Jim is a qualified U.S. attorney and has over 20 years of experience in financial advisory, with an expertise in the origination of debt and equity placements for large-scale infrastructure and commercial real estate transactions in Europe, North Africa and Central Asia. Jim is leading the team advising on funding for the development of a major deep-water port on the Black Sea on a public-private partnership basis.

Before joining BPA LONDON, Jim was a Managing Director in the International Real Estate Group at Fieldstone Private Capital Group (1999-2004). Before this, Jim was the founder and Managing Partner of Preston Campbell (1992-1999), an international investment bank specializing in hotel acquisitions and development in Central & Eastern Europe, with advisory clients including Flemings, Goldman Sachs and Baring, Houston & Saunders, the commercial property arm of ING Barings.

Prior to 1992, Jim was an Area Director of Development for ITT Sheraton Corporation (1984-1992) and practiced international law in New York, Paris and Boston.