Julian C. Salisbury
The Orchestrator
Scaling people and moving parts into one working whole.
Julian C. Salisbury embodies The Orchestrator because his leadership model is explicitly built around coordination rather than individual execution. He describes his role as ensuring the right people are on the field across every function, and his simultaneous co-chairmanship of investment committees spanning private equity, growth equity, and real estate creates a hub-and-spoke authority structure.
“Is the equity markets are fairly valued on most metrics that you look at? And therefore, we view rates as most attractive generally, credit as somewhere in the middle and equities as looking like the most stretched.”
“Same companies, yeah. They just became distressed. The higher your bonds quickly went to zero, and then you're buying the bank loans at discounted prices. And that was fairly evolutionary. And then in about 2003, we set up a group called the European Special Situations Group, which was a multi-asset class proprietary investing business.”
“Yes, there's some fairly heady valuations. There were some fairly aggressive kind of investment strategies being pursued. But I would say generally there's less leverage in the system. The banks, the large banks at least, are better capitalized. You have fewer hedge funds making long-data liquid investments with three-month capital.”
“And I think that's something everybody needs to be paying attention to. I've picked up a book recently looking at, it's called The Shallows, which is really looking at how the mind is being rewired by the internet the way we think and the way we operate is fundamentally changing. I mean, you know, everybody's become like...”
Masters in Business: “Julian C. Salisbury on Managing Global Assets”
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