Jim Strang joined Dunedin in 2008. He heads up Dunedin's fund investment program and has overall responsibility for all Dunedin's activities in relation to its third party private equity investment operation.
Jim is an honours graduate in business administration, graduating from the University of Edinburgh with First Class honours in 1993 and subsequently completing a Ph.D in management (specialising in the UK IPO market) at Edinburgh University Business School in 1998. Jim also attended the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge as a faculty scholar graduating with a masters in finance in 1997.
He spent his early career in finance and investment in Edinburgh joining Dunedin Fund Managers Ltd in 1994 where he specialised in small quoted company fund management. He subsequently worked in similar roles for both Edinburgh Fund Managers PLC and Deutsche Bank AG before joining international strategy consultants Bain and Company in London in 2000. At Bain he worked both in Bain's general consulting practice as well as within Bain's Private Equity Group where he consulted to Europe's pre-eminent private equity managers on a wide range of issues. Jim joined Dunedin from Gartmore Private Equity where he was Head of European Buyouts overseeing Gartmore's investment program in european buyout funds and associated co-investments from 2003.
