Methodology
The $500m+ figure represents capital raised and orchestrated across a 35-year executive and advisory career, expressed in today's money. The figure includes capital approved at board level for programmes I led as a senior executive, capital raised for businesses I founded, capital raised for advisory clients, and charitable fundraising for a UK non-profit I founded. The figure has been derived through a documented methodology covering each component contribution; the methodology is held privately and is available to prospective clients on request.
The components contributing to the aggregate were originally denominated in a mixture of currencies — pounds sterling, US dollars, Singapore dollars — over a period spanning the mid-1970s to the present. Each component is converted to today's money using documented inflation multipliers before aggregation. The headline figure is expressed in US dollars as the indicator of a sum that was initially calculated across multiple currencies.
Every component contributing to the aggregate is itemised. Every estimate is flagged. Every assumption is named. Every conversion to today's money uses documented inflation multipliers. The $500m+ figure is conservative against the methodologically-derived total.
The component-level methodology behind the $500m+ figure is held privately. Prospective clients with specific questions can write to bill@linacre.net.
Defended by methodology, not by precision.