James is an Equity Partner in Oury Clark Chartered Accountants and a founder of the central London law practice,Oury Clark Solicitors. He’s also a founding shareholder in Clareville Capital Partners LLP, a London-based hedge fund company established in 1996. A year later, he assisted in the establishment of Clareville’s Pegasus fund which brought together over 200 investors as part of the MSCI Hedge Fund Index. Through the Pegasus fund and from 2004 until present day, James worked with a large number of start-up companies emanating from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College, Kings College, University College London, The BioFrontiers Institute in Colorado, Harvard/MIT, and Cornell.

At Eton College, James received his education before moving on to Law at the University of Buckingham where he became a dual-qualified practising solicitor, a member of the Law Society of England and Wales, and gained entry to the International Bar Association while becoming a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. James has been widely-recognised for his pro bono work acting for indigent death row inmates across the global as well as for the families affected by the London bombings in 2005.