An introduction to the team.

Raoul Pal

Founder of GMI · Co-founder & CEO of Real Vision · @RaoulGMI

Raoul Pal is the founder of Global Macro Investor and the co-founder and CEO of Real Vision. He has written GMI since January 2005 for hedge funds, family offices, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and private investors, looking for the few big secular themes in macro, technology and crypto and how they play out through the business cycle. His frameworks (The Everything Code, The Exponential Age, The Economic Singularity and The Universal Code) are the spine of that work, and The Everything Code is now a book from Harriman House.

He is also co-founder and CEO of Exponential Age Asset Management, which invests in digital assets through a fund of hedge funds. He has been in crypto since 2012 and wrote the first macro valuation piece on Bitcoin in 2013.

None of this looked likely at eighteen. Raoul got into one (sort of) university, Plymouth Poly, which his friends called "Plymouth Catering College", and graduated into the 1990 recession with more than a hundred rejection letters, many from firms he later worked for. At Goldman Sachs he co-managed the hedge fund sales business in Equities and Equity Derivatives in Europe, talking macro with, and trading for, the likes of Paul Tudor Jones, Stan Druckenmiller and Julian Robertson. He went on to co-manage the GLG Global Macro Fund in London and retired from managing client money at 36.

Since then he has lived in four countries and travelled to more than a hundred, dived with sharks from Papua New Guinea to South Africa and twice driven a 9,500km aid rally from Budapest to Bamako. He has firm views on Cava, Denia red prawns and Kind of Blue. But he would sacrifice all of this to be David Bowie... just for one day.

Home, some of the time, is the tiny island of Little Cayman, where he can be found talking to coconuts and where the iguanas outnumber the people. He reaches everyone else through his writing, nearly 1.5 million followers on X and interviews with more than 100 million views. Not a guru. Just figuring things out.

David Mattin

Chief Technology Analyst at GMI · @DMattin

David Mattin is an internationally recognised expert on technology, social change, and foresight-led innovation. He is the author of the New World Same Humans newsletter, which reaches over 25,000 readers across industry, government, and academia each week.

David works with leaders inside a host of global organisations to help them understand technological change and its implications, and speaks regularly at conferences and closed events. All this work comes together at GMI, where he writes about the forces, technologies, and companies driving the emergence of the Exponential Age.

David lives in London with his wife and two sons and, in non-exponential moments, can be found playing football in the park or reading a good book.

Zoe Dadian

Chief Operating Officer

Zoe runs the operational side of GMI – the systems, the membership records and the platform members use every day. She came to GMI from running operations across a family of businesses, and brought that same rigour to rebuilding how GMI delivers its research: one place to read, ask, listen and see the data. She works closely with Raoul and the team so that the experience around the research is as considered as the research itself.

Laura Belmar

Operations & Sales Manager

Laura runs sales and membership at GMI. She came to us from building companies of her own – two founded, two sold – and holds the commercial side of GMI to the same standard as the research. She enjoys showing prospective members the full range of what GMI opens up, and is continuously looking for ways to improve the member experience. She'll be your point of contact as you consider membership, and annual renewal.

Amanda Goodwin

Editor & Event Coordinator

Amanda has been part of GMI from its inception, joining as a founding partner and spending the next twenty years helping to build and run the business. More recently, she has stepped back from the day-to-day running of GMI to focus on editing and events. Today, Amanda edits every GMI report, shaping the research into the clear, polished publication members read each month. She also produces the highly anticipated annual GMI Round Table, bringing the community together for one of the most special events on the calendar. Her long history with GMI and its members brings a personal touch to both the publication and the events that surround it.