Mr. Bannon, Associate Partner, joined The Townsend Group in 2011 in the Cleveland office. James works alongside the portfolio management team with responsibility for developing and maintaining investor relationships, focusing on the firm’s commingled fund clients.

Prior to joining The Townsend Group, Mr. Bannon was a Financial Data Analyst at Imagine software, a worldwide provider of portfolio and risk management software, where he was responsible for reviewing, researching, and approving client requests for new securities as well as processing corporate actions and other security life events. Prior to Imagine, Mr. Bannon began his career at Custom House Global Fund Services, one of the largest independent hedge fund administrators in the world, where he was a Supervisor of Fund Administration responsible for creation and management of net asset value production for offshore and onshore hedge funds.

He received a B. COMM with honors from National University of Ireland Galway.