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09:30Panel: Illiquidity Solutions
LPs are bound to consider their exposure to private capital and weigh liquidity needs in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. At the beginning of 2020, global secondaries transactions reached $85.4bn and 2020 was set to be another bumper year. However, as the financial markets come to terms with the effect of the pandemic, more sellers are likely to come to market pushing the pricing of secondaries down. On the other hand, after a pause in activity, LPs could leverage secondaries to adjust their portfolios and deal with the market realities.
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10:15Keynote Presentation: The Outlook for Private Markets 2030
In 2019, most investors planned to increase their exposure to private equity and private credit. During late 2019, the world came to a standstill as a global pandemic took hold of every country. Many have compared the economic contraction to 2008’s financial crisis. The expansion of private capital over the last decade has left the industry particularly exposed to economic downturn. Meanwhile, some of the biggest funds have taken over from banks to provide financing to mid-size businesses bearing the brunt of the pandemic. This opening presentation will offer a viewpoint on institutional appetite in a changing world.
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10:35
Networking Break
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11:00Panel: CIO Views
Increasing exposure to private markets doesn’t come without challenges. Funds are sitting on tremendous amounts of dry powder that will need to be employed in a distressed environment. On the other hand, GPs face a once-in-a-generation opportunity to showcase how they can support portfolio companies beyond the provision of capital. How do CIOs access private markets in this environment? International CIOs will discuss their portfolio strategies for the coming 5 years.
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11:40Interview: Healthcare Infrastructure
There is more incentive than ever to relieve overburdened healthcare systems, but what role will institutional investors play in global healthcare infrastructure in the next five years as governments pivot provisions to the new realities of more regular pandemic outbreaks? Could these changes in public policy fuel core+ infrastructure investors’ interest in the healthcare sector? Or will regulatory barriers create a limited pool of opportunities only suitable for the specialist funds?
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12:00Panel: Digital Health
Healthcare tech aims to improve productivity in the delivery of healthcare. Investors concur that the sector is deep and potentially very lucrative – there were 38 venture-backed digital health unicorns worth $90.7bn in 2019 – but is not without risks.
Highly fragmented with immature companies, larger private equity players have left the pickings to VC and growth investors until now, but as the sector matures, now could be the time for larger private equity players to take the plunge.
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12:40Keynote Presentation: Corporate Purpose
Corporate purpose has risen to the top of the business agenda and the pandemic has only served to intensify its significance. It is raising fundamental questions about how business should evolve over the coming years and help to build economies out of the crisis. This is being intensified by the effect that technology is having on business models and the way in which both customers and suppliers are responding to it.
In this talk, Professor Mayer will discuss how corporate purpose can help companies to navigate the profound changes that are in progress.
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13:00
Networking Break
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14:00Panel: Retail Sector
European retail has gloomy forecasts following the large-scale closure of European shops due to the coronavirus pandemic. Private equity has deployed capital into portfolio companies in the sector to assist with cash crunches but faces backlash over claims for government loans and participation in furlough schemes. Should they divert capital into other rescue missions?
At the same time, the consumer sector faced rapid digital transformation, and whilst the corona outbreak sped up this process, other established e-commerce platforms have swooped in to buy distressed retailers to bolster offerings.
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14:40Keynote Interview: Family office trends in private capital
In this interview, Annamaria Koerling discusses the trends in family office investment into private capital and how these have changed in the past 12 months.
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15:00
Networking Break
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15:40Panel: Evaluating tech competency in GPs
In the digital era, managers are using their technology expertise to differentiate and support value creation. What do LPs look for when vetting funds?
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16:20Panel: Sustainability and fiduciary duty
As the power of impact investing grows, the obligations of company boards towards a wider group of stakeholders will expand. The long-running debate on whether fiduciary duty poses a legitimate barrier to ESG integration has recently progressed, with clarification from UNPRI for private equity backed businesses. Similar efforts around directors’ responsibility toward climate change risk are underway.
This discussion will explore how GPs and company directors are navigating a myriad of initiatives from climate to diversity in addition to LPs own priorities. We will consider the ultimate aims of the LP community exerting downward pressure on sustainability issues and plot the future trajectory to help investors prepare for what’s coming next.
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Greg Gille joined Unquote in 2010 as a reporter, initially focusing on the French private equity market. He was promoted to senior reporter and then news editor, before becoming deputy editor in 2013 and online editor a year later. He is currently editor, overseeing editorial content in print and online.
Greg graduated from Sciences Po Paris with a Master's degree in media management in 2009. He started his career in Paris before moving to London in 2010.
Mark was founder of the merchant banking group Maizels Westerberg and has since founded a number of businesses in the technology, advisory, financial services and investment sectors. He was Managing Director of the private equity firm Doughty Hanson, Chair of LM Glasfiber (the global renewable energy group) and started the African venture capital firm 8 Miles LLP with Bob Geldof. He has been active in policy ideas and campaigns related to social mobility and poverty fighting in the UK and across the world. He co-founded the Centre for Social Justice, the Early Intervention Foundation and B Labs (UK). In March 2015, he was appointed to the Board of the BBC Trust, and was the Trustee for England for two years. Mark was a member of the G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force in 2014, and was appointed to the Triennial Review of the Big Lottery Fund by the UK Cabinet Office in the same year.
Mark is a leading authority on some of the world’s most entrenched socio-economic challenges, speaking widely on reforms that must be made to drive improved governance and productivity, and always championing the power and social impact of good business. He is the author of the External Rate of Return with the London School of Economics. He was appointed as a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs, London School of Economics & Political Science in November 2016 and a Visiting Professor at the Policy institute, Kings College London in January 2017
Current roles include:
Hon President, B Corp (UK) Ltd Life Ambassador, The Centre for Social Justice Chair of Patrons & Ambassadors, Build Africa Trustee, The Commonwealth Education Trust International Advisory Committee, The Paleo-Anthropology Scientific Trust Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE IGA Visiting Professor Policy Institute, King’s College London
Mr. Ferneini is a member of the private equity team focusing on Secondaries.
Prior to joining StepStone in 2019, Mr. Ferneini spent five years at Glendower Capital and Deutsche Bank focusing on Secondaries transactions. Previously Mr. Ferneini was an Investment Banker at Credit Suisse and Management Consultant at Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company).
Mr. Ferneini holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a M.Eng Grande Ecole diploma from Telecom Paris.
Louis is responsible for executing on CPPIB’s Secondaries activities globally. He focuses on LP Secondaries, GP-led Secondaries, Portfolio-level Preferred Equity, GP-level Financings.
Louis has spent over 10 years in Secondaries and prior to CPP Investment Board, Louis worked on the investment team at Pantheon in London and TD Securities in New York.
Laura Shen is a partner and co-founder of Headway Capital Partners, a London based private equity secondaries firm with advised funds of over €700 million. Prior to co-founding Headway in early 2004, Laura and her two partners were part of the investment team at secondaries firm Coller Capital. Laura has an MBA from Harvard Business School and her prior experience also includes positions in private equity and investment banking with Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs.
Ben joined Campbell Lutyens in 2007 and has advised a wide range of clients on the sale or restructuring of portfolios of private equity fund and direct interests. Prior to joining Campbell Lutyens, Ben worked in the strategic management consulting practice of Accenture where he advised on a number of strategic financial projects involving global institutions. He graduated with a first class master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Warwick.
Ms. Lehmler-Brown is Partner in the Private Equity Funds team at Hayfin Capital Management responsible for private equity investments. Ms. Lehmler-Brown joined from Standard Life Aberdeen where, since 2006, she was a senior investment portfolio manager and investment committee member of the European private equity business – focusing on making primary, secondary and co-investments predominantly in the European private equity mid-market.
Outside of her role at Hayfin and linked to her commitment to ESG and sustainability, she is a Non-Executive Director on the board of the sustainability-focused investment firm Summa Equity. Prior to Aberdeen Asset Management, Ms. Lehmler-Brown was an Executive Director within the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs. Before Goldman Sachs, Ms. Lehmler-Brown worked as an analyst with Morgan Stanley. Ms. Lehmler-Brown holds an MSc in Business Administration from Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden and Hochschule St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Denise joined Unquote in June 2016 to spearhead our GP and LP profiling effort. She now focusses predominantly on the secondaries market and features. She is a seasoned moderator at Acuris events and a regular Unquote podcast guest and interviewer. Prior to this, she spent almost nine years at Unquote’s sister publication Debtwire as Mid-Market Editor setting up the product in 2012 after five years covering leveraged loans and the restructuring market. Denise graduated from Edinburgh University with a degree in History and also has a master's from the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Anne co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997 with Hermann Hauser. Building on her scientific training and operating experience, Anne has been an active venture capitalist for over thirty years.
Early in her career Anne lived in the US, working in manufacturing with Cummins Engine Company and in strategy consulting with Bain & Co, before returning to the UK to join Apax Partners in 1989 to invest in early stage companies. She became Chief Operating Officer of one of her investee companies, Virtuality Group, after it listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1993, and then returned to investing as a business angel before founding Amadeus in 1997.
A former Chairman of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (2004/05) and Invest Europe (formerly EVCA) (2014/15). Anne was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Court of the Bank of England in 2018 and in 2019 became a member of the Investment Committee of Yale Corporation, which is responsible for oversight of the Yale University Endowment.
Anne holds an MA in Metallurgy & Materials Science from Clare College, Cambridge, and a Masters in Public and Private Management from Yale School of Management. She was awarded a CBE in 2006 for services to business and is an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Her past successes at Amadeus include Optos (OPTS:LN).
Greg Gille joined Unquote in 2010 as a reporter, initially focusing on the French private equity market. He was promoted to senior reporter and then news editor, before becoming deputy editor in 2013 and online editor a year later. He is currently editor, overseeing editorial content in print and online.
Greg graduated from Sciences Po Paris with a Master's degree in media management in 2009. He started his career in Paris before moving to London in 2010.
Ilya Gertsberg is Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer at Apolis S.A.M. Based in Monaco, Apolis is a single family office whose main focus is private credit. Ilya was previously Director at Millennium Group AG (a family office with over $10bn at its peak), where he was responsible for public, private and fund investments globally, with a particular emphasis on yield generation. Ilya also held investment positions at the Russian sovereign wealth fund (RDIF), Moon Capital Management, Paladin Capital Group and D.E. Shaw. He started his career as an investment banking analyst at Lazard in New York. Ilya studied Economics and Mathematics at Columbia College, Columbia University and Finance at the MBA Program of University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School.
Meiping is a Director within the Stonehage Fleming Private Capital team and is responsible for selecting private equity fund investments, portfolio construction and liquidity management. Headquartered in London, Stonehage Fleming is an international multi-family office with over $55bn of assets under management and advisory. Prior to Stonehage Fleming, Meiping previously worked for the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and HarbourVest Partners in London. She graduated from the London School of Economics with a first class honours degree in Accounting and Finance.
With 13 years of private equity and leveraged finance experience, Mariana leads a team of eight primary reporters focusing on breaking news across the European leveraged loan, high yield and direct lending space. Mariana and her team uncover upcoming LBOs/debt issuers, underperforming credits and trade ideas, and produce analytical articles on company earnings, new issuance and market trends.
Before joining Debtwire, Mariana was assistant editor and reporter at Mergermarket, covering M&A in the TMT sector with a strong focus on private equity. She started her journalism career at the Evening Standard as part of a journalism award and holds a first class BA (Honours) degree in journalism from University of the Arts London.
Alessandro is Senior Portfolio Manager of RiverRock’s Brownfield Infrastructure Fund I, a core fund which invests primarily in PPP concessions in Europe; he sits on the board of the hospital of Vigo, which is one of the assets in the current portfolio.
Alessandro has over 20 years’ experience, he started his career in PricewaterhouseCoopers before moving to Merrill Lynch and award-winning hedge fund Chenavari; he has been with RiverRock since 2013 initially as Head of Sales and Investor Relations.
Alessandro holds a BA in Business Administration from LIUC University and an MBA from London Business School.
Denise joined Unquote in June 2016 to spearhead our GP and LP profiling effort. She now focusses predominantly on the secondaries market and features. She is a seasoned moderator at Acuris events and a regular Unquote podcast guest and interviewer. Prior to this, she spent almost nine years at Unquote’s sister publication Debtwire as Mid-Market Editor setting up the product in 2012 after five years covering leveraged loans and the restructuring market. Denise graduated from Edinburgh University with a degree in History and also has a master's from the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Pierre joined Amadeus Capital Partners in 2012 and leads early stage Health & Bio investments at Amadeus. He is on the boards of Inotec, Ori Biotech, Doctify, Congenica, PhoreMost, Quibim and oversees our investments in Lumeon and Organox.
Pierre brings operational experience to these investments, having managed the growth of several life science businesses in Asia and Europe. During a decade at biotech company Avesthagen, he guided the group’s strategy and European activities, contributing to acquisitions, joint ventures and exits.
Pierre is French and holds an MSc in Environmental Economics (Hons.-SciencesEco) from Université de Provence, France and a BSc in Finance (Math Spe.-SciencesEco) from Université Louis Pasteur, France. He has attended executive programs at Harvard, MIT and Stanford.
Pierre speaks French and English.
Dr. Sarper H. Tanli has a long and successful career in healthcare, having begun as a physician in Istanbul in 1990 and subsequently earned a distinguished reputation as an expert in the field of healthcare planning and development.
He brings an outstanding track record in medical and healthcare management and operations across the United States, Turkey and latterly Dubai as both Director of Harvard Medical International and Vice President of Houston Methodist Global Health Care Services.
He was one of the leading executives establishing Dubai Health Care City and multiple outpatient centers in Dubai and various greenfield healthcare development projects in the Middle East and Turkey. He had created multiple clinical and academic collaborations between major medical institutions.
Previously, he has launched and grown a home care company employing 200 nurses in Turkey. He has acted as a trusted advisor to the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee to Manzil since 2013. He led Manzil healthcare Services as Group CEO and grew the company to more than 500 employees, active in three countries until early 2020. He holds a PhD and master in healthcare in addition to his medical degree.
Don McCombie is a senior associate in our intellectual property practice
Don has handled a broad range of IP and technology-related disputes and transactions for clients in the life sciences, electronics, software, oil & gas, financial services and fast-moving consumer goods sectors.
Don has advised on IP and commercial disputes in the English Courts, the European Patent Office, the UK and EU Intellectual Property Offices, and the LCIA, often in parallel with proceedings in other jurisdictions.
Don regularly deals with the commercial exploitation of IP rights, with particular experience in licensing deals involving technical subject matter, as well as advising on the IP aspects of corporate transactions.
Pooja has had an accomplished 15-year portfolio career in healthcare. She’s a practising General Practitioner in London and has previously taken roles in general practice turnaround, NHS commissioning and as a clinical advisor, alongside setting up a patient-facing healthcare business which was acquired 6 years later. Over the last five years Pooja has worked as a management consultant in EY’s healthcare practice, working with a breadth of clients across the NHS system, from hospitals and GP surgeries to national bodies and regulators. She developed some of the national guidance on delivering population health systems, being rolled out across the NHS today, whilst on secondment to NHS England.
Looking for a more entrepreneurial experience, Pooja helped set up the EY Ventures practice. She looked after a portfolio of health and social care ventures and developed corporate alliances. Through this she helped to coach founding teams, support disruptive business models and herself worked in a joint venture start up launching a workforce matching App in secondary care for nurses and doctors, taking on an array of scale-up activities. Pooja is also a Director of a family business launching primary care and wider health services in India. She advises on clinical and digital services strategy. A decade ago Pooja fostered her interest in health tech, knowing that over time it would become the bedrock of how patients all over the world would access and experience care. She has an MBA from Imperial Business School London specialising in digital health, gaining a research interest in the adoption challenges of health technologies in the UK.
She is known for her energy, optimism and self-starting nature and throughout her career has struck the balance between clinical expertise, commercial acumen and business creativity.
Denise joined Unquote in June 2016 to spearhead our GP and LP profiling effort. She now focusses predominantly on the secondaries market and features. She is a seasoned moderator at Acuris events and a regular Unquote podcast guest and interviewer. Prior to this, she spent almost nine years at Unquote’s sister publication Debtwire as Mid-Market Editor setting up the product in 2012 after five years covering leveraged loans and the restructuring market. Denise graduated from Edinburgh University with a degree in History and also has a master's from the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Colin Mayer CBE is the Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at Saïd Business School, and the former Peter Moores Dean of the School between 2006 and 2011. He is an expert on all aspects of corporate finance, governance and taxation, the regulation of financial institutions and the role of the corporation in contemporary society. He teaches the elective course on Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructurings on the MBA and the Masters in Financial Economics, the core programme on Responsible Business for MBA students, an elective on the Nature of the Corporation for MBA and Masters in Financial Economics students, and the Principles of Financial Regulation on the Masters in Law and Finance.
Colin studied as an undergraduate at Oriel College, Oxford, and received his DPhil from Oxford University in 1981. He was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University, a Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England, the first Leo Goldschmidt Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance at the Solvay Business School, Université de Bruxelles, and has had visiting positions at Columbia, MIT and Stanford universities. In 1994, Colin became the first professor at Saïd Business School, and was appointed the Peter Moores Dean of the Business School between 2006 and 2011. He was the first Director of the Oxford Financial Research Centre at the University of Oxford between 1998 and 2005.
Colin has served on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals and assisted in establishing prestigious networks of economics, law and finance academics in Europe at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the European Corporate Governance Institute. He was a founding editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and a founding co-editor of the Review of Finance.
Colin was a director and chairman of Oxera between 1986 and 2010, and was instrumental in building the firm into what is now one of the largest independent economics consultancies in Europe. He is a director of Aurora Energy Research Limited, an energy modelling company. He has consulted for numerous large corporations and for governments, regulators and international agencies around the world.
Colin is an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and St Anne’s College, Oxford, and he is a Professorial Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He is an Ordinary Member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal and a Trustee of the Oxford Playhouse.
An award-winning corporate advisor, investor and dealmaker for technology ventures and investors, Spyro has been instrumental in the impressive growth of consumer internet companies such as Delivery Hero and various Rocket Internet-backed businesses. He is the founder of technology and investment advisory firm, Global Venture Partners, having advised on deals and investments globally.
Kay-Mok Ku is Managing Partner for Gobi Partners. He joined Gobi in 2010 and has invested in over 30 companies, including Aptoide, Carsome, Deliveree, Eko, Superatom and Travelio. Prior to his career with Gobi Partners, Mok held the Vice President position in both Xinya Media and MediaCorp (Singapore). He was also part of the team that managed a $500 million fund at the Media Development Authority in Singapore, and is co-founder of Private Express, a cybersecurity startup based in Silicon Valley. He started his career with the Infocomm Development Authority, and has a Computer Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from San Jose State University.
Ravi Thakran has been working in various leading positions at the Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessey Group (LVMH) since 2001. He has been the Group Chairman of LVMH South Asia & Southeast Asia, Australia and Middle East from 2007. LVMH is the world’s largest luxury goods company with over USD 200 Billion in market capitalization, USD 50 Billion in revenue and USD 7 Billion in profit. The group owns over 70 world famous brands including Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Fendi, Tag Heuer, Hublot, DFS, Sephora, Moët & Chandon, Dom Perignon and others.
Ravi Thakran is also the founder of L Capital Asia. From its foundation in 2010 the fund has invested USD 4 Billion in 32 companies across Asia Pacific; including leading companies like Charles & Keith, Gentle Monster, Bateel, YG Entertainment, R. M. William, Owndays Japan, Will’s Fitness China, FabIndia and PVR. 5 of L Capital's investment grossed USD 1 Billion in revenue and its maiden investment in China, Guangdong Marubi, is now listed in Shanghai Stock Exchange with market cap of over USD 4.5 Billion.
Prior to his time in LVMH, he had held senior management positions at the Swatch Group, Nike and the Tata Group. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Katharine joined Unquote as a reporter in January 2019, covering the DACH market (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) and has since progressed to cover the UK & Ireland, acting as the region's dedicated reporter. She also leads the Unquote Private Equity Podcast.
She graduated from Durham University with a law degree in 2016 and started her career in the sales department of an NYSE-listed IT services provider.
Denise joined Unquote in June 2016 to spearhead our GP and LP profiling effort. She now focusses predominantly on the secondaries market and features. She is a seasoned moderator at Acuris events and a regular Unquote podcast guest and interviewer. Prior to this, she spent almost nine years at Unquote’s sister publication Debtwire as Mid-Market Editor setting up the product in 2012 after five years covering leveraged loans and the restructuring market. Denise graduated from Edinburgh University with a degree in History and also has a master's from the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Conor O’Sullivan is a Vice President at Paladin Capital Group and a member of Paladin’s investment team in Europe. His primary responsibilities include identifying, assessing and executing on compelling investment targets. Prior to joining Paladin, Conor was Investment Manager at Seraphim Capital focused on Seraphim’s $90m Space Fund, investing in deep tech early-stage start-ups in the space sector. Before Seraphim, Conor worked with close to 100 start-ups during his time as Head of Business Strategy at the Satellite Applications Catapult, a technology and innovation company set-up by the UK Government to drive economic growth through the development of satellite applications. Conor also spent five years in sales, trading and operations roles at two global investment banks prior to his post-graduate studies. Conor holds a First Class Honours degree in Business and Economics from the University of Dublin, Trinity College and an MBA from the University of Oxford. He also holds a private pilot’s license, flying single and multi-engine aircraft in the US and Europe.
Bernard joined Balderton as a Partner in 2008. He was named Managing Partner in 2016. Bernard Liautaud founded Business Objects in 1990 and was CEO for 15 years then Chairman until January 2008. With 6,700 employees, 45,000 customers and $1.5 billion of revenue in 2007, Business Objects was the world leader in Business Intelligence and one of the 15 largest software companies in the world. Business Objects was the first European software IPO on Nasdaq in 1994.
In January 2008, Business Objects was acquired by SAP for $6.8 billion, making it the third largest software acquisition at the time. Bernard is now a member of the Supervisory Board of SAP. He also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University from 2013 to 2018. He is now a member of the Stanford Global Advisory Council to the President.
In 2009, he co-founded Dashlane, a leading software company providing digital identity solutions for consumers and small businesses.
He has received a number of distinctions including "Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur" in 2007 in France, Time Magazine Europe's Digital Top 25 and BusinessWeek Stars of Europe of 2002, Top 10 CEOs in North America by Chief Executive Magazine in 2001.
Education: Diplôme d'Ingénieur, Ecole Centrale de Paris, and Master of Science, Engineering Management, Stanford University.
Thomas Kristensen (Danish) is a Principal at LGT Capital Partners Ltd. Prior to joining the firm in 2004, Mr. Kristensen worked two years for the investment bank Lazard in the M&A division of the London office. Prior to that, he completed his MSc in Finance from Cass Business School in London. He also holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Copenhagen. During his studies he worked part time for Danske Bank in the Economics Department and the Capital Markets Department for two years. Mr. Kristensen is fluent in English, Danish and French and conversant in German.
Lindsay concentrates on originating, valuing and managing primary fund commitments and direct co-investment opportunities for the Industry Ventures Tech Buyout team. She serves on the investment committee for the Industry Ventures Tech Buyout Fund and is actively involved in helping to enable successful exit scenarios in older venture-funded technology companies. Lindsay also brings four years of experience as part of the secondary team, purchasing secondary direct investments and limited partner interests, and assists in valuing companies.
Prior to joining Industry Ventures, Lindsay was a Principal in corporate strategy and development at Intuit, leading merger and acquisition activities for the company. Prior to Intuit, Lindsay developed tech buyout and investment banking industry expertise with Great Hill Partners and Bear Stearns.
Lindsay received her MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in business administration in finance and accounting from Indiana University.
Denise joined Unquote in June 2016 to spearhead our GP and LP profiling effort. She now focusses predominantly on the secondaries market and features. She is a seasoned moderator at Acuris events and a regular Unquote podcast guest and interviewer. Prior to this, she spent almost nine years at Unquote’s sister publication Debtwire as Mid-Market Editor setting up the product in 2012 after five years covering leveraged loans and the restructuring market. Denise graduated from Edinburgh University with a degree in History and also has a master's from the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Aaron is the impact investment analyst at the Church Commissioners for England, the £8.7bn endowment fund of the Church of England. Aaron’s responsibilities include portfolio impact measurement and management, GHG emissions analysis and sourcing new impact investment opportunities. Prior to the Commissioners, Aaron was an investment consultant at PwC, developing a specific focus on sustainable and impact investment following backing from the firm’s internal innovation incubator.
Nicolas is co-founder and Managing Partner of TiLT Capital Partners. He was most recently SVP in charge of Mergers & Acquisitions for Engie, a Paris based energy company employing over 150 000 people across 70 countries. He’s been working in the field of energy and project development / M&A for the last 13 years, after 5 years in HR working on social sustainability. He is also a First Mover Fellow of the Aspen Institute.
He enjoys structuring the small 200 kUSD access to energy projects in Africa as much as the multi-billion power or oil & gas deals in the US or Russia. Currently based in Paris, Nicolas lived in Brussels and Rome and spent a lot of time on transactions in the US, China, Russia, South-East Asia and South America. Sustainability and ethics have been at the core of his motivation, fueled by his graduation in Philosophy and Political Sciences and translated into a PhD in Economics on this topic, earned magna cum laude from Paris-Dauphine university.
Annachiara Marcandalli a Managing Director at global investment firm Cambridge Associates. She joined the firm in 2000, and throughout her time has worked with the key decision makers of a variety of institutional investors on critical strategic investment issues such as asset allocation strategy, manager selection, and impact integration. Annachiara is part of Cambridge’s Sustainable and Impact Investment Group and is the lead investor for a number of institutions that are actively integrating ESG criteria into their portfolios.
Ali joined Campbell Lutyens in 2016 and is a member of the fund placement team, with a focus on business development.
Prior to joining Campbell Lutyens, Ali worked in the M&A advisory division at J.P. Morgan and served in the British Army. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Classics and Philosophy from Trinity College, Dublin
Greg Gille joined Unquote in 2010 as a reporter, initially focusing on the French private equity market. He was promoted to senior reporter and then news editor, before becoming deputy editor in 2013 and online editor a year later. He is currently editor, overseeing editorial content in print and online.
Greg graduated from Sciences Po Paris with a Master's degree in media management in 2009. He started his career in Paris before moving to London in 2010.
Mark was founder of the merchant banking group Maizels Westerberg and has since founded a number of businesses in the technology, advisory, financial services and investment sectors. He was Managing Director of the private equity firm Doughty Hanson, Chair of LM Glasfiber (the global renewable energy group) and started the African venture capital firm 8 Miles LLP with Bob Geldof. He has been active in policy ideas and campaigns related to social mobility and poverty fighting in the UK and across the world. He co-founded the Centre for Social Justice, the Early Intervention Foundation and B Labs (UK). In March 2015, he was appointed to the Board of the BBC Trust, and was the Trustee for England for two years. Mark was a member of the G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force in 2014, and was appointed to the Triennial Review of the Big Lottery Fund by the UK Cabinet Office in the same year.
Mark is a leading authority on some of the world’s most entrenched socio-economic challenges, speaking widely on reforms that must be made to drive improved governance and productivity, and always championing the power and social impact of good business. He is the author of the External Rate of Return with the London School of Economics. He was appointed as a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs, London School of Economics & Political Science in November 2016 and a Visiting Professor at the Policy institute, Kings College London in January 2017
Current roles include:
Hon President, B Corp (UK) Ltd Life Ambassador, The Centre for Social Justice Chair of Patrons & Ambassadors, Build Africa Trustee, The Commonwealth Education Trust International Advisory Committee, The Paleo-Anthropology Scientific Trust Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE IGA Visiting Professor Policy Institute, King’s College London