Jim Mellon

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jim Mellon
Occupation	Businessman
Date Of Birth	Feb 1, 1957(1957-02-01)
Age	67
Birthplace	Edinburgh
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Scotland
Horoscope	Aquarius

Jim Mellon Biography

Jim Mellon is one of the most popular and richest Businessman who was born on February 1, 1957 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. James Mellon was born in February 1957 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was a former diplomat Sir James Mellon, who was the High Commissary in Ghana (1978-1983) as well as ambassador to Denmark (1983-1986) and Consul General to New York (1986-1988). The family is distantly connected with those of the Pittsburgh Mellon banking dynasty.

Together along with Jayne Sutcliffe in 1992, Mellon co-founded Regent Pacific as an emerging markets investment vehicle. Sir John Templeton their first customer. In 1994, he experienced the Mellon refers to as the “first really big break”. After reading the history of privatization and its impact in Russia Mellon travelled to Vladivostok and then Moscow and found Russians trading vouchers in streets that could be exchanged for shares within Russian industries. In one day, the two of them Sutcliffe paid $2 million at the markets that covered vouchers for around $25 each. After a few weeks, the shares were valued at $17 million.

The 1998 Russian financial crisis was disastrous for Regent, with the value of investments in the company’s Russian and East European funds becoming almost worthless, and most of its cash tied-up in local currency bonds as the rouble was devalued.

Mellon lives on the Isle of Man. In 2000, he was the largest landowner on the Isle of Man. In 2012 he also had homes in Ibiza, Berlin, San Francisco and Brussels. Mellon maintains an interest in thoroughbred horse racing, and owns the racehorse Toffee Galore.

A spin-off of Regent Pacific that specialises in Eastern Europe, the fund management company, Charlemagne Capital, was also created in the 90s and was listed on the market in 2006.

Jim Mellon Net Worth

Jim Mellon is one of the richest Businessman from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jim Mellon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

James Mellon (born February 1957) is an British professional and an philanthropist.

Following her graduation from the university at the age of 1979 Mellon began work as a fund manager trainee in Griffin Thornton (GT Management) for 6 months working in Hong Kong, before moving to San Francisco. Then, leaving along with Richard Thornton in 1984 to co-found Thornton Management, Mellon returned to Hong Kong to run the Thornton Management’s operations in Hong Kong. Thornton was sold the company for PS25 millions four years after, which made him a millionaire by the age of 28. Thornton then spent the next two years establishing an Hong Kong operation for Tyndall Holdings.

When Regent Pacific acquired a stake in Hambros Bank, Mellon launched a public attack on the board’s performance which preceded the break-up of the bank. This and Regent’s methods of breaking-up of closed-end funds led to a 1997 Business Week article referring to him and the company’s investment director, Peter Everington as “the Bad Boys of Emerging Markets”. In 2009 Mellon said “in hindsight I was overly vociferous, and I have not done it again like that — I’m now more behind the scenes”.

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He donated up to £100,000 towards campaigns to leave the EU in 2015.

Facts & Trivia

Jim Ranked on the list of most popular Businessman. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Jim Mellon celebrates birthday on February 1 of every year.

In March 2016, Mellon said he was less “ideologically committed” to Brexit than his friend Arron Banks, and that there were “good arguments to be made on both sides” of what he saw as a “nuanced” debate.