The Schiehallion Fund

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.

Dr Linda Yueh was appointed a Director and Chairperson on 4 January 2019 and is also Chairperson of the Nomination Committee. Dr Linda Yueh is an experienced board director, academic economist and adviser on economic policy. Dr Yueh is a fellow in economics at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford and adjunct professor of economics at London Business School.

Dr Yueh was visiting professor at the LSE and visiting professor of economics at Peking University. Dr Yueh is a Member of the UK Soft Power Council and was an adviser to the UK Board of Trade as well as a member of the Ring-fencing and Proprietary Trading Independent Review Panel for the UK government. She is chair of the Royal Commonwealth Society and a trustee of the Fidelity UK Foundation and Fidelity International Foundations. She is also a non‑executive director of Rentokil Initial PLC, SEGRO PLC and Standard Chartered PLC. She was previously senior independent director of Fidelity China Special Situations PLC and a non-executive director of Baillie Gifford’s flagship Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC and JPMorgan Asian Growth and Income PLC. In The King’s New Year Honours List of 2023, Dr Yueh was awarded a CBE for services to economics.

Mr John Mackie was appointed a Director on 4 January 2019 and is also the Senior Independent Director. Following an early career in retail management, Mr Mackie went to the University of Glasgow as a mature student and then qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co in Glasgow. He then spent five years with 3i Group before joining Morgan Grenfell Private Equity in 1990 as a founder director. Mr Mackie was made a director of Morgan Grenfell & Co in 1993. From 2000 to 2006, Mr Mackie was chief executive of the British Venture Capital Association and was a partner in Parallel Private Equity LLP until 2011. He was, until 2013, chairman of Henderson Private Equity Investment Trust PLC, until 2014, a director of Baronsmead VCT PLC, until September 2018, the senior independent director at Mithras Investment Trust PLC and, until March 2025, partner in Mithras Capital Partners LLP. Mr Mackie is currently chairman of the advisory boards at Amadeus and Angels Seed Fund and Amadeus IV Early Stage Fund. In the 2006 New Years Honours list he was awarded a CBE for services to business.

Ms Trudi Clark was appointed a Director on 4 January 2019 and is also Chairperson of the Audit Committee. Ms Clark graduated in business studies and qualified as a chartered accountant with Robson Rhodes in Birmingham before moving to Guernsey in 1987. In Guernsey she joined KPMG, where she was responsible for an audit portfolio including some of the major financial institutions in Guernsey. After 10 years in public practice, Ms Clark was recruited by the Bank of Bermuda as head of European internal audit, later moving into corporate banking.

In 1995 she joined Schroders in the Channel Islands as CFO and was promoted in 2000 to banking director and in 2003 to managing director. From 2006 to 2009, Ms Clark established a family office, specialising in alternative investments. From 2009 to 2018 she returned to public practice specialising in corporate restructuring services. Since 2018, Ms Clark has held a portfolio of non-executive directorships, she is the audit chair of Taylor Maritime Investments and a non-executive director of NB Private Equity Partners Ltd where she is a member of the audit committee and chairs the remuneration, nomination and management engagement committees. Ms Clark also holds a personal fiduciary licence issued by the GFSC and acts as non-executive director and consultant to one high net worth family.

Mr Richard Holmes was appointed a Director on 2 September 2021. Mr Holmes completed a BSc in Economics at London School of Economics and then a Masters at Warwick University. He worked in various marketing roles at Unilever in London, Paris and Milan from 1983 to 1995. He then moved to Boots Plc where he was marketing director and launched the Boots Advantage Card and set up Boots.com. In 2007, he moved to Guernsey to join the board of Specsavers Optical Group as group marketing director. He retired from full time work in 2018.