute, Jonathan has an MBA from Cranfield School of Management and a BA (Hons) in Economics and Politics. He is the author of ‘Start With The Map The Right Way Up’, an introduction to investment. He is a Trustee and Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Tudor Trust, an independent grant-making trust which supports voluntary and community groups in the UK and sits on the Boards of two private companies.