Jamil is currently an Investment Director at Waycrosse, a single family office where he sources and diligences global fund and direct investment opportunities across public and private asset classes. Previously he was an Investment Manager at the Brookings Institution Endowment where he originated and evaluated global fund investment opportunities across asset classes. In a prior life, Jamil was a portfolio manager at BFAM Partners, a Hong Kong-based Lehman Brothers/Nomura spin-out multi-strategy hedge fund with peak AUM of $5.5bn. At BFAM Partners, Jamil managed a global portfolio of credit, convertible bonds, equities and derivatives. Jamil began his career as a private markets analyst at Albourne Partners in Hong Kong where he conducted due diligence and advised global institutional investors on their private market fund investments in Asia-Pacific and Japan.

Jamil holds a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College. Post-graduation, he spent nearly two years in Beijing studying Mandarin intensively and amongst other things, was an extra in a Hollywood movie.

Jamil speaks Tamil, Mandarin, Italian and French.