LGT Capital Partners’ Advisory Council meetings and the Annual Investor Conference 2024
We look forward to welcoming you soon to LGT Capital Partners’ Advisory Council meetings and the Annual Investor Conference (AIC), which will take place at the Bürgenstock Resort near Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, from 23 to 26 April 2024.
The Advisory Council meetings will be held on 23 April 2024. An option to join the meetings virtually will be made available for those unable to attend in person. Please let us know during the registration process if you will attend in person or virtually.
The Advisory Council meetings will be followed by the Annual Investor Conference (AIC), which will bring together leading experts and investors from around the globe to explore the latest trends in alternative investing. As in previous years, the event will feature a wide-ranging program − with keynote speeches, presentations, panel discussions and breakout sessions – and offer many networking opportunities.
Ahead of the event, we will send you a personalized information pack with details on the conference program, accommodation and your on-site contacts.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact your relationship manager or lgt.cp.events@lgtcp.com.
Kind regards,
LGT Capital Partners
15.30 – 16.45 | Crown Secondaries Special Opportunities Limited Partner Advisory Councils | Crown Impact Advisory Council |
15.30 – 16.45 | European Capital Private Debt & Crown European Private Debt Limited Partner Advisory Councils | Venture Capital Advisory Council |
16.45 – 17.15 | Coffee break | |
17.15 – 18.30 | Secondary Advisory Council & Crown Global Secondaries Limited Partner Advisory Councils | Co-investment Advisory Council & Crown Co-investment Opportunities III Limited Partner Advisory Councils |
17.15 – 18.30 | Crown European Small Buyouts Limited Partner Advisory Councils | Asia Advisory Council & Crown Asia Pacific Private Equity V Limited Partner Advisory Council |
17.15 – 18.30 | LGT Global Private Credit Advisory Council | |
19.00 – 22.00 | Drinks and dinner |
08.45 – 09.15 | Welcome and introduction | |
09.15 – 09.45 | The LGT Endowment Fund: perspectives from 25 years | |
09.45 – 10.15 | Macroeconomic outlook | |
10.15 – 10.45 | Coffee break | |
10.45 – 11.30 | Expert perspectives: the great geopolitical trends of our time | |
11.30 – 12.30 | Technology: an evolution or revolution? | |
12.30 – 14.00 | Lunch break | |
14.00 – 14.30 | Private markets platform and strategy update | |
14.30 – 15.10 | Panel discussion: local perspectives in global portfolios | |
15.10 – 15.30 | Private equity presentation: small buyout manager | |
15.30 – 16.00 | Coffee break | |
16.00 – 17.30 | Strategy updates – Stream A – Co-investments – Impact investing – Private debt | |
16.00 – 17.30 | Strategy updates – Stream B – Manager selection – Venture capital – Infrastructure | |
19.00 – 22.00 | Drinks and dinner |
08.45 – 09.00 | Introduction | |
09.00 – 10.00 | Strategy updates – Credit – Secondaries | |
10.00 – 10.45 | Private equity panel: balancing agility with consistency | |
10.45 – 11.15 | Coffee break | |
11.15 – 12.30 | Breakout sessions | |
12.30 – 13.45 | Lunch break | |
13.45 – 15.00 | Breakout sessions | |
15.15 – 18.30 | Leisure activities | |
19.00 – 22.00 | Drinks and dinner |
08.45 – 09.00 | Introduction | |
09.00 – 09.45 | AI-strategies and the power of technology | |
09.45 – 10.30 | Investing in ILS in a changing climate | |
10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee break | |
11.00 – 11.45 | Tackling climate change: where is the capital? | |
11.45 – 12.30 | Keynote and closing remarks | |
12.30 – 14.00 | Lunch | |
14.00 | Official end of the conference program |
*Subject to change
David Andryc (American) is a Partner at LGT Capital Partners in New York, with overall responsibility for managing the Firm’s North American business. He is also responsible for the US Co-investment team.
Prior to joining the Firm in 2014, he was a managing director for 13 years at Auda International L.P., where he founded and managed the global co-investment program and was a shareholder of the firm. Prior to Auda, David was a partner at Behrman Capital, a US private equity firm. He began his investment career at Lazard.
David holds a BA in Comparative Religion from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
André Aubert (Swiss) is a Partner at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He is responsible for the Secondaries team and is a member of the private equity Global Investment Committee for secondary transactions. He has an additional focus on infrastructure activities.
Prior to joining the firm in 2005, Mr. Aubert was a principal at Index Ventures, a pan-European venture capital firm, which he joined in 1999. At Index Mr. Aubert focused on investment opportunities in the communications, semiconductor and embedded software sectors. Prior to joining Index, Mr. Aubert worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company in the Zurich and Geneva offices, primarily in the telecommunications and banking sectors. Before that, he worked as a research assistant in the telecom laboratory of the University of Tokyo in Japan.
He holds an MSc in Telecom Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Duke University and an MBA from INSEAD. He is fluent in English, French and German.
Bill Chisholm is a co-founder of STG and serves as the firm’s Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer. At STG, Bill leads the firm’s investment activities and assumes a hands-on approach in the day-to-day management of STG companies. From strategic discussions to mining innovation opportunities, Bill acts as a sounding board on a variety of issues.
Bill has led many STG investments, including AFS Technologies (sold to Telus), Aldata (now SymphonyEYC), Cadmium, CAI Software, Capco (sold to FIS), CoreOne (sold to Markit), Dodge Construction Data, eProductivity Software, First Advantage (sold to Silver Lake Partners), IMI (merged with CDC Corp.), Intentia (merged with Lawson Software), GERS (sold to Ecometry/GGC), IRi (sold to New Mountain), JobRapido, Skyhigh Security and Trellix (from the combination of McAfee Enterprise and FireEye), MSC Software (sold to Hexagon), RSA, Symphony Services (merged with Teleca to become Symphony Teleca, sold to Harman), Symphony Talent, Symphony Marketing Solutions (sold to Genpact), Trace One, Ventiv (sold to Tailwind Capital), and Winshuttle (sold to Precisely).
Prior to co-founding STG, Bill co-founded The Valent Group and also worked at Bain & Company and PaineWebber, Inc.
Bill graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor of Arts degree and from The Wharton School with an MBA with Distinction. He currently sits on the board of directors for Cadmium, CAI Software, Dodge, eProductivity Software, Jobrapido, RSA, Skyhigh Security, Symphony Talent, Trace One, and Trellix.
Doug Coulter (Canadian) is a Partner at LGT Capital Partners in Hong Kong, and he is responsible for the Asian Private Equity team. He is also a member of the Global Investment Committee for Asian primary investments.
Prior to joining the firm in 2007, Mr. Coulter was a senior investment officer for the International Finance Corporation (the direct investment arm of the World Bank), based in both Hong Kong and Washington D.C. He was responsible for sourcing, structuring, monitoring and exiting Asian investments in the telecommunications, media and technology (TMT), retail and consumer and life sciences sectors. He previously worked at Nomura Securities in Hong Kong and as a lawyer at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP in Toronto.
Mr. Coulter holds an MBA from INSEAD, an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics, a law degree from the University of Western Ontario and a BA in Political Studies from Queen’s University. He is fluent in English and French, and conversant in Mandarin and Hungarian.
Tommaso Crackett (Italian/British) is a Principal at LGT Capital Partners in London. He is responsible for origination, due diligence, execution and monitoring of co-investments.
He originally joined the firm in 2012. He briefly left to act as an investment director at UK middle market buyout fund Livingbridge, and then he rejoined LGT CP in 2019. Mr. Crackett started his career at Deloitte in London, where he focused on financial modeling and analysis.
He holds an MSc in Law and Accounting from the London School of Economics and a BA in International Economics and Management from Bocconi University in Milan. He is fluent in English, Italian, Spanish and French.
JD Crouchley (American) is a Principal at LGT Capital Partners in New York. He is responsible for origination, due diligence, execution and monitoring of co-investments.
Prior to joining the firm in 2015, he was a senior vice president at Auda Private Equity in New York, where he focused on co-investments and secondary transactions. Before that, he was a consulting associate at Cambridge Associates in Boston, where he assisted clients with portfolio allocation and manager selection.
Mr. Crouchley holds a BA in Economics from Trinity College in Hartford, CT and an MBA from Columbia University.
Enzo is Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Tyree & D’Angelo Partners. Enzo manages all day to day aspects of the firm and oversees all phases of Tyree & D’Angelo Partners while also serving as a member of all portfolio company boards of directors.
Enzo has over two decades of private equity investment and corporate finance experience. He previously worked at Norwest Equity Partners which managed $5 billion of investment capital at the time, Wind Point Partners which managed $2 billion of investment capital at the time, and American Securities which managed $2 billion of investment capital at the time. Prior to entering the private equity industry, Enzo focused on corporate finance merger & acquisition advisory and lending for private equity investments while at Credit Suisse investment banking in New York.
Enzo received an MBA with honors from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and received an undergraduate business degree with honors from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.
Pius Fritschi (Swiss) is a Managing Partner at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He is responsible for the firm’s global client related activities and leads the Liquid Markets Growth business. He is a member of the Executive Committee and chairs the firm’s Client Committee.
Prior to joining the firm in 2009, Mr. Fritschi was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, serving banks, insurance companies and asset managers on a broad range of topics. Among others, he co-led McKinsey’s European Life Insurance & Asset Management Practice for several years. During his 15 years at McKinsey, Mr. Fritschi worked out of Zurich, Sydney and Mexico City offices, serving clients from all over the world. In 2006, he joined Horizon21, an alternative investment boutique in Switzerland, as Partner and Deputy-CEO.
Mr. Fritschi holds an MA in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Basel. He is fluent in German, English, French and Spanish.
Matthew Gordon Clark (British) is a partner at LGT Private Debt.
He joined the firm in 2005 from Mezzanine Management Limited, where he was a director focusing on UK and European investments. Deal responsibilities included origination and structuring of new investments and management and exit of portfolio companies. Prior to joining Mezzanine Management Limited in 2000, Mr. Gordon Clark worked for the acquisition finance team at NM Rothschild & Sons, having previously completed a six-year commission in the British Army. He currently sits on the board of a number of portfolio companies.
Mr. Gordon Clark holds a BA in Politics and International Relations from the University of London, and he is fluent in English and conversant in French.
Prior to joining the Firm in 2002, he studied banking and finance at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, receiving his MA in Economics in 2002. He also completed the PLD executive management program at Harvard Business School in 2010. He is fluent in English, German, Italian and French.
Maryanne Hancock is the Chief Executive Officer of Y Analytics, the arm of TPG responsible for the impact and ESG mandates of the firm. She is also a Partner of TPG and serves on the Management Committee and co-chairs the DEI Strategy Council. Under her leadership, Y Analytics enables TPG Rise Impact Platform, the largest private equity impact investing platform, to deliver on its impact promise with industry-leading rigor. Maryanne’s team also leads ESG Performance for TPG at a firm level, in its investment practices, and in its engagement with its ~200 portfolio companies. Founded by TPG, Bono, and Jeff Skoll to be at the cutting edge of innovation in environmental and social decision-making, Y Analytics under Maryanne has built an ecosystem of talent and distinguished advisors that advances this mission through their work on the frontlines of ESG performance and impact every day. In line with the public benefit mission of the organization, Maryanne publishes, speaks, teaches, shares with other investors, and contributes to industry bodies.
Previously, Maryanne spent ~20 years at McKinsey and Company, where she was a Senior Partner and counsellor to numerous CEOs and senior executives of Fortune 500 companies. Among her several leadership roles, Maryanne co-founded McKinsey’s K-12 education practice in the U.S. and served several poverty alleviation non-profits, including CARE. She worked extensively in environmental services and energy. She was a Co-Chair of McKinsey’s global Partner Election Committee.
Maryanne currently serves on the boards of Ownership Works, a non-profit expanding shared ownership among workers, as well as Intersect Power. She previously served on the board of the Jefferson Scholars Foundation.
Maryanne holds a BA with Honors and an MA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and a JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. She resides with her husband and two sons in Virginia.
Martha Heitmann (Japanese) is a Partner at LGT Capital Partners in San Francisco, USA. She is responsible for managing the San Francisco office and for origination, due diligence, execution and monitoring of secondary transactions. She chairs the Diversity & Inclusion Committee.
Prior to joining the Firm in 2007, Martha worked in business development for Telephia Inc. in San Francisco. From 2001 to 2003 she was a corporate and investment banking analyst for Bank of America Securities in San Francisco.
Martha holds a BA in Economics from the University of Chicago and an MBA from INSEAD. She is fluent in English and Japanese and conversant in German.
Andreas Hellmann (German) is a Partner at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He is responsible for origination, due diligence, execution and monitoring of co-investments and direct secondaries.
Prior to joining the firm in 2009, he completed an assignment with Orlando, a Munich-based private equity firm.
He holds an MA in Banking and Finance from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland and an MSc in Management from HEC Paris. He is fluent in English, German and French.
Roger Hilty (Swiss) is a Partner on the Liquid Markets Multi-Manager team at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He is co-responsible for the Liquid Markets Multi-Manager team. Further, he is a member of the Liquid Markets Management Team and the Liquid Markets Multi-Manager Investment Committee.
Mr. Hilty joined the firm in September 2004 from LGT Bank AG, where he started his career in January 2000 in the Trading/Treasury division. From 2000 to 2004, his responsibilities involved activities in equity, fixed-income, currency and commodity exchange traded and OTC products as well as processing of transactions for Asian, European and US markets. Prior to working in Finance, Mr. Hilty was a professional road racing cyclist in the international cycling team GS Ericsson Villiger (ERI).
Mr. Hilty has an MBA in Finance and a BA in Business Administration from University of Liechtenstein. He is fluent in German and English.
Felix Janssen (German) is a Partner at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He is responsible for origination, due diligence, execution and monitoring of European secondary and credit investments. He has an additional focus on infrastructure activities.
Prior to joining the firm in 2011, he was an investment manager with Mountain Cleantech, a private equity manager based near Zurich, focused on the European cleantech industry.
Mr. Janssen holds a degree in Business Information Technology from the University of Goettingen. He is fluent in English and German.
Stephan Kind (Liechtensteiner) is a Partner on the Liquid Markets team at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He is a member of the Executive Committee, the co-chair of the Liquid Markets Management Team and the chair of the Multi-Asset Investment Committee. Mr. Kind is co-responsible for the firm’s Liquid Markets activities. The team is responsible for multi-asset and multi-alternative funds, sustainable fixed income and equity funds, liquid multi-manager funds and institutional mandates. For more than fifteen years, he is responsible for the portfolio management of the LGT Endowment fund.
Mr. Kind started at LGT Group in August 1994 and joined LGT Capital Partners in October 2001. He spent a brief spell in LGT Bank’s Hong Kong office and started in the portfolio management team for the LGT Endowment fund in 2005. From 2005 to 2013, he was also responsible for selecting and monitoring external managers in particular in the area of emerging markets equities.
Mr. Kind holds the Swiss Federal Diploma for Experts in Finance and Investments (AZEK) and is Certified International Wealth Manager (CIWM). He received a BSc in Business Administration from the University of Applied Science (HTW) in Chur, Switzerland. He is fluent in German and English.
Thomas Kristensen (Danish) is a Partner at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He is responsible for origination, due diligence, execution and monitoring of European private equity investments, as well as for venture and growth equity investments.
Prior to joining the firm in 2004, Mr. Kristensen worked two years for the investment bank Lazard in the M&A division of the London office.
Prior to that, he completed his MSc in Finance from Cass Business School in London. He also holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Copenhagen. Mr. Kristensen is fluent in English, Danish and French and conversant in German.
Thomas Kyriakoudis (British) is a Partner at LGT Capital Partners in London, and is the co-head for our Private Credit Solutions team. He is responsible for origination, due diligence, execution and monitoring of private credit transactions.
Prior to joining the firm in 2021, Mr. Kyriakoudis was a Partner and CIO at Permira Credit, one of Europe’s largest private credit managers. As one of the two initial partners, Mr. Kyriakoudis helped to build the business from the ground up to around EUR 10 billion in assets under management. During his 13 years at Permira, Mr. Kyriakoudis was a member of all Permira Credit Investment Committees, founded the structured credit business, was co-portfolio manager of the CLO business and led a significant number of direct lending transactions. Prior to Permira, Mr. Kyriakoudis worked on the structured credit trading desk of Morgan Stanley in London.
Mr. Kyriakoudis holds an MA in Business Administration from the London Business School and an MSC in Engineering from Cambridge University.
Sven Lang (Swiss) is a Principal within the Emerging Markets Fixed Income team at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland.
Prior to joining the firm in 2014, Mr. Lang worked with Swiss & Global Asset Management AG (formerly Julius Baer Investment Fund Services) in Zurich as a Fixed Income product specialist. Previously, he was a portfolio manager for private client portfolios and a fund analyst responsible for the fixed income asset allocation with VZ VermögensZentrum in Zurich.
Mr. Lang holds a BA in Business Administration from the University of Applied Sciences in Zurich and a Certified International Investment Analyst (CIIA) diploma from the Swiss Training Centre for Investment Professionals AZEK in Zurich. He is fluent in German and English.
Atul Lele joined Bridgewater in 2018 as a Portfolio Strategist and is responsible for leading the Portfolio Strategist group. A senior member of the research group, Atul works closely with our Co-CIOs, and also partners with Bridgewater’s clients on their most important investment priorities, including developing investment strategies to meet their goals and providing insight into the research group’s thinking on global markets and economic conditions.
Atul is a 20+ year investment industry veteran. Prior to joining Bridgewater, Atul spent five years as the CIO of Deltec International Group, where he was responsible for their investment management and advisory activities, focusing on the investment strategy, portfolio management and analytical processes behind the firm’s strategic and tactical global macro funds. In this role, Atul was the primary author of the firm’s global macro research publications, with a specific focus on the interaction of global growth, liquidity conditions and asset prices. Prior to that, Atul spent five years as the Head of Strategy, Economics and Quantitative Research for Credit Suisse Australia, where his research was top ranked by clients and external surveys over multiple years. Before that, he spent eight years as a Portfolio Manager and Partner at White Funds Management, a multi-asset class investment manager, where Atul focused on Equities, Listed Real Assets and Credit. Atul has regularly appeared in the financial media and in investment-related books. He is also a CFA charterholder and holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting and Finance from the University of New South Wales.
“People, Planet, Purpose, and Prosperity” is Gerd's motto, and helping to design “The Good Future” is his key objective. Gerd is one of the top-rated contemporary futurists worldwide; he has presented at over 2000 leading conferences and events over the past 20 years, and has worked with the likes of Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, NBC, Visa, Google, the European Commission, L’Oréal, Audi, Deloitte, and IBM. Gerd has influenced and inspired millions to “imagine and create a better tomorrow”. Wired magazine named him one of the most influential Europeans, and he is listed as #7 in the global ranking of futurists.
As a leading voice on the future of humanity and the bestselling author of “Technology vs Humanity: The Coming Clash Between Man and Machine”, Gerd has built a storied reputation as the go-to keynote speaker and thought leader when it comes to digital ethics, human-beneficial technology, sustainability, and the need for a new, future-fit economic logic.
With his uniquely cinematic ‘super-keynote' format, Gerd is continuously pioneering the art of keynoting, while his digital/remote ‘keynote television’ style of virtual presentations has propelled him to the top of the list of the most talked-about virtual keynote presenters worldwide. Gerd is a former professional musician, a critically acclaimed filmmaker and producer, a successfully failed .com paper-millionaire, a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (London), and a Visiting Professor at the Fundação Dom Cabral in Brazil.
Gerd is no stranger to the media. He frequently shares his often controversial but always prescient views in publications such as The Guardian, Harvard Business Review, Business Insider, Wired UK. He's contributed interviews to the BBC, CNN, Arirang TV, Swiss SRF, ZDF, ARD, and ARTE, and appeared as a special guest in many documentaries.
He is based in Zurich, Switzerland and often works from Las Brenas, Lanzarote.
Olivier Meline (French) is a Partner at LGT Capital Partners in Paris. He is responsible for origination, due diligence, execution and monitoring of venture and growth equity co-investments. Previously, he was responsible for the Paris-based investment team of LGT Private Debt (France) SAS.
Prior to joining the firm in 2005, he was a senior auditor in the industrials division of Ernst & Young, serving clients in the aerospace, energy, food, automotive and transportation sectors. He has also worked in M&A at JP Morgan in London and in marketing at Sony in Berlin.
Mr. Meline holds a MSc in Management and a German Diplom-Kaufmann degree, with distinction, from ESCP Europe. He is fluent in French and English.
Cem Meric (Swiss/Turkish) is a Partner at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland, and he is responsible for the European Primaries team. He is also a member of the Global Investment Committee for European primary investments, and he has an additional focus on infrastructure investments.
Prior to joining the firm in 2001, he began his career at Argos Soditic (a pan-European middle market buyout group) as an analyst, where he was a member of the Swiss investment team. During and after his university studies, Mr. Meric gained experience in mergers and acquisitions as well as private equity at Benexi/BNP Private Equity in Paris. He serves on the advisory board of a number of private equity funds.
Mr. Meric holds an MSc in Accounting and Finance from the University of Strasbourg and an MSc in Finance from Science Po Strasbourg in France, as well as an AMP from Harvard Business School. He is fluent in English, Turkish and French and conversant in German.
Roberto Paganoni (Dutch/Italian) is a Managing Partner, the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He is also a member of the Executive Committee, Investment Advisory Board and the private equity Global Investment Committee.
He joined LGT Group in 1997 to form the Alternative Investments Group, which is now LGT CP Ltd. Prior to joining LGT Group, he had been at McKinsey & Company since 1989, where he managed international projects in the areas of industrial goods, airlines, telecommunications and financial services. He has been based in Zurich since 1993.
Roberto completed his mechanical engineering studies at the technical University of Aachen, Germany and received a PhD in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, where he also lectures on a part-time basis. He is fluent in English, Dutch, German and conversant in French and Italian.
Martin Patek (Czech) is an Associate Director at LGT Capital Partners Ltd. focusing on the infrastructure asset class across co-investments as well as primary and secondary investments. Prior to joining the firm in 2018, he worked for Arthur D. Little in Prague, a management consulting firm, where he was part of the energy and utilities practice. Mr. Patek holds an MSc in Corporate Finance from the Stockholm School of Economics and a BSc in Economics and Finance from Charles University in Prague. He is fluent in English and Czech.
Ewout has been an PE-investor with Holland Capital since 2000. Prior to that he gained experience in finance at Unilever and as an entrepreneur in market research.He was as a board member of the Dutch Association of Private Equity Companies for 8 years and has a master’s degree in business administration (Erasmus University Rotterdam).
Philippe Schneitter (Swiss) is a Partner at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He is responsible for origination, due diligence, execution and monitoring of co-investments and direct secondaries.
Prior to joining the firm in 2016, he spent ten years at TPG Capital in London, where he focused on direct private equity investments across Europe. Prior to that, he worked in the investment banking division of Credit Suisse in London.
Mr. Schneitter holds a BSc in Economics and an MSc in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics. He is fluent in English and German.
Mark Refermat serves as Managing Director of Machine Learning Portfolio Strategy for Voleon. He focuses on increasing clients’ understanding of Voleon’s investment strategies, and machine learning techniques applied to finance. Dr. Refermat works closely with the research team in developing strategy analytics.
Previously, he was a Principle at Man AHL, where he initially built quantitative multi-asset strategies. Later, he was responsible for educating clients on a range of quantitative investment strategies. Prior to Man AHL, Dr. Refermat worked in fixed income trading at Dresdner Kleinwort in London.
Dr. Refermat holds a Ph.D. from EDHEC and a BA in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He is based in Berkeley, CA.
Raimund Seeholzer (Swiss) is a Partner on the Multi-Manager team at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He is co-responsible for the Multi-Manager team with an additional focus on the Discretionary Strategies team. He is a member of the Liquid Markets Management Team and the Multi-Asset Investment Committee.
Prior to joining the firm in 2003, Mr. Seeholzer worked for SunGard where he developed and implemented risk management tools for various banks.
Mr. Seeholzer holds an MA in Business Administration from the University of St Gallen (HSG) and an MBA in Finance from London Business School. He is fluent in German, English and French.
Natalie Sediako (Canadian) is a Principal at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. She focuses on origination, due diligence, execution and monitoring of co-investments and impact investments.
Prior to joining the firm in 2016, she was an associate director at Rising Tide GmbH in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, where she focused on private equity investing. Before that, she was an investment manager for PSP Investments in Canada, focusing on private equity co-investments and special situations. Earlier in her career, Ms. Sediako worked as an investment banker at Credit Suisse in Canada and the US.
She holds a BComm from Queen’s University in Canada and an MBA, with distinction, from INSEAD. She is fluent in English, Mandarin and Russian.
“Sunish co-founded Kedaara Capital in 2012 along with Manish and Nishant. Prior to founding Kedaara, Sunish served as a Managing Director at the global private equity firm, General Atlantic (“GA”), Sunish played a critical lead role in the majority of GA’s investments and played a key role in building GA’s local Indian investment program into a $1 billion invested capital by late 2011.
Sunish currently serves on the board of/led the investments in Lenskart, Vedant/Manyawar, K12 Technologies, Avanse, Purplle, GS Lab, GAVs Technologies, Care Health Insurance, Ajax and Spandana. In the past, he has served on several other boards/led investments in Mahindra Logistics, Manjushree, Bill Forge, Hexaware Limited, IndusInd Bank, Jubilant Lifesciences, Genpact, Cyient Limited, and IBS Software Services amongst others.
Sunish has 24 years of industry experience primarily encompassing the full life cycle of private equity. Sunish is a gold medallist from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta where he did his Master of Business Administration after graduating with honors from Delhi University. Sunish also holds a cost accounting degree.
Sunish strongly believes education is the best way to give back to the society, and is one of the Founders of Ashoka University and Young India Fellowship. He was profiled as one of the “25 hottest young executives below 40 in India” by Business Today, the leading business magazine in India. Further, in the 20th anniversary issue of Business Today, he was also profiled as one of the Top 20 professionals which represent the future of Indian Business, “The Next Big Guns”. He has also been profiled as one of “Asia’s 25 most influential people in private equity” by Asian Investor.”
Jetro Siekkinen (Finnish) is a Partner at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He is responsible for the Emerging Market Fixed Income team.
Mr. Siekkinen has long-standing expertise in emerging market debt and currencies since 1998. Before joining the firm in 2021, he was with Aktia Asset Management for over 15 years where he was responsible for the Fixed Income Portfolio Management team, management of the portfolio, and development of Aktia’s fixed income mutual fund platform. Prior to that, he worked at SEB on the strategic sell-side and with Nordea and Sampo Banks on the fixed income sales teams.
Mr. Siekkinen holds an MA in Economics from Tampere University. He is fluent in Finnish, English and Swedish.
Tycho Sneyers (Belgian/Swiss) is a Managing Partner at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland, and he chairs the ESG Committee. He has initiated and led the firm‘s ESG efforts since 2002, having steered the firm in deeply embedding ESG principles into the investment processes for its various asset classes. Mr. Sneyers currently serves on the board of directors of the UN PRI.
Prior to joining the firm in 2001, Mr. Sneyers co-founded Altgate Capital, a research and advisory firm dedicated to alternative investments. Before that, he worked at Goldman Sachs in the Equities and Investment Banking divisions in London and New York. Prior to that, Mr. Sneyers worked at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in the Financial Services Strategy group, where he focused on international banking and insurance projects in Brussels, Luxembourg and Paris.
Mr. Sneyers holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MA in Economics from the University of Antwerp. He is fluent in English, Dutch and French, and conversant in German and Spanish.
Brent Snow (American/Australian) is an Executive Director and Head of Infrastructure at LGT Capital Partners, based in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He is responsible for the execution of the infrastructure investment strategy, deal sourcing, due diligence and portfolio management. He joined LGT Capital Partners in February 2022 and has previously worked at Aware Super as Associate Portfolio Manager for Infrastructure, at Willis Towers Watson in Infrastructure Manager Research and at UBS in multi-manager advisory.
Brent Snow has more than 15 years of experience in the infrastructure asset class, spanning primary funds, secondaries, co-investments, and direct transactions across a wide range of underlying sectors such as renewable energy, digital infrastructure, social infrastructure, and transport infrastructure. He has a BA in Business Administration (Finance) from the University of Wisconsin and is a CFA Charterholder.
Reshma Sohoni is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Seedcamp, the European seed fund she co-founded in 2007 with a strong belief that European entrepreneurs have the power to compete on a global scale. Over a decade later and Seedcamp has pioneered the European early-stage investment landscape and backed over 470 companies including publicly listed Romanian-founded, UiPath, Wise (formerly TransferWise), and unicorns Revolut, wefox, Pleo, Sorare, Grover, viz.ai, and Synthesia. Reshma is frequently listed as one of the most influential women in technology and VC and has been recognised on Forbes Midas List for Europe as one of the most influential VCs on the continent 5 years in a row. In 2019 she also made it to the no1 spot on the FT’s most influential BAME tech leader list. Reshma was awarded an MBE for services to the British Technology Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in 2021. Reshma is passionate about the intersection of business and technology and has degrees in Engineering and Business from UPenn and M&T as well as an MBA from INSEAD.
Michael Stahel (Swiss) is a Partner at LGT ILS Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland.
Prior to the team’s transfer to the firm in June 2012, Mr. Stahel served as head of the insurance-linked investments at Clariden Leu from 2006 until 2012, performing the same role and building the current team. Before this, Mr. Stahel spent eight years with Swiss Re in various positions in Zurich and in London where he was involved in structuring insurance-linked securities and trading insurance risk derivatives on behalf of Swiss Re’s proprietary book.
Mr. Stahel holds a BA in Economics from the University of Applied Science in Zurich and an MBA in Corporate Finance from Rochester University (New York). He is fluent in German, English and French.
Ivan Vercoutère (French) is a Managing Partner and co-founder of LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He is co-heading the global Private Equity team and is a member of the Executive Committee. He also chairs the private equity Global Investment Committee.
Prior to joining the Firm in 1998, Ivan was Vice President and a member of the investment committee of Pacific Corporate Group, Inc. (PCG), a California-based global private equity advisor and manager. While at PCG he was responsible for evaluating, performing due diligence on, negotiating, and monitoring US and European-based private equity investments and portfolios on behalf of institutional investors, including The World Bank, CalPERS, the State of Oregon, the State of Rhode Island and PCG’s fund of funds.
He holds a BSc in Finance from San Diego State University and serves on the advisory board of a number of private equity funds. He is fluent in English, French and Spanish.
Pauline Wetter (French) is a Principal at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. She is the chair of the Private Markets Committee.
Prior to joining the firm in 2011, she was an associate with Mooreland Partners in London, an investment banking advisory firm focused on the IT and telecommunications sectors.
Ms. Wetter holds an MSc in Management from ESCP Europe in Paris. She is fluent in English, French and German.
Sir Alex Younger is the Former Chief (“C”) of the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6. He served in this role for six years, from 2014-2020 and in 2019 became the longest-serving MI6 Chief in 50 years. He is an expert on international security, cybersecurity and global conflicts including those in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
Sir Alex joined MI6 in 1991. He was posted to Europe and the Middle East, and Afghanistan. He spent most of his career as an operational case officer. In 2009, Sir Alex Younger became the head of counter-terrorism, during which he was involved in security for the London Olympics 2012.
Alex became the UK’s Spy Chief, a position known as “C” in 2014. During this period he focussed on the transformation of his service, aimed at making technology more of an advantage to MI6 than it was to their adversaries. He also maintained a network of intelligence chiefs worldwide, covering the spectrum from allies to adversaries. He advised the Prime Minister on intelligence and security matters, including as a member of the National Security Council.
Prior to joining MI6, he read economics, as well as computer science, at St. Andrew’s University and was an infantry officer in the British Army (Scots Guards).
Alex’s focus now is on explaining the implications of geo-political, geo-technological and cyber competition to a wider audience. He believes that many of the trends he observed during 30 years in the covert world are now features of all our lives. This affords Alex a distinct insight on increasingly widely shared problems.
He also comments global conflicts including those in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
Brooke Zhou (Chinese/American) is a Partner at LGT Capital Partners in Hong Kong. She is responsible for origination, due diligence, execution and monitoring of Asian primary and secondary investments.
Prior to joining the Firm in 2010, she worked for CDH Investments, a leading Chinese private equity firm in Beijing. Before that, she worked for Bain & Company in Shanghai and Oracle Corporation in California.
Brooke holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is fluent in English and Mandarin.
Discover the Felsenwegpath on a guided hike of the surroundings of Bürgenstock. It includes a ride up the 153 meter-high Hammetschwandlift, Europe’s highest outdoor elevator. It will connect you to the path to the Hammetschwand overlooking Lake Lucerne.
Discover the harmony of body and mind in an inspiring yoga session. Immerse yourself in a world of relaxation and balance as you explore the power of the breath and the movements of the body under the guidance of experienced yoga teachers.
Enjoy an unforgettable cruise on the picturesque Lake Lucerne while admiring its breathtaking scenery. This exclusive cruise showcases the highlights of Lake Lucerne in all their splendor.
Get inspired by the hotel's history on this tour and have a look behind the scenes of James Bond's movie "Goldfinger", which was filmed at our pool.
Take to the fairways amid the breathtaking scenery of Lake Lucerne and the surrounding mountains. Passionate golfers can join a golf clinic on the resort’s own nine-hole course. Note: The activity cannot take place in case of adverse weather conditions.
Organized transfer
We will offer bus transfers from Zurich Airport to the Bürgenstock Resort (23 and 24 April) and back (26 April). Should you wish to make use of this service, please select your preferred time slots in the RSVP.
Public transportation (to be organized individually)
You can also use public transportation to get to the Bürgenstock Resort. Enjoy a ride full of Alpine impressions: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) brings you from Zurich Airport to Lucerne (timetable). Once there, you first board the MS Bürgenstock Catamaran and then the Bürgenstock Funicular takes you up the mountain to the venue (timetable).
If you have any questions, please contact us.
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