Louis Greig

Louis has over 35 years of experience in equities, hedge funds, prime brokerage and private banking. He has a long-established track record of managing institutional and hedge fund relationships, pioneering new business initiatives, and driving strategic growth at leading financial institutions.

After an early stint with Anglo American De Beers in Johannesburg, Louis spent six years with H. Clarkson, Shipbrokers, where he worked mostly in the emerging world of gas shipping, leading sale and purchase negotiations, and arranging long-term contracts between owners and the trading firms that chartered them.

His financial services career began at Morgan Grenfell & Co., ahead of their purchase by Deutsche Bank. This led to a fifteen-year career at Goldman Sachs & Co., then in the early stages of putting a European equities sales and trading operation together to complement their powerful capital markets business. Louis became a Managing Director in 1996, the first year the title was created. During this time, many of the established hedge funds of today were created, and Louis took the lead in building out a powerful Goldman Sachs franchise.

Louis next took time out to work briefly with a hedge fund, before joining JPMorgan, where his eighteen-year career spanned equity and prime brokerage sales, before settling in the Private Bank. There Louis was responsible for founding and growing the relationships with some of the firm’s most significant family offices and charitable foundations.

Louis has long experience as an angel and hedge fund investor and is a board observer at several privately owned companies. He is also a trustee of the renowned Kynren pageant, where 2000 years of English history are acted out by volunteers as part of a ground-breaking social transformation project at Bishop Auckland, in the north-east of England. He is also a director of the Centre for Social Justice Foundation.

Louis has an M.A. From St Edmund Hall Oxford.