Justin Lowe

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About Justin Lowe

Justin Lowe is a Swiss-American entrepreneur and the founder of Gardiner Investments, a family office. Justin has been involved with private investments for over 25 years. He started investing in hedge funds in and co-founded Reliance Management, a leading fund of hedge funds manager. In 2010, he acquired the 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 focused on building the Gardiner Investments to manage family assets. Prior to Reliance, Justin started a software company in that grew out of this work 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. In 2020, following the sale of two portfolio companies, Justin co-founded Cloudbreak Holdings, a private equity company focused on the the Electric Revolution, starting with mining assets that power the Energy Transition. Amongst other projects, Cloudbreak's Phoenix EV Metals subsidiary 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. 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 by supporting innovative projects and building global awareness. Finally, he is a Board Member of the Surfrider Foundation, Miami Chapter, a non-profit focused on clean oceans. Justin received an MBA from Columbia University School of Business in 1998 and a B. Sc.(Econ.) in International Relations from the London School of Economics in 1993. He has completed his full Swiss Military Service. In addition to English, he speaks fluent French, Spanish and conversational German. He is the great grandson of Robert Hallowell Gardiner IV, the founder of the Fiduciary Trust Company in Boston in 1928. 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.