Tim Weir is CEO and Investment Director of Wessex Asset Management, a UK-based equity long-short hedge fund manager. Wessex launched an Asia Pacific fund in 2000, a global natural resources fund in 2004 and a gold fund in 2007. Prior to co-founding Wessex Tim was head of equity investment at Swiss Bank Corporation institutional fund management in London, where he managed SBC's award-winning GoldPortfolio, Director of European Equities at NatWest Investment Management, and a director of Geoffrey Morley and Partners. He has a 1st class Honours degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from The Queen's College, Oxford.