Private Debt Investor Europe Summit 2025

Kofi Asumadu Addo

Director: Guarantees ＆ Specialised Finance, Afreximbank

Kofi Asumadu Addo is a seasoned professional with over 28 years’ experience in banking, development finance, export credit and guarantee business. He is the Director of Guarantees and Specialised Finance at Afreximbank and leads the Bank’s guarantee and export credit business including the country export programme as well as the newly created repack programme. He also manages the relationships with global ECAs, DFIs and Multilaterals as well as other specialised finance entities including insurance and other alternative markets. He has structured several ECA/DFI and Guarantee transactions across the African continent (both public and private sector) in different industries including aviation, telecom, energy including oil & gas, transport, mining, among others.

Prior to joining Afreximbank, he was a Senior Manager in charge of Finance at the GCB Bank, Ghana. He also served on the Board of Asante Akyem Rural Bank, a community Bank in Asante Region of Ghana. He was an adjunct Lecturer at the University of Ghana and the University of Education, Winneba, and also served as a moderator for the National Board for Professional and Technician Examination (NABPTEX) in accountancy and finance related subjects for Polytechnic Higher National Diploma (HND) examinations in Ghana.

He is a Chartered Accountant and a graduate from Henley Business School, University of Reading UK (MSc Business & Management Research), University of Sorbonne, Paris-France (MSc Corporate Management and Finance) and University of Cape Coast, Ghana (B.Comm, and Dip. Education). He is currently a doctoral research associate at the Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK.

Afreximbank

African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is a Pan-African multilateral financial institution mandated to finance and promote intra-and extra-African trade. For 30 years, the Bank has been deploying innovative structures to deliver financing solutions that support the transformation of the structure of Africa’s trade, accelerating industrialization and intra-regional trade, thereby boosting economic expansion in Africa. A stalwart supporter of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), Afreximbank has launched a Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) that was adopted by the African Union (AU) as the payment and settlement platform to underpin the implementation of the AfCFTA. Working with the AfCFTA Secretariat and the AU, the Bank is setting up a US$10 billion Adjustment Fund to support countries to effectively participate in the AfCFTA. At the end of September 2023, Afreximbank’s total assets and guarantees stood at over US$33.4 billion, and its shareholder funds amounted to US$5.8 billion. The Bank disbursed more than US$104 billion between 2016 and 2023. Afreximbank has investment grade ratings assigned by GCR (international scale) (A), Moody’s (Baa1), Japan Credit Rating Agency (JCR) (A-) and Fitch (BBB). Afreximbank has evolved into a group entity comprising the Bank, its impact fund subsidiary called the Fund for Export Development Africa (FEDA), and its insurance management subsidiary, AfrexInsure, (together, “the Group”). The Bank is headquartered in Cairo, Egypt.

Laurine Amiel

Investment Director, Private Credit, AustralianSuper

Laurine is an Investment Director in AustralianSuper’s Private Credit team, based in London. She joined the Fund in 2022 to participate in the development and expansion of the Private Credit franchise.

She started her career in Paris with Natixis, where she spent nearly 10 years working predominantly in commercial real estate finance. She spent five years based in New York where she worked on the origination, execution and closing of over $3.0bn of CRE loans to US borrowers. Between 2019 and 2021 and prior to joining AustralianSuper, she was working on the European syndication desk for CRE loans done for Natixis’ clients.

Laurine holds a Bachelor in Applied Mathematics and a Masters in Economics and Engineering Finance from University Paris Dauphine.

Joaquin Ardit

Senior Portfolio Manager, Allianz Global Investors

Joaquin is Senior Portfolio Manager in the Global Private Debt unit of Allianz Global Investors. He joined Allianz in 2012 as a fixed income investment manager for the Life and Health insurance companies of Allianz Germany. Previously, Joaquin worked as a fixed income derivatives structurer for JPMorgan in London . Joaquin holds a Master’s degrees in industrial engineering from Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, a Master in Finance from Imperial College London and an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York.

Emanuel Bajra

Chairman, Kosovo Pensions ＆ Savings Fund (TRUSTI)

Emanuel Bajra is a distinguished financier with 20 years of expertise in financial markets, investment banking, and a deep understanding of geopolitics and economics.

His career spans roles in investment and merchant banking, digital currencies, and regulatory landscapes, with significant positions at Lloyds Banking Group, LBCM and advisory roles in corporate and financial markets.

Bajra is recognized for his proficiency in financial operations, risk management, and market analysis, and is a respected voice in macroeconomic discussions, often featured in media across Kosovo and Albania.

He is Board Chairman of the Kosovo Pension ＆ Savings Fund (largest pension fund entity in Balkans) and is the founding member group for the establishment of the Sovereign Fund of the Republic of Kosovo.

Bajra is involved with several London-based think tanks, holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Sciences and Sociology, and is an enthusiastic writer and collector of rare books, with interests in nature, travel, and historical artifacts.

John Bakie

News Editor, Private Debt Investor

John has been news editor at Private Debt Investor since 2017 covering all aspects of private debt’s development as an asset class. He has written about almost all areas of financial services including public markets trading, fintech, retail finance, pensions and private equity.

Private Debt Investor is the publication of record for the world’s private credit markets. It is written expressly for the providers and users of debt for private assets. The publication tracks the institutions, the funds and the transactions shaping the private debt markets.

David Bateman

Managing Partner, Claret Capital Partners

David Bateman is Managing Partner of Claret Capital Partners. David has more than 20 years of experience in technology lending and financing. Prior to the buyout of Claret Capital from Harbert Management Corporation, he and Johan Kampe had co-founded Harbert European Growth Capital. From 2002-2011 David was with ETV Capital, one of the leading providers of European growth loans at the time, where he was responsible for originating and managing investments and served on the Board. Prior to ETV, David worked at Broadview International, where he spent 7 years originating and executing technology M&A and financing transactions. David earned a BA at Trinity College Dublin, a Diplomkaufmann from EAP-ESCP and a Masters in Finance at the London Business School. David is a citizen and resident of Ireland.

Claret Capital Partners

Claret provides European tech, life sciences and clean tech businesses with the growth capital that they need, while delivering a less dilutive alternative to traditional equity fundraising. We have a track record of partnering with hundreds of growth businesses over the past 20 years and are committed to continuing to be a trusted, market leader in the eco-system.

We fund high growth business with proven teams to drive their continued ambitions. Our capital can be used to fund organic growth, acquisitions, capital expenditure, working capital, research and development, geographical expansion or recapitalisation.

Our loans vary but are typically between €2M to €50M, with each business evaluated independently basis by our team of experienced investment professionals. Claret’s has raised three institutional funds totalling over €650 million as well as over €200 million in co-invest vehicles. We currently manage AUM of c. €600M.

Callum Bell

Head of Direct Lending, Investec

Callum joined Investec in 2010 and leads the Direct Lending franchise at Investec and is a member of Investec’s Executive Committee. He has direct responsibilities for the Direct Lending business with responsibilities for sponsor coverage, origination and structuring of private debt solutions for mid-market European corporates and PE clients. The team have a flexible lending mandate that spans underwriting, unitranche and club/bilateral financing solutions and is a market leader across their target markets.

Callum has 20 years of investment banking, strategy consulting and leveraged finance experience in Europe. Prior to joining Investec, Callum was a Director and in the Leveraged Finance team at the Royal Bank of Scotland. Callum holds a Chemical Engineering degree (Hons) from the University of Auckland (NZ), a Bachelor of Business from Massey University (NZ) and an MBA from Cambridge University (UK).

Investec

Direct Lending

Investec Direct Lending is a European private credit manager, providing institutional investors, family offices and Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals with exclusive access to high-growth lower mid-market borrowers.

Investec Direct Lending has more than 10 years of experience originating, investing in and managing private debt assets. Since inception, it has originated more than €9 billion in loans across more than 300 deals. Its focus is on providing private credit solutions to lower mid-market corporate borrowers in Europe – a group that is underserved by the market.

The team of more than 40 professionals has in-depth expertise in its specialist market – concentrating on senior, unitranche, subordinate and integrated cash flow and asset based lending. The team has a strong track record of credit selection, delivering superior risk-adjusted returns combined with low historical loss rates.

John Bohill

Partner, StepStone

Since Mr. Bohill joined StepStone in 2013, he has also been a director at Kish Capital, a distressed debt, real estate opportunities, and non-performing loan investor based in Dublin and Lisbon. Before joining Kish he acquired and operated several businesses on his own behalf and was co-head of European technology and communications at BancBoston Capital, a principal private equity investor.
Mr. Bohill graduated with first-class honors with a BBs in finance from Trinity College, Dublin.

Francois Bouillon

Partner, Ely Place Partners

Francois Bouillon is a partner at Ely Place Partners and has more than 15 years of experience in private markets. He previously worked at Oddo-BHF Private Equity with a focus on secondary investments. Prior to that, he worked for BNP Paribas Capital Partners as a Senior Associate in the FoF team and Allstate Investment Management as an Associate. He began his career as an analyst at BNP Paribas Private Equity. He holds an MSc in International Management from EM Lyon and graduated with a master’s degree in Law from Panthéon-Assas Paris II University.

Ely Place Partners

Ely Place is a specialist adviser in alternative assets. It assists PE, credit, infrastructure and venture GPs raise capital from institutional investors, and acts as a specialist adviser on secondary and co-investment transactions. In addition, the team offers GP advisory services including fundraising strategy, documentation, presentation support and investor relations.

Anish Butani

Managing Director, Infrastructure, bfinance

Anish is a Senior Director in the Private Markets team at bfinance & leads the firm’s coverage of the infrastructure asset class. Since joining bfinance in 2017, Anish has advised a broad range of clients globally in allocating ~$10bn to the infrastructure asset class, including infrastructure debt. Prior to joining bfinance, Anish gained over ten years’ experience as a corporate financier, advising on mergers & acquisitions, financings & valuations of assets in the infrastructure asset class. Under Anish’s leadership, bfinance was recognised in 2019 & 2020 by Infrastructure Journal as ‘Best Investment Consultancy’ as recognised by leading market participants in the asset class.

bfinance

bfinance is an independent investment consultancy supporting institutional investors (pension funds, SWFs, financial institutions, etc.) with their investment implementation requirements, covering portfolio planning, manager search and selection and portfolio monitoring.

Elizabeth Cain

Head of Debt Origination, Pension Insurance Corporation

Elizabeth heads the private debt team at PIC, a UK bulk annuity insurer. She is responsible for sourcing investment grade private credit across a range of sectors including social housing, infrastructure, structured credit and corporate private placements.
Prior to joining PIC, Elizabeth was a Director at TradeRisks, where she headed the Risk Advisory team, providing treasury and corporate finance advice to housing associations, as well as helping them to raise debt in the banking and capital markets.
Elizabeth is a Chartered Accountant, and has held non-executive roles for a local housing association. She has a First Class degree in Mathematics from the University of Oxford.

Pension Insurance Corporation

The purpose of PIC is to pay the pensions of its current and future policyholders. PIC provides secure retirement incomes through comprehensive risk management and excellence in asset and liability management, as well as exceptional customer service. At half year 2023, PIC had insured 339,900 pension scheme members and had £44.9 billion in financial investments, accumulated through the provision of tailored pension insurance buyouts and buy-ins to the trustees and sponsors of UK defined benefit pension schemes. PIC has made total pension payments of almost £12 billion to its policyholders. Clients include FTSE 100 companies, multinationals and the public sector. PIC is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority (FRN 454345). For further information please visit www.pensioncorporation.com

John Carey

Head of Infrastructure Debt, Europe, LGIM Real Assets

John joined LGIM Real Assets in May 2023 and leads the infrastructure debt team in Europe. The team originates and structures European infrastructure debt across investment and sub-investment grade, as part of LGIM’s Private Credit strategy. John has held a number of roles in the infrastructure industry since 2001 across banking, advisory and credit ratings at Barclays, KPMG and Moody’s respectively. Most recently, John spent over eight years at IFM investors, where he led on European infrastructure debt origination. Specifically in the transition arena, John has led on over GBP1bn of debt investment into critical decarbonisation assets across the power, heat and transportation sectors. John is a chartered accountant (ICAEW) and chartered treasurer (AMCT) and has a BA in American history with politics from the University of East Anglia.

LGIM

‘’We are Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), the asset management business of Legal & General Group. Our purpose is to create a better future through responsible investing. We strive to achieve this through a strong sense of partnership with our clients, working together to achieve positive long-term outcomes. We draw on industry-leading expertise to innovate constantly across public and private assets, index and active strategies. And we are a responsible investor, rising to the challenges of a rapidly changing world. On behalf of savers, retirees and institutions worldwide, we manage £1.2 trillion in assets.*

*Source: LGIM internal data as at 30 June 2023. The AUM disclosed aggregates the assets managed by LGIM in the UK, LGIMA in the US and LGIM Asia in Hong Kong (2018-2019 only). The AUM includes the value of securities and derivatives positions.’’

Seth Charnow

Managing Director, The D. E. Shaw Group

Seth Charnow is a managing director of D. E. Shaw ＆ Co., L.P. and a senior member of the D. E. Shaw group’s Private Credit investment unit, where he is responsible for overseeing the firm’s U.S. private credit investment activities. Mr. Charnow previously served as co-head of the D. E. Shaw group’s Corporate Credit investment unit. Prior to joining the firm in 2005, he was an associate at Fenway Partners, LLC, a private equity firm focused on control investments in branded consumer and manufacturing businesses. Before that, Mr. Charnow was a financial analyst in the mergers and acquisitions group at Bear, Stearns ＆ Co., Inc. He earned a B.S. in economics and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

The D. E. Shaw Group

The D. E. Shaw group is a global investment and technology development firm with more than $60 billion in investment and committed capital as of March 1, 2024, and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. We have more than 2,500 employees globally and are led by a seven-person Executive Committee whose members have worked together for over a decade. Since our founding in 1988, we have earned an international reputation for successful investing based on innovation, careful risk management, and the quality and depth of our staff. We have invested in private companies since the mid-1990s, and our private investment activities today are global and span credit and related markets, post-seed and growth equity, and renewable energy development.

Fabian Chrobog

Founder ＆ Chief Investment Officer, NorthWall Capital

Fabian Chrobog founded NorthWall Capital, a private capital solutions firm, in 2017 alongside Partners Alexander Garnier and Ian Lokkerbol. He has since grown the Firm to a team of just under 30 London-based professionals managing over €1.3bn assets for global institutional investors. As Chief Investment Officer, Fabian chairs the Firm’s Investment Committee, and has helped to facilitate over 50 transactions since the Firm’s inception.

Before NorthWall, Fabian was a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Warwick Capital Partners, a European asset manager that spun out of Polygon Investment Partners, a global multi-strategy fund managing $7bn at its peak. Fabian has also held roles at D.B.Zwirn and Bear Stearns, and Goldman Sachs. He is half German, half Egyptian, speaks German and English fluently and has a working knowledge of French and Arabic. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Columbia University (2002) and is a CFA charterholder (2010).

NorthWall Capital

NorthWall Capital is a London-based credit investment firm, delivering private capital solutions to counterparties in Western Europe. The Firm manages funds on behalf of global institutional investors, seeking to capture compelling risk adjusted returns from Western European markets. Through a series of flagship credit funds, as well as various single strategy funds, the Firm makes tactical allocations to areas of dislocation in private credit and asset-backed opportunities, catering their strategy to take advantage of all parts of the cycle. With a senior leadership team holding an average of over 20 years of relevant experience, coupled with just under 30 credit professionals sitting across investment, asset management, legal and operations teams, NorthWall has built a well-seasoned and robust investment platform that has already garnered an impressive track record. As of December 31st, 2023, NorthWall manages €1.3bn of institutional capital, and has closed over 50 transactions since inception in 2017.

Kevin-Paul Deveau

Partner, Reed Smith

Kevin-Paul regularly advises banks, alternative lenders, asset managers, and borrowers on a wide range of direct lending, private credit, specialty finance, acquisition finance, and stressed/distressed finance transactions. This work includes bespoke asset-backed private credit solutions, including hybrid credit, which combines debt and equity elements to create bespoke financing solutions for lenders and borrowers across sectors and product categories. Kevin-Paul also acts on a wide range of fund finance transactions – principally for borrowers – including subscription facilities, hybrid facilities, Net Asset Value (NAV)/asset-backed facilities, and continuation facilities, providing creative solutions at all levels of fund structures and at all stages of the fund-life cycle.

Mustafa Dincer

Founder and Partner, MD Advisors

Mustafa is founder and partner of MD Advisors, a London-based independent debt advisory and restructuring platform providing high value-added, strategic and confidential advice in growth financings, LBO’s, special situations and distressed transactions.

Mustafa formerly held leadership roles at Rothschild, Morgan Stanley and Ondra Partners, and he has 26 years’ experience as lender, investor and advisor. At Rothschild Mustafa was responsible for the debt advisory and restructuring practice for financial sponsors. His expertise spans private and public financings across corporate, infrastructure and ABL debt.

Mustafa was a Fulbright Scholar and graduated from UC Berkeley.

MD Advisors

MD Advisors provides capital advisory services for financial investors and corporates. Where appropriate, we may co-invest with our clients to truly align our interests.

Our senior team, each with 25+ years’ experience spanning three credit cycles, is comprised of former senior Morgan Stanley and Rothschild debt and corporate finance bankers, providing unparalleled expertise and investor connectivity in respect of complex growth financings and buyouts as well as underperforming situations.

MD Advisors has recently had significant involvement in tech- and tech-enabled buyout and growth debt financings, particularly in the UK, DACH and the Nordics. Our team has advised top-tier large- and mid-cap financial sponsors in buyouts for over two decades with expertise in both private and public debt.

Our partners' restructuring expertise dates back to the early 2000's involving TMT companies as well as multiple financial restructurings during the GFC. We have also been active in selective mid-market financial restructurings post-COVID-19.

As trusted partners of our clients, we offer senior-level resources at each stage of a transaction, helping our clients implement the most optimum capital structure.

Our independent platform benefits from collaboration with a close network of select former Morgan Stanley M&A colleagues, helping to source investment opportunities for our clients.

MD Advisors is an Appointed Representative of Brooklands Fund Management Ltd which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 757575).

Aude Doyen

Managing Director, Lincoln International

Aude advises UK and international corporates, financial sponsors and their investee companies on acquisition and growth financings, refinancings and dividend recapitalisations, and covenant amendments.

Her insight on current market terms and trends, practical approach to financing structures, and strong relationships with a wide range of lending institutions including banks, credit funds, asset-based loans providers and structured capital providers are instrumental to her work with clients.

Aude has over 18 years corporate finance experience, including 15 focusing on mid-market debt advisory. She has completed over 85 mid-market financing transactions across a variety of sectors, including business services, consumer, education, healthcare, industrials / core+, leisure and retail, and technology and media.

Aude holds a Master of Science in Management from HEC Paris.

Lincoln International

We are trusted investment banking advisors to business owners and senior executives of leading private equity firms and their portfolio companies and to public and privately held companies around the world. Our services include mergers and acquisitions advisory, private funds and capital markets advisory, and valuations and fairness opinions. As one tightly integrated team of more than 950 professionals in more than 20 offices in 15 countries, we offer an unobstructed perspective on the global private capital markets, backed by superb execution and a deep commitment to client success. With extensive industry knowledge and relationships, timely market intelligence and strategic insights, we forge deep, productive client relationships that endure for decades. Connect with us to learn more at www.lincolninternational.com.

Philip Edmans

Partner, Inflexion Private Equity

Philip is a Partner at Inflexion Private Equity, a European mid-market private equity firm with nearly £10bn AUM. He is a member of its Investment Committee and leads the firm’s capital markets team with responsibility for Inflexion’s debt financing strategy and lender relationships. Prior to his current role, Philip spent his first decade at Inflexion investing across all sectors, with investments including: Alcumus, CTC Aviation, Kynetec, Lane Clark & Peacock, Marston, Peach, Reed ＆ Mackay, Scott Dunn, Vivona Brands and Xtrac. He also currently sits on the board of Atcore.

Inflexion Private Equity

Inflexion is a pan-European mid-market private equity firm with £10bn AUM. Founded in 1999, tt invests £10-£500m in minority or majority stakes in high growth business across all sectors from its offices in London, Manchester, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Frankfurt.

Christine Farquhar

CEO of UK and Europe, Cambridge Associates

Christine is the CEO of CA Limited and is responsible for the firm’s work in the UK and Europe. She has more than 30 years of industry experience and has been with the firm since 2007. Christine is also the Global Co-Head of the Credit Investment Group, overseeing manager and market research across public and private credit investment strategies.

Before joining Cambridge Associates, Christine worked at HB&W as Head of Fixed Income Research. Prior to this, she was EVP and Head of Fixed Income in Lombard Odier’s London office. She has also headed fixed income, derivatives, and alternative asset management for UK investment managers, including Insight Investment, now part of BNY Mellon.

Cambridge Associates

Cambridge Associates is a global investment firm. The firm aims to help pension plans, endowments ＆ foundations, and family offices implement and manage custom investment portfolios aimed at generating outperformance. With over 50 years of institutional investing insights, particularly in alternative investment managers and strategies, our core focus is around active management and rigorous manager selection. Over 80% of our business is hands-on portfolio management services, which includes acting as an outsourced investment office (OCIO), providing directive day-to-day portfolio oversight on a non-discretionary basis, and managing alternative investment programs. The other core aspect of our business is partnering with clients closely as an extension of their own staff or serving as a valuable sounding board for investors who are leading their own investment processes.

Cambridge Associates currently maintains offices in Boston; Arlington, VA; Beijing; Dallas; Hong Kong; London; Munich, New York; San Francisco; Singapore; and Sydney.

Aida Feriz

Executive Director, Wimmer Financial

International Real Estate Investment Specialist focusing on originating and analyzing high scale real estate projects, providing funds (Equity and debt), in the commercial, residential and infrastructure sphere, ranging from hotels, mixed use, residential, BTR, PRS, co-living and many other projects. Additionally, involved with the Wimmer Group Wealth Management department.

Prior experience working in partnership with developers, including Galliard Homes, to sell off plan properties across prime locations in London. A successful engagement selling luxury villas in the most prestigious areas of France working with highly respected partners including Sotheby’s International. Sourcing off-market residential and commercial opportunities in UK and Europe. Additional experience of selling off plan and lease back properties in France and Switzerland to buyers mainly from the UK and Ireland. A highly motivated individual with a proactive and energetic approach towards property sales with extensive experience of managing property roadshows.

Strong personal presence with excellent interpersonal skills; proven ability to engage with and sell to ultra-high net worth customers. Speaks, reads and writes in three languages: English, French and Serbo Croat. Additionally, communicational level of: Russian and Italian.

Wimmer Financial

International Real Estate Investment Specialist focusing on originating and analysing high scale real estate projects, providing funds (equity and debt), in the commercial, residential and infrastructure sphere, ranging from hotels, mixed use, residential, BTR, PRS, co-living and many other projects. Additionally, involved with the Wimmer Group Wealth Management department.

Leo Fletcher-Smith

Managing Director, Head of European Private Credit, Aksia

Leo is a Managing Director on the Investment Research team and has over 17 years of industry experience. He leads the team responsible for the European private credit space encompassing corporate lending, distressed and opportunistic strategies. Leo works with the Portfolio Advisory team and is responsible for sourcing investment opportunities, maintaining GP relationships and fostering Aksia’s private credit presence in Europe. Leo is an instructor for ILPA’s “Private Credit for the Limited Partner”, a one day, deep-dive seminar offered to ILPA members.

Prior to joining Aksia in 2016, Leo provided independent advice to private equity sponsors and portfolio companies on debt raisings, refinancings and restructurings across the European leveraged finance space for seven years as an Associate Director within Deloitte’s Debt Advisory practice. Leo spent an additional three years in Deloitte’s transfer pricing team.

Leo graduated from The University of Manchester with a BA in Economics. He is a CFA charterholder.

Aksia

Aksia LLC, together with its wholly-owned subsidiaries, (collectively, “Aksia”) is a specialist portfolio advisory firm providing alternative investment solutions to clients across private equity, private credit, natural resources and infrastructure, real estate and hedge funds. Aksia provides an array of services including non-discretionary, discretionary and investment management.

Aksia advises on $300 billion of client alternative allocations globally (as of December 31, 2023). The firm represents pension plans, insurance companies, government-related institutions, endowments, foundations and superannuation funds.

Aksia employs over 450 professionals across the globe, including 218 investment research, operational due diligence, and risk management professionals (as of February 29, 2024). The firm is 100% employee owned by its 15 partners and is headquartered in New York, with offices in San Diego, London, Tokyo, Chicago, Athens, and Hong Kong.

Brendan Foley

Director, Private Credit, Rede Partners

Brendan is a Director in Rede's Credit team. He works closely with Rede's broader Coverage team to support Rede's private credit fundraising engagements. As a product specialist, Brendan offers expert advice based on deep market knowledge and strong relationships with institutional investors focussed on private credit. Brendan brings over 10 years' private markets experience across credit within the broader financial service industry. Prior to joining Rede, Brendan worked at Standard Chartered within Debt Capital Markets. Brendan holds a BA in Finance with a Specialisation in Alternative Assets from Southern Methodist University.

Rede Partners

Rede Partners leads in private markets fundraising advise. We advise on primary fundraising (Buyout, Growth, Impact and Private Credit), GP-led secondary transactions and strategic advisory consulting projects. Rede has offices in London, New York, Hong Kong and Amsterdam. Since inception in 2011 Rede Partners has raised over €100bn for its clients across primary fundraising and transactions.

Sabrina Fox

CEO, European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA)

Sabrina is the Chief Executive Officer for the European Leveraged Finance Association, a buyside-only trade association comprised of European leveraged finance investors from more than 60 institutional fixed income managers, including investment advisors, insurance companies, and pension funds.

ELFA seeks to support the growth and resilience of the leveraged finance market while acting as the voice of its investor community by promoting transparency and facilitating engagement among European leveraged finance market participants.

Sabrina is a recognised expert in the European leveraged finance market focused on increasing transparency, improving disclosure standards, and educating market participants on ESG implementation and the importance of lender protections in documentation.

Most recently, Sabrina was Head of European High Yield Research for Covenant Review. Prior to that, she was Counsel with DLA Piper in London.

For more information about ELFA, including our mission statement and member benefits, visit www.elfainvestors.com.

Pierre-Antoine Godefroy

Managing Director, Campbell Lutyens

Pierre-Antoine Godefroy is a Managing Director at Campbell Lutyens, focusing on Private Credit. Pierre-Antoine has more than 15 years of experience in credit markets. Prior to joining CL, Pierre-Antoine was Managing Director, Head of Private Credit at FIRSTavenue. Prior to that, he held various positions at CQS, AXA and Calyon. Pierre-Antoine holds a MS in Statistics and Economics from ENSAE, Paris, and a MSc in Financial Engineering from Columbia University, New York.

Campbell Lutyens

Campbell Lutyens is a global and independent private markets advisor, providing fund placement, secondary advisory and GP capital advisory services to leading fund managers and investors. With specialist knowledge in private equity, infrastructure, private credit and sustainable investing, the firm has a team of 245 operating from offices in London, Paris, Munich, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Charlotte, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo and Melbourne.

Andrew Godson

Group CEO, Aptimus Capital Partners

Andrew is CEO of Aptimus Capital Partners, a private markets firm focused on non-sponsored financing in geographies and sectors underserved by private capital. He has over 25 years’ experience in financial markets, predominately across private markets. He joined from Barings, where he was Head of the Alternative investment Business in EMEA. Prior to this he was the Global Head of Institutional Business Development at Babson Capital. Andrew joined Babson in 2008 from Citigroup where he headed the Structured Credit & CLO Syndicate business in EMEA. Andrew is a chartered accountant and holds a BA Hons from the University of Bristol.

Aptimus Capital Partners

Founded in 2017, Aptimus Capital Partners are focused on non-sponsored lending in geographies and sectors underserved by private capital. Aptimus’ investment thesis is underpinned by three factors: 1) an undersupply of capital exists in attractive geographies and sectors, 2) better risk / return opportunities exist in the non-sponsored, middle market and 3) impact and sustainability themes can be utilised as an additional driver of returns.

With offices in London and Madrid, Aptimus combines local origination with an institutional investment platform, to provide access to attractive non-sponsored lending opportunities in the middle market and sustainable asset-based lending space.

Christoph Gort

Managing Partner, SIGLO Capital Advisors

Dr. Christoph Gort is a founding partner of SIGLO, a member of management and the board of directors and a portfolio manager in the private debt and alternative credit (PD) division. SIGLO is a Zurich-based alternative advisor, specialising in ILS, private debt, hedge funds and impact investing with AuM of USD 3.0bn from institutional and professional investors. Christoph began his career in 2003 at the City of Zurich Pension Fund in the investment team, overseeing investments in FX, commodities, hedge funds and active equity strategies. In 2008, he joined Harcourt Investment Consulting AG as a fund of hedge funds analyst and later head of fund of funds research. After studying economics in Berne, he completed his doctorate with a specialisation in behavioural finance at the University of Zurich in 2007.

SIGLO Capital Advisors

SIGLO Capital Advisors AG is an alternative investment advisor based in Zurich, specialising in Insurance Linked Strategies (ILS), Private Debt and Credit, Drawdown Management and Impact Investing on private markets. SIGLO offers customised investment solutions and implementations for alternative asset classes and strategies by building tailor-made multimanager portfolios for clients. SIGLO has around 35 asset management and advisory mandates from professional and institutional clients in Switzerland totalling over USD 2.5 bn. The company is 100% employee-owned, completely independent and licensed and supervised by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA.

Sven Gralla

Fund Manager Private Debt, LBBW Asset Management

Sven Gralla has been working as Fund Manager Private Debt & Infrastructure Equity at LBBW Asset Management Investmentgesellschaft mbH since the beginning of 2024 and focusses on manager selection within various fund of funds strategies, individual advisory mandates and managed accounts. Previously, Sven Gralla was a Senior Associate at Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe, where he was responsible for setting up a private debt fund of funds with a focus on the lower-mid-market as a member of the investment team.

During his Master's degree, Sven Gralla worked as a researcher for BAI e.V. (German Alternative Investment Lobby), where he conducted research projects on topics such as private debt, infrastructure and co-investments. Sven Gralla holds a master's degree in economics from the University of Cologne. He also completed the Alternative Investments Programme at the London School of Economics.

Sven is a member of the Advisory Boards of the PDI German Forum and the PDI Europe Summit since 2023. Sven Gralla is a founding member of the BAI NextGen Council, which focus on networking of future leaders in the industry (GPs & LPs).

Dr. Harald Haas

Senior Investment Manager, MEAG

Dr. Harald Haas is a Senior Investment Manager of Munich Re’s asset manager MEAG. Harry works in MEAG’s infrastructure debt team; initially Harald was responsible for direct equity investments in renewables. Prior to joining MEAG in 2011 Harald held management roles in industrial blue chips i.a. Linde and ThyssenKrupp where he gained considerable experience in project and trade finance, mainly in the sectors oil & gas, defense, automotive, steel. Harald studied finance at the University of Reading and of Trier and Chinese at the National Chengchi University in Taipei. He earned a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Bremen in monetary history.

MEAG

MEAG is the asset manager of Munich Re and ERGO.

MEAG stands for the Munich Re Group's investments: 140 years of experience, more than 100 investment managers and assets of €340 bn (as at 31 December 2023). This makes MEAG one of the most important players in the international financial sector. MEAG manages all major asset classes, such as interest-bearing securities, equities and real estate, as well as investments in renewable energies and infrastructure. MEAG’s worldwide presence with units in Munich, New York and Hong Kong enables MEAG to work the market efficiently at a global level. MEAG’s investment managers pursue a stringent and risk-controlled investment approach with the aim of achieving above-average long-term performance for MEAG’s investors. MEAG stands for high cost efficiency, the prerequisite for good investment results and satisfied clients.

MEAG is the ideal asset management partner to both private investors and institutional investors. The fund, real estate and direct investment portfolios are compiled according to earnings-based specifications from the clients. The volume of the assets MEAG manages enables MEAG to offer MEAG’s clients inexpensive conditions and outstanding security for their investments.

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Jonathon Haigh

Vice President, Northleaf Capital Partners

Jonathon participates in all aspects of Northleaf’s private credit investment activities, with a focus on the origination, evaluation and monitoring of investments in the UK and Europe.

Prior to joining Northleaf in 2018, Jonathon was an Associate at J.P. Morgan where he worked on a number of private equity and financial sponsor-led transactions across a variety of industries.

Jonathon received a Master’s in Global Business Analysis from Manchester Business School and an International Bachelor degree in Management from ESC Rennes School of Business.

Northleaf Capital Partners

Northleaf Capital Partners is a global private markets investment firm with US$22 billion in private equity, private credit and infrastructure commitments raised to date from public, corporate and multi-employer pension plans, endowments, foundations, financial institutions and family offices. Northleaf’s 200-person team is located in Toronto, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Menlo Park, Montreal, New York and Tokyo. Northleaf sources, evaluates and manages private markets investments globally, with a focus on mid-market companies and assets.

Timo Hara

Founder, Partner, Certior Capital

Timo is a founder and partner at Certior Capital, a Helsinki-based specialist in European private credit and private equity investments. Certior has a strong emphasis on investing with emerging managers often making cornerstone LP commitments and actively investing in deal-by-deal situations. Timo has been working in private asset industry since 2004 and since establishing Certior Capital in 2012 the Firm has raised six funds to execute its emerging manager and co-investment focused investment strategy. Certior funds have committed in tens of first-time private credit funds and done over 60 private credit co-investments.

Certior Capital

Certior Capital was established in 2012 by a seasoned team that has been investing in European private equity and private credit since 1995. Our strategy is simple: we focus on undercapitalised market sectors, seeding emerging managers and being a preferred co-investment partner to produce above average returns for our international investors. We strongly believe in responsible business practices and good corporate governance.

Janine Harion

Head of Portfolio Monitoring, Managing Director, Permira Credit

Janine joined Permira Credit in May 2011 and is Head of Portfolio Monitoring for the direct lending funds. She has been a member of the CLO Investment Committee since 2019, and joined the direct lending and structured credit Investment Committees in September 2023.

Janine has 17 years of European credit experience. Prior to joining Permira Credit, Janine spent four years at Morgan Stanley in the Industrial M＆A Advisory team. Janine started her career at Lazard in the M＆A Advisory team in Frankfurt. Janine holds a master’s degree in Business Studies from the University of Mannheim.

Permira and Permira Credit

Permira is a global investment firm that backs successful businesses with growth ambitions. Founded in 1985, the firm advises funds with total committed capital of approximately €80bn and makes long-term majority and minority investments across two core asset classes, private equity and credit.

Permira Credit is one of Europe’s leading specialist credit investors, supporting businesses with flexible financing solutions across Direct Lending, Strategic Opportunities, CLO Management and Structured Credit. Established in 2007, the firm advises investment funds and products which have provided approximately €20bn of debt capital to over 300 European businesses.

Permira employs over 500 people in 15 offices across Europe, the United States and Asia. For more information, visit www.permira.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

Aurelie Hariton-Fardad

Managing Director, Head of EMEA Portfolio Management Private Credit, MetLife Investment Management

Aurélie Hariton-Fardad is a Managing Director and Head of EMEA Portfolio Management for MetLife Investment Management (MIM). She helps insurance companies and pension funds invest in infrastructure and corporate Private Credit strategies. Aurélie is also ESG Team Lead for Private Credit and a member of MIM’s ESG Integration Council.

Aurélie joined MIM’s Private Capital team in 2015 and was initially responsible for origination and executing corporate private placement transactions in the UK, Ireland and continental Europe. She transitioned into Portfolio Management in 2022.

Prior to joining MIM, Aurélie was a Director at rating agency Standard and Poor’s, a Vice President in the Investment Banking division of Macquarie Capital, a Credit Analyst at in the Structured Finance business of GE Capital, and a consultant at economic consultancy Oxera.

Aurélie earned a M.Sc. in Regulation from the London School of Economics, a M.A. in Industrial Organisation from Université Paris Dauphine, and a law degree from Université of Lyon.

MetLife Investment Management

MetLife Investment Management (MIM) is a public fixed income, private debt, and real estate manager providing differentiated investment solutions to institutional investors worldwide. MIM is the institutional asset management business of MetLife, Inc., one of the world’s leading financial services companies. To support our goal of providing clients with strong risk adjusted returns and tailored solutions across our core competencies, MIM leverages the broader resources of the MetLife enterprise, which has more than 150 years of experience. Our robust fundamental research and risk management capabilities have been time tested across market cycles and support our investment process and deal sourcing. For more information, visit: metlife.com/investmentmanagement

Jennifer Hartviksen

Managing Director, Head of Global Credit, Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO)

Jennifer Hartviksen joined IMCO in 2020 and is responsible for the global credit asset class, a globally diversified portfolio of public and private credit assets across the risk spectrum.

Previously, Jennifer spent over six years at Invesco Ltd where she held senior positions including Head of Global High Yield, Senior Portfolio Manager, Multi-Sector Credit and, prior to that, Head of Fixed Income, Canada. She has also held senior roles at Fiera Quantum LP, CPPIB and Western Asset Management.

Jennifer holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Toronto and is a CFA charterholder.

Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO)

The Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO) manages $77.4 billion of assets on behalf of our clients. Designed exclusively to drive better investment outcomes for Ontario's broader public sector, IMCO operates under an independent, not-for-profit, cost recovery structure. We provide leading investment management services, including portfolio construction advice, better access to a diverse range of asset classes and sophisticated risk management capabilities. As one of Canada's largest institutional investors, we invest around the world and execute large transactions efficiently. Our scale gives clients access to a well-diversified global portfolio, including sought-after private and alternative asset classes. Follow us on LinkedIn and X @imcoinvest.

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Carolyn Hastings

Partner, Bain Capital Credit

Ms. Hastings joined Bain Capital in 2008. She is a Partner in the Private Credit Group based in Bain Capital’s Boston office and a Credit Committee member. Previously, Ms. Hastings was an Associate at Thomas H. Lee Partners and an analyst in the Healthcare Group in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs ＆ Co. Ms. Hastings received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, a B.S.Ec. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Bain Capital Credit

Bain Capital, LP is one of the world’s leading private investment firms with approximately $180 billion of assets under management that creates lasting impact for our investors, teams, businesses, and the communities in which we live. Since our founding in 1984, we’ve applied our insight and experience to organically expand into several asset classes including private equity, credit, public equity, venture capital and real estate. We leverage our shared platform to capture cross-asset class opportunities in strategic areas of focus. With offices on four continents, our global team aligns our interests with those of our investors for lasting impact.

Jordan Hogan

Associate Director, Membership, Alternative Credit Council

Jordan joined AIMA in August 2019 as an Analyst for the Membership team.

Since joining he has been tasked with growing the membership in EMEA, in addition to providing assistance and advice to current members. He helps to run AIMA’s Next Generation Manager Initiative and leads on business development work for AIMA’s private credit arm the ACC.

He holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Durham and an MA in History of Art from The Courtauld Institute of Art.

Alternative Credit Council

The Alternative Credit Council (ACC) is a global body that represents asset management firms in the private credit and direct lending space. It currently represents 250 members that manage over US$1 trillion of private credit assets.

The ACC is an affiliate of AIMA and is governed by its own board which ultimately reports to the AIMA Council.

The ACC’s core objectives are to provide guidance on policy and regulatory matters, support wider advocacy and educational efforts and generate industry research with the view to strengthening the sector's sustainability and wider economic and financial benefits.

Alternative credit, private debt or direct lending funds have grown substantially in recent years and are becoming a key segment of the asset management industry. The ACC seeks to explain the value of private credit by highlighting the sector's wider economic and financial stability benefits.

Jesse Huff

Managing Director, Blue Owl

Jesse Huff is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and the Co-Head Opportunistic Lending Fund. In his role, he is Co-head of Opportunistic Credit and shares portfolio management responsibility for the Blue Owl Opportunistic Lending Fund. Before joining Blue Owl, Jesse was a Managing Director at Oaktree Capital Management focused on opportunistic direct lending. Prior to that, he was a Principal at the Carlyle Group focused on distressed and special situations. Jesse began his career as an analyst at Merrill Lynch and worked extensively across the special situation’s platform. Jesse received his MBA from Columbia University and graduated from Ohio University with a BA degree in Finance.

Blue Owl

Blue Owl is a global alternative asset manager with $132 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2022. Anchored by a strong permanent capital base, the firm deploys private capital across Direct Lending, GP Solutions, and Real Estate strategies on behalf of Institutional and Private Wealth clients. Blue Owl’s flexible, consultative approach helps position the firm as a partner of choice for businesses seeking capital solutions to support their sustained growth. The firm’s management team is comprised of seasoned investment professionals, each with more than 30 years of experience building alternative investment businesses. Blue Owl employs over 520 people across 10 offices globally.

Johan Hultner

Managing Partner, ARCOS Capital

Johan Hultner is a Founder and Managing Partner of ARCOS Capital, a Traditional Senior Private Debt provider focusing on traditional senior secured lending to the mid-cap corporate market in Northern Europe (DACH, Benelux and the Nordic Region). Johan has over 30 years of experience in leveraged finance and corporate finance. Prior to joining ARCOS, Johan worked first with UBS for 12 years in London in corporate finance where he led teams advising corporates and private equity firms on M＆A, equity and debt related transactions. He then joined RBS for 13 years as Managing Director and was responsible for originating, structuring and managing corporate loans in the European Leveraged Finance market. Johan also served as Board member of RBS’ Leveraged Finance Division and as Chairman of the bank’s Leveraged Finance Credit Committee.

ARCOS Capital

ARCOS Capital is an independent long-term senior debt finance provider to mid-cap corporates in Europe. The ARCOS team has extensive experience within banking and private equity spanning over 30 years in sourcing, originating, arranging, executing and managing debt and private equity investments. As a result, ARCOS is well placed in providing optimal risk/return to its investors as well as being a solid long-term debt finance partner to corporates.

www.arcoscapital.com

You-Ha Hyun

Principal, Perpetual Investors

You-Ha Hyun leads the private debt program at Perpetual Investors GmbH, a German based 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 year 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-funds. You-Ha began his career in the M&A advisory business at KPMG and is an economist by training.

Chandini Jain

Founder & CEO, Auquan

Chandini Jain is the founder and CEO of Auquan and a recognized authority on the use of AI in financial services for due diligence, sustainability research, and risk intelligence. She’s been published in Environmental Finance, TechRepublic, and U.S. News & World Report — and has been featured in programs and podcasts such as CogX Festival, The ESG Show, and the Numerix Trading Tomorrow. Prior to Auquan, Jain spent ten years in the financial services industry as a derivatives trader and interest rate structurer at Optiver and Deutsche Bank. She holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering/computational science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.Tech from IIT Kanpur.

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Konstantin Karchinov

Partner, Veld Capital

Konstantin is a Partner of Veld Capital. Having joined as an Associate at the inception of the credit strategy in 2009, Konstantin has led transactions across a broad range of countries and asset types, demonstrating an exceptional investment track record. Following the carve-out of AnaCap Credit into Veld Capital in 2022, Konstantin is now responsible for all credit investments as Head of Credit.

Prior to joining Veld, Konstantin worked at J.P. Morgan's Principal Finance team in New York and London. Konstantin holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration from the University of Richmond in Virginia and is a CFA charter holder.

Sabina Kerr

Principal, Capital Markets, TA Associates

Sabina leads TA's capital markets activities across EMEA and APAC. She is also responsible for managing the firm’s relationships with financing partners across EMEA and APAC.

Sabina joined TA in 2019. Prior to joining TA, Sabina spent 7 years at Deloitte, most recently as an Assistant Director in the Debt Advisory, Private Equity team.

Sabina is a Chartered Accountant and has a Master’s in accounting from Michael Smurfit Business School

TA Associates

TA is a leading global private equity firm focused on scaling growth in profitable companies. Since 1968, TA has invested in more than 560 companies across its five target industries – technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer and business services. Leveraging its deep industry expertise and strategic resources, TA collaborates with management teams worldwide to help high-quality companies deliver lasting value. The firm has raised $65 billion in capital to date and has over 150 investment professionals across offices in Boston, Menlo Park, Austin, London, Mumbai and Hong Kong.

Kashif Khan

EMEA Infrastructure & Project Finance, MetLife Investment Management

Kashif Khan is a Director in the Private Infrastructure and Project Finance group for MetLife Private Capital Investors and is responsible for the origination and execution of new transactions, as well as the ongoing management of existing investments. Mr. Khan joined MetLife in 2015.

Mr. Khan has over 13 years of experience in advisory and investing in infrastructure debt.

Prior to joining MetLife, Mr. Khan was with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in its Infrastructure Debt Advisory team. During his time at RBS, Mr. Khan also completed placements in Risk Management Advisory and Energy & Resources Corporate Finance.

Mr. Khan is a graduate of King’s College London where he earned a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and is a CFA charterholder.

MetLife Investment Management

MetLife Investment Management provides public fixed income, private capital, and real estate investment solutions to institutional investors worldwide.

MetLife Investment Management is the institutional asset management business of MetLife, Inc., one of the world’s leading financial services companies.

MetLife Investment Management had $600.8 billion of total assets under management as of December 31, 2023.

Ralf Kind

Head of Real Estate Debt, Edmond de Rothschild Real Estate Investment Management

Ralf is responsible for the development of the real estate debt business at Edmond de Rothschild Real Estate Investment Management. He has over two decades of experience and track record in real estate finance. Ralf has acted as a banker/lender in the UK, German, Austrian, Dutch and Swiss markets, as a borrower/investor in private markets and as a borrower/issuer in the capital markets.

Previously he was CEO/CFO of DEMIRE Deutsche Mittelstand Real Estate AG and CEO of Fair Value REIT AG, both listed German commercial property companies. In 2013, he co-founded Arbireo Capital, an investment manager and advisory firm in the German real estate market. Prior to that, he spent 12 years at Barclays Capital, in Frankfurt and London, where he worked in the Structured Finance Team and later led the Real Estate Investment Banking Team in the DACH region. Ralf started his career at PwC in Tokyo in 1998.

Ralf is a graduate business economist from FH Nürtingen.

Edmond de Rothschild Real Estate Investment Management

As a conviction-driven investment house founded in the belief that wealth should be used to build world of tomorrow, Edmond de Rothschild specialises in Private Banking and Asset Management and serves an international clientele of families, entrepreneurs and institutional investors. The group is also active in Corporate Finance, Private Equity, Real Estate and Fund Services.

Its resolutely family-run nature gives Edmond de Rothschild the independence necessary to propose bold strategies and long-term investments, rooted in the real economy.

The Edmond de Rothschild Real Estate Investment Management platform acts through local operational entities in Switzerland, France, the UK, Benelux and Germany. It now comprises over 140 real estate professionals in nine offices (in 7 countries) and manages real estate assets worth more than EUR 12.9 bn on behalf of discretionary funds and third-party instructions.

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Dr. Gabriella Kindert

CEO Snappi Bank; Chair Neptune Leasing; Senior Advisor to CVI

Dr. Gabriella Kindert is an experienced banking and investment professional with a strong track record across various asset classes and geographies.

Her career began in 1998 at MeesPierson Corporate and Investment Banking, where she built a solid foundation in finance. She has since held several senior roles, including leading European Leveraged Loans at Fortis Investments, serving as Global Head of Loans at BNP Paribas Asset Management, and heading Alternative Credit at NN Investment Partners. From 2019 to 2024, she contributed her expertise as a board member and advisor to several FinTech companies and alternative lenders, focusing on strategic advice, international expansion and scaling operations.

Since early 2024, Dr. Kindert became CEO of Snappi Bank, an innovative digital bank majority-owned by Piraeus Bank. The fully licensed digitial bank specializes in payments and lending services, including BNPL solutions, and is positioned to expand these services across Europe.

She holds an M.A. in History and Economics, an MBA in Accounting and Finance and a Ph.D. in Finance.

Neptune Leasing, a.o.

Neptune Maritime Leasing Ltd is a dynamic maritime leasing platform focused on generating attractive, long-term, risk-adjusted returns for investors. Specializing in highly liquid maritime assets, Neptune supports global trade and economic growth while promoting environmental and social responsibility. With extensive industry experience, Neptune is known for its integrity, transparency, and strategic support, offering stable cash flows and inflation protection. Their mission is to assist management teams in achieving business goals and ensuring efficient decision-making and execution.
For more details, visit Neptune Leasing.

James King

Head of Structured Credit, M＆G Investments

James joined M＆G Investments in 2003 as a fund manager within the Alternative Credit group and is responsible for the ongoing development of our ABS business. Prior to M＆G, James worked for Citigroup, initially in the corporate bank and, latterly, in the alternative investments group as portfolio manager and credit analyst focusing on asset backed securities and industrials. James graduated from Durham University with a degree in Business Economics.

M＆G Investments

M＆G Investments is a global asset manager with a long history investing and innovating across both public and private markets.

We’re part of M＆G plc, an international savings and investment business with the ambition to deliver long term value for our investors, while working together to create a more positive future.

As an active manager we build solutions around what matters most to our clients whether it be investing for growth or income, to meet future liabilities, protect capital or invest responsibly.

Together, through a strong sense of partnership and collaboration, we support a culture of continued innovation to build long-term relationships as needs evolve over time.

We offer access to a broad range of capabilities that span both public and private assets including fixed income, equities, multi-asset, real estate, infrastructure and private equity.

Globally we manage over £324.5 billion (as at 31 December 2021) on behalf of individual and institutional investors including pension funds, endowments and foundations, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, banks and family offices.

We recognise that clients are increasingly looking to align their investments with their environmental and social values. This is why our investment decisions are underpinned by our commitment to investing responsibly.

Considering material environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors is an integral part of our investment approach. Combining market-leading research with our own proprietary data, we believe this helps us make more informed investment decisions. We also pro-actively engage directly with the businesses we invest in to help drive positive change.

M＆G has committed to reducing our own carbon emissions to net-zero by 2030 and to achieving carbon net-zero investment portfolios by 2050.

Matthias Kirchgaessner

Managing Partner, PLEXUS Research

Matthias Kirchgaessner has been Managing Partner of PLEXUS Research GmbH since 2021. He specializes in alternative investments such as hedge funds and private debt. He dedicates his work to research balanced risk-adjusted returns. Clients appreciate his experience and thoroughness, for example in conducting due diligence.

Prior to joining PLEXUS, the business administration graduate had been active as a consultant in the field of alternatives with his company CAAAC since end of 2011. Before founding the company, he was a senior product manager for customized hedge fund portfolios at Allianz Hedge Funds Partners in San Francisco and at Allianz Alternative Asset Management (and its successor company NEXAR Capital) in New York. Prior to these positions, he worked as a product manager at Deutsche Investment Trust (dit) and Allianz Global Investors (AGI).

PLEXUS Research

PLEXUS Research is an independent research boutique specializing in alternative investments, with focus on hedge funds and private debt. Our services are aimed at qualified and professional investors, including family offices, foundations, and pension funds.

We provide our clients with detailed analysis of investment opportunities globally, across different markets and asset classes, as well as thorough due diligence reviews of selected alternative asset managers.

We stand out for our worldwide network, which includes financial analysts, economists, entrepreneurs, fund managers, and other investors. This enables us to gain deep insights into global markets and provide detailed and competent investment analysis.

Our expertise and our commitment to excellence make us a trusted partner in the field of alternative investments.

Olya Klueppel

Managing Partner, Global Growth Capital

Olya Klueppel is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Global Growth Capital, a European credit investment firm focused on software, financial technology and tech-enabled sectors.

Between 2022 and until rejoining GGC in early 2024, Olya was Partner and Head of Credit and Risk at GP Bullhound, a global technology investment and advisory firm. Between 2010 and 2017, Olya was a partner at ESO Capital, a special situations investment manager providing debt solutions to European SMEs. She managed ESO’s Zurich office. From 2006 till 2010, Olya was a portfolio manager for fixed income strategies at Harcourt, a diversified FoF now part of Vontobel.

Olya began her career in 1997 in the Leverage Finance Group at Salomon Smith Barney in New York and has executed public and private debt offerings for corporate and sovereign clients in the US, Europe (London) and Asia (Tokyo).

Olya received an MBA, Harvard Business School and a BA (Honors) Economics / Government ＆ Law, Lafayette College.

She is fluent in German, English and Ukrainian.

Global Growth Capital

Global Growth Capital, founded in 2017, is a European credit investment firm focused on software, financial technology and technology-enabled sectors. We support Europe’s top entrepreneurs with a variety of customised debt products which provide flexibility for companies to meet their cash flow needs and optimise growth.

Aman Kumar

Managing Director, Co-Portfolio Manager, Life Sciences Lending, Oaktree Capital Management

Mr. Kumar is a managing director within Oaktree’s Global Private Debt strategy. He also serves as a co-portfolio manager for the strategy’s Life Sciences Lending platform which focuses on investment opportunities across the healthcare spectrum from biotechnology and pharmaceuticals to medical devices and healthcare services. Prior to joining Oaktree in 2014, Mr. Kumar spent three years at Deutsche Bank in London working on the Global Credit team, most recently as a vice president on the European High Yield trading desk. He received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and holds a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree from King’s College London. Prior to Wharton, Mr. Kumar worked as a surgeon in the UK National Health Service (NHS). He is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Oaktree

Oaktree Capital Management is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments.

Our competitive advantages include our experienced team of investment professionals, a global platform and a unifying investment philosophy that is complemented by a set of core business principles.

Our expertise in investing across the capital structure has allowed us to cultivate a diversified mix of global investment strategies in four categories: credit, private equity, real assets and listed equities. We emphasize an opportunistic, value-oriented and risk-controlled approach to investing in these asset classes.

Karim Leguel

Head of Private Assets Sales, Fidelity International

Karim Leguel joined Fidelity in May 2022 as Head of Specialist Sales, responsible for developing Fidelity’s Private Assets business in Europe, developing and managing the specialist sales team.

Karim was previously at J. P. Morgan Asset Management where he was International Head of Business Development EMEA ＆ APAC, responsible for developing their alternative solutions strategy. He has 25 years of experience in the Asset Management industry and has a strong understanding of changing client needs in areas such as liquid alternatives, direct lending and sustainability.

Fidelity International

Fidelity International offers investment solutions and services and retirement expertise to more than 2.8 million customers globally. As a privately held, purpose-driven company with a 50-year heritage, we think generationally and invest for the long term. Operating in more than 25 countries and with $728.6 billion* in total assets, our clients range from central banks, sovereign wealth funds, large corporates, financial institutions, insurers and wealth managers, to private individuals.

Our Workplace ＆ Personal Financial Health business provides individuals, advisers and employers with access to world-class investment choices, third-party solutions, administration services and pension guidance. Together with our Investment Solutions & Services business, we invest $524.9 billion on behalf of our clients. By combining our asset management expertise with our solutions for workplace and personal investing, we work together to build better financial futures. Data as at 31 March 2023.

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Domonique Lemonius

Research Manager, Funds, Private Debt Investor

Domonique Lemonius is a Research Manager at Private Equity International. Based in London, she is responsible for overseeing research and analysis of the private equity fund market globally. She is also responsible for several leading market rankings and reports such as the SI50 ranking and quarterly fundraising reports.

Tom Lloyd-Jones

Chief Investment Officer, Zenzic Capital

Tom has over 20 years’ advisory and investment experience focusing on alternative investments. He co-founded Zenzic Capital in 2013 with Nadine Buckland. Previously, Tom held roles at Macfarlanes and EY, advising managers on transactions and fund formation. Tom holds a law degree from Cambridge University.

Zenzic Capital

Zenzic was founded in 2014 by partners with investment banking and corporate finance experience, the team have financed over £1.25bn of real estate and asset-backed transactions across alternative sub-sectors including logistics, PBSA, PRS, hotels and leisure. Since inception, Zenzic Capital has established a reputation for providing bespoke financing solutions to real estate borrowers and investment solutions for investors.

Zenzic Capital provides a range of structured financing solutions to match the needs of borrowers across the UK and Europe. We have built an extensive track record providing both single-site and platform level funding across acquisition, development and opportunistic scenarios.

Antoniorosario Lovascio

Fund Manager Private Assets, Generali Asset Management SGR S.p.A.

Antoniorosario Lovascio is currently Head of Fenice 190 product, the first multi-assets Fund of Funds in Europe investing in the private assets’ space, and he is responsible for the selection and implementation of the investment strategies for the Fund.

Antoniorosario joined Generali in June 2014, covering different role in the Asset and Wealth Management Business Unit, including Finance and Strategy and business development in the Real Estate field.
Prior to join Generali, he worked in the Investment Banking area of Unicredit Group, as relationship manager for the international portfolio. He started his career with an experience in Risk Management, in Unicredit

Antoniorosario Lovascio holds a Master Degree in Management Engineering with a focus on finance from the Polytechnic of Milan, and a Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic of Bari

Meaghan Mahoney

Managing Director and Business Leader, Artisan Partners

Meaghan K. Mahoney is a managing director of Artisan Partners and a business leader for the firm’s Credit team. Prior to joining Artisan Partners, Ms. Mahoney was a senior relationship manager with Polen Capital Credit (formerly known as DDJ Capital Management), a leveraged corporate credit manager. Before that, she was a senior vice president with Great Elm Capital Management, Inc. where she was responsible for investor relations for two publicly traded micro-cap companies. Earlier in her career, she worked in various roles in marketing, investor relations and business development with investment management firms on the East Coast. Ms. Mahoney holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.

Artisan Partners

Artisan Partners was founded in 1994 with the objective of producing high value added and differentiated investment outcomes for institutional investors, through identifying, attracting and retaining high caliber talent in long term asset classes.

We provide the resources of a full-scale, global firm paired with the independence of a boutique to each of our autonomous investment teams, who have the freedom to execute its own process based on its original research and creative perspectives. While our teams differ across market capitalizations, geographical regions, investment styles and product offerings, they are all highly incentivized to deliver long-term value for our clients.

Adil Manzoor

Head of Private Markets, Merseyside Pension Fund

Adil is an investment professional and a Fellow Chartered Accountant, combining a solid foundation in finance and accounting with extensive experience in investment management focusing on maximising investment opportunities while managing risk.

As part of the investment management team at Merseyside Pension Fund Adil is involved in asset allocation, risk management and portfolio construction decision making and developing investment strategies that align with long-term objectives of the Pension Fund focusing on generating stable returns while managing risk effectively. Adil is also member of the Fund’s Investment Committee.

Merseyside Pension Fund

Merseyside Pension Fund (MPF) is part of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) which is one of the largest defined benefit schemes in the UK.

MPF with total fund value of £10.5bn provides valuable pensions and benefits to over 140,000 active, deferred and pensioner members of the LGPS. MPF is also part of the Northern LGPS Pool, one of Britain’s largest public investment funds, with combined assets under management of £46bn. Northern LGPS represents about a fifth of total LGPS assets, has proximately 880,000 members and over 1,100 contributing employers.

Matthias Mathieu

Managing Partner, Bright Capital

Matthias is Managing Partner and founder of BRIGHT CAPITAL. In his capacity he oversees the investment activities of the firm and signs responsible for investor relations and business development. Matthias is a member of the investment committee. Prior to his current role, Matthias served as Managing Director for a Switzerland-based Private Equity firm and built up a successful track record in investing and exiting numerous companies. Beyond that Matthias looks back to more than 10 years of executive management experience in the German Mittelstand.

Bright Capital

BRIGHT CAPITAL is an independent, management-owned investment firm providing private capital to small and middle-market companies in the German speaking region. Following a selective and disciplined investment approach the funds advised by Bright Capital provide flexible capital solutions to unlock opportunities and support growth. BRIGHT CAPITAL was established in 2015 and operates with currently seven seasoned investment professionals from its Frankfurt office. Over the past years the firm evolved to be one of the market leading lower midmarket credit investors in Germany.

Kristina Matthews

Partner, Falcon Investments

Kristina Matthews is a Partner, heading up Investor Relations and Fund Raising at Falcon Investment Advisors, a leading private credit provider focused on junior capital solutions. She joined the Falcon Team in May 2023 from Brightwood Capital Advisors where she was a Managing Director, Head of Investor Relations and ESG. While she led investor relations, Kristina primarily focused on business development and fundraising strategy along with oversight and implementation of the firm’s ESG policy. Her engagement commenced in February 2014 in a Consulting role which led to her joining Brightwood full time in May 2018. In 2012 she founded and was the Managing Partner of, Rising Tide Fund Advisors LLC, an entity providing consulting services to private credit and private equity firms. The prior 6 years she was a Managing Director at PineBridge Investments/AIG Investments and Head of Investor Relations for all Emerging Markets Private Equity. She was also part of the Central and Eastern European Private Equity Investment Team and was integrally involved in strategy, deal sourcing, and working with portfolio companies. She spent 6 years at Merrill Lynch as a Regional Sales Manager for Alternative Investments. She was a high-yield bond and distressed securities trader with BNP-Paribas, though most of her early career was as the Head of Sales for Currencies and Currency Derivatives. She holds an MBA in Economics and International Finance from New York University Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Business Administration from Northeastern University with a dual Major in Finance and International Business and a Minor in Economics.

Robert Meyer zu Starten

Managing Partner, Octane Capital

As co-founder and managing partner of Octane Capital, Robert Meyer zu Starten has extensive experience in the field of distressed debt and special situations investments. Prior to setting-up Octane Capital, Mr. Meyer zu Starten was a member of the founding team of UK fund manager Renshaw Bay and responsible for distressed debt and special situations investments. Prior to that, Robert Meyer zu Starten was with the global distressed debt funds Cerberus Capital Management and Lone Star Funds. Mr. Meyer zu Starten holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Cologne.

Octane Capital
Octane Capital is an independent fund manager with an investment focus on distressed real estate and corporate debt and special situations in Western Europe.

Marin Miletic

Portfolio Manager, Private Markets, KZVK Cologne

Marin Miletic has been working as a portfolio manager for KZVK Cologne since 2020. Together with the Private Markets Team of KZVK Cologne, Marin Miletic is responsible for Private Equity and Private Debt manager selection, from sourcing, due diligence and monitoring to representing KZVK on various advisory boards. Before joining KZVK Cologne, Marin worked in Asset Management at a Bank, where he advised institutional clients on asset management strategies in the public markets. Marin holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Cologne University of Applied Sciences. In addition to his role as a portfolio manager, Marin is a co-founder of the BAI-NexGen Council, which is a network for young professionals in private markets in Germany.

KZVK Cologne

The Kirchliche Zusatzversorgungskasse des Verbandes der Diözesen Deutschlands (KZVK), based in Cologne, is the nationwide partner for company pension schemes for the Catholic Church and the charitable sector. Established by the German bishops, the KZVK has been helping to protect the employees of the participating employers with a company pension for more than 45 years.

With almost 1.5 million insured persons, around 220,000 pension recipients, around 5,200 participating employers and a portfolio of over 25 billion euros, the KZVK is one of the largest pension funds in Germany.

The KZVK's private markets portfolio makes up a significant part of the capital investment. In addition to Real Estate, Private Equity and Infrastructure, KZVK has also been active in the Private Debt sector since 2020. Here, the KZVK is building up a defensive and at the same time distributing portfolio in Europe and the USA through fund investments.

Roxana Mirica

Partner, Head of Capital Markets, Apax Partners

Roxana Mirica is a Partner and head of Capital Markets in Europe. She is responsible for leading acquisition financing and ongoing debt and equity capital markets transactions for Apax’s portfolio companies. Additionally, Roxana manages day-to-day relationships with banks and institutional debt and equity investors.

Roxana serves as a Trustee to the Apax Foundation and the London Music Fund.

Roxana joined Apax Partners in 2017. Prior to joining Apax Partners, Roxana spent 9 years at Barclays, most recently as Director in Leveraged Finance.

Roxana holds a BA in Economics and Chemistry cum laude from Dartmouth College.

Apax Partners

Apax Partners LLP ("Apax") is a leading global private equity advisory firm. For over 50 years, Apax has worked to inspire growth and ideas that transform businesses. The firm has raised and advised funds with aggregate commitments of more than $65 billion. The Apax Funds invest in companies across four global sectors of Tech, Services, Healthcare, and Internet/Consumer. These funds provide long-term equity financing to build and strengthen world-class companies. For further information about Apax, please visit www.apax.com.

Apax is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK.

Sanjay Mistry

Head of Alternative Credit, Pension Protection Fund

Sanjay Mistry is the Head of Alternative Credit and interim Head of Alternatives. As a senior portfolio manager with 25 years investment experience, he is responsible for setting the strategy and all investments within a portfolio, spanning all sub-investment grade credit markets. His mandate covers performing/non-performing, long/short, liquid/illiquid assets in corporate markets and asset backed sectors including infrastructure debt and real estate debt. Soon after joining the PPF, he worked with the CIO to redesign and expand the PPF’s Alternatives team to its current form. Over the years Sanjay has managed several commingled and single investor vehicles and has multiple Advisory Boards roles. Prior to the PPF he spent over 20 years with Mercer Alternatives, having begun his career with Eagle Star Life Assurance and graduated from City University with first-class honours in BSc Actuarial Science. He is a member of the Institute of Actuaries and holds the CFA’s IMC.

Pension Protection Fund

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is a public corporation, set up by the Pensions Act 2004, and run by an independent Board. The PPF reports to Parliament through the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. When an employer becomes insolvent and its pension scheme can’t afford to pay its promised pensions, the PPF compensate scheme members for the pensions they have lost. The PPF take over responsibility for paying compensation once they’ve assessed that a scheme can’t afford to buy benefits from an insurance company which are equal to, or more than, the PPF would pay. Before the PPF, members of these schemes could have faced significant financial uncertainty and hardship.

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Roxana Mohammadian-Molina

Chief Strategy Officer, Blend

Roxana is an international investor and strategic advisor, with a career encompassing senior roles in banking, commodities, geopolitics and tech across the UK, Europe, and MENA.

Based in London, Roxana is a Chief Strategy Officer of real estate lending platform Blend, which is backed by high-profile family omffices and institutional investors.

She is a member of the Advisory Board of Women In Finance and has been recognized as a senior leader in the Innovate Finance Women In FinTech powerlist.

Prior to her current roles, Roxana was a Vice President at Morgan Stanley and Barclays, where she held various senior roles across commodities trading, strategy and research.

Blend

Blend is a specialist residential real estate development finance lender backed by high-profile family offices and institutional investors. Blend lends to mid-size experienced property developers in the UK.

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Charlotte Moore

Freelance journalist and communications consultant, Independent

Charlotte Moore is an award-winning journalist and communications consultant who has written about investments and pensions for 17 years. She writes for a number of well-respected trade magazines including IPE, Professional Pensions and PLSA Viewpoint magazine. She specialises in how institutions like pension schemes can invest sustainably and as well as penning frequent articles on the topic also holds regular salons where panellists are invited to debate different sustainable investment topics. In her spare time she is a not very strong Olympic weightlifter.

Ross Morrow

Co-Founder ＆ Executive Director, DunPort Capital Management

Ross Morrow is a Co-Founder ＆ Executive Director of DunPort Capital Management. Prior to establishing DunPort, Ross was a Senior Analyst at BlueBay, where he was responsible for the origination, execution and management of debt investments in Irish SMEs. Ross also worked in the debt advisory and restructuring team at Lazard, where he advised European middle market and high yield borrowers. Prior to Lazard he worked for Hawkpoint’s debt advisory ＆ restructuring practice, Acision as Group Treasurer and Anglo Irish Bank as a leveraged finance banker focused on the UK and Ireland. He has a BComm degree in Finance from University College Dublin, an MSc in International Business from the Michael Smurfit Graduate School in Ireland, is a CFA charter holder and has an MBA from Cass Business School in London.

DunPort Capital Management

DunPort Capital Management (“DunPort”) is an Irish based alternatives investment management company focused on the private debt asset class with a particular focus on the European lower mid-market. DunPort was founded in 2017 by Pat Walsh and Ross Morrow who successfully established the first private debt platform in Ireland in 2013. Based in Dublin, Ireland and with an office in London, DunPort has rapidly evolved since its formation and is now the leading provider of non-bank debt capital to SMEs and mid-sized corporates in the Irish market and an established player in the UK lower mid-market. In addition, DunPort has an emerging presence in the fast, growing Benelux lower mid-market. DunPort has delivered over €1bn in loans originated across 54 companies and has a demonstrable track record of delivering strong risk adjusted returns to its investor base which is made up of large institutional investors, Irish pension funds and family offices.

Jerome Neyroud

Head of Infrastructure Debt Investments, Schroders Capital

Jérôme is an infrastructure debt lifer. He has dedicated the past 25 years to advising on, structuring and investing into hundreds of debt investments in the EMEA region across all infrastructure sectors: accommodation, PFI/PPP, social infrastructure, transportation, waste, water, regulated assets, conventional energy, renewable energy, merchant power, oil & gas and telecom.

He worked for 15 years (1998–2012) in the wholesale banking industry with roles at BNPP, SG, and Dexia in project and acquisition finance. By late 2012, he moved on to AXA IM Real Assets to help create AXA’s inaugural infrastructure investment platform dedicated to the AXA Group companies (subsequently investing nearly €3 billion in the infrastructure sector over 3 years on behalf of the AXA Group insurance companies).

He has been heading Schroders Capital’s infrastructure debt practice since 2015, furthering the business’s innovative and market leading position in the infrastructure market.

Jérôme graduated from ENPC Paris Tech where he studied applied mathematics, economy and civil engineering.

Schroders Capital

As a global investment manager, we help institutions, intermediaries and individuals meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future. But as the world changes, so do our clients’ needs. That’s why we have a long history of adapting to suit the times and keeping our focus on what matters most to our clients. Doing this takes experience and expertise. We bring together people and data to spot the trends that will shape the future. This provides a unique perspective which allows us to always invest with conviction. We are responsible for £444.4 billion (€496.6 billion/$565.5 billion)* of assets for our clients who trust us to deliver sustainable returns. We remain determined to build future prosperity for them, and for all of society. Today, we have 5,000 people across six continents who focus on doing just this. We are a global business that’s managed locally. This allows us to always keep our clients’ needs at the heart of everything we do. For over 200 years and more than seven generations we’ve grown and developed our expertise in tandem with our clients’ needs and interests.

Dalit Nuttall

Principal, West Valley Capital

Following an institutional career with Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Wachovia, Dalit founded WestValley Capital in 2007 to connect preferred solution providers with European pension funds, insurance companies and asset managers in ways that address the investors’ market views and required considerations. Dalit has over 20 years’ experience working across asset classes within private markets and is a Committee Member of Women in Private Debt. Within the world of philanthropy Dalit is Co-Chair of Films Without Borders, and she sits on the Capital Committee of London’s South Bank Centre.

Daram Pandian

Multi-Asset Analyst, PRI

Daram Pandian is a Multi-Asset Analyst at the PRI. Based in London, he joined the PRI in 2021 where he focuses on private equity and private debt as well as sustainability themes including climate change, biodiversity, and human rights. Daram holds a Certificate in ESG Investing from the CFA and an MSc from the London School of Economics.

PRI

The PRI is the world’s leading proponent of responsible investment. It works:
- to understand the investment implications of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors;
- to support its international network of investor signatories in incorporating these factors into their investment and ownership decisions.

The PRI acts in the long-term interests:
- of its signatories;
- of the financial markets and economies in which they operate;
- and ultimately of the environment and society as a whole.

The PRI is truly independent. It encourages investors to use responsible investment to enhance returns and better manage risks, but does not operate for its own profit; it engages with global policymakers but is not associated with any government; it is supported by, but not part of, the United Nations.

Richard Parker

Managing Director, Head of EMEA Infrastructure Group, Barings

Richard Parker is Head of Barings’ EMEA Infrastructure Group and a member of the Barings’ Global Infrastructure Committee. He is a Managing Director, located in London, and is responsible for originating, structuring, and underwriting non-recourse structured finance transactions in the infrastructure, power and energy sectors. Richard has worked in the industry for 20 years. Prior to joining Barings, Richard was the Head of the London infrastructure team at Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank where he worked for 12 years with a focus on debt advisory and the origination, structuring and underwriting of infrastructure transactions. Prior to that he worked at Bank of Ireland in the project finance team. Richard is ACCA qualified. Richard also has a BA in History from Queen’s University in Belfast.

Barings

Barings is a $349+ billion* global investment manager sourcing differentiated opportunities and building long-term portfolios across public and private fixed income, real estate, and specialist equity markets. With investment professionals based in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, the firm, a subsidiary of MassMutual, aims to serve its clients, communities and employees, and is committed to sustainable practices and responsible investment.

Guillermo Pérez Molina

Private Credit Associate, Alternative Credit Council

Guillermo joined AIMA in January 2023 as a Private Credit Associate in the Alternative Credit Council (the ACC) team, based in London. His role focuses on public policy and regulatory issues affecting private credit managers as well as the ACC’s active research and events programme.

Prior to joining AIMA, Guillermo worked in public affairs consulting in Spain and the UK. He also did internships in think tanks, FinTech and the Spanish Embassy in London. Guillermo holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a MA in War Studies from King’s College London.

Alternative Credit Council

The Alternative Credit Council (ACC) is a global body that represents asset management firms in the private credit and direct lending space. It currently represents 250 members that manage over US$1 trillion of private credit assets.

The ACC is an affiliate of AIMA and is governed by its own board which ultimately reports to the AIMA Council.

ACC members provide an important source of funding to the economy. They provide finance to mid-market corporates, SMEs, commercial and residential real estate developments, infrastructure as well the trade and receivables business.

The ACC’s core objectives are to provide guidance on policy and regulatory matters, support wider advocacy and educational efforts and generate industry research. Private credit funds have grown substantially in recent years and are becoming a key segment of the asset management industry. The ACC seeks to explain the value of private credit by highlighting the sector's wider economic and financial stability benefits.

Corrado Pistarino

Chief Investment Officer, Foresters Friendly Society

Corrado has over 25 years’ experience in investment banking, asset management and insurance. He is CIO and Chair of the Climate Risk Forum at Foresters Friendly Society. Corrado holds a degree in Physics from Turin University and a Master in Finance from London Business School.

Foresters Friendly Society

The Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society Limited was established in 1834. Before the development of the National Health Service, employer-sponsored welfare benefits and easily accessible financial services, friendly societies played an important part in the lives of many people. Our first members recognised they had a duty to assist their fellow men who fell into need “as they walked through the forests of life”. Addressing this need has been the main purpose of Foresters Friendly Society throughout its long history. Today, Foresters is a mutual insurance business with a social, fraternal and benevolent mission. The Society delivers a wide range of benefits to members, including savings, investment and insurance products and additional benefits, from free nurse advisers to discretionary grants in time of need, all made available at no additional cost. The Society also encourages members to participate in one of its 189 local branches, known as Courts.

Marc Preiser

Portfolio Manager, Direct Lending, Fidelity International

Marc Preiser has a wealth of experience in private credit investing, having worked in the industry since 1992. He joined Fidelity in April 2022 as Portfolio Manager for the Direct Lending Fund.

Prior to joining Fidelity, Marc served as Senior Advisor to Next Wave Partners, a lower mid-market private equity firm. He also held the position of Head of European Private Credit for Apollo Global Management, where he led Apollo's entry into European Direct Lending, investing over €3.0 billion across Europe in directly originated middle market investments.

Marc's experience extends to the US, where he was Managing Director and founding team member of MidCap Financial, a currently $25 billion US-based Direct Lending business, owned by Apollo since 2015. He was instrumental in building MidCap's originations and capital markets platforms. He was also with Merrill Lynch Capital as a member of the healthcare team, building the business from scratch to more than €3.0 billion across various healthcare sectors and strategies.

Marc's extensive experience across multiple financial institutions, including BNP Paribas and Credit Lyonnais, has further enriched his expertise in private credit.

Fidelity International

Fidelity International is a global leader in investment and retirement expertise. As a privately-held company with a heritage extending more than 50 years, we think generationally and invest for the long term. It is our core business, ensuring we are driven by our clients’ needs and not shareholder demands.
For institutions - including insurers, friendly societies, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and banks, we offer tailored investment solutions and consultancy. In total, we manage US$714 billion across public and private markets as of 30 September 2023*.
Our company purpose is to build better financial futures for all stakeholders. We do this by expecting improving standards in environmental, social and governance (ESG) of the companies and issuers in which we invest, and of ourselves. We believe responsible stewardship of our clients’ assets is crucial to foster inclusive and sustainable economic growth.
Source: Fidelity International, 30 September 2023. Data is unaudited, asset figures are rounded to the nearest US$ billion.
*Includes assets under management and assets under administration. Although combined headline client asset figures for Fidelity International and Fidelity Canada are reported here, it should be noted that the financial results of Fidelity International and Fidelity Canada are not consolidated from a financial reporting perspective.

Peter Pulkkinen

Portfolio Manager – Sustainable Private Credit at Lombard Odier Investment Managers, LOIM

Peter Pulkkinen joined LOIM in February 2021. Before joining LOIM, Peter was Portfolio Manager for the Avenue Sustainable Solutions Fund. Peter has over 20 years of relevant industry experience having held senior roles at leading institutions with direct responsibility for sustainable private debt investments across renewable energy, infrastructure and project and asset backed finance at firms including BNP Paribas, Silverpeak, UBS AG, and Deutsche Bank AG. Peter began his career in private credit at Lehman Brothers. Peter earned a B.A. in Political Science from the University of New Hampshire (1992) and a Masters in International Affairs from The Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, with a concentration in International Finance/Economics (2004).

Greg Racz

President ＆ Co-founder, MGG Investment Group

Mr. Racz is President and Co-Founder of MGG Investment Group. Prior to MGG, Mr. Racz was President, Principal, and Chief Legal Officer of Hutchin Hill, a multi-billion multi-strategy hedge fund. Prior to joining Hutchin Hill, Mr. Racz co-founded Octavian Advisors, LP, a $1.4 billion multi-strategy investment fund, and served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and general counsel (2006-2009). Previously, Mr. Racz was a member of the corporate department of the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (1999-2006). There he advised on corporate, securities, and compliance matters for Fortune 500 businesses, investment firms, and institutional and high net worth clients, including ConocoPhillips, General Mills, Walt Disney Company, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Fox Paine, Warburg Pincus, a Washington State Investment Board affiliate, and owners of the New Jersey Devils. Mr. Racz was also a journalist at The Wall Street Journal and The Buffalo News (1993-1995) and worked at the Manhattan D.A.’s Office (1991-1993).

Previously, Mr. Racz was clerk on the D.C. Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals. He is a member of the Board of Trustees ＆ Investment Committee of the NYU School of Law Foundation and was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a member of the P&I Research Advisory Panel. He was named a “2011 Rising Star of Hedge Funds” by Institutional Investor.

Mr. Racz received his JD, Order of the Coif, magna cum laude, from NYU School of Law and his BA, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Dartmouth College. Mr. Racz also studied at Oxford University and Leningrad State University.

MGG Investment Group

MGG’s non-sponsor portfolios of uncorrelated private lending and structured solutions investments are designed to deliver consistent high cash yields with upside and superior risk-adjusted returns in all market cycles (with less than $30M in realized losses in $10B of originated investments since 2007). Each vintage has been top quartile since inception. Its top decile direct lending funds target 10% net and its top decile structured solutions funds target 15% net. MGG’s LPs are leading global, blue chip institutional endowment, foundation, pension, and insurance investors. MGG manages approximately $4 billion of committed capital. MGG offers onshore and offshore vehicles in both drawdown and evergreen structures, including EU/AIFM Luxembourg and Cayman vehicles, and a Rated Debt Feeder Fund.

Brendan Renehan

Managing Director, Credit, Vista Credit Partners

Brendan Renehan joined Vista Credit Partners in 2018. Mr. Renehan is responsible for the origination and evaluation of both private and public investments across Vista’s credit platform.

Prior to joining Vista, Mr. Renehan worked at Ares Management in the Direct Lending division. While at Ares, Mr. Renehan underwrote and maintained credit facilities for corporate and sponsor-backed companies across a wide array of industries. In addition to his credit responsibilities, Mr. Renehan also assisted in strategic endeavors of the firm, including portfolio acquisitions and fundraising activities. Before his time with Ares Management, Mr. Renehan was at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the Leveraged Finance division.

Mr. Renehan is a board member of Rocket Lawyer and RapidAI, and a board observer of AssureCare, Artsy, Arcadia, Certane, and TCGPlayer.

David Renshaw

Managing Director and Co-Head of European Debt Platform, Fiera Real Estate

David joined Fiera Real Estate in September 2022 and is Managing Director and Co-Head of Fiera Real Estate’s European Debt Platform. Prior to joining Fiera Real Estate, David held a senior position in the pan-European real estate debt team at Cheyne Capital where he was responsible for originating new debt investments, underwriting c.€500m of new deals over 24 months and launching the Iberian lending platform. At Fiera Real Estate, David is responsible for fund management and overall strategy of the debt business, leading on capital raising, governance and portfolio risk management.

Fiera Real Estate

Fiera Real Estate is a leading investment management company with offices in North America and Europe and a team of over 80 employees. The firm globally manages over USD$7.0 billion of commercial real estate through a range of investment funds and accounts as at 31 December, 2023. The highly diverse nature of its portfolio – in terms of both geographies and types of properties – combined with a range of high-quality strategies provides investors with opportunities to diversify their exposure and customize their investment experience within the real estate asset class.

Fiera Real Estate is wholly owned by Fiera Capital Corporation, a leading independent global asset management firm with more than USD122.1 billion of AUM as at 31 December, 2023. Fiera Capital provides Fiera Real Estate with access to global investment market intelligence, which enhances its ability to innovate within a framework that emphasizes risk assessment and mitigation.

Dan Robinson

EMEA Head of Alternative Credit, DWS

Dan joined DWS in 2023 to lead DWS’s European Alternative Credit business and has over 23 years of experience in credit at influential investment firms.

Most recently, Dan was Managing Partner of Capital Asset Solutions at Man Group responsible for multi-asset credit in the insurance, institutional and retail channels as well as private equity-led offshore reinsurance growth strategy. Dan also served as Global Head of CLOs and Loans responsible for developing Man’s structured credit and leverage loan business. Prior to joining Man Group, he was Chief Investment Officer (Europe) for CIFC Asset Management, responsible for the firm's investment activity in the region. He was also the senior portfolio manager and chaired the asset allocation committee for their Global Multi-Asset Credit Fund. Prior to this, Dan was Head of Liquid Credit (Europe) for Apollo Global Management, responsible for all investment activities in the region across leveraged loans, high yield bonds and CLO strategies. Between 2003 and 2015, he was a Managing Director at Oaktree Capital, responsible for high yield and leverage loan investing as well as establishing Oaktree's CLO business in 2014. He began his career at KPMG Corporate Restructuring, where he gained his ACA qualification.

Dan holds an MA (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh.

DWS – Private Credit

DWS has managed corporate credit portfolios for over 25 years across the market spectrum and regions and is considered one of the pioneers in Corporate Credit. With more than 70 credit specialists operating globally, we manage over EUR 100 billion (as of March 31, 2023) in dedicated investment grade, hybrid and high yield portfolios. Extending its public corporate credit business to Direct Lending, DWS is one of the few asset managers with significant coverage in each sub-asset class offering clients "one-stop-shop" investment solutions. DWS aims to build diversified portfolios that deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns with a focus on capital preservation to investors, which include governments, corporations, insurance companies, endowments, retirement plans, and private clients worldwide.

James Ruane

Managing Director - Capital Solutions - International, CDPQ

James Ruane has been Managing Director, Capital Solutions, International since January 2022. Based in the London office, he develops the international strategy for the Capital Solutions team in Europe, Asia and South America. He is also responsible for business development related to the North American transportation and finance subsectors. He sits on the Management Committee of the Fixed Income team, the Infrastructure Debt Investment Committee, and the Executive Committee for Europe.
Mr. Ruane has over 20 years of investment and finance experience. During his career, he has acquired extensive expertise in credit and private equity, as well as a deep understanding of financial institutions. Before joining CDPQ, he held several management positions, including in large organizations such as Bayview Asset Management, Deutsche Bank and Apax Partners.
Mr. Ruane holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Harvard Business School in Boston and a Bachelor’s in Economics and Business from Trinity College Dublin. During his studies, he also spent a year at Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium.

Sebastian Schroff

Lead Portfolio Manager Private Debt, Allianz Global Investors

Sebastian is the Lead Portfolio Manager for Global Private Debt at Allianz Global Investors. Previously, he was responsible for the Private Debt Portfolio of Allianz Group and the Alternative Investment Portfolio of the Germany Life & Health portfolios.

Other roles before joining Allianz include founding and exiting a fintech company, heading a research center for exchange trading, adjunct lecturer at the University of Hohenheim and doing a PhD in Behavioral Finance.

Sebastian is a CFA Charterholder.

Daniel Sinclair

Partner, European Direct Lending, Ares

Mr. Sinclair is a Partner in the Ares Credit Group, where he focuses on European direct lending. Additionally, Mr. Sinclair is a member of the Ares Credit Group's European Direct Lending Investment Committee. Prior to joining Ares in 2007, Mr. Sinclair was an Associate Director in the Financial Sponsors Group at Barclays, where he focused on originating and transacting mid-market leveraged financings. Mr. Sinclair holds a diploma from Leicester University in Management and an M.B.A., with merit, from Imperial College London.

Ares

Ares is a leading global alternative investment manager with ~$419bn AUM1. Ares offers primary and secondary investment solutions across the credit, private equity, real estate and infrastructure asset classes. Ares started its European Direct Lending business in 2007 gaining a first mover differentiation in a growing market that we believe benefits from the continued supply / demand imbalance in European credit. Ares currently manages ~$68bn1 in European Direct Lending. We seek to make self-originated debt investments in European companies to support growth, acquisitions, refinancings and the changing needs of our portfolio companies, while maintaining control positions in the capital structure. The Ares European Direct Lending team primarily focuses on companies in defensive industries with high free cash flow. We continue to leverage our demonstrated team capabilities with approximately 902 dedicated and experienced investment professionals, including ~20 portfolio management professionals, across six originating offices in Europe.

1 As of December 31, 2023. AUM amounts include funds managed by Ivy Hill Asset Management, LP., a wholly owned portfolio company of Ares Capital Corporation and registered investment adviser.
2 As of March 21, 2024. Includes offers accepted.

Nemashe Sivayogan

Head of Treasury and Pensions, London Borough of Merton

Nemashe Sivayogan is the Head of Treasury and Pension at the London Borough of Merton. Nemashe is responsible for looking after the £900m Pension Fund and the Treasury balance of £300m. In addition to Treasury and Pensions Nemashe also head the Council’s banking, insurance services and responsible for the year and accounting and auditing of the main Council. Also, she works on a number of projects across the council services.

Nemashe is a qualified Chartered Institute of Management Accountant, holding an associate membership.

Nemashe has more 25 years of experience in accounting and investment management and for the last twenty years she has been working in the local government where she specialises in pension fund investment management, accounting, and governance.

Nemashe also takes part in the Scheme Advisory Board’s Reporting and Compliance committee where she is helping with the accounting and audit issues facing the Local Government Pension Funds.

Andy Thomson

Senior Editor, Private Debt Investor, PEI Group

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.

Bouk van Geloven

Managing Director, Strategic Value Partners

Mr. van Geloven is a Managing Director and member of the North American Investment Team with a focus on several sectors, including infrastructure, packaging and industrials.

Prior to joining SVP, Mr. van Geloven was an Associate within the Strategic M&A Advisory team at J.P. Morgan Cazenove, where he performed complex valuation analysis, credit analysis and ratings advisory on multiple equity & debt financing transactions.

Mr. van Geloven holds a BS in Econometrics and MAs in both Econometrics and Quantitative Finance from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He currently serves on the Boards of Klöckner Pentaplast and Mattress Firm.

Laura Vaughan, CFA

Head of Direct Lending, Federated Hermes

Laura joined Federated Hermes in November 2015 when the private credit platform was being established. Laura is the portfolio manager of the third vintage of Federated Hermes’ European Direct Lending franchise, as well as Junior Portfolio Manager of the second vintage. Laura is also responsible for managing the team of direct lending analysts. Laura sits on the Private Debt Investment Committee which considers investments across all direct lending strategies at Federated Hermes Limited. Laura joined from GE Capital, where she was an associate in its mid-market leveraged finance execution team. At GE, Laura focused on arranging financings for European private equity-backed acquisitions funded through senior, second lien, mezzanine and unitranche facilities. Prior to this, Laura worked for three years at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi in its acquisition finance team in London, focusing on opportunities in European large-cap leveraged finance transactions and on portfolio management. Her previous role was at Allied Irish Bank in Dublin in its Corporate Banking North America division, in which she analysed US large-cap and middle-market leveraged finance transactions, and performed portfolio management functions. She has an Economics degree from University College Dublin and is a CFA charterholder.

Federated Hermes

Federated Hermes is guided by the conviction that responsible investing is the best way to create long-term wealth. We provide specialised capabilities across equity, fixed income and private markets, in addition to multi-asset strategies and liquidity-management. Through pioneering stewardship services, we engage companies on strategic and sustainability concerns to promote investors’ long-term performance and fiduciary interests. Our goals are to help people invest and retire better, to help clients achieve better risk-adjusted returns and, where possible, to contribute to positive outcomes that benefit the wider world.

Reji Vettaseri

Lead Portfolio Manager, DECALIA SA

Reji is the Lead Portfolio Manager for Private Markets Investments at Decalia Asset Management, where he runs a programme that invests through fund investments, co-investments, secondary transactions and seeding deals, with a particular focus on private credit and special situations. Reji has 17 years of industry experience and was previously an executive director at Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, an executive director at Goldman Sachs Investment Banking and a consultant at Bain ＆ Company. Reji received a B.A. (Hons) in law and a Master of Laws from the University of Cambridge and an M.B.A. with Distinction from Harvard Business School.

DECALIA SA

DECALIA SA Is a Geneva-headquartered asset manager, with around CHF5bn of assets under management. It develops innovative investment programmes in private and public markets, for institutional and private clients.

In its private markets division, DECALIA uses a mixture of co-investment, secondaries and primary investments, as well as seeding and joint venture partnerships with specialist investors, to build exposure to segments of the market offering superior risk adjusted returns. It has a particular focus on higher returning private credit strategies through its flagship programme.

DECALIA was founded in 2014 and has offices in Geneva, Milan and Zurich.

Aditya Vikram

Head of Private Debt and Private Equity, PRI

Aditya Vikram is the Head of Private Debt and Private Equity at the PRI. Based in London, he joined PRI in 2023 having previously worked in responsible investing in private markets. He has c.16 years of experience working in investment management across UK, Europe and Asia having previously worked at Partners Group, QuadReal and Värde Partners. Aditya holds a Certificate in ESG Investing from the CFA and an MBA from London Business School.

PRI

The PRI is the world’s leading proponent of responsible investment. It works:
- to understand the investment implications of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors;
- to support its international network of investor signatories in incorporating these factors into their investment and ownership decisions.

The PRI acts in the long-term interests:
- of its signatories;
- of the financial markets and economies in which they operate;
- and ultimately of the environment and society as a whole.

The PRI is truly independent. It encourages investors to use responsible investment to enhance returns and better manage risks, but does not operate for its own profit; it engages with global policymakers but is not associated with any government; it is supported by, but not part of, the United Nations.

Itamar Volkov

Managing Partner, Frux Capital

Itamar Volkov, the founder and managing partner of Frux Capital Investments, a prominent Spanish alternative lender, established the company in 2015 as one of the earliest active lenders in Spain.

In addition to his role at Frux Capital, Mr. Volkov serves as a board member of Carmel Corp, Israel's largest wine producer. With over 20 years of experience in the real estate sector, Mr. Volkov has played integral roles in numerous real estate investments and operations, including a nine-year tenure as a board member of Airport City, a multi-billion-dollar traded real estate company. He holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management in California and a B.A. in Economics.

Frux Capital

Frux Capital specializes in providing financing and capital solutions to real estate companies across Spain and selected European markets. Their solutions span multiple sectors and have aided borrowers in various asset classes, such as offices, retail, logistics, hotels, residential, and PBSA, accommodating different risk profiles from opportunistic to core investments.

Danny Vroegop

Co-Founder ＆ Chief Investment Officer, Colesco Capital

Danny is the Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Colesco Capital. He is the Chairman of the Investment Committee and the Executive Board. Within Colesco, Danny is also responsible for investor relations, commercial executive involvement and general management including executive HR, compliance, legal and risk management. Danny has over 25 years of experience in European credit origination and execution. Prior to co-founding Colesco, Danny led the Global Acquisition Finance ＆ Sponsored Coverage franchise of Rabobank. He held several other notable positions as Head of Sponsor Coverage, Head of Leveraged Finance Origination (Europe), and positions involving execution of leveraged finance transactions. Danny started his career as a strategy consultant in the Rabobank Group Strategy and E-commerce teams. Danny holds an Executive MBA from IMD and an MSc in International Finance from University of Amsterdam.

Colesco

Colesco is an innovative direct lender with a mission to unite capital and purpose. It provides senior secured debt (including unitranche loans) and subordinated debt to leading European mid-market companies (between €10m-€100m EBITDA) that seek to achieve their sustainable growth ambitions.
Colesco is backed by Rabobank – a global financial institution with a rich heritage. Colesco combines its long history of credit investing at Rabobank with a differentiated investment approach.

With a clear focus on thematic investing (including Energy Transition, Sustainable Food, and Inclusive Society) and a wide network in both its home market of the Benelux and across Europe, Colesco is a reliable, long-term partner to companies that want to realise their growth ambitions while offering investors the advantages of a growing private debt market.

www.colescocapital.com

Niamh Whooley

Managing Director, Head of Sustainable Investing, Pemberton Capital Advisors

Niamh is responsible for driving Pemberton’s continued growth trajectory as an ESG pioneer in the alternative credit direct lending space.

Niamh brings over 18 years of leadership and hands-on expertise in sustainable investing, where she has been dedicated to developing end-to-end ESG investment solutions across asset classes, ranging from sustainability-focused investment research and integration to commercial messaging and solution delivery.

Prior to joining Pemberton, Niamh was Global Head of Fixed Income ESG at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), where she worked closely with investment teams to define the intersection of material ESG factors and fundamental investing within corporate, emerging market and sovereign debt. Before GSAM, Niamh was a Senior VP and Head of the ESG Desk at PIMCO and served on the firm’s CIO-chaired ESG Executive Leadership Committee. Before that, she was Director of ESG Equity Investment Research at Société Générale for over 6 years. She began her sustainable investing career at Fidelity International in 2005.

Ian Wiese

Managing Director, Portfolio Finance, Barings

Ian is a Managing Director at Barings Portfolio Finance where he is responsible for sourcing and structuring transactions. He is also a member of the investment committee. He was previously a Portfolio Manager at MassMutual’s Direct Private Investments team. Prior to joining MassMutual, Ian was the Head of Secondaries at Investec Fund Solutions, a team part of Investec Plc providing innovative liquidity solutions to funds and fund managers. Before that he also spent several years in the banks leverage finance and investment banking teams. Ian graduated with an accounting and law degree from the University of Stellenbosch as well as achieved a B.Com (Hons) Accounting. Ian is a Chartered Accountant and a qualified attorney.

Raymond Wright

Private Markets Portfolio Manager, London CIV

Raymond Wright (ACCA) works for London CIV as a Private Markets Portfolio Manager; he joined in May 2024. He has year 20 years in pension fund investment management experience, spending 16 years at British Airways Pensions before working as a consultant to Royal Mail Pension Plan as a Private Markets manager from 2020-2023.

London CIV

London LGPS CIV Ltd ('London CIV'), established in 2015 by London Local Authorities manages London Local Government Pension Scheme ('LGPS') assets. London CIV is one of eight U.K. LGPS asset pooling companies. The London Boroughs and City of London are the 32 Shareholders ('Client Funds').

We aim here to deliver solutions which will allow LGPS client funds to invest assets on behalf of beneficiaries to provide improved and more efficient investment outcomes.
We aim to add value for our clients through economies of scale, greater efficiency and improved performance.

Kristina Matthews

Partner, Falcon Investments

Kristina Matthews is a Partner, heading up Investor Relations and Fund Raising at Falcon Investment Advisors, a leading private credit provider focused on junior capital solutions. She joined the Falcon Team in May 2023 from Brightwood Capital Advisors where she was a Managing Director, Head of Investor Relations and ESG. While she lead investor relations, Kristina primarily focused on business development and fundraising strategy along with oversight and implementation of the firm’s ESG policy. Her engagement commenced in February 2014 in a Consulting role which led to her joining Brightwood full time in May 2018. In 2012 she founded and was the Managing Partner of, Rising Tide Fund Advisors LLC, an entity providing consulting services to private credit and private equity firms. The prior 6 years she was a Managing Director at PineBridge Investments/AIG Investments and Head of Investor Relations for all Emerging Markets Private Equity. She was also part of the Central and Eastern European Private Equity Investment Team and was integrally involved in strategy, deal sourcing, and working with portfolio companies. She spent 6 years at Merrill Lynch as a Regional Sales Manager for Alternative Investments. She was a high-yield bond and distressed securities trader with BNP-Paribas, though most of her early career was as the Head of Sales for Currencies and Currency Derivatives. She holds an MBA in Economics and International Finance from New York University Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Business Administration from Northeastern University with a dual Major in Finance and International Business and a Minor in Economics.

Eugenio Sangermano

Managing Director, BF.capital GmbH

Andy Thomson

Senior Editor, Private Debt Investor

Andy has been with PEI 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, also for Private Debt Investor. He is a regular writer for the magazines as well as 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. He has a degree in Sociology from the University of Surrey.

Strategising for success in the new era of private credit

The essential meeting place for GPs and LPs to connect.

2024 Investor attendees included:

400 attendees

85 Speakers

100 Investors

Why the PDI Europe Summit?

Meet Europe’s leading investor community

Shape your strategies in a changing market

Build a strong private debt network

Senior Portfolio Manager, Allianz Global Investors

Managing Partner, Claret Capital Partners

Partner, StepStone

Managing Director, Head of Global Credit, Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO)

Head of Real Estate Debt, Edmond de Rothschild Real Estate Investment Management

Managing Director and Business Leader, Artisan Partners

Partner, Head of Capital Markets, Apax Partners

Head of Alternative Credit, Pension Protection Fund

EMEA Head of Alternative Credit, DWS

Managing Director - Capital Solutions - International, CDPQ

Key event themes include:

Underlying drivers of private debt’s growth

Niche strategies in alternative credit investing

LP allocation and investment trends

Tackling the talent crunch in private credit

Key opportunities across large cap, midcap and the lower middle market

What our delegates say?

Eugenio Sangermano

BF capital GmbH

Alicia Forry

Investec

Thomas Spring

Syntaxis Capital

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2025 Agenda

Agenda

Day 1 - Tuesday 13th

Registration

PDI Europe Summit Welcome Address

Chairperson’s opening remarks

Keynote: Macro and geopolitical outlook

Panel: Innovations in credit strategies in the current cycle

Networking Coffee Break

Panel: Navigating today’s shifting direct lending landscape

Investor Views: The role of Private credit in LP Portfolios

Networking Lunch

Panel: Real estate debt opportunities

Panel: Investing in infra debt

Panel: Harnessing NAV facilities and Fund Finance

Panel: Identifying Opportunities across specialty finance

Networking Coffee break

Behind the Curtains: Insights from Private Equity Borrowers

Panel: Identifying gaps in the market landscape and setting up independent emerging managers

LP hosted roundtables

Networking reception

Agenda

Day 2 - Wednesday 14th

Invite only LP networking breakfast

Registration

Chair’s welcome remarks

LP Keynote Interview

Panel: Key drivers for Opportunistic Credit and Market Dislocation Strategies

PDI Data Presentation

Networking Break

PDI Investment Committee

Networking lunch

Aligning ESG Expectations: Managing changing LP requirements

The demand for talent in private credit and closing the DEI and gender gap

Deal origination and deal flow- sponsored vs sponsorless

Emerging hotspots: Growth lending to Software Companies

Coffee break

Spotlight: Asia-Pacific investors' growing appetite for international opportunities

Closing remarks

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The in-person networking experience

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