James Bigglestone

James Bigglestone (born August 1978, British nationality, resident in New York) is a business-development and investor-relations executive in the alternative-investment industry. He holds a degree from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. His stated professional expertise covers due diligence, alternative investments, fund-of-funds, portfolio management and hedge funds.

Earlier in his career he was a Partner in the Portfolio Advisory group at Albourne Partners, the large London-headquartered alternatives-advisory firm (600+ staff across ~11 global offices), where the portfolio-advisory team acts as an extension of client CIO/analyst staff — building and monitoring highly customized portfolios and managing risk at the asset, fund, manager and portfolio levels. He subsequently spent roughly a year at NYDIG Asset Management as Head of Pensions and Consultant Relations, working on institutional distribution in the digital-asset space.

In January 2023 he joined Engineers Gate, a New York-based quantitative hedge-fund manager, in a senior capital-formation role described variously as Head of Business & Capital Development and Chief Marketing Officer (spanning business development, product and investor relations). Engineers Gate was founded in 2014 with backing from Glenn Dubin's family office (Dubin & Co.) and runs a proprietary systematic trading platform; the firm has surpassed roughly $4bn in AUM.

He has also appeared on industry panels, including the AIMA Canada Investor Forum (2018), reflecting a public-facing role in institutional investor engagement. He is a UK company director of record (112 Palace Road Management Limited, a UK property-management company, 2014–2024) — a personal/administrative appointment unrelated to his investment career.

• His verifiable professional focus is institutional capital raising and portfolio advisory in alternatives (hedge funds, quantitative strategies, fund-of-funds), not documented early-stage/angel dealmaking.
• At Albourne his work centered on customized institutional portfolio construction, manager selection and risk monitoring across the alternatives universe.
• At NYDIG he focused on pension funds and investment-consultant relationships, i.e. distributing digital-asset strategies to institutional allocators.
• At Engineers Gate his mandate is raising and developing institutional capital for a systematic/quantitative hedge-fund platform.
• No first-party statement of an angel/seed investing thesis (target check size, stage criteria, "what makes him say yes") could be located; those fields should be treated as unverified.