Role: Jim is a director of Guinness Global Investors. He also serves as the CEO and Chief Compliance Officer of Guinness Atkinson Asset Management, Inc., and is the president of Guinness Atkinson Funds.

Joined Guinness: 2003

Prior to Guinness: Jim has spent more than 25 years in the world of finance and management. From 1993 to 2000, Jim was the managing director of the US subsidiary of Guinness Flight Global Asset Management, Ltd. (which merged with Investec in 1998). Prior to that, he was a senior vice president of Huntington Advisers, a mutual fund manager specialising in foreign currency money funds. In addition, Jim has served as the president of Max Funds, and as the principal at a mutual fund marketing research and consultancy firm.