Charles Grant

A seasoned finance professional with 25 years’ experience in the industry, Charlie started his career at Morgan Stanley, working from 2000 to 2006 in a variety of operational roles. Over the next 10 years Charlie worked as COO for London-based investment management companies and sat on the board of a number of Cayman funds and Irish UCITS companies. In that time, he established three investment management companies, including FCA authorisation, the design, implementation and management of the operating infrastructure (with responsibility for operations, finance, legal, compliance, dealing and IT), and structured, launched and managed the operations of 13 Cayman funds and 2 Irish UCITS companies. More recently, he held the role Head of Operations for First State Investments (UK OEIC & Irish VCC), with responsibility for all middle office functions in the EMEA region and oversight of a major change programme. Charlie formed Fund HQ with his partners in 2019. Since then, Fund HQ has launched numerous funds and management companies, across a range of strategies and asset classes, as well as providing expert advisory to larger asset managers.