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Clare joined Leathwaite in May 2017 and advises the partners on a range of strategic issues, particularly surrounding digital strategies and diversity.

Clare is currently the CEO and founder of Essentia Analytics, a business that provides behavioural data analytics to the buy-side industry. Prior to this, Clare spent 10 years as a fund manager, both active equity (running over $1bn of pension funds for Deutsche Asset Management) and hedge (as founder and CIO of Avocet Capital Management, a specialist tech fund manager).

She transitioned into the software space as President of Beauchamp Financial Technology, a market-leading provider of portfolio management systems to hedge funds, which was acquired by Linedata Services S.A.

She is also a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), a leading network for CEOs, and a previous European chair of the YPO Women’s International Network. Clare is a US citizen, grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Barnard College (Columbia University) in New York. She has worked and lived in London for the last two decades, and is married with two young children.