Andrew McDermott

ANDREW McDERMOTT

Andrew grew up in Memphis, attended Princeton, and joined NEC Logistics in Tokyo in 1992. In 1994 joined JPMorgan, where he worked on deals ranging from Chinese infrastructure finance to venture capital to tech IPOs in Hong Kong, New York, Singapore and San Francisco. He joined Southeastern Asset Management in 1998 and helped lead its international business until 2009 from Memphis, Tokyo and London. In 2010, he founded Mission Value Partners, a Japan-focused investment firm, in Sonoma, CA and returned to Tennessee in 2021.  His Tokyo-based partner, Yohei Yamada, spent six years in Maryville, TN before returning to Japan to attend college at Keio University and pursue his PhD in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Tokyo.  He has participated in numerous events dedicated to combining the best of the US and Japanese systems, using Tennessee as a model of co-operation.  Andrew currently resides in Nashville with his wife Kelly and four children.