Speakers

George Anson

George Anson manages HarbourVest Partners (U.K.) Limited, which supports HarbourVest's investment and client service activities in Europe. George joined the Firm's London subsidiary in 1990 and serv… read more
Kathleen Bacon

Kathleen Bacon is a managing director who concentrates on managing European and other non-U.S. primary partnership investments. She has also been involved with direct and secondary partnership… read more
Brendan Barber

Brendan Barber is General Secretary of the TUC, which represents 59 unions with a total membership of around 6.5 million working in all sectors of the economy. Brendan was born in Southport … read more
Kurt Björklund

Kurt is Co-Managing Partner of Permira Advisers LLP. He is a member of the Board, Permira's Executive Committee ("ExCo") and the Investment Committee. He joined the London office in 1996, … read more
Jonathan Blake

Jonathan Blake is SJ Berwin's Senior Partner. Jonathan qualified in 1979 and joined SJ Berwin as an associate in 1982 and has been a partner at SJ Berwin since 1983. He advises private equity … read more
Wim Borgdorff

Wim joined AlpInvest Partners in 2000 from ABP Investments, where he led the restructuring of ABP's Real Estate activities as well as the setting up of ABP's Alternative Investments unit. Previously, … read more
Sir Ronald Cohen

Sir Ronald Cohen is Chairman of Portland Capital LLP, The Portland Trust and Bridges Ventures. He was the founding partner and former chairman of Apax Partners. Founded in 1972, Apax Partners … read more
Simon Cook

Simon is the CEO of DFJ Esprit and has been involved with the UK venture capital industry since 1995. In 2006 he led the merger of Cazenove Private Equity with Prelude Ventures and in 2007 he … read more
Christopher Darlington

Christopher joined Hawkpoint in 1986 and is Co-Head of Hawkpoint Partners' Retail and Leisure Groups. Recent retail experience includes the acquisitions of M and M Sports and LK Bennett, and t… read more
Rolf Christof Dienst

Founding general partner of Wellington Partners, since 1991 with offices in Munich, London, Zurich. Wellington manages approx. € 800 million for global investors in technology and life science on… read more
Patrick Dunne

Patrick joined 3i in 1985 and today is responsible for 3i's external and internal communications. His career has involved doing deals and building up 3i's people programmes internationally. He is a re… read more
Peter Dunscombe

After reading Engineering and Economics at Oxford Peter joined a firm of Stockbrokers in the City to carry out economic and company research. In 1975 he joined the in-house investment management tea… read more
Darryl Eales

Darryl has been Chief Executive of LDC since 2003. He has a first class degree in Accountancy and Economics from Exeter University and is a Chartered Accountant. He has a successful track record of bu… read more
Anne Glover

Anne Glover is Chief Executive and Co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, the European technology investor. Amadeus has £460m of funds under management and has backed over 60 companies co… read more
Jeremy Hand

Jeremy is co-founder and Managing Partner of Lyceum Capital and is Chairman of its operating committee. During the past twenty years, he has worked on numerous buy-outs, buy-ins and growth cap… read more
Simon Havers

Simon is CEO of Baird Capital Partners Europe, a leading mid-market private equity firm, which he joined in 1994 from the BBC. He holds a first class honours degree in engineering and management… read more
Ben Hewetson

Ben joined Teachers' Private Capital in 2008 with 15 years' experience in private equity, leveraged finance and M&A. He leads the London office of TPC with responsibility for setting TPC's … read more
Paul Hodkinson

Paul joined Financial News as News Editor in February 2008 after spending six years at Incisive Media title Legal Week, where he worked as a reporter before becoming City Editor and then News Edito… read more
Johannes Huth

Johannes P. Huth (London) joined KKR in 1999 and during that time has played a significant role in the development of ATU, Demag, Duales System Deutschland (DSD), KION, MTU Aero Engines, FL Selenia, N… read more
Charles Irving

Based in Europe, Charles has over thirty years experience in corporate deal-making in the investment and commodities arena, 18 of which were with Glencore AG. His responsibilities included risk mana… read more
Lord James of Blackheath CBE

Lord James started work with Lloyds Bank in 1956 and counts the present recession as the eighth of his career. For the past twenty-five years Lord James has specialised in leading high profile… read more
Luke Johnson

Luke Johnson has been Chairman of Channel 4 Television Corporation since 2004 and Risk Capital Partners, a private equity firm, since 2001. He is Chairman/owner of the restaurant busin… read more
Richard Jones

Richard has twelve years' experience in advising corporate entities on pension and investment issues. He is the Managing Director of Punter Southall Transaction Services, the specialist transa… read more
Andrew Joy

Andrew Joy joined Cinven in 1992. He has been involved in numerous transactions including Frans Bonhomme and Newsquest. He is also responsible for fund raising and is the principal point of contact … read more
Jonathan Kestenbaum

Jonathan Kestenbaum is Chief Executive of NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. With assets under management of £350million, NESTA is the largest endowment in the… read more
Wol Kolade

Wol joined ISIS Equity Partners in January 1993 and is Managing Partner of the business. His role encompasses overall responsibility for the strategic development of ISIS, and active involvement in… read more
Richard Lambert

Having studied history at Balliol College, Oxford, Richard joined the Financial Times in 1966. He edited the Lex column in the 1970s, becoming financial editor in 1979. In 1982 he moved to New York … read more
Michael Langdon

Michael is a Cambridge economics graduate who qualified as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse where he specialised in investigative, consultancy and corporate finance work for large multin… read more
Benoît Le Bret

Benoît Le Bret is a Resident Partner in the Gide Loyrette Nouel's Brussels office. He has joined Gide Loyrette Nouel as from 1st October 2008 after having spent almost ten years at the Euro… read more
Andrew Lebus

Andrew Lebus, Managing Partner (joined 1994, 24 years of private equity experience) Andrew is a senior member of Pantheon's investment team. He is responsible for co-ordinating the activities of … read more
Hugh Lenon

Hugh Lenon has over 20 years' experience as a UK mid-market private equity investor. Having co-founded Phoenix Equity Partners in 2001, Hugh is one of Phoenix's three Managing Partners and is Chairman… read more
Neil MacDougall

Neil MacDougall heads up a team of 50 staff based in offices in London, Munich, Paris and Chicago. He joined Silverfleet Capital in 1989 and was appointed Managing Partner in 2004. … read more
Pierre-Yves Mathonet

Pierre-Yves Mathonet is heading the venture capital unit within the risk management division of the European Investment Fund. As risk managers he is responsible for one of the largest European priva… read more
James Mawson

James Mawson, Editor of Private Equity News, has been at Dow Jones for three years. Previously, he was a freelance journalist covering financial services and a foreign correspondent for the EU acces… read more
Terry McGuire

Terry McGuire is a co-founder and general partner of Polaris Venture Partners based in the Boston office. Terry focuses on life sciences investments. Experience: Prior to starting Polaris,… read more
Heino Meerkatt

Heino Meerkatt joined the Munich office of The Boston Consulting Group in 1991.He is the global topic leader for Private Equity.Prior to joining BCG, he spent four years with VARTA Batteries as group … read more
Vincenzo Morelli

Vincenzo Morelli is an Operating Partner at the Texas Pacific Group [TPG], a leading global private equity investment firm, where he focuses on the performance, management and governance of European… read more
Gerry Murphy

Gerry Murphy is a Senior Managing Director in the Corporate Private Equity Group based in London. His principal focus is providing support to the group's portfolio companies across Europe and Asia… read more
Lord Myners CBE

Paul Myners was appointed Financial Services Secretary to the Treasury in October 2008. Prior to this he was chairman of the Guardian Media Group, publisher of The Guardian and The Observer newsp… read more
Ian Nolan

Ian began his 3i career in 1987, and in March of this year, was promoted to Managing Partner, with the role of Chief Investment Officer for the Group. He is the Group's first appointed to this… read more
Jack Perry

Jack Perry is Chief Executive of Scottish Enterprise ~ Scotland's enterprise, innovation and investment agency. Prior to this, until December 2003, he was the managing partner of Ernst & Youn… read more
Dwight Poler

Dwight Poler joined Bain Capital in 1994 and was named Managing Director in 1999. He has responsibility for Bain Capital's investment activities in Europe and the firm's offices in London and … read more
Sir Michael Rake

Sir Michael Rake is Chairman of BT Group plc. He is Chairman of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, as well as a director of Barclays PLC, McGraw Hill Inc and the Financial Reporting Co… read more
Rod Richards

Rod is Managing Partner of Graphite Capital, a mid-market private equity group. Graphite is both a direct investor in mid-market UK buy-outs and manages an investment trust listed … read more
Jennifer Rossa

Ms. Rossa is managing editor of Private Equity Analyst, and also oversees LBO Wire and VentureWire. She joined Dow Jones in 1999, originally working in the newswires division. Prior to D… read more
Björn Savén

Björn Savén has since the founding of IK Investment Partners in 1989 in London been Chief Executive of the firm and from 2008, he is the Executive Chairman. IK Investment Partners is… read more
Dominique Senequier

Dominique Senequier is the CEO of AXA Private Equity, a subsidiary of AXA Group. She joined AXA Group and founded AXA Private Equity in early 1996. Dominique Senequier began her career as an Ins… read more
Mark Todd MP

Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire 1997 to present. Member of the Agriculture and then Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee 1997-2003 Parliamentary Private Secretary to Baro… read more
Danny Truell

Danny Truell is the Chief Investment Officer and a member of the Executive Board of the Wellcome Trust, the largest charitable foundation in Europe with assets exceeding £ 13 billion invested in… read more
Edmund Truell

Edmund is the Founder of Pension Corporation, a leading provider of risk management solutions to defined benefit pension funds, which was established in 2006. Pension Corporation has £… read more
Robert van Schaik

Robert van Schaik is Head of the Private Equity & Infrastructure Team of Mn Services. He joined Mn Services in 2006. He is involved in determining the private equity & infrastructure strateg… read more
Simon Walker

Simon Walker is Chief Executive of the BVCA. Prior to this, he worked at Reuters for four years, first as head of corporate communications and later as director of marketing. Before Reuter… read more
Dan Waters

Dan is the FSA Sector Leader for Asset Management, responsible for the FSA's overall strategy and liaison with the asset management sector. Before this Dan was Director of the Regulatory Strategy an… read more
Patience Wheatcroft

Patience Wheatcroft is the editor-in-chief, Europe, of The Wall Street Journal. Prior to joining the Journal, Ms. Wheatcroft served as a non-executive director of Barclays plc and Shaftesbury … read more
Max Ziff

Mr. Ziff is a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey's London office. As head of UK Financial Advisory Services, Mr. Ziff brings a wealth of experience spanning 25 years in investment banking acr… read more
Lionel Zinsou

Lionel Zinsou is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PAI partners. Lionel started his professional career as a lecturer and a professor in economics at Paris University and was a member of Fr… read more

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