Wilson, who is the beginning of a contractual six months of gardening leave, had not determined his next move, other than to “get some more kilometres on this set of tyres”.

“I’m good at starting businesses, getting them to a certain stage with a certain degree of maturity…I’m more of a pioneer than a settler,” he said.

Atom returned 34.7 per cent and 4.47 per cent in the one- and three-year periods to February, against the 21.57 per cent and -2.43 per cent of the ASX Small Ordinaries.

The 8IP Asia-Pacific Partners Fund gained 16.73 per cent in the year to February, while the benchmark MSCI All Country Asia-Pacific index returned 4.87 per cent.