Ian Macgregor

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Former CIO of The Wellcome Trust, oversaw growth of £1bn per annum over fifteen years, making The Wellcome Trust the worlds largest foundation (total assets valued at c. £15bn at his retirement in 2000). Regarded by many as the most successful investment officer ever seen in the not-for-profit sector, Macgregor was behind the largest private share sale on record: initial floatation of Wellcome Plc.

He was brought in and worked through the steel industry like a case of the salts. Between 1971 and 1999, it was litteraly decimated, from 327,000 to nearly 30,000 in 99.