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Peter is the head of Private Companies. He joined the firm in 2010 and became a partner in May 2022. He is also manager of The Schiehallion Fund, our first dedicated private companies fund. Prior to joining the team, he spent time working in our Credit, UK Equities and Global Discovery teams. He moved to our Long Term Global Growth Team in 2014, becoming the first investment manager at Baillie Gifford to work exclusively on private company research.

Rob is a member of the Private Companies Team at Baillie Gifford. He joined the firm in 2015 and worked on our Emerging Markets and UK Equity Teams before moving to Long Term Global Growth. There he focused on finding stocks for a set of highly concentrated long-term international growth portfolios. He also began working on private companies, in the context of both private funding rounds and existing holdings approaching IPO.
In 2018 he moved to our Private Companies Team to work full-time on identifying high growth late-stage private companies. He has led research on private companies including Tanium, Niantic, Sana, Flixbus and Away, as well as doing follow-up work on pre-existing portfolio holdings. He is working to develop a best-in-class research culture and company support strategy on the team.
Rob graduated BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford in 2014.
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