Vanessa founded illio in 2019 based off her own experience, with the idea to not only help family offices, hedge funds and HNWIs to have a complete understanding of their investments performance, risk, exposures, across all assets classes but also to empower individuals to begin investing using the same analytics and tools an institutional investor would use.

Vanessa Gibson founded Wharton Investment Advisors Limited, Hong Kong, one of Asia’s original and successful hedge fund 's in 1996, before becoming CIO of Northview, a large single family office based in the Cayman Islands, in 2015 to 2019. Winner of “The Alternative Investment Awards” - the Best 1999 Fund Performance for Relative Value / Arbitrage category and voted one of “The 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds” in 2010 by The Hedge Fund Journal. Vanessa has over 35 years’ experience across multiple global asset classes including Equity, FX, Fixed-income, Convertibles, Private Equity and Hedge Funds.
Prior to founding Wharton Investment Vanessa had more than 10 years experience in Investment Banking, including at Board level, in trading, sales and structuring in equities, fixed income and Derivatives.