The four-strong Global Innovation team is co-headed by James Dowey and Storm Uru who are supported by Clare Pleydell-Bouverie and James O'Connor. James Dowey and Storm Uru, who jointly developed the Global Innovation investment process, manage the Liontrust Global Innovation, Liontrust Global Dividend and Liontrust Global Technology funds. The four managers joined Liontrust as part of the acquisition of Neptune Investment Management in October 2019. James Dowey has 18 years of industry experience and has researched and taught the history of innovation at the London School of Economics, Storm Uru has 11 years’ industry experience, Clare Pleydell-Bouverie undertook third party research for private equity firms across a variety of industries before moving to Neptune and James is a CFA Charterholder and, prior to joining Neptune, completed his MSc in Education Research at Oxford University. He also holds the equivalent of a first class degree in Psychology and Economics at Harvard University.

The 18-strong team has been managing the Sustainable Future funds for more than 22 years. The team is headed by Peter Michaelis who has been managing the funds since launch. The fund managers all joined from Alliance Trust Investments (ATI) as part of its acquisition and were previously running the Sustainable Future fund range at Aviva Investors.