George Robinson

George is a Partner and co-Founder of Sloane Robinson LLP, an investment management business which invests in listed equities globally with a particular focus on Asian and Emerging Markets. Prior to that he worked for 15 years in Asia, initially for John Swire and Sons in Hong Kong, Korea and the Philippines, and then for Asian based stockbroker WI Carr in Korea, Thailand and Hong Kong where he was Director of Regional Research. George is an active investor in early stage technology and biotech companies with a particular focus on Oxford spin- outs, and is a founding Partner of Technikos, a private equity partnership which invests in spin-out companies from the Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering. He is an investor in a number of Oxford based companies and a partner of Oxford Investments Consultants LLP which advises the Oxford Technology and Innovations EIS Fund. He is an honorary fellow of Keble College, Oxford from where he graduated with an MA in Engineering Science, and is a member of Oxford University Endowment Investment Committee.