Jo Welman graduated in economics from Exeter University in 1979.  He joined Baring Brothers where he managed several large segregated UK and US public company pension funds and The Barings UK Smaller Companies Unit Trust. 

In 1989 he was recruited by Rea Brothers to become the managing director of their investment management subsidiary.  He resigned as a director of  Rea Brothers Group plc  in August 1999 following the  merchant bank’s take-over by Close Brothers and became Chairman of Brit Insurance Holdings PLC , a company he co-founded in 1995 . 

He resigned from Brit in September 2002 to focus his energies on  Epic Investment Partners ("EIP"), the specialist funds manager he founded in 2001. Over the past 20 years Jo has served as a non executive director or chairman on a number of public company and listed investment fund boards.