James Smith

Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Palliser Capital, a London-based global multi-strategy investment firm founded in 2021. Smith previously led Elliott Management’s Hong Kong office and is publicly associated with Palliser’s activist investment theses in Asian companies, including AI-infrastructure-related opportunities such as TOTO and Ajinomoto.

A Sold-Out Bali Show Became a Full-Circle Tour Milestone

Chris Williamson’s Bali tour vlog presents the final leg of his Australia, New Zealand and Bali run as a full-circle career marker: a sold-out show at Atlas Super Club, a few hundred metres from where he says he sat alone a decade earlier wondering what to do with his life. The film argues less for the glamour of touring than for its contradictions — public intimacy, crude comedy, production stress, fatigue and friendship — as Williamson and his team try to turn a nightclub built for EDM into a venue for a spoken-word show.

Chris WilliamsonMay 10, 202612 min read