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John Stadler is an educator and start-up investor with seven years experience in China. He has been a principal, an investor, teacher, and Board member in several schools in China, ranging from Eton Academy (a kindergarten) to the Institute of Digital Design (a post-graduate training program in Animation, Visual Effects, and Compositing). Stadler wrote the first comprehensive consumer’s guide to international education in China – the Stadler’s Guide to Education for Beijing and Shanghai. He has investigated over 150 schools as due diligence for investments in the education sector in China. Prior to China, Stadler founded the Parker Charter School (www.parker.org) in Devens, Massachusetts (USA), where he was also a teacher. The school has grown in size and reputation; it is now one of the preeminent Essential schools (www.essentialschools.org) in the US; it has a long waiting list and students coming from nearly 40 districts in Massachusetts. In 1997 Stadler was one of the first teachers awarded the prestigious National Bureau of Professional Teaching Standards (www.nbpts.org) Master Teacher certification in High School Mathematics. Stadler was a co-founder or Director of several companies in Massachusetts, including Clearpoint Research Corporation, which grew from zero to $70M in revenue under his general management. Stadler is a graduate of Harvard College (AB in Economics, magna cum laude; 1975) and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (MPP, 1979; PhD student (ABD) 1980-1982).

John Stadler is an educator and start-up investor with seven years experience in China. He has been a principal, an investor, teacher, and Board member in several schools in China, ranging from Eton Academy (a kindergarten) to the Institute of Digital Design (a post-graduate training program in Animation, Visual Effects, and Compositing). Stadler wrote the first comprehensive consumer’s guide to international education in China – the Stadler’s Guide to Education for Beijing and Shanghai. He has investigated over 150 schools as due diligence for investments in the education sector in China. Prior to China, Stadler founded the Parker Charter School (www.parker.org) in Devens, Massachusetts (USA), where he was also a teacher. The school has grown in size and reputation; it is now one of the preeminent Essential schools (www.essentialschools.org) in the US; it has a long waiting list and students coming from nearly 40 districts in Massachusetts. In 1997 Stadler was one of the first teachers awarded the prestigious National Bureau of Professional Teaching Standards (www.nbpts.org) Master Teacher certification in High School Mathematics. Stadler was a co-founder or Director of several companies in Massachusetts, including Clearpoint Research Corporation, which grew from zero to $70M in revenue under his general management. Stadler is a graduate of Harvard College (AB in Economics, magna cum laude; 1975) and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (MPP, 1979; PhD student (ABD) 1980-1982).

Hambro Perks is a London-headquartered international investment firm focussed on private technology investing. We partner with founders and entrepreneurs to support growth businesses at all stages of investment cycle. We are always delighted to meet talented individuals who are interested in working with us. We enable innovation.

John Stadler is an educator and start-up investor with seven years experience in China. He has been a principal, an investor, teacher, and Board member in several schools in China, ranging from Eton Academy (a kindergarten) to the Institute of Digital Design (a post-graduate training program in Animation, Visual Effects, and Compositing). Stadler wrote the first comprehensive consumer’s guide to international education in China – the Stadler’s Guide to Education for Beijing and Shanghai. He has investigated over 150 schools as due diligence for investments in the education sector in China. Prior to China, Stadler founded the Parker Charter School (www.parker.org) in Devens, Massachusetts (USA), where he was also a teacher. The school has grown in size and reputation; it is now one of the preeminent Essential schools (www.essentialschools.org) in the US; it has a long waiting list and students coming from nearly 40 districts in Massachusetts. In 1997 Stadler was one of the first teachers awarded the prestigious National Bureau of Professional Teaching Standards (www.nbpts.org) Master Teacher certification in High School Mathematics. Stadler was a co-founder or Director of several companies in Massachusetts, including Clearpoint Research Corporation, which grew from zero to $70M in revenue under his general management. Stadler is a graduate of Harvard College (AB in Economics, magna cum laude; 1975) and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (MPP, 1979; PhD student (ABD) 1980-1982).

John Stadler is an educator and start-up investor with seven years experience in China. He has been a principal, an investor, teacher, and Board member in several schools in China, ranging from Eton Academy (a kindergarten) to the Institute of Digital Design (a post-graduate training program in Animation, Visual Effects, and Compositing). Stadler wrote the first comprehensive consumer’s guide to international education in China – the Stadler’s Guide to Education for Beijing and Shanghai. He has investigated over 150 schools as due diligence for investments in the education sector in China. Prior to China, Stadler founded the Parker Charter School (www.parker.org) in Devens, Massachusetts (USA), where he was also a teacher. The school has grown in size and reputation; it is now one of the preeminent Essential schools (www.essentialschools.org) in the US; it has a long waiting list and students coming from nearly 40 districts in Massachusetts. In 1997 Stadler was one of the first teachers awarded the prestigious National Bureau of Professional Teaching Standards (www.nbpts.org) Master Teacher certification in High School Mathematics. Stadler was a co-founder or Director of several companies in Massachusetts, including Clearpoint Research Corporation, which grew from zero to $70M in revenue under his general management. Stadler is a graduate of Harvard College (AB in Economics, magna cum laude; 1975) and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (MPP, 1979; PhD student (ABD) 1980-1982).

High conviction, active investors J O Hambro Capital Management (JOHCM) is an active investment company with an investment performance-led ethos. From our head office in London and offices in New York, Boston, Paris, Munich and Singapore, we manage a range of long-only equity, including UK, European, Global/International, Emerging Markets and Asian. Aiming to be the best, not the biggest. We want to be the best investment house, not the biggest. Growing too large can be an impediment to successful long-term investment. When funds become too big their performance can suffer from a lack of nimbleness that prevents investment in the best opportunities within the stock market, particularly within smaller, less liquid shares. By limiting how much money our fund managers manage, we can maintain our emphasis on market-leading, long-term investment performance. Each of our strategies has a defined capacity limit, and we have a track record of soft-closing strategies so that the interests of existing investors are preserved. Proven fund managers Our success has been founded upon recruiting experienced fund managers with proven investment pedigrees. They are attracted by our entrepreneurial approach and lack of bureaucracy, the latter enabling them to focus solely on investing without the distractions that can arise at a larger company. …given full intellectual freedom And our fund managers have complete investment freedom – there is no ‘house’ view on economies, markets, sectors or stocks. This leads to a diversity of views and approaches across our investment professionals and insulates us from the dangers of ‘groupthink’. This intellectual latitude and the absence of bureaucratic practices associated with many larger fund management houses has led to extremely low turnover amongst our investment professionals.