I write about America’s most powerful business people, focusing on Wall Street and private equity.
After starting my career at Bain & Company in London, I worked for several years at Hg, the tech-focused private equity firm. In 2013, I joined the Financial Times, initially as executive editor of the opinion pages.
For the past decade, I’ve been reporting from major financial centers like New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London. And also from some smaller places, like the New Jersey refinery community of Paulsboro and the Long Island hamlet of Montauk.
Here is some of my writing for the FT’s Big Read and Weekend Magazine sections.
Email me at [email protected].


The sleepy Long Island hamlet of Montauk and its beloved Lobster Deck resisted gentrification for decades. Enter Wall Street heavyweight Marc Rowan.

Muscle-shredding resistance exercises, a Hollywood movie star, and an off-balance sheet financing ploy involving Fortress Investment Group.

418 Homeplace Drive was one family’s dream. It is also a microcosm of the recklessness behind the financial crisis, and the fragile stability that followed.

How America’s legal system twisted one woman’s allegations of sexual misconduct into a battle between two powerful men.

Imran Siddiqui helped invent one of the slickest money-making machines in financial history. Then he got into a legal fight with his ex‑boss.

A tiny sandwich shop in New Jersey is the most intractable mystery in US financial markets – or it was, until I tracked down its hedge-fund owners in Hong Kong.

Bill McGlashan had tried everything from dotcom startups to selling cholesterol pills. On Richard Branson’s private island, he reinvented himself as a social visionary.

Born from the Bronfman liquor dynasty, Brookfield draws billions from retail investors, public pensions, and sovereign wealth funds — yet what it is, and how it operates, is maddeningly opaque.

The founder of the private equity-backed clothing label taught me how to drive a tractor in a straight line – and explained how brands create obsessions.