Fabrizio Bocciardi is Head of Credit Investments at Mubadala, the sovereign investment company of the government of Abu Dhabi. He joined Mubadala in 2009 and he is responsible to invest in credit opportunities, currently managing a portfolio of over $13bn of private debt opportunities across US, Europe and Asia. Fabrizio is an investment committee member of Mubadala Diversified Investment platform and board member of Mubadala’s investment companies in Luxembourg and Singapore.
After 13 years in Abu Dhabi, he moved to London in 2021 as Mubadala opened a new office. Fabrizio structured and implemented the credit investment strategy for Mubadala and is leading a team of credit investment professionals to support the growth of credit portfolio in private debt opportunities.
He has more than twenty-five years of credit experience across a variety of transactions in leveraged loans, distressed debt, real estate and asset-based financing. Before joining Mubadala, he worked at Merrill Lynch in Distressed Debt and Restructuring in London. Fabrizio joined Merrill Lynch from Credit Suisse, where he was a Vice President in the European Financial Sponsors Group. He started his professional career at Citibank working as a credit analyst. Fabrizio graduated cum laude at Universitá Commerciale “Luigi Bocconi” in Milan (Italy) with a major in Corporate Finance.

Sally Chen is currently IMF’s Resident Representative for Hong Kong SAR. In this capacity, Sally coordinates the Funds’ outreach efforts in the Greater China region by engaging with country authorities, international organizations, academia, think tanks, media and market participants. Additionally, Sally heads the Hong Kong office’s research efforts on financial market developments across Asia Pacific, including China, Japan, Hong Kong SAR, Korea, ASEAN and India. Before her current role, Sally was the Regional Advisor for Asia for the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) from 2020-2024 where she helped craft the Bank's research priorities, including initiatives on fintech, CBDC in Asia and the evolution of global value chains. Sally is a graduate of Wellesley College and Columbia University. Her research focuses on macro-financial linkages, including global liquidity, financial cycles, and the evolution of GVCs.

David Chua is an experienced CIO with extensive track record on buy- and sell-sides. His core expertise lie in Asset Allocation, Portfolio Management, ALM and Derivative Hedging. A CFA charterholder since 2006, he holds a clear grasp of macro trends and proven delivery of investment performances for financial institutions and insurers alike.

For over 2 decades, he delivers in both strategic and execution roles - building investment teams and developing operating models, implementing total return mandates, matching liability-driven portfolios.

With effective stakeholder management and people skills, he is frequently entrusted by CEOs and Board as a strategic thought partner, business change leader and sounding board on business deliberations.

Having lived and worked in financial hubs of New York, London and Singapore, he speaks regularly at investment and insurance forums. David is passionate about purpose-led organisations and people development to harness potential in others. His professional and personal networks are connected and built to help do that.

He looks forward to connecting with like-minded partners and high performing talents who are looking to transform the investment models for institutional asset owners.

Brendan has over 10 years of credit experience within the broader financial services industry. He works closely with Rede’s private credit LPs and GPs on both coverage and origination. Brendan covers a broad range of private credit funds in Europe and the US from high octane special situations, specialty finance to performing senior secured direct lenders. He has a background in Debt Capital Markets, Derivatives and Underwriting. Brendan holds a BA in Finance with a Specialisation in Alternative Assets at Southern Methodist University.

Christophe Fritsch is Global Head of Alternative Credit and a member of the AXA IM Alts Management Board. As head of the Alternative Credit business, he oversees the Portfolio Management of a performing and diversified range of alternative assets, covering the entire risk/return spectrum. This includes Leverages Loans and Private Debt, CLOs, Asset-Backed Securities, Bank Capital Solutions & Specialty Finance, Insurance Linked Securities, Mort-gages, among others.

Before this role, Christophe was Head of Fund Management at AXA IM Alts’ Structured Finance Department. Chris-tophe had been in this role since 2014. He was one of the founding members who contributed to the development of the Structured Finance platform (renamed Alternative Credit platform in 2022).

Christophe joined AXA IM in 2000 working in Actuarial and Financial Engineering. In 2003, he joined the Struc-tured Finance division, undertaking various roles in structuring, portfolio management, development, and negotia-tion of structured products.

He graduated from ENSAE with a major in Stochastic Modelling, Statistics, Finance and Actuarial Science. He is a qualified actuary from IAF, the French Institute of Actuarial Science, and holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Suzanne Gaboury, Director General for ADB's Private Sector Operations Department, leads ADB’s private sector investment across the spectrums (equity, debt, guarantees, co-financing, etc.) in various sectors including in infrastructure, financial institutions including funds, trade and supply chain finance, microfinance, agribusiness, healthcare, and education in Asia and the Pacific.

Ms. Gaboury has more than 28 years of professional experience in private sector finance and emerging markets with extensive international networks and stakeholder relationships. She has driven total project investment value in excess of US$ 35 billion including transformational climate action projects in infrastructure, renewable energy, agribusiness value chain including forestry, and financial institutions sectors.

Suzanne has direct experience in more than 70 countries, including some 40 emerging economies.

Christopher Ganis is a Managing Director of Hybrid Capital Solutions at INA, bringing a wealth of experience in finance with a deep focus on private credit and equity in Southeast Asia. Before joining INA, he spent seven years at BlackRock, and led its private credit investments Southeast Asia, focusing in Indonesia.

Previously, Chris served as a Partner at Asia Summit Capital and as a Vice President at Indies Capital, Indonesia focused private equity and credit funds; where he led origination and execution of private transactions across various sectors in Indonesia.

Chris started his career at Salomon Smith Barney and subsequently held numerous roles at Citi’s Corporate and Investment Bank, including Asia Credit Trading and Mergers & Acquisitions. He earned an MBA with Honors from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from The Ohio State University.

You-Ha Hyun leads the private debt program at Perpetual Investors GmbH, a German professional single family office. In this role, he is mainly responsible for managing the private debt portfolio and focuses on manager selection across the broad spectrum of the private debt universe. You-Ha has more than 12 years of experience in the alternative investment segment having done primary, secondary and co-investments at large institutional organizations such as an insurance company, a public organization and a fund-of-fund. You-Ha began his career in the M&A advisory business at KPMG and is an economist by training.

Rachel Kim is an alternative and equity portfolio manager at AIA Life Insurance. Previously, she managed retirement pensions for firefighters at the Korean Fire Officials Credit Union. Before that, she had experience investing in a variety of onshore and offshore assets at Lotte Insurance company. She earned a BA degree in economics from Ewha Womans University and a MA degree in economics from Yonsei University. Currently, she is pursuing a Ph.D. in finance at Sungkyunkwan University's School of Business. She holds a CFA ESG certification.

Samantha Kong is a Senior Investment Director at Cambridge Associates.

Based in the Singapore office, she works with institutional and private clients to build, implement, and manage customized private investments portfolios, as well as contribute to the firm’s private investments manager research.

Samantha worked in Cambridge Associates’ Singapore office between 2013 and 2017 and re-joined the firm in 2022. Prior to re-joining, she was Director of Private Markets and Alternatives at Bank of Singapore, where she was responsible for the origination, due diligence, and structuring of investments across private credit, venture/growth capital, private equity, and real assets. She also served as the Specialist Advisor for private market investments to clients, introducing new investment ideas as well as advising on portfolio construction and providing post-investment monitoring.

Samantha received her Bachelor of Science (Economics) and Bachelor of Business Management (Finance), summa cum laude, from Singapore Management University.

Mr. Körzendörfer is a member of the corporate private debt research team, focusing on direct lending strategies in the US and Europe.

Prior to StepStone, Mr. Körzendörfer was with PwC’s M&A department in Zurich where he focused on financial institutions.

Mr. Körzendörfer holds a BSc in economics from LMU Munich and is a CFA® charterholder.

Clifford is the Global Head of Investment Banking at DBS Bank, where he is responsible for the bank’s fixed income, equity capital markets and Vickers institutional equity brokerage businesses. This includes enhancing the unit’s existing deal execution capabilities and driving synergies across businesses to provide clients a more comprehensive solution-based approach that meets complex corporate finance and investment needs. He leads a team of over 200 capital market specialists in the areas of origination, syndicate, structured products, sales, credit and ESG advisory, with operations in leading financial hubs including Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, London and New York.

Clifford also sits on the investment committee of Muzinich Asia Pacific (APAC) Private Debt 1 – an Asia-focused private credit fund that counts DBS as an anchor investor – as one of the bank’s initiatives to establish its presence in Asia’s rapidly growing private markets.

An Asian banking veteran with more than three decades of experience, Clifford joined DBS in 2004, where he went on to establish the bank as the only Asia-headquartered bond house operating across Asia in both G3 and select domestic currencies, with proven product competencies spanning straight bonds, perpetual bonds, convertible bonds and structured debt securities. Prior to DBS, he assumed senior positions in global institutions such as West Merchant/WestLB and BankBoston/FleetBoston to head regional syndicate, origination, structured finance and sales functions. Before those, he was the Global Head of Syndicate at Peregrine Fixed Income in 1995. Clifford started his career as a corporate banker with Citibank in 1991.

A believer of making capital markets more efficient and accessible through digitalisation, Clifford has led the launch of digital bond platforms such as the award-winning FIX Marketplace. He is also focused on making sustainable financing real and relevant in Asia, both in his capacity as a board member of DBS Foundation and as an investment committee member of the Asia Impact First Fund.

In recognition of his leadership and contributions to the financial industry – including supporting the development of Singapore’s capital markets and finance professionals through his active involvement in the Institute of Banking and Finance Singapore’s (IBF) Capital Markets and Financial Markets Industry Workgroup – Clifford was conferred the title of "IBF Distinguished Fellow" in October 2022.

Sean Low is the founding CEO and Chief Investment Officer for Golden Vision Capital (Singapore), a new Single Family Office set up in Aug 2021 to make PE and VC direct investments in Southeast Asia, leveraging on the family and team’s strong business connections in the region. It also invests in leading PE Funds, and co-invests alongside them. Sean is an industry veteran with 25 years of deal sourcing, investment and business development experience, including 17 years in the PE & Infrastructure department of GIC, Singapore's SWF, where he helps to oversee GIC's PE, Infra, Private Debt & VC investments in US, Europe and Asia at different times, and help led some of GIC’s landmark deals. He played a leading role in expanding GIC’s private debt program, and last served as an active member in GIC Credit Business group which help review GIC’s overall credit investment strategy across public and private markets. From Jun 2022-Jun2023, Sean also acted as senior advisor to Yangzijiang Financial Holdings Limited (ww.YZJFIN.com), an investment management Firm listed on SGX in Apr 2023 with NAV in excess S$4b. He advised the firm on the construction and fund selection for its inaugural international PE and Private Credit fund of funds program, as well as its international private debt deal selection and risk management best practices.

Sean began his career in Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), after he was awarded the EDB Scholarship in 1993. He served first as Assistant Head of InfoComms & Media group, and then as Director of Chicago Centre. Sean currently chairs the Investment Committee at CFA Singapore, and was elected the Treasurer of Singapore's VC & PE Association in 2021. He graduated from Trinity College, University of Cambridge with BA (1st Class Honours), MA and M Eng. (Honours). He completed National Service in Singapore as a commander of a Brigade Reconnaissance Team in the Singapore Army.

Endue, a Singapore based boutique advisory firm, specialises in enabling cross border partnerships between global institutional capital and quality investment solutions in Asia, across asset classes. Having spent time in the U.S. & Asia and interfaced with large allocators through market cycles, Karun lends a context and world view that has helped build notable partnerships over the years between Asian solutions and institutions in North America, Europe, Japan & the Middle East, at scale. He is responsible for laying the overall direction at the firm and anchoring its key relationships.

Prior to founding Endue in 2020, Karun spent his career at the ICICI Group, a part of Prudential U.K. and the JV partner of Eastspring Investments Asia, where he last served as the head of its international business.

Karun received his Masters from the New York University and holds a Masters in Business Administration from TAPMI in Manipal.

Dominic joined Aument Capital Partners in 2023 to lead the Private Markets activities of the Singapore-based, entrepreneur-focused Multi-Family Office. With over 20 years of investment banking experience, he has expertise in leveraged finance, DCM, advisory, private equity, and private debt. His track record spans various industries, covering transactions with large-cap corporations, SMEs, and start-ups, with a focus on emerging markets and cross-border deals.

Previously, Dominic oversaw UniCredit Group’s financing and advisory activities across Central Eastern Europe and the Asia Pacific region, serving as Investment Committee Chairman and a member of the bank’s Global Executive Committee.

Having worked in financial hubs such as the UK, Germany, Italy, the US, and Singapore, Dominic brings a global perspective and specializes in managing complex investment mandates for HNWIs and institutional clients.

Johannes Raschke, CFA, is a Singapore-based Senior Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). He leads investments in the East Asia & Pacific (EAP) region for IFC’s Distressed Asset Recovery Program (DARP). With over 20 years of experience in corporate finance and alternative investments, including distressed assets, non-performing loans (NPL), private equity, and private credit, Johannes brings deep expertise in managing complex financial structures. His work focuses on driving sustainable solutions for distressed assets, contributing to financial resilience and recovery in emerging markets across the EAP region.

Andy has been with PEI Group since 2003, working on a number of titles including as Editor of Private Equity International and Senior Editor of Infrastructure Investor. Since H2 2015, he took over responsibility for Real Estate Capital and, in the first half of 2016, became Editor of Private Debt Investor. He is a regular writer for the magazines and websites and has also often contributed to our events as a panel moderator. Prior to joining PEI, Andy had senior roles at venture capital portal Venturedome.com and at Thomson Financial. Andy was voted State Street’s Alternatives Journalist of the Year in 2022.

James has been with the Future Fund since 2009 and currently heads the Credit team, which invests across a broad range of global fixed income and credit-focused mandates across each of the funds managed by the Agency. These include liquid and illiquid investments across a broad spectrum of geographies and risk types. In his time at the Agency James has also been responsible for management of cash and hedge fund investments. Prior to joining the Future Fund, James was an Analyst in the Equity Capital Markets team at Macquarie Capital, advising on a number of equity and hybrid mandates. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Information Systems from the University of Melbourne and is a CFA charterholder.

Veiverne is an experienced investment manager whose experience spans institutional asset management, private equity, venture capital, and mergers & acquisitions. Prior to BPP, he has held roles at tryb Group, GIC Pte Ltd, Rabobank, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He holds a MSc in Applied Finance from SMU, and a MEng in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Bristol

Roger is an experienced portfolio manager, He has over a decade of experience managing money for both UHNWI and institutions. From 2011-2013, he was a quantitative analyst with Hong Leong Asset Management. From 2013-2019, he was a portfolio manager with Pheim Asset Management (Asia). From 2019-2022, he was working for a single family office as the CEO. Since 2022, he has been the CEO of Winfield Global Capital, which is a multi family office. Roger holds both B.Eng and Ph.D from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, He is also a CFA chartered holder.

Mark joined VFMC in 2018 and is Head of Investment Risk and Absolute Returns. His Absolute Returns role involves leading the team which covers Hedge Funds and Private Credit (circa 20% of VFMC’s FUM). His risk role encompasses total portfolio risk analysis, SAA and ALM modelling and defensive overlays. Mark is a member of the Investment Leadership Team and Investment Committee. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Quantitative Finance and Investment Strategies at Monash University.
Prior to working at VFMC, Mark was global Head of FICC Structuring at the National Australia Bank from 2010 to 2017, where he built a leading institutional derivatives structuring and sales business in Australia and the UK. Mark also spent four years in London with NAB working in both market risk and in front office on a rates trading desk.
Mark holds Bachelor degrees in Law and Science (both with Honours) from Monash University and a PhD in Mathematics jointly from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Mark is also the co-author of a book on securitisation swaps which was published by Wiley Finance in 2019 and has published several finance papers.

Anthony is Chief Executive Officer of Isola Capital. He has extensive experience in asset management across private equity, venture capital, private credit and liquid secondary strategies. Anthony enjoyed a career in investment banking before transitioning to private investments and family office wealth management.

Anthony atained a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance and Economics) from The University of Sydney and Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from The University of Sydney Law School. He is a graduate of The College of Law (Sydney). He has completed the Financial Engineering Program of Stanford University and atended the Stanford Executive Insitute.

Anthony is a member of the HK Trade Development Council Innovation and Technology Advisory Commitee, Co-Chair of Cyberport Investors Network Growth Portfolio Sub-Commitee, a member of PBEC, an ordinary member of the Hong Kong Market Misconduct Tribunal, and sits on various commitees of HKGCC and HKVCA.

Ray King is Managing Director of Sovereign Investment Research, a specialist alternatives investment advisory firm which he founded in 2000. Ray’s role includes providing specialist investment advice and management consulting advice to institutional investors and investment managers on alternative asset classes and investments.
Ray has worked in the superannuation and investments industry for more than 35 years. During that period, Ray established his credentials as one of Australia’s prominent asset consultants, joining Towers Perrin in 1990 where he was Manager, Asset Consulting. In 1994 he joined Gary Weaven to set up Industry Fund Services (IFS). As Head of Wholesale Business at IFS, Ray was responsible for the development of its asset consulting (subsequently becoming Frontier Consulting) and its funds management (IFM Investors) businesses. Ray was also a Partner of Mercer heading their Global Alternatives Boutique in APAC from 2012 to 2015.
Ray is today recognised as having been a leading adviser on alternative assets in Australia, having worked with a number of superannuation funds since the mid-1990s to establish some of the largest alternatives investment programs in Australia. Ray began his career at BHP in 1974 and his previous work experience also includes being Chief Economist for a major public authority.
He was the founding Chairperson of the Australian Chapter of the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) in 2000 and is a life member. Ray is a graduate of Monash University with an Honours Degree in Economics.

Elizabeth is Head of Private Corporate Assets for Australian Retirement Trust, coming from her role as Head of Funds Management for QSuper Group. Elizabeth is responsible for managing the strategy and implementation of the private equity, private credit and alternative strategy asset classes. Responsibilities include portfolio construction, investment research and selection, and the investment in and ongoing management of direct, co-investment and fund assets in Australia and offshore.

Elizabeth has over 25 years experience in investment management and financial markets. She was appointed Head of Funds Management, QSuper in September 2019 and was responsible for managing QSuper's investments with external service providers, implementing investment policy decisions and structuring potential investments to benefit members across all asset classes, including private equity, private credit, infrastructure, real estate, alternative assets and public markets. Prior to her role as the Head of Funds Management, Elizabeth was a Senior Portfolio Manager in the team and was one of the founding QSuper investment team members, joining in May 2009 when QSuper internalised the investment function. Before joining QSuper, she worked for institutional fund manager QIC, where she served as senior portfolio manager of international equities, and senior portfolio manager of alpha investments. Elizabeth previously worked with the Australian Stock Exchange as a financial analyst and at Bankers Trust as an equity derivatives trader.

Elizabeth is a member of Chief Executive Women and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mathematics from the Queensland University of Technology and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia. She has been an independent investment expert member of the Queensland University of Technology Investment and Borrowings Committee.

Sabita is a Managing Director and a member of the Asia-Pacific direct lending team, a member of the Executive Committee and chair of the Investment Advisory Committee. Prior to joining ADM Capital, Sabita was the Head of the Asian Fixed Income team at Fidelity Worldwide Investment. Sabita began her career in fixed income in 1993 when she joined CRISIL India as a rating analyst. In 1998, Sabita moved to Hong Kong and worked with Standard & Poor’s Rating Agency, JP Morgan Securities and HSBC in Hong Kong on the credit research side before joining Fidelity. Sabita holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Telecomm from Bangalore University, India. Sabita also holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

Andrew runs Muzinich & Co.’s Asia Pacific business and has 20 years of experience in Financial Markets with a specialization in Asia Pacific having set up and run businesses covering Private and Public Debt, Syndicated Loans, Special Situations and Distressed Debt in the region. In 2020, Andrew established Muzinich & Co.’s Private Debt business in Asia Pacific and is an investment committee member on the firm’s first Asia Pacific Private Debt Fund.

Prior to joining Muzinich & Co., Andrew was Head of Global Loans and Special Situations, Asia Pacific at HSBC and Head of Trading for Loans and Special Situations, Asia ex Japan at Nomura where he founded and established both HSBC’s and Nomura’s Private Debt and Special Situations businesses.

Andrew was also a member of HSBC Asia Pacific Fixed Income Executive Committee and HSBC Global Credit Executive Committee. He served as the chairperson of the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association Secondary Loan committee from 2018 to 2020. Andrew is a graduate of University of Melbourne.