Rhodes Identifier: North Carolina & Christ Church 1998
Jonathan Tepper
Biography
Jonathan is the Chief Investment Officer of Prevatt Capital, an asset manager that invests for the long term in high-quality companies. Previously, he founded Variant Perception, a company that provides investment research to asset managers. He started my investing career as an equity analyst at SAC Capital and then as a Vice President in proprietary trading at Bank of America. Along the way, with his friend and partner Turi Munthe, they founded Demotix, a citizen-journalism website and photo agency. They sold Demotix in 2012 to Corbis, a company owned then by Bill Gates. He earned a BA with Highest Honors in History and Honors in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a M.Litt. in Modern History from the University of Oxford. He is a Rhodes Scholar and has been Chairman of Rhodes Scholars in Britain (RSiB).