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Join industry leaders at the 5th annual Thunderbird Global Private Equity Investing Conference as they shed light on global private equity’s most relevant issues. The following experts are featured speakers at this year's conference:
SUSAN BOEDY ‘02
Principal, Knightsbridge Advisers, LLC
Susan joined Knightsbridge in early 2010, as a Principal focused on investor relations and marketing. As former Director of the Thunderbird Global Private Equity Center (TPEC), she brings to Knightsbridge her strong relationship-building skills and a broad industry network, as well as a deep understanding of the global venture industry. From 2006 to 2009 Susan provided leadership to the Thunderbird Global Private Equity Center as its Director. TPEC is a thought-leadership platform developed by the Thunderbird School of Global Management to advance knowledge on the key issues and trends facing global private equity. Prior to that, from 2004 to 2006, Susan was a partner in Venture Archetypes, LLC, a strategic advisory firm that works with emerging technology and life science companies which seek venture capital backing. Her background also includes professional assignments with Intel; the German Ministry of Economics and Labor; Roland Berger Strategy Consultants; and the United Nations, part of a three year stint living and working in Mongolia. Susan is a frequent featured speaker at global private equity conferences such as the Federal Reserve Bank’s Private Equity Conference and the Annual Women’s Private Equity Summit. Susan holds an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management where she received the highest honor awarded to a single graduate, the Barton Kyle Yount Award. She also has a BA, magna cum laude, from Drake University. Founded in 1983, Knightsbridge is a leading early stage venture fund of funds with $1.2 billion assets under management. Knightsbridge enjoys strong relationships with premier, early stage and selected, growth equity venture firms and continues selectively to add new relationships. As the most inefficient stages of the venture process, early stage and venture growth offer the highest returns. www.knightsbridgeusa.com
STEVEN BUCKLEY
Founding Partner, Innova Capital
Mr. Buckley is a Founding Partner of Innova Capital. Since 1994, Innova has advised five investment funds in Central Eastern Europe, which currently manage approx. €900m. Mr. Buckley has led investments in Euronet Worldwide, PolCard, Voxtel (Moldova) and Dom Finansowy QS. He currently sits on the boards of Meritum Bank, Expander, and Donako, a Polish-based manufacturer of energy components. He focuses on developing investment opportunities in financial services, telecom and media across the region.
Since 1990, Mr. Buckley has resided in Warsaw, Poland. He first advised the Polish Government on early privatization programs, and then co-founded Company Assistance Ltd (CAL), one of Poland's leading market research firms, before establishing Innova in 1994. Prior to 1990, he worked with the consulting firms Bain & Company, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, and Arthur Andersen.
Mr. Buckley has lectured at the University of Colorado and at the Krems Business School in Austria, and has published articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal Europe, and The Rocky Mountain News. Mr. Buckley holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BA (with Honors) from Stanford University. He was a founding member of the Warsaw Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization. He is an American and is married with two children.
SEBASTIEN BURDEL
Principal, Coller Capital
Sebastien is an Investment Principal with Coller Capital, responsible for origination and execution of secondary transactions in the US market.
Since joining Coller Capital in 2003, Sebastien has completed numerous secondary direct and LP transactions. Sebastien has been part of the team responsible for investing Coller International Partners IV and V, $2.6bn and $4.8bn funds respectively. Sebastien initially joined Coller Capital's London office where he worked until early 2006. He subsequently moved to New York where he has since been a key component of the firm's growing presence in the US market.
Before joining Coller Capital, Sebastien worked for General Electric as an Associate in the Corporate M&A group, where he completed strategic acquisitions and disposals on behalf of many of GE’s industrial businesses (including GE Power Systems, GE Industrial Systems, GE Healthcare and GE Aircraft Engines). Prior to that he was an Analyst for GE Equity, General Electric's direct private equity group, where he focused on European mid-market buyouts and co-investments. Sebastien began his career with GE Medical Systems in the finance function.
Sebastien holds a BA (Hons) in Finance from Audencia - École Superieure de Commerce de Nantes in France and is completing his Executive MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
ÁNGEL CABRERA
President, Thunderbird School of Global Management
As president of Thunderbird School of Global Management, Ángel Cabrera, Ph.D., guides a truly global learning network with operations in the United States, Latin America, Asia and Europe, including Russia. The school is regarded as the world’s leading institution in the education of global managers, holding the No. 1 ranking in the Financial Times, U.S. News & World Report and The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive survey of corporate recruiters.
Dr. Cabrera, who is a citizen of Spain, is a world-renowned global leader and management educator whose work and expertise has been recognized and tapped by top global organizations including the World Economic Forum and the United Nations. The World Economic Forum has named Dr. Cabrera a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” and appointed him to the World Economic Forum of Young Global Leaders. Along with being a regular attendee of the World Economic Forum held Davos each year, Dr. Cabrera has been named the Founding Chair of the WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Promoting Entrepreneurship.
Dr. Cabrera presently serves as a senior adviser to the UN Global Compact Office on Academic Affairs. In that role, he chaired a taskforce to develop the “Principles for Responsible Management Education,” which serve to strengthen the role of business schools in promoting global corporate citizenship. The taskforce presented the principles at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit in July 2007. He also playsa key role in designing the Global Compact Academic Network’s strategy, serves as a Global Compact ambassador to academic organizations, and helps promote its activities around the world and as they relate to education forums like the World Economic Forum.
An outspoken advocate of corporate social responsibility and managerial professionalism, and in 2008 received the prestigious honor of being named a Henry Crown Fellow by the Aspen Institute. He is a frequent speaker at prestigious international forums. His viewpoints have been featured by the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, CNN, CNN International, CNN Español and a number of other regional and international media.
Dr. Cabrera is the former dean of the Instituto de Empresa, one of Europe’s leading business schools, and in 2004 was showcased by BusinessWeek as one of 25 “Stars of Europe.” He is an active member, a current or past board member of several international organizations including AACSB International, EFMD-EQUIS, the UN GlobalCompact, the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, the Georgia Institute of Technology, ESSEC, the Greater Phoenix Leadership and the Future Trends Forum in Madrid.
Dr. Cabrera earned his Ph.D. and MS from the Georgia Institute of Technology, which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar, and a BS and MS in Engineering from Madrid Polytechnical University, Spain’s premier Engineering school.
JOHN COOK '79
Chairman, Rock Lake Associates
Chairman Emeritus, TPEC Advisory Board
John Cook graduated summa cum laude from Purdue University in 1974 with a B.S. in Industrial Management. From 1974 to 1977 he pursued a pre-medical curriculum at the University of Washington (Seattle); and in 1979 obtained an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management with a specialization in Europe and the Middle East.
In 1979 he joined International Harvestor Company (Brussels) as Assistant Marketing Director of the Truck Group for the Middle East. In 1981 he joined Univestors S.A. as Assistant to the President, responsible for marketing the firm's investment products to private and institutional clients across Europe. In 1982 he joined Merrill Lynch as an Account Executive in the Brussels office, and simultaneously began organizing Thunderbird European Alumni Reunions, which evolved into the Thunderbird Global Reunions and Global Business Forums. He was also elected to the Board of Governors of the American Club of Brussels and head of the Corporations Division of the United Fund.
In 1989 Mr. Cook joined Security Pacific Merchant Bank in Frankfurt as a Director of Business Development for the Benelux and Scandinavia with a focus on leveraged lending and acquisition finance. At the Chairman's request he initiated a global equity origination practice to source private and institutional equity on behalf of the bank's European clients. In 1992 Mr. Cook became an independent financial advisor based in Frankfurt, focused on private placements in real estate, venture capital, private equity and hedge funds. In 1995 he relocated to Zurich, Switzerland and became a director and principal of WJ Hopper & Co Limited, a London-based investment banking boutique focused on international fund raising for private equity fund managers. He sits on the Investment Committee of ACS Venture Capital Partners (Vienna); is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Club of Zurich; is a member of the Thunderbird Global Council and recipient of the 2003 Jonas Mayer Award from Thunderbird.
JAVIER ECHARRI
Secretary General, European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (EVCA)
Javier Echarri is Secretary General of EVCA, the European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association. EVCA was founded in 1983 and has more than 1,400 members in 60 countries.
Mr Echarri joined EVCA in 1999, becoming its fourth Secretary General in 2000. Previously he was the Director of both Retail and Institutional Banking at ARGENTARIA bank (now BBVA) from 1995.
Mr Echarri began his career in the automotive and specialist engineering industries. He has also held the position of Secretary General at the Spanish Chamber of Commerce for Benelux.
Current engagements include non-executive board positions at the European Federation of Junior Enterprises (JADE), the Asia Pacific Venture Capital Association, buyout firm GED, and the secondary exchange platform Triago X.
He is a graduate in Economics and Business Studies from the University of Deusto in Spain and has a Post-graduate degree in European Union Economic integration from the University of Amsterdam.
GUSTAVO EIBEN '04
Head of North America Investor Relations, Aureos Capital
Mr. Eiben is the head of North America investor relations of Aureos Capital. Aureos is a global emerging market private equity manager focused on small to mid-market transactions across Africa, Asia and Latin America. As head of North America IR, Mr. Eiben is responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with existing and potential investors, and for developing new business and products that fit Aureos’ overall global strategy. Prior to Aureos Capital, Mr. Eiben was a member of the Alternative Investments Group at J.P. Morgan Private Bank raising and investing capital in third-party private equity funds. Prior to that, he was the head of fundraising and business development at Schroeder Ventures US and before that, a member of the UBS Private Equity Funds Group; the placement arm of the bank. Mr. Eiben started his career in the Mergers and Acquisitions group at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Mr. Eiben received his MBA degree from Thunderbird, the Global School of Management and his BA degree from Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina.
JENNIFER SCOTT FONSTAD
Managing Director Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Jennifer Scott Fonstad is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Considered one of the most senior women in venture today, Ms. Fonstad invests broadly in early stage companies, most recently taking an early leadership role in clean energy. Additionally, she has been working to change our country’s healthcare system through entrepreneurship. Recent investment successes include Athenahealth (NASDAQ: ATHN), Lumenos (acquired by Wellpoint, NYSE: WLP), and NetZero (NASDAQ: UNTD).
In addition to her investing responsibilities, Jennifer sits on the investment committees for DFJ VinaCapital, DFJ’s partner fund in Vietnam, DFJ Tamir Fishman, DFJ’s partner fund in Israel, and serves as adviser to the DFJ China team.
Jennifer finds much of her inspiration from her family. She and her husband Diego are building the first LEED Platinum certified home in their home town of Atherton. Her oldest daughter has taught her the importance of grassroots efforts through her work with the Atherton GreenSTART program, her school, and through the FIRST Lego Competition (see their work on water conservation at: http://www.penguinos.org).
Jennifer joined DFJ as a Kauffman Fellow in 1997 becoming a partner in 1998. She began her career with Bain and Company after spending a year teaching math to high school students in sub-Sahara Africa. She graduated Cum Laude from Georgetown University and holds an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School. Jennifer is married with four children.
THOMAS C. FRANCO
Partner, Clayton Dubilier & Rice
Mr. Franco joined CD&R in 2006 after serving for fifteen years as a senior advisor to the Firm. He is responsible for managing critical external relationships, including limited partners. He also manages fund raising and is involved in related capital access activities. Previously, he served as chairman and chief executive officer of Broadgate Consultants, a consulting firm focused on advising private equity managers, which he founded in 1987 in conjunction with U.K.-based securities firm Hoare Govett. Mr. Franco successfully launched a global publishing business, PEI Media, serving the alternative asset industry and, earlier, practiced corporate law. Mr. Franco holds a J.D. from Fordham University and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.
MARC FRISHMAN ‘98
Partner, Conduit Capital
Marc Frishman is an Investment Manager for the Latin Power Funds. Marc joined the Latin Power team in 1998. Among notable Latin Power Fund investments, Mr. Frishman was instrumental in the successful Mexhidro investment which included the origination, development, financing, operations, and sale of three medium size hydroelectric plants in western Mexico. Mr. Frishman also originated and managed the Green Energy Libramiento portfolio investment which encompassed the development, financing, operations, and sale of a 65 kilometer natural gas pipeline in Queretaro, Mexico under long-term contract with Pemex Gas y Petroquimica Basica. Other significant transactions include infrastructure projects in Chile, Argentina, Peru, and Central America. Mr. Frishman holds a B.A. degree in History and International Marketing from Tulane University and an M.B.A. degree in International Finance from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management. Prior to his graduate studies, Mr. Frishman worked for a Mitsubishi Group company both originating and structuring new international business ventures in the automotive, aerospace, real estate and energy industries in the United States, Japan, Europe and Latin America. Mr. Frishman has lived in Mexico and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
KURT GEIGER
Chairman, TPEC Advisory Board
former Head of Financial Institutions, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Mr. Geiger has 30 years of international experience in Banking and an extensive track record in equity investments gained during a career in major international banking groups (Chase, Midland Montagu, HSBC, EBRD) with work experience in Frankfurt, London, Hong Kong, New York and Eastern Europe.
From 1993 onwards he worked with the EBRD, an IFI established to promote transition from centrally planned economies to market economies. He is Head of the Financial Institutions Group with a portfolio of $5 billion, and a main driver in building an effective and functioning financial services industry in Central and Eastern Europe. Under his leadership the EBRD invested in over 120 banks, insurance companies and pension funds in 27 countries and also was instrumental in building a private equity industry in the region where the Bank is a core investor in 90 equity funds. Mr. Geiger has been actively involved in many of these transactions and has an excellent reputation as a successful deal maker. He has overseen over 300 equity investments in the region over the past 12 years.
Previously he served as Managing Director with Midland Montagu/HSBC in London from 1989-1990, where he had regional management responsibilities for Europe and later MD International at Midland PLC. Before that, he spent 15 years with Chase Manhattan with postings in Europe, the USA and Asia. He covered many aspects of international finance in different markets with responsibility for large corporate relationships, project finance, corporate restructuring, turnaround, M & A and investment banking.
He served on many Boards such as Trinkaus and Burkhardt Germany, Pekao Poland, Budapest Bank, Hungary (Vice-Chairman of Board of Directors), all listed companies and equity funds such as Advent International and First NIS Russia (listed).
Mr. Geiger has a Ph.D. in Law from Innsbruck University in Austria and a Post-Graduate Degree in International Finance from the College of Europe in Belgium. He is bi-lingual in English, German and speaks also Spanish and French. He is married with two daughters.
MARLEEN GROEN
Principal Founder & CEO
Marleen has over 14 years of global secondaries experience and is responsible for firm strategy, day-to-day management and fundraising. Before moving into private equity, she spent nearly a decade as a senior corporate financier for major European banks, advising on M&A transactions in many European countries. Marleen is Dutch, is fluent in German, French and English and holds an MA (Hons) and a BA both from Leiden University, and an MBA from Rotterdam School of Management.
MARK G. HEESEN
President
National Venture Capital Association
As President of the National Venture Capital Association, Mark Heesen is responsible for setting the strategic direction for all Association activities, including public policy efforts, research initiatives, educational programs, and member services. In this capacity, Mark works closely with the NVCA professional staff and Board of Directors to demonstrate the positive impact of venture capital investment on the United States economy. Under his direction, the NVCA has created numerous value-added sub-groups including the CFO Task Force, Strategic Communications Group, Corporate Venture Capital Group, Medical Industry Group and Human Capital forum, all of which are dedicated to supporting NVCA membership in uniquely critical areas.
As a spokesperson for the venture capital industry, Mark is often called upon by the financial media, NVCA members, limited partners, and regional associations to present the overarching venture capital perspective to a wider audience. He is a frequent presenter at industry conferences, appears regularly on CNBC, and is consistently quoted in the press in stories concerning venture capital trends.
Since 1991, Mark has worked on behalf of the NVCA to enact a wide range of policies that benefit the venture capital and entrepreneurial communities, including a significant capital gains differential, securities litigation reform, numerous SEC and FASB accounting issues, immigration reform, and a streamlining of the FDA and CMS approval processes, among other issues.
Prior to coming to the NVCA, Mark was an aide to a former Governor of Pennsylvania and was Deputy Director for Federal Funds reporting to the Texas Legislature. Mark received a law degree with an emphasis in taxation from the Dickinson School of Law in 1984.
ROBERT HISRICH
Director, Thunderbird Walker Center for Global Entrepreneurship
Professor Hisrich received his B.A. from DePauw University, his M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cincinnati, and honorary doctorate degrees from Chuvash State University (Russia) and the University of Miskolc (Hungary). Prior to joining Thunderbird, Dr. Hisrich held the A. Malachi Mixon, III Chaired Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Hisrich was a Fulbright Professor at the International Management Center in Budapest, Hungary in 1989. In 1990-91 he was again named a Fulbright Professor in Budapest at the Foundation for Small Enterprise Economic Development, where he also held the Alexander Hamilton Chair in Entrepreneurship. Dr. Hisrich has held visiting professorships at: the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia); the Technical University of Vienna (Austria); the University of Limerick (Ireland); the Queensland University of Technology (Australia); The University of Puerto Rico; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He has authored or co-authored twenty-five books, including Entrepreneurship: Starting, Developing, and Managing a New Enterprise (translated into nine languages and now in its seventh edition), The 13 Biggest Mistakes that Derail Small Businesses and How to Avoid Them and Marketing. Dr. Hisrich has written over 300 articles on entrepreneurship, international business management, and venture capital, which have appeared in such journals as The Academy of Management Review, California Management Review, Columbia Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Venturing, Sloan Management Review, and Small Business Economics. He has served on the editorial boards of The Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Small Business Management, and Journal of International Business and Entrepreneurship. Besides designing and delivering management and entrepreneurship programs to U.S. and foreign businesses and governments, particularly in transition economies, Dr. Hisrich has instituted academic and training programs such as the university/industry training program in Hungary, a high school teachers entrepreneurship training program in Russia, an Institute of International Entrepreneurship and Management in Russia, and an Entrepreneurship Center in Ukraine.
CYNTHIA HOSTETLER
TPEC Advisory Board Vice Chairman
Cynthia L. Hostetler was appointed as OPIC Vice President for Investment Funds in August 2001. Prior to joining OPIC, Ms. Hostetler served as President & member of the Board of Directors of First Manhattan Bancorporation (FMB), Manhattan, Kansas - a bank holding company. Ms. Hostetler concurrently served as Vice Chairman of the Board (1999-Present), President (1996-1999) & Vice President/General Counsel (1991-1996) of FMB's primary subsidiary, the First Savings Bank, F.S.B. (FSB). Ms. Hostetler was responsible for operations, regulatory activities and business development & strategy. During her tenure, Ms. Hostetler worked with the Office of Thrift Supervision to successfully reorganize FSB. Previously, Ms. Hostetler was an attorney in the corporate/banking department of the New York law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (STB). While at STB, she represented major commercial banks in lending activities, negotiation and preparation of acquisition documentation and syndicated credit facilities, and representation of corporations in acquisition activities and general corporate matters.
Ms. Hostetler received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1988, and graduated magna cum laude from Southern Methodist University in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.
TODD JAQUEZ-FISSORI
Managing Director, Hercules Technology Growth Capital
Todd Jaquez-Fissori joined the company in November 2009 as a Managing Director focusing on early and growth stage technology companies as well as Cleantech deals. Mr. Jaquez-Fissori previously served as Director at TriplePoint Capital and was a General Partner at Siemens Venture Capital from February 2004 to February 2008. Prior to working at Siemens, Mr. Jaquez-Fissori was a Principal at Boulder Ventures and an Analyst at Mayfield. He lead over 15 deals, sat on 12 startup boards including MontaVista (sold), FactoryLogic (sold), Zonare, Prenova, Severon (sold) and has invested over $100M in equity and debt in the last ten years. Mr. Jaquez-Fissori received a B.A. from Penn State University and an M.B.A. from the University of PA-Wharton School of Business. He is also founder of NextGen Partners of Silicon Valley, an organization of over 850 venture capitalists in the major venture markets dedicated to the growth and development of the industry’s pre-partner level associates.
KATHY JERAMAZ-LARSON
Executive Director, Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA)
Kathy Jeramaz-Larson was appointed Executive Director of the Institutional Limited Partners Association in January 2007, with a mandate to execute on an aggressive strategy to enhance the value of networking, education and research to the ILPA membership. Since 2007, the organization has substantially expanded its international footprint with the launch of the ILPA Institute, publication of Private Equity Principles and development of key research data sets and tools for access by its members.
Prior to joining the organization, Ms. Jeramaz-Larson was COO at Macdonald & Associates, a boutique research firm that tracked the activities of the Private Equity and Venture Capital markets in Canada, which she sold to Thomson Financial in 2005. She also had a rewarding career with a major Canadian financial institution where she held progressive roles in both retail and commercial banking.
Ms. Jeramaz-Larson earned her Honors Economics degree from Queen’s University and her MBA from the University of Alberta.
JOHN KUHNS
Chief Executive Officer, China Hydroelectric Corporation
Mr. John D. Kuhns has served as our chairman since May 2007 and our chief executive officer since inception in 2006. Mr. Kuhns is currently the chairman, chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of Kuhns Brothers & Co., Inc. , Kuhns Brothers Securities Corporation, China Silicon Corporation, China Natural Energy Corporation, China Electrode Corporation, China Board Mill Corporation and Master Silicon Carbide Industries, Inc. Mr. Kuhns is also a member of the board of directors of Kuhns Brothers, Inc., China New Energy Group Company, Global Photonics Energy Corporation, Craton Equity Partners and China Hand Advisors, Inc. and the Chairman of Project Midway, Inc., a not for profit organization. Mr. Kuhns has over 30 years of experience in the hydroelectric power, power technology and alternative energy industry and has been involved with hydroelectricity in China since 1984. From 1981 to 1988, Mr. Kuhns built Catalyst Energy, one of the first publicly traded independent power producers in the United States, as the company’s founder, President and Chief Executive Officer. While running Catalyst Energy, he acquired Chinese Hydroelectric generating equipment for use in the United States. He furthered his development experience in China as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at the New World Power Corporation from 1992 to 1996, where he developed and financed hydroelectric projects in China as well as Argentina, Costa Rica and Mexico. While at New World Power, he formed a joint venture with Wuhan Steam Turbine, a state-owned enterprise owned by the City of Wuhan in China, to develop hydroelectric projects in Asia, including the PRC. Mr. Kuhns has additional transaction experience in China as a controlling shareholder, President, CEO, a director and chairman of Kuhns Brothers, Inc., an investment banking firm which he founded in 1986 specializing in providing financing for power technology ventures, and, more recently, industrial and infrastructure companies operating within the PRC. Mr. Kuhns received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and in Fine Arts from Georgetown University, a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Chicago, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Harvard Business School.
H. JEFFREY LEONARD
Chief Executive Officer, Global Environment Fund
Dr. Leonard is the President and CEO of Global Environment Fund (GEF), one of the most experienced and most successful private equity firms dedicated exclusively to investments in the energy and environment sectors. Founded in 1990, GEF currently has approximately $1 billion in aggregate capital under management.
At GEF, Dr. Leonard serves as Chairman of the Investment Committee for Global Environment Emerging Markets Fund, the GEF Clean Technology Fund, the Global Emerging Markets Forestry Partners and the South Asian Clean Energy Fund.
Dr. Leonard is on the Board of Directors of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (“EMPEA”), and is a former co-chairman of the Advisory Board of the Clean Tech Network. In 2006-07, Dr. Leonard served as co-chairman of the energy transition team of Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the US-Brazil Biofuels Partnership. From 1992 through 1998, Dr. Leonard was a member of the Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel to the U.S. Secretary of Energy. He is a board member of the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE), the Board of the New America Foundation, City Year (Washington, D.C.) and is Chairman of the Board of The Washington Monthly. He is a founding board member and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Beacon House Community Ministry, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and their families in northeast Washington, D.C.
Dr. Leonard is a graduate of Princeton (Ph.D.), London School of Economics (M.S. Econ) and Harvard College (B.A., magna cum laude). He is the author of five books and numerous technical articles relating to global environmental issues, international trade, energy production and technology development.
MICHEL LEONARD
Chief Economist & Senior Vice President, Alliant Insurance | A Blackstone Group Company
Dr. Michel Léonard is Chief Economist & Senior Vice President for Alliant Insurance, the insurance and risk advisory firm owned by the Blackstone Group. He is responsible for economic analysis & forecasting, macro & investment strategy, and managing the firm’s government relationships with central banks, ministries of finance and multi lateral institutions in the G20 and Emerging Markets. In addition, he oversees the firm’s Global Macro Analytics on Bloomberg, which he developed and launched in 2008.
Dr. Léonard’s background combines economics, politics and financial risk analysis. His expertise focuses on quantitative risk analysis to adequately price emerging market and global macro risk into specific transactions or investments. His solutions are used by his private equity, hedge funds and banking clients to secure access to capital, enhance trading strategies, and mitigate risk.
Prior to Alliant, Dr. Léonard was Chief Economist at Jardine Lloyd Thompson and Aon. Prior to Aon, he was with Medley Advisors, the global macro advisory founded by George Soros’ chief policy strategist. His work has been featured in the NYT, FT, WSJ and Bloomberg. A graduate of McGill University, he holds an M.T.S. in Islamic Studies from Harvard University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Economy from the University of Virginia.
JOHN MAULDIN
Editor, Thoughts from the Frontline
John is a Dallas, Texas businessman and the father of seven children, ranging from ages 15 through 32, five of whom are adopted and now with three grandkids.
He was Chief Executive Officer of the American Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., a publisher of newsletters and books on various investment topics, from 1982 to 1987. He was one of the founders of Adopting Children Together Inc., the largest adoption support group in Texas. He is also a member of the Knights of Malta, and has served on the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Texas.
He is a frequent contributor to numerous publications, and guest on TV and radio shows as well as quoted widely in the press.
John is the President of Millennium Wave Advisors, LLC (MWA) which is an investment advisory firm registered in multiple states. John Mauldin is President of Millennium Wave Securities, LLC a FINRA registered broker-dealer. MWS is also a Commodity Pool Operator (CPO) and a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) registered with the CFTC, as well as an Introducing Broker (IB).
LARRY K. MELLINGER'68
Vice Chairman of Advisory Board; Private Equity Adviser
LKM Advisors, LLC
Mr. Mellinger is a financial advisor and consultant to private sector investors and bankers doing business in the United States and emerging markets. His career as a senior financial services executive has encompassed broad-based experience in private equity, commercial banking and financial advisory work, across markets in developed and developing countries.
Prior to his current financial advisory work, Mr. Mellinger had served for five years as Senior Managing Director and Global Head of AIG's Alternative Investments area. In this capacity he was in charge of AIG's private equity and hedge fund activities in the United States, Europe, Japan and emerging markets world-wide. His responsibilities included AIG's sponsored funds, which today total 36 funds with over $10 billion in capital commitments, with five additional funds currently in the advanced stages of fund-raising, in addition to an additional approximately $10 billion of AIG's proprietary capital invested in various categories of alternative assets.
Before joining AIG in September 2000, he was a founding partner of Integra Partners, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based financial advisory and infrastructure project development firm specializing in emerging markets. Mr. Mellinger has over 30 years of experience in emerging markets banking and finance, including the seven years he served as the U.S. Executive Director for Presidents Reagan and Bush on the board of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, from 1986 to 1993.
Prior to the IADB, he was Chief Financial Officer of Mexico's Gruma Corporation, one of the largest food manufacturing groups in Latin America. He began his professional career with the Union Bank in Los Angeles, where he became the regional head of both the Latin America and Asia Pacific groups, before becoming its Senior Vice President and General Manager for International Banking.
He holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Kansas and an M.S. in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management.
He was raised in Latin America and Australia before attending school in Kansas and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
MARCEL MEYER
Partner, PricewaterhouseCooper AG Switzerland
Marcel is an Assurance Partner in the Zurich office of PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd. As a member of the Swiss leadership team in the asset management (AM) department Marcel's responsibilities include implementing the strategic goals of the AM practice and focusing on building the firms profile in the Swiss asset management market. This includes regulated investment managers, the private equity and real estate industry. Further, he is in charge of the Corporate Asset Management (CAM) team where Marcel manages a dedicated group of professionals servicing the asset management functions of the Swiss firm’s larger insurance clients and their strategic partners. In the last few years Marcel has built an extensive client base in Eastern Europe, mainly Russia and the Ukraine, and continues to spend considerable time servicing clients in the region.
Marcel has over 8 years of experience in serving national and multinational traditional and alternative investment management clients in countries such as the US, most central and Eastern European countries as well as the Near and middle East. He is the engagement Partner on Swiss and Liechtenstein regulated fund management companies including their managed funds (private equity, infrastructure and other alternative investment funds), alternative investment managers and private equity houses in Switzerland and Eastern Europe. Additionally, he is looking after the asset management functions of major international (Re-) insurance companies such as Swiss Re, Swiss Life and Baloise Insurance Group. This includes traditional and alternative investment portfolios, in particular their private equity allocations.
After graduating from the University of St.Gallen with a master’s degree in International Relations, Marcel started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd. He qualified as a chartered certified accountant (FCCA) and obtained the certification as an approved audit expert according to the Federal Audit Oversight Authority of Switzerland (FAOA). He is an approved Lead auditor for investment companies in Liechtenstein. Marcel is fluent in German, English, French and Russian and has basic skills in Arabic and Italian.
Mr. Buckley is a Founding Partner of Innova Capital. Since 1994, Innova has advised five investment funds in Central Eastern Europe, which currently manage approx. €900m. Mr. Buckley has led investments in Euronet Worldwide, PolCard, Voxtel (Moldova) and Dom Finansowy QS. He currently sits on the boards of Meritum Bank, Expander, and Donako, a Polish-based manufacturer of energy components. He focuses on developing investment opportunities in financial services, telecom and media across the region.
Since 1990, Mr. Buckley has resided in Warsaw, Poland. He first advised the Polish Government on early privatization programs, and then co-founded Company Assistance Ltd (CAL), one of Poland's leading market research firms, before establishing Innova in 1994. Prior to 1990, he worked with the consulting firms Bain & Company, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, and Arthur Andersen.
MICHAEL MUELLER, CFA, CPA
Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Oregon State Treasury
Mr. Mueller has served as the Deputy Chief Investment Officer for the Office of the State Treasurer for nearly ten years, prior to that, he served as the agency’s Audit & Risk Manager for five years. In that position, his responsibilities included monitoring Treasury compliance with internal policies and Oregon State law, and managing Treasury’s overall risk exposure. He served as Interim Chief Investment Officer for the State Treasury during 2002.
As the Deputy CIO, his duties span all asset classes as well as managing the Treasury’s custody, performance, consulting and lending relationships. In addition, he helps the CIO to plan, organize, and direct the day-to-day activities of the Investment Division staff for the Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund (OPERF) ($52 billion in assets; $10 billion in private equity). He also has primary responsibility for Treasury’s relationship with the State Accident Insurance Fund ($4 billion in assets), the Department of State Land’s Common School Fund ($1 billion in assets; 10% private equity target), and the Higher Education Pooled Endowment Fund ($60 million; $5 million in private equity). Mr. Mueller is also the OST staff to the Oregon Growth Account Board, an in-state fund using a portion of lottery revenues to investment in venture capital, in Oregon ($95 million committed).
Prior to his employment at Treasury, Mr. Mueller worked for five years at the international accounting firm of KPMG Peat Marwick in their San Francisco and Portland, Oregon offices as a certified public accountant. His client responsibilities included firms in high-tech, government, banking, and investment management, including many with SEC reporting requirements. Mr. Mueller earned his Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 2002. Mr. Mueller is a graduate of Stanford University where he earned degrees in quantitative economics and history.
TERRY A. NEWENDORP
Chairman and CEO, Taylor-DeJongh
Terry Newendorp, founder of Taylor-DeJongh, has more than 35 years of experience in international and cross-border capital investments, global financial structuring, project financing, and debt and equity raising and private placements of capital. He has negotiated and closed deals in 75 countries, aggregating more than $70 billion, primarily in the energy, oil & gas, petrochemicals, telecommunications, metals & mining, and infrastructure sectors. In addition to extensive experience structuring commercial bank loans globally, he has complete familiarity with government and multilateral financing institutions, including the export credit agencies of most of the developed world. He has extensive experience developing projects, securing debt and equity and closing transactions.
He has served as financial advisor for 22 trains of LNG production, 77,426 megawatts of power generation, and 26,410 kilometers of pipelines. Since 2006, he has advised the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe on energy security issues. Mr. Newendorp has supervised over 250 IPP financial advisories, of which 7 were the first of their kind in the host country.
Mr. Newendorp was awarded the honor "Superstar Team, Asia/Middle East Oil and Gas," received the "Independent Energy 25-year All-Star Award" for energy finance, and has received international recognition for success in energy finance globally. He was the overall leader for advisory teams that have won 12 "Deal of the Year" awards since 1999.
Mr. Newendorp received his J.D. cum laude from The George Washington University School of Law and his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University. Washington, D.C.
MARK O'HARE
Founder and Managing Director, Preqin Ltd.
Mark O’Hare studied Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University, where he graduated with First Class Honours and was awarded the Stokes Prize in Mathematics. He represented his college 1st VIII in rowing. Subsequent to this he studied Finance at London Business School.
Mark’s initial career was as a Manager with Boston Consulting Group, where he advised clients in Europe, the US and Africa, following which he founded Goodall Alexander O’Hare & Co, an independent strategy consulting firm.
In 1993 he founded Citywatch, the UK’s shareholder information service, which was acquired by Reuters in 1998, and now provides a global service on the ownership of listed equities. In 2002 he founded Private Equity Intelligence (Preqin), the alternative assets information service which provides extensive research, data and consultancy services on private equity, private real estate, infrastructure and hedge funds. Preqin is an independent business with 50 staff serving over 2,500 customers in 72 countries. Preqin tracks fund returns, fund raising information, fund terms and conditions, the GPs running the funds, and the LPs investing in them, and provides this information to its customers through a range of hard copy publications, online databases, and bespoke research projects.
Mark is married with four grown children, and is a marathon runner in his spare time.
NICHOLAS PARKER
Executive Chairman, Cleantech Group LLC
Nicholas Parker co-founded the Cleantech Group, introducing the cleantech concept to the investment and business community in 2002. Previously Nicholas accumulated over 15 years experience starting and investing venture funds worldwide through limited partnerships, family offices, corporate funds and endowments. During this time, he pioneered the first "sustainability" driven private equity funds and participated in one of the first solar IPOs. In the 1990s, he also founded, built and sold an environmental finance firm. He has served as an advisor to multilateral agencies and major corporations.
Nicholas earned a BA Hons. in Technology Studies (Carleton University, Ottawa) and an MBA (City University, London), and has authored or edited more than ten publications related to cleantech, finance and international business, starting with Investing in Emerging Economies in 1993. He serves as Chairman of E+Co, a public purpose investment company for clean energy enterprises in developing countries, and is on several boards, including: Government of Singapore Cleantech Advisory Board, Canadian Centre of Excellence for Commercialization of Research and the X PRIZE Energy & Environment Council. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). Nicholas has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America and currently resides with his two children in Toronto.
TODD J. PETERSON
Head of Emerging Markets Group, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP
Todd is a partner in the Private Equity and Venture Capital Practice Group, focusing on emerging markets work. This work includes four major components: forming private equity and similar funds primarily directed at emerging markets, working on transactions for such funds, working on a wide array of cross-border joint ventures (again primarily in emerging markets), and working on various infrastructure projects in emerging markets (including a number of biofuel and carbon credit related projects).
For the past several years Todd has been listed in The Legal Media Group Guide to the World’s Leading Equity lawyers, as well as The Legal Media Group Guide to the Worlds Leading Mergers and Acquisition Lawyers (Legal Media Group is the legal publishing arm of Euromoney Institutional Investor). He has also been involved with Africare for a number of years, and is listed in the Princeton Premier Business Leaders and Professionals Honors Edition.
CHRISTOPHER RUTH
Managing Partner, Northern Gulf Partners (NGP)
Christopher Ruth is the Managing Partner of Northern Gulf Partners (NGP), the leading private equity and marketable securities investment firm and financial advisory services provider in Iraq. Prior to NGP, Christopher Ruth served as a partner of Halyard Capital, a private equity firm with over $600 million under management. Halyard makes growth equity and buyout investments in the communications, business services, and media sectors. Mr. Ruth was responsible for sourcing, screening, structuring and executing buyout, leveraged recapitalization and growth equity investments. He served as a member of Halyard’s Investment Committee and has served on the boards of directors of several portfolio companies. Prior to the formation of Halyard Capital, Mr. Ruth was a senior investment banker delivering a full array of products to global communications and media clients while at CIBC World Markets and UBS Securities. Previously, Mr. Ruth worked at Alex Brown & Sons and later at Butler Chapman & Co. focused on merger and acquisition advisory assignments. Mr. Ruth's 18 years of experience on Wall Street includes a broad variety of principal investing, advisory and capital-raising experience. He has completed more than forty transactions representing over $10 billion in value. He serves as a Trustee of the America's Cup Hall of Fame and the Herreshoff Marine Museum. In 2009, Mr. Ruth was appointed as a member of the US Department of Commerce Iraq Business Dialogue. Mr. Ruth has completed an executive education program at the Harvard Business School and received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa.
JOE TOPLEY
Managing Director, Parish Capital LLP
Joe Topley is a Managing Director of Parish Capital, based in London. He leads the firm’s secondaries investment program.
Before joining Parish Capital, Mr. Topley established and ran the secondaries investment program for Nomura, based in London. Prior to that, Mr. Topley was a partner at Greenpark Capital, a secondaries firm based in London, where he led over 30 transactions of different types in a variety of markets. Before joining Greenpark, Mr. Topley worked as a telecoms investment banker for Credit Suisse, as a management consultant for the Coba Group and as a strategic planning analyst for Sega, the Japanese videogames company.
Mr. Topley is a graduate of both Imperial College, London and University College, London and has an MBA from INSEAD. He is fluent in French, Spanish and Italian.
JOSEPH QUINLAN
Managing Director & Chief Market Strategist Bank of America Investment Strategies Group;
TPEC Advisory Board Member
Joseph Quinlan is a Managing Director and the Chief Market Strategist of Bank of America, Global Wealth and Investment Management. He is charged with the development and implementation of domestic and global investment strategies. He joined the firm in June 2003 after working for several years as a Global Economist at Morgan Stanley (1994-02).
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Quinlan worked as Director of Economic Research at Sea-Land Services, a $3 billion global transportation firm. He has also been an International Management Consultant. Quinlan started his career with Merrill Lynch Economics.
In addition to his duties at Bank of America, Mr. Quinlan is a leading expert on global capital flows and the transatlantic economy. He has been a Senior Transatlantic Fellow (non-resident) at The German Marshall Fund in Brussels, Belgium since 2003, where his research centers on regional and global trade and investment flows. As a Fellow, he regularly debriefs and advises senior U.S. congressional leaders on global economic/financial affairs on Capitol Hill, and has testified before the European Parliament on transatlantic trade issues.
Quinlan is also a Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University. In 1998, he was nominated as Eisenhower Fellow and studied China-Taiwan cross-straits relations for a month in Taiwan.
He is the author, co-author, editor or contributor to eight books, the most recent: “Deep Integration: How Transatlantic Markets are Leading Globalization,” Johns Hopkins University, 2005, co-authored with Daniel Hamilton. He has published over 125 articles on international economics and trade, with publications appearing in such venues as Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and Barron's.
Quinlan lectures on global finance at New York University, where he has been on the faculty since 1992. He has lectured on global affairs and international finance at various institutions in Europe and Latin America. Mr. Quinlan has also served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of States.
He earned a Master's degree in International Political Economics and Development from Fordham University in 1984. He attended Niagara University, graduating in 1980 with a B.A. in Political Science. He has done additional course work in international finance at New York University. He sits on the Board of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Fordham University and is a member of the President's Council, Fordham University.
AMIT RATANPAL
Director, Kaizen Management Advisors Pvt. Ltd.;TPEC Board Fellow
Amit in his 11 years of work experience has the distinction of successfully traversing varied roles across the financial industry. This has given him cross skills vital to his current assignment as the Head of Fund of Funds business at ICICI Bank Limited. A large part of Amit’s experience has been in the areas of Private Equity, Investment banking, Asset management and Private Banking.
Amit joined ICICI Bank Limited in March 2005 and became a key part of its International Banking Group at a time when it was the key focus area for the bank. He has played several pioneering roles to build up its business streams where he set up its equity desk for global and private banking investors, its offshore investment management company. He also started the investment banking practice for private banking and global institutions. In his present profile he Head’s the Fund of Funds platform.
Prior to this, Amit worked for 5 years with Birla Sun Life group on various assignments. Some of the key assignments include providing appropriate treasury solutions to corporate clients for debt and equity linked products, part of the core team to form the firm’s Alternate Channels division as well as conceptualizing and implementing its electronic broking solution and distribution network across India.
During his three years of articleship while doing his Chartered Accountancy, he was working on full time assignments geared towards financial consulting to several large and reputed organizations
Amit is a Chartered Accountant and an Executive MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai. He has attended several training programs including a course on Private Equity & Venture Capital at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
JESSE REYES
Founder & Managing Director, Reyes Analytics; TPEC Advisory Board Member
Jesse Reyes manages Crane Capital Associates' U.S. operations and leads U.S. manager origination and due diligence efforts. Prior to joining Crane Capital, he was Vice President, Global Research at Thomson Venture Economics. He joined Venture Economics in 1989 as Research Manager and later became Managing Director of Venture Economics' Institutional Investor Services' - which is a performance and portfolio analytics monitoring service which monitored over $300 billion in LP investments in private equity and venture capital investments for limited partner clients.
Jesse is widely regarded as one of the leading experts on performance measurement and quantitative analysis of the venture capital and private equity industry. He pioneered many of the performance benchmarking metrics now standard in the private equity industry. He developed private equity benchmarking products at Venture Economics such as the Investment Benchmark Reports and the Private Equity Performance Database on private equity performance, which have become the leading fund performance measurement tools by LPs and GPs alike. While at Venture Economics he also developed the Post Venture Capital Index-a public market index jointly developed with Warburg Pincus. He is one of the most highly sought-after speakers at industry conferences and is a frequent contributor to the industry and financial press.
In addition to his activities at Crane, Mr. Reyes is a member of the CFA Institute's and the Global Investment Performance Standards' (GIPS) committees on performance presentation standards representing private equity investing. He is an Educational Board Member of the Kauffman Fellows program. He also is an courtesy lecturer at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, where he teaches classes on topics in institutional private equity investing.
Prior to joining Venture Economics, he was a visiting assistant professor at Texas Tech University teaching courses in futures, finance and applied economics. While at Texas Tech he also served as a consultant to U.S. AID projects specializing in economic and financial analysis of micro-business development and financial markets development projects in Central America. He was the founder and the managing director of Texas-based Decision Research Associates, a software firm specializing in oil and gas partnership accounting and other office management software.
A native of Ralls, Texas, his background includes a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural and Applied Economics and an MBA in Finance and Statistics., both from Texas Tech University as well as graduate studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University.
JACK RIVKIN
Director, Idealab; Director, Neuberger Berman Mutual Funds
Jack Rivkin has had a long and varied career in the Investment Industry encompassing Private and Public Equity, Investment Policy and Management. He is known as a keen observer of investment and business strategy, and a superb manager of highly talented professionals. He retired in early 2008 as Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer and Head of Private Asset Management of Neuberger Berman.
He was also a member of Neuberger’s Executive Management Committee, the Lehman Brothers Council on Climate Change and the Neuberger Berman Climate Change Fund Advisory Board. He is engaged with the United Nations on policy issues related to Private Capital and Climate Change. He is an Associate Fellow of the Asia Society.
He retired from Neuberger to devote more time to Climate Change and related Investing and Policy issues. Mr. Rivkin began his investment career in 1968 as a research analyst at Mitchell Hutchins, and subsequently became Director of Research. After Paine Webber acquired Mitchell Hutchins, Mr. Rivkin served in a variety of positions including, Director of Research, CFO of the parent company; President and CEO of PaineWebber Mitchell Hutchins -the equity trading and investment arm of PaineWebber; Chairman of Mitchell Hutchins Asset Management and President and Founder of PaineWebber Capital, the merchant banking arm of PW, where he ran a private equity portfolio. From 1987 to 1992 he was Director of Global Research and, subsequently, Head of the Worldwide Equities Division of Lehman Brothers Inc. From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Rivkin served as a Vice Chairman and director of Global Research at Smith Barney (ultimately a subsidiary of Citigroup). He was an executive vice president with Citigroup Investments from 1994 through 2001, responsible for private equity investments. During that period he was also an adjunct professor at Columbia University teaching a course in Security Analysis and classes on Venture Capital. He joined Neuberger Berman in 2002. Mr. Rivkin is the co-author of “Risk & Reward—Venture Capital and the Making of America’s Great Industries,” Random House, 1987.
He is a regular guest on various media including CNBC and Bloomberg. He is the principal subject in a series of Harvard Business School cases describing his experience as Director of Research and Head of Equities at Lehman Brothers. He has served as a director of a number of private and public companies and the New York Society of Security Analysts. He is currently a director of Dale Carnegie and Associates Inc., Idealab, Distributed World Power, Essentials Brands, Neuberger Berman Mutual Funds and Solbright Corporation. He and his wife, Jane, are involved with a number of NGOs as well. He is also a member of the Economic Club of New York, the Anglers Club of New York, Theodore Gordon Fly Fishers, and a lifetime member of Trout Unlimited.
He continues to be an active private equity investor when he isn’t fly fishing. He has traveled extensively to South America, Europe and Asia over his investment career. In addition to their residence in East Hampton, New York, he and his wife have had a home near San Martin de los Andes, Argentina, for many years.
JORDAN ROBINSON
Managing Director, Pomona Capital
Jordan joined Pomona in 2008 to lead the firm’s product development, marketing and distribution strategies efforts. He has 8 years of private equity experience. Prior to joining Pomona, Jordan was a Vice President, Global Private Equity Strategies for AIG Investments where he was responsible for assisting in the strategic planning, product development, and asset allocation of AIG Investments’ global private equity efforts, a program that totaled approximately $30 billion. Previously, he served as the Assistant to AIG’s Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer as well as Regional Investment Officer for AIG’s international insurance companies. Before joining AIG, Jordan held various corporate finance and investment positions with the CIGNA Corporation and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. He received a BA in International Relations from the Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from Georgetown University. Jordan is currently on the Board of Directors of the Canadian-American Business Council.
LEWIS RUTHERFURD
Co-founder and Managing Director, Inter-Asia
Co-founder and Managing Director of Inter-Asia since 1972, he has been directing the management of all three of the previous Inter-Asia funds. With more than 32 years of private equity investing experience in Asia, Mr. Rutherfurd has overseen the creation of 39 companies establishing an extensive track record of structuring, negotiating and growing and successful private equity investments in the region. Of the 39 companies of Inter-Asia I, II and III and IV, Mr. Rutherfurd was part of the deal origination in 20, was a primary director for 15 and negotiated the exit agreements for 12.
Mr. Rutherfurd personally operated 3 of Inter-Asia’s portfolio companies for extended periods and also ran a metals foundry before co-founding Inter-Asia. Mr. Rutherfurd received a BA in East Asian Studies from Princeton University and an M.B.A. with distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business. He was a former Governor and Vice President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, an Advisory Board member of Princeton in Asia and a former trustee of Berkshire School. He is past Co-Chairman and current executive committee member of the Hong Kong Venture Capital Association and acts as trustee of the Mary Wood Foundation.
Currently, Mr. Rutherfurd and Inter-Asia are finishing their fourth venture capital fund and will raise Inter-Asia V in late 2010. One weekend a month, he is attending class and writing a DBA doctoral thesis as part of a program with City University of Hong Kong in association with HAAS Business School of Berkeley University.
MANINDER SALUJA
Emerging Markets Private Equity, Quilvest Group
Mani is Co-Head of Emerging Markets Private Equity at Quilvest, a global institution that primarily manages the investments for one large family group as well as third party investors. Mani is involved in both the fund and direct private equity investment activities of the group.
Prior to joining Quilvest, Mani worked at Alvarez & Marsal, a crisis management and restructuring firm, where he assisted various North & South American companies and their creditors with operational and financial turnaround situations. Mani also worked in the New York and Hong Kong offices of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, where he worked on a variety of high yield, M&A, restructuring, public and private equity transactions in the United States, Western Europe, Russia, South America and Asia. In addition, Mani worked as the Director of Finance and Strategic Planning for a US based regional communications provider.
Mani received his MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BBA with a concentration in finance from the University of Michigan.
ERIK SEBUSCH '01
Portfolio Manager, UPS Investments
Mr. Sebush recently joined the pension plan investing arm of UPS. His position focuses on private market investments into private equity, venture capital, and real estate funds on behalf of the plan assets. Prior to that Erik worked in the venture capital arm of UPS. The UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund (SEF) was started in 1997 and is an early stage corporate strategic investor. The SEF is an early stage co-investment model investing primarily for learning about new technologies or market spaces. Initial experience at UPS was working in the New Product Concepts Group, which looks for new products and innovative ideas for the future of UPS. Erik holds a patent from his work in New Product Concepts and spearheaded several new general service offerings currently generating large revenues to UPS.
Erik is a frequent speaker and judge to various venture capital events and innovation panels. He is also on the boards of several start-up companies. Currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia with his family. Erik enjoys mountain biking, mixed martial arts, emerging technologies, and travel. His travels have taken him globally where he also lived and worked in Korea and Thailand.
Erik earned his International MBA from Thunderbird, School of Global Management. He was very active on campus through his presidential positions or executive leadership in various business clubs or cultural clubs on campus. In addition to those activities he was a teaching assistant, played rugby and was a Barton Yont Award (Academic excellence) nominee. Prior to graduate school Erik spent over 12 years working for high net worth individuals in private practice and with Merrill Lynch’s high net worth Private Capital Group.
JAMES D. SEYMOUR, CFA
Managing Director, EMP Global
James D. Seymour, CFA, is a Managing Director of EMP Global in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining EMP Global in 2006, Jim was with Commonfund Capital, the wholly owned subsidiary of Commonfund which manages its private capital programs. Mr. Seymour was primarily responsible for the international and emerging markets private capital programs at Commonfund and Commonfund Capital from 1993 to 2006.
Previously, Mr. Seymour spent 18 years with Bankers Trust Company in the international banking and corporate finance area including 12 years living and working in Bahrain, Manila, Taipei, Istanbul, and London and his last position was Division Head for the Americas in the Global Assets Department. He was a member of the Risk Standards Working Group which wrote the Risk Standards for Institutional Investment Managers and Institutional Investors that was completed in November 1996. Mr. Seymour received a BA in Political Science from Yale University in 1969 and an MBA in International Finance from the Harvard Business School in 1975. He also served four years in submarines in the U.S. Navy. He is a Certified Financial Planner and a Chartered Financial Analyst.
MARK STEED '07
Investment Specialist, Public Safety Personnel Retirement System of the State of Arizona
Mark is the Private Equity and Venture Capital Strategist for the innovative Arizona PSPRS. In this capacity, he manages a program with a robust commitment to opportunistic private investments and entrepreneurial thinking. He was recently featured as the Keynote Speaker at the Private Equity Summit in Palm Springs to discuss the impact of the “Global Credit Crisis and Private Equity.” He’s also been invited to participate in several panel discussions on the private equity and venture capital industry. Mr. Steed also has a unique global perspective as he has traveled to such places as Slovenia and Hungary, meeting with Private Equity firms and Venture Capitalists to better understand challenges they face in emerging economies. Mark graduated with his MBA from Thunderbird’s School of Global Management and received his BA (with honors) in Latin American Studies and Business Management from Brigham Young University. In his spare time, Mr. Steed enjoys teaching high school students the basics of economics and finance.
HEATHER M. STONE
Partner, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP
Heather focuses on private equity and venture capital and is Chair of the firm's Fund Formation practice group. She has over 14 years of experience in a range of domestic and cross-border corporate and securities transactions and fund formation work. Heather has represented many private equity firms, as well as many growth-oriented software, emerging technology and media companies in all stages of development, from start-ups to multi-national public companies. In 2001, Heather was voted by Digital Industry as the “Best General Lawyer for a High-Tech Firm”, and has been designated a “Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics and Boston Magazine.
VINCENT WARNER
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Chepstow Capital
Vince Warner is Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Chepstow Capital. Vince has 20 years of mid-market private equity experience, including 15 years in Asia. Prior to Chepstow Capital, Vincent was Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Alternative Proprietary Investment Advisors Ltd, and was a senior member of HSBC’s Asian private equity team in Hong Kong for 12 years. Vince was a Director and member of the Investment Committee of HSBC Private Equity (Asia) Limited, HSBC’s Asian private equity, buy-out and venture investment business, which had made well over 100 investments across Asia and was one of the market-leaders in the mid-market private equity industry. He represented or acted as a director appointed by HSBC in companies across Asia, and was HSBC’s representative or Director on three listed China funds.
Prior to HSBC, Vince worked for AusAsean Management Limited, a mid-market Asian focused Australian private equity firm based in Sydney, where he worked from 1993 to 1995. Vince started his private equity career from 1989 to 1993 with Lloyds Development Capital Limited (now called LDC), a subsidiary of Lloyds Bank plc in the UK. Vince received a Master of Arts in Jurisprudence from Oxford University in the UK.
THOMAS WHITEAKER '96
Managing Director, Hartford Ventures
Tom Whiteaker manages the external venture capital activity for Hartford Ventures. In this role he is responsible for The Hartford's strategic investment and alliance activities in venture backed companies. Tom joined The Hartford in 2008.
Hartford Ventures is designed to keep The Hartford on the forefront of external innovations and seeks to identify trends with potential future impact to our business and industry. Tom leads a small team to accomplish The Hartford's strategic venture objectives. Themes around which Hartford Ventures looks to invest in include: driver safety, security, loss prevention, loss control, green technologies, affiliate marketing and many other areas of potential strategic relevance to our business and the insurance industry.
Prior to joining The Hartford, Tom led Visa's corporate venture function in the security and e-commerce sector. In this role he established and managed venture capital investments in privately-held technology companies with strategic relevance to Visa. While at Visa Tom formed strategic partnerships with and invested in several companies including: Zone Labs (Acquired by CheckPoint), NextPage (Acquired by Fast Search & Transfer), Quova, Vericept (Acquired by TrustWave), IP Commerce, Third Brigade and Inside Contactless. Tom joined Visa in 1999.
Prior to Visa Tom was the Senior Director of International Business Development for Omnium Worldwide where he managed Omnium's international expansion efforts in to Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Tom graduated from Thunderbird, The School of Global Management in 1996 with an MBA in International Management and also holds a B.S. degree in Finance.
DAVE WHORTON
Founder and Managing Partner, Tugboat Ventures
Dave Whorton is the founder and managing partner of Tugboat Ventures, a seed and early stage venture fund focused on committed, passionate entrepreneurs with big ideas in consumer internet, enterprise SAAS, mobile and cloud computing. Tugboat’s small, highly effective team strives to make a significant difference from as early as inception through successful IPO or sale.
After earning a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford´s Graduate School of Business, Whorton found his way to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Texas Pacific Group Ventures, where he developed and incubated numerous investments.
Whorton has been called a "serial entrepreneur." He has served as founding CEO of Good Technology (acquired by Motorola); co-founder of Drugstore.com (DSCM); co-founding board member of Newschools Venture Fund, and general manager and president of Optical Engineering, Inc. Dave also worked at Netscape, Hewlett Packard and Bain.
He currently serves on the board of directors of SuccessFactors (SFSF), Cuil, RepairPal, RichRelevance and Newschools Venture Fund. Prior investments that Dave led include Blue Nile (NILE), Business Signatures (acquired by Entrust), and Cranium (acquired by Hasbro).
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