Joel C. Romines
Founder and Managing Principal

Joel founded Knightsbridge in London in 1983 to offer European institutional investors the opportunity to invest in the best early stage US venture capital partnerships. Over the past twenty-seven years he has made decisions to invest in over 130 venture partnerships on behalf of Knightsbridge.

Joel has successfully introduced several innovations to the funds of funds business, including among the first early stage venture strategies, the first multiple manager post-venture-based distribution system and a contra-cyclical venture exposure management strategy. Shortly, a public equity-based proxy for venture capital will be introduced. Knightsbridge was also an early adopter of an investor preferred return fee structure. Joel is a former consultant to Horsley Bridge Associates, an institutional investor in US venture capital partnerships. From 1980 to 1982, he served as vice president and director of a start-up, venture capital-backed company. He was employed in the UK by Orion Bank Limited from 1972 to 1980, where he was an executive director. While at Citibank N.A. from 1968 to 1972, Joel was a lending officer to US and global companies. Joel has a BS in economics from Drury College.