Jonathan HarrisonCourse Director at IFFTrainer
Profile
Jonathan Harrison is an investment specialist with over 25 years of experience in the institutional fund
management and investment banking sectors. His experience spans both public and
private equity. Jonathan started his investment career in the UK with Ivory & Sime, where he managed equity portfolios for a number of institutional clients. In 1998 he joined Cazenove Fund Management where he ran the Cazenove Global Emerging Markets Fund and the Cazenove Asia Pacific Fund. In 2007 he was recruited to a specialist firm that ultimately became UBA Capital, the investment banking subsidiary of United Bank for Africa.
Jonathan left UBA in 2010 and set up Frontier-Invest Ltd. Frontier-Invest provides consulting and advisory services to companies, particularly in relation to raising capital in international markets. Jonathan understands not just company analysis, but portfolio construction and measurement through the investment cycle, including the importance of exit strategy and timing. Having worked through numerous business and economic cycles, and a variety of developed and emerging market crises, he
has experience of managing investments in difficult environments as well as in good times.
Jonathan has a master’s degree from Edinburgh University. He is fluent in
several languages and has provided training courses in both English and French
to clients across the world.