Tim Guinness has served as Guinness Atkinson’s Chairman and Chief Investment Officer since the firm’s founding in November 2002.

From 1999 to November 2002, he was Joint Chairman of Guinness Flight Global Asset Management, Ltd., and was the CEO from 1997 to 1999. While at Guinness Flight (which ultimately merged with Investec in 1998), Tim was a founding portfolio manager of the Global Equity Fund, which was established in 1985.

Tim graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in engineering. He then completed a Master’s Degree in Management Science at the Sloan School M.I.T. in the United States.