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.