Bob is a Director of Matrix Ascent Partners.  He contributes to business strategy, client manager selection, review and due diligence as well as some direct marketing to institutional investors in Japan and Pan Asia.

  

Bob joined AIG Global Investment Corporation in 1998 as Chief Investment Officer--AIG’s third party asset management company and at that time a joint venture with Mitsubishi Trust.  In 1999 he assumed the role of President and then in 2003 he became Chairman.  His responsibilities were supervision and implementation of Japanese equity long-only strategies, supervision of all managed and sub-managed strategies, and approval of marketing and in-person marketing of the Japanese equity products.  Assets under management rose from US$2.5b in 1998 to US$11b in 2005. In 2004 Bob won the Morningstar #1 Japan Fund award.  As a veteran global investor, Bob was one of five members of AIG’s Global Asset Allocation Committee, overseeing some US$100bil in global assets.

 

Bob is also the founder of Geomatrix, an incubator of Asia-focused hedge fund strategies.  Geomatrix holds a Type 9 Discretionary Investment Advisory license from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, has been inspected by the SFC three times since it was founded in 1996.  

     

Bob holds an MBA in finance from Harvard Graduate School of Business, and a BA in economics from Yale University. Bob was a founding board member of the Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA) society in Japan, and remains active in CFA societies in Hong Kong and Hawaii.