Leadership
Justin Peter Lowe - Founder
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Justin is an entrepreneur and the founder of Gardiner Investments.
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Justin has 30 years of experience in global capital markets and investment banking with extensive expertise in origination and capital solutions, underwriting and distribution, special situations and global asset management. He has a track record of successful exits. He started investing in hedge funds in 1999 and co-founded Reliance Management, a leading fund of hedge funds manager, managing over $2 billion by 2008. In 2010, Reliance acquired the NY based Pan Funds and became Pan Reliance Capital Advisors. Pan Reliance won several awards, including Sustained Excellence in Funds of Hedge Funds Management in 2014 and Fund of Hedge Funds Adviser of the year in 2013 and 2017. Justin successfully exited the business and founded Gardiner Investments to manage family assets.
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Prior to Reliance, Justin started a software company in 1999 after working at Broadview International – now Jefferies, a venture and investment Banking Firm focused on the IT industry, where he focused transactions in the software space. Justin started his career in 1993 as a consultant for Bain & Company where he served in the Geneva, Paris, London, and Munich offices and focused on Bain Capital projects.
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Justin has served on multiple investment boards. From 2016 to 2018 he was a Director of Samarang Asset Management SA, a Luxembourg UCITS management company. From 2017-2019 Justin also served on the Board of Octogone North America, part of the Octogone Group, a private client advisory group with $4 billion of assets based in Geneva Switzerland. He served on the Investment Committee of Marcuard Heritage in Zurich from 2004-2008.
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He is currently head of the Investment Committee of Mauritius-based Goodlands Investment Management Ltd, an FSC regulated investment manager that manages the Harwood family assets. He is also a board member of Phoenix Mining. Amongst other projects, Phoenix is developing one the world’s largest reserve of Cobalt/Nickel in Cameroon. Justin is also on the Advisory Board of PSG Capital in London and is advising its subsidiary Peregrine in Abu Dhabi, which was funded in part by Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners, a division of Mubadala.
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He is also the pro bono Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Maine-based Oaklands Corporation, which manages the assets of the Gardiner family. He is also a senior advisor to the Fit for Life Foundation. The Fit for Life Foundation, founded by the Lowe Family, supports healthy aging and independent mobility of people in aging societies worldwide. He is a Board Member of the Surfrider Foundation, Miami Chapter, a non-profit focused on clean oceans.
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Justin was born to American parents, stationed in Japan, and thereafter raised in Portugal, France and Switzerland. He was schooled in local schools, including high school.
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Justin received a B. Sc. (Econ.) in International Relations from the London School of Economics in 1993 and an MBA from Columbia University School of Business in 1998. In addition to English, he speaks fluent French, Spanish and German.
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He is the great grandson of Robert Hallowell Gardiner IV, the founder of the Fiduciary Trust Company in Boston in 1928. He is the great nephew of William Tudor Gardiner, the Republican 55th Governor of Maine. He is also the great grandson of Adrien Lachenal, elected President of the Swiss Confederation in 1896 and the grandson of Marc Peter, Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States from 1919 to 1939.
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