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Our Story
In the midst of the global financial crisis Sam Gilstrap and Bret Prawitt were appointed by the US Bankruptcy Court in California to manage a $350m portfolio of distressed assets.
They soon found that sharing essential financial information among investors, banks, trustees and the courts was cumbersome, inaccurate and insecure. Each institution had its own silo-based system that couldn’t communicate with others. To resolve the crisis and prevent it happening again the industry desperately needed transparency of data and close collaboration between diverse parties, but the infrastructure didn’t exist.
Sam and Bret invested their own time and money to solve the problem. It helped them achieve double the return on investment of comparable portfolios – in half the time.
In 2013, Sam and Bret founded AssetLogic in Luxembourg in order to benefit from the world’s highest levels of data privacy, security and performance. They then started to build a information network and explore how it could be applied to the global investment industry.
Today all AssetLogic data, intellectual property and corporate governance are within the jurisdiction of Luxembourg. And the system relies on a proprietary “permissioning” engine to share critical financial information around the world.
Meet the Team
Sam Gilstrap
CEO and Founder
An earthquake engineer by training, Sam founded AssetLogic in 2008 to help deal with a different kind of disaster. Having gained first-hand experience of real estate finance, he had been asked to help rescue a large failed investment portfolio during the global financial crisis. He soon recognised the need for a revolution in data communication in the investment industry – and set out to develop the technology that would become AssetLogic. Sam continues to set the company’s strategic vision and direction.
Bret Prawitt
Director and Founder
During 20 years as an entrepreneur in the real estate and investment industries, Bret showed gritty determination in solving complex issues. When he co-founded AssetLogic in 2008 he applied this hands-on approach to the creation of a system for more accurate and accessible data in the investment finance world. Today, Bret is our human engine room, keeping the company on course and focused on our goals.
Gerard Neu
CFO
Gerard has 20 years’ experience in international business. After beginning his career in Big 4 accounting in New York City, he gained significant finance and structuring experience with large multinationals such as PepsiCo, Apple, and Expedia in London. For the last seven years he has worked with small cap companies, helping to achieve ambitious goals through significant growth periods and M&A activity. Naturally, at AssetLogic he’s the guy with his eye on the numbers.
Aman Grewal
COO
Aman loves data. He previously founded and built one of the largest employee survey companies in the United States. Now he focuses on user experience for AssetLogic – making sure every member of the network gets what they need from it.
David Dalrymple
CTO
With 20 years’ experience, David’s professional emphasis is in designing and building technology and teams for SaaS applications. He previously spent nine years building the technology and technical teams at Shopatron. David knows the AssetLogic system inside out – mainly because he created most of it.
Mark Willmott
Relationship Director
Mark has enjoyed over 20 years in asset management, successfully raising assets from institutions, and working to solve the challenges faced by both investors and their consultants. He is determined to improve the way the investment industry operates. At AssetLogic he looks after member firms and helps grow the network. Mark is an active member of the CFA UK (ASIP qualified).
Kyle Barker
Senior Application Architect
Kyle is a full-stack developer, which he says means he’s comfortable with both the front-end and the back-end technologies that power our network. We think it makes him sound frighteningly clever. Both are true. He is primarily a web developer (PHP) specializing in high level architecture, but he also has experience of console application development (C++) and electronic hardware design.
Lauren King
Relationship Manager
Lauren has a degree in events management and started her career in experiential marketing, creating projects for millennial brands. Her organisation, enthusiasm and can-do attitude mean she’s always ready to support our customers and provide an essential link between their user experience and our technical team.
Steering Committee
Alongside the AssetLogic executive team, the following organisations kindly act as advisors on our Steering Committee.
Amundi Asset Management
Amundi is the largest European asset manager in terms of AUM, with over $1.1tn worldwide. It partners with more than 1,000 institutional clients and 1,000 distributors in more than 30 countries.
BlackRock
At December 31, 2016, BlackRock’s AUM was $5.1tn. It has approximately 13,000 employees in more than 30 countries and a major presence in global markets, including North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East and Africa.
GAM
GAM manages CHF116bn in assets for institutions, financial advisers and private investors. It employs around 1,000 people in 11 countries and its investment professionals have an average of more than 18 years’ industry experience.
Insight Investment Management
Insight is responsible for over £542bn in assets under management across liability driven investment, fixed income, cash management, absolute return, multi-asset, specialist equities and real assets, such as farmland.
Jupiter
Jupiter was founded in London in 1985 as a specialist investment boutique. It now manages investments worth more than £40bn on behalf of institutional and retail clients in the UK, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.
M&G Investments
M&G has been an active manager of investments for individual and institutional clients for over 80 years. Today it manages assets of over £255.4bn in equities, multi-asset, fixed income, real estate and cash for clients across Europe and Asia.
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