Key people

Andrew Gibson

Managing Partner, CEO, co-CIO

Andrew Gibson joined IAM in March 2001. He is CEO, a member of IAM’s Investment Committee and sits on IAM’s Board of Directors. Andrew has been instrumental in designing IAM’s Investment Process. He has over 29 years’ investment experience. Prior to IAM, Andrew was a Director at Deutsche Bank and a member of the relative value fixed income sales team responsible for hedge fund and proprietary trading accounts. Previously he was Vice President at JP Morgan as Head of the Institutional Hedge Fund team for Emerging Markets, having also been a member of the hedge fund team covering European fixed income strategies. He graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in Political Economics and is based in London.

Marivi Lorente

Managing Partner, co-CIO

Marivi Lorente joined IAM in January 2010, she is Managing Partner, co-CIO and Director, is a member of IAM’s Investment Committee and Portfolio Management Committee and also sits on IAM’s Board of Directors. She is predominantly responsible for UCITS investments and the IAM Alternative Investments UCITS ICAV. She has over 27 years investment experience and over 15 years of experience in the hedge fund industry. Prior to IAM, Marivi was a managing partner of the Group N+1 where she was in charge of hedge fund investments, working closely with IAM. Previously she was Director of Equity Division at Santander Investment in London. She has a BSc and MSc in Economics and Business Administration from Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financcieros CUNEF (Extraordinary Award for the best academic CV in Spain). She has completed the London Business School Investment Management and Corporate Finance programmes. She is a CAIA holder (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) and is based in London.

Mirko Butti

Managing Partner, Head of Business Development

Mirko Butti joined IAM in 2015. Mirko is a Managing Partner and Director, and also sits on IAM’s Board of Directors. He is responsible for IAM’s business development, the development of the IAM Investment Alternative UCITS platform and has over 21 years’ investment experience. Prior to IAM, Mirko was Managing Director for Southern Europe, Middle East and North Africa at Russell Investments and was responsible for the regional business development. He joined Russell Investments in 2000 as a Senior Portfolio Analyst in their London-based investment management group where he worked as part of the investment management and research team focusing on U.S. equity funds until 2004. He was also country head for Italy where he opened a Milan office in 2009 and was a senior member of the Russell Global Retail committee. Mirko has a B.Comm. in Finance and Management from Universita’ degli Studi di Cagliari, a Masters degree in Finance from the Business School SDA Bocconi in Milan, is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and is based in London.