Jim Roth

Founder & Managing Partner at Zamo Capital

Speaker

Jim Roth is an expert in impact investing with an entrepreneurial flair for identifying and developing untapped markets resulting in the creation of Zamo Capital and LeapFrog Investments. Zamo Capital amplifies the social and environmental impact of impact fund managers by driving transformational growth in AUM through long-term strategic advice and hands-on support.

Jim previously co-founded LeapFrog Investments a world leading Private Equity Group that was ranked by Fortune in 2017 as one of the top 5 companies changing the world and endorsed by President Bill Clinton: "Leapfrog's team is widely recognised as having opened up a new frontier for alternative investing." He was a member of the Economic Advisory Board of the International Finance Corporation and is a member of the investment committee of the University of Edinburgh Endowment.

He has an MA from the University of Manchester and a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge.