MEMBER PROFILE
Sheila Jamieson, IMC
Investment director, Innisfree
INTERVIEW BY: MAHA KHAN PHILLIPS • PHOTOGRAPHY: ABI HARDWICK
During her time in São Paulo, Jamieson focused on energy and oil
and gas project fi nance. Th en she moved back to the UK. “Enron blew
up, and it killed the energy market for me. I decided to move law fi rms
and went to Norton Rose, where I started to focus on infrastructure
project fi nance,” she explains.
It was there that she met her current employer, Innisfree, the
infrastructure investment group which focuses on long term
investments in PFI and PPP infrastructure projects. Jamieson
joined the fi rm, and became an investment director. “It has major
attractions. You put the transactions together, and you’re looking
after your client’s investment.”
It’s not as easy now as it was to do business, however. “Before,
we’d have bankers taking us out and wanting to lend to all new
projects. Now, we have to call them up!” she jokes. Jamieson sees
big opportunities in North America, particularly Canada. “Banks
have been quite conservative there, and they have been capitalised
on a diff erent basis. North America has also suff ered from a historic
underinvestment in infrastructure. Canada and the US are
launching huge programmes to update their infrastructure, because
it’s really necessary,” she explains.
She sat the IMC when she joined Innisfree. “For me, it was an
S
heila Jamieson became interested in capital excellent way to deal with the career change. In law, you work
markets while she was at Cliff ord Chance, the purely with documents and language, and the idea of doing math
law fi rm where she qualifi ed as a solicitor in after such a long time was a little daunting, but it was a really good
1998. She was involved in large debt and securitisation experience,” she says.
deals in emerging markets. “I was seconded to the As a native of Scotland, Jamieson spends her free time “running
Paris and São Paulo offi ces, which was fantastic. and skiing, and walking up mountains, which is in the blood.” She
Starting a new offi ce in Brazil was particularly fantastic also has a love aff air with all places hot. “I am able to travel a lot,
and constantly interesting,” she says. for work and play, which is really great fun,” she says.
J
ames Sellon was inspired to look into fi nance in his early teens after
reading an article by Anton Kaletsky in Th e Times. “I didn’t
James Sellon, CFA
understand a word of it and thought maybe I should. It was about 15
years later I managed to understand what he was talking about,” he says. Co-founder, MASECO Financial
In 1999, Sellon graduated from Newcastle University with a degree
in Financial Economics. He joined Citigroup in a middle offi ce
INTERVIEW BY: STUART NEWMAN • PHOTOGRAPHY: ABI HARDWICK
accountant position, though it wasn’t the area he wanted to be in. “Th ey
wanted me to go down the Chartered Institute of Management growing. An opportunity opened on the sell-side
Accountants (CIMA) route which didn’t really appeal. I discussed it when Smith Barney opened up a private client
with them and asked ‘can I take the CFA exam’, which I’d heard about branch in the UK,” he explains.
through someone else at Citigroup.” Still in his early twenties, Sellon used what he
After considering both fund management and wealth management as learnt from studying the CFA to compensate for
possible career paths, Sellon decided to take a job in Smith Barney’s experience. “I found the CFA invaluable for
private client division. “At that time, in 2001, it was the end of the dot providing a knowledge base by which I could
com boom and lot of fund managers were cutting staff rather than discuss matters with my clients. Th erefore, it
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