Management Team

Michael Carter

CEO

Michael joined Visor Capital in January 2007 from ING Bank, where he was Head of Equity and Head of Research in Italy. His research experience has been in the oil, oil service, transportation and industrial sectors. He was part of top-ranked Research teams at UBS from 1995-2001, both in London and Milan. Previously, he was a management consultant at Bain & Company in Italy where he managed strategic consulting projects in the oil, oil service, telecom and media sectors. Michael holds a BA with Honors from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from Georgetown University.

John Burns

COO

John joined Visor Capital in March 2009 from Fidelity International in London where he was Head of European Risk. He has over 20 years experience in buy side financial services having previously worked for Schroders and Morgan Grenfell (Deutsche Asset Management). John spent a number of years overseas with Schroders in both Tokyo and Singapore where he held various regional roles either as COO or in functional areas of finance, compliance, risk, operations and IT. John is a Chartered Accountant, a member of the ICAEW, and holds an honours degree in Commerce and Accounting from the University of Birmingham, UK.

Stefan Scholz

Managing Director - Head of Investment Banking

Stefan joined Visor Capital in February 2006 and is responsible for the Investment Banking business, including the Advisory, M&A, Equity Capital Markets, Debt Capital Markets and Structured Finance divisions. Stefan has 17 years experience in banking and gained extensive experience in the origination and execution of medium and large-scale investment banking transactions across different industries in the U.S., Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia at both JPMorgan Chase and Dresdner Kleinwort. Stefan studied Economics and Business Administration in Germany and the U.K. and holds a full-time MBA from the Henley Management College. He is an honorary speaker at major international conferences and member of the International Advisory Board to the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the regulation of activities of the Regional Financial Centre of Almaty (RFCA).

Guy Marshall

Managing Director - Head of London Office

Guy Marshall joined Visor in November 2008 with 13 years experience in emerging market equity sales in London. Previously he was Director on the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa sales desk at Citi. He has degrees from University College London and the University of Birmingham.

Gordon Anderson

Managing Director - Head of Trading

Gordon joined Visor Capital in September 2008 from RMB Australia, where he was leading the proprietary macro trading team from Sydney, trading global equity, bond, currency and commodity markets. Previously, Gordon worked as a portfolio manager, Asian Equities at Basis Capital, managing a long/short absolute return Asian fund. He has also worked in Asia with Morgan Stanley, as part of a highly rated global macro research team as an Asia pacific Equity Strategist. In this capacity, he wrote research, and advised clients on country and sector allocation for both long only clients and hedge funds in Asia, and overseas. Throughout his career, Gordon has worked in Sydney, Singapore, and Hong Kong. He has separate degrees in Physics (Quantum Mechanics and Economics).

Stefano Resegotti

Managing Director - Head of Sales

Stefano joined Visor Capital in September 2009 from Cheuvreux where he led the European Equity Sales effort into the Italian client base. Prior to Cheuvreux he was Director at ING Bank, and was one of the top cash equity sales in Europe. Previously, he worked at Santander and Morgan Stanley in sales, sales trading and trading roles. He brings with him over 12 years of equity sales experience. He has degree in Economics and Business from the University of Pavia.

Jean-Christophe Lermusiaux

Managing Director - Head of Research

Jean-Christophe joined Visor Capital in November 2008 from Exane BNP Paribas, where he was in charge of the IT Services & Software sector. Jean-Christophe joined Visor Capital having over 11 years of experience as a sell-side analyst, in Paris and in London. He and his team achieved top international rankings (#1 Extel individually, #2 Extel as a team, #1 Starmine for the quality of recommendations). Over the last two years in Exane BNP Paribas, his team ranked #1 out of 25 in the bank’s trading ideas portfolio (Long/Short Equity, absolute performance). Jean-Christophe holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Centrale d’Electronique and an MBA from ESSEC Business School.