Raluca is Managing Director and Head of Private Markets Solutions at Allianz Global Investors. She is responsible for custom mandates and evergreen funds that invest across private markets asset classes or in a mix of public and private markets.

Raluca joined AllianzGI in 2010 and gained prior experience at Hymans Robertson (UK) and NERA / Oliver Wyman Group (USA). Raluca is a CFA charterholder.

Petra is CCO and a founding partner of Amundi Alpha Associates. She manages a range of operational matters, incl. investor services, fund structuring, and fundraising. She has been active in private markets since 2001. She is admitted to the New York Bar and holds an LL.M. from NYU. She graduated from the University of Vienna’s law school and holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of Basel.

Anna Vӓӓnӓnen  is the Head of Listed Impact Equity and co-manages the AXA  People & Planet Equity, AXA WF ACT Clean Economy, AXA WF ACT Biodiversity strategies and AXA ACT WF Social Progress strategies together with Tom Atkinson, and Ashley Keet.

Anna joined AXA IM in 2023 from Mirova, a leading impact boutique and affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, where she was the head of Mirova’s Global Environmental team for 4 years. Preceding that, Anna spent 9 years at Credit Suisse Asset Management in Zurich managing thematic equity strategies, and 6 years as a fund manager at FIM Asset Management and Tapiola Asset Management.  She started her career in investment banking working as a sell side analyst at Salomon Brothers and Carnegie Investment Bank.  Anna holds a Master of Social Science from the University of Helsinki, majoring in Economics.    

January 2025
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Stuart joined Baillie Gifford in 2003 and is a Director in the Clients Department. He became a Partner in the firm in 2014.  Stuart oversees distribution and coordinates global marketing and product development activity. He sits on various management groups including the firm’s Strategic Leadership Group, Client Management Group and ESG Oversight Group.  His experience with the firm prior to his current role has included managing institutional sales and consultant relationships, and the creation of a dedicated financial institutions team.  In recent years Stuart’s focus has been on the development of the firm’s overall ‘Actual Investors’ philosophy and the integration and development of our ESG investment research activities and strategy offerings.  Prior to joining Baillie Gifford, Stuart worked with Dresdner RCM in Hong Kong and Aberdeen Asset Management in the UK. He graduated BA in Finance and Business Law from the University of Strathclyde in 1993.

Fabio Osta, Managing Director, Head of the Alternatives Specialists Team in EMEA Wealth. In his role, Fabio and his team are responsible for leading client strategy, business development and strategic partnerships with a focus on Private Markets and Hedge Funds in the EMEA region.

Stéphane Blanchoz is Client Solutions Manager, Head of Alternative Solutions since November 2022. He joined BNPP AM’s fixed income team in 2004 as Product Manager and Head of Fixed Income Solutions, after four years as an auditor in the Group’s ‘Inspection Générale’ department. He joined Banque Nationale de Paris in 1997 as a risk manager in Tokyo, having previously held the same role at Pechiney, where he began his career in 1994 in the finance department in Sydney.

Mr. Collard is a Portfolio Manager of the Boston Partners Mid Cap Value strategy. Prior to this, he was an equity analyst with Boston Partners, specializing in the aerospace & defense, transportation, housing, and automobile sectors of the equity market. Mr. Collard joined the firm in April 2018 from Shellback Capital where he was a founding partner and equity analyst. Prior to that, he worked as a research analyst at Vinik Asset Management and Diamondback Capital Management. He began his career as an associate at the investment bank America’s Growth Capital. Mr. Collard holds a B.A. in American Studies from Middlebury College.

John Lamb is an investment specialist at Capital Group. He has eight years of industry experience and has been with Capital Group for five years. Prior to joining Capital, John worked as a strategic product management associate at BlackRock. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics and management from the University of Oxford. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. John is based in London.

Gilles Cozma joined Carmignac in 2022 as a Senior Thematic Specialist. He started his career in 2006 at Pictet Asset Management on their thematic funds before moving to Skandia Investment Group in 2007 as a fund analyst covering both long only and alternative equity funds. In 2015 he joined Franklin Templeton’s Multi-Asset team as senior research analyst where he set up their London manager research function and was responsible for selection and allocation across EM Equities, Japanese Equities and niche products. In 2017 he moved to Schroders where he was a senior product strategy manager working with the investment and distribution teams to build out areas of the business. Gilles graduated from ISG Business School in Paris and holds an MBA from IE Business School in Madrid. He is also a CAIA charterholder.

Andrew Smith is a Client Portfolio Manager within the US Equities team. He is responsible for providing detailed information on the company’s US equity capabilities and investment views to existing and prospective clients. Before joining the US Equities team in 2018, Andrew worked across a variety of distribution and technology roles. Andrew has an MA in Geography from the University of Cambridge.

Alexandre Narboni joined Comgest in 2009 and is an analyst and portfolio manager specialising in global equities. He is also a member of the Comgest Group's Investment Committee. Before joining Comgest, he worked in New York in asset-backed securities at Société Générale and then as a hedge fund credit analyst at HSBC. Alexandre graduated from ENSAE in Paris and Columbia University in New York.

With over 20 years of expertise in sustainable finance and investment banking, Desiree is a Member of the ESG Advisory Committee, Financial Conduct Authority, and Chair of the Board at Venture ESG.

Michele Wucker coined the term “gray rhino” as a call to improve people’s responses to obvious, probable, impactful –yet all-too-often neglected—risks. Her goal is to give decision makers and their teams the tools they need to step up to head off looming dangers right in front of them, instead of letting themselves get trampled.

In today’s volatile, uncertain world, Michele is a sought-after risk innovator and educator specialized in the global economy, public policy, decision-making, and governance. Formerly a think tank and media CEO, she is founder of the strategic advisory firm Gray Rhino & Company and a globally recognized best-selling author.

C-Suite executives, boards of directors, and business continuity teams apply gray rhino theory across diverse industries: technology and AI, finance, human capital, education, logistics, mining, manufacturing, and cyber-security. So do central banks, securities regulators, and policymakers working on national security, technology, demographic change, and emergency response all around the world.

Michele is the author of four books including the influential global best-seller, THE GRAY RHINO, and the sequel, YOU ARE WHAT YOU RISK. The gray rhino has made headlines in more than 75 countries and 35 languages in articles about the COVID-19 pandemic; climate change; and post-pandemic financial fragilities. It inspired a lyric in the hit single, “Blue & Grey,” by the global K-Pop mega-phenomenon BTS.

Alastair Baillie Strong is Global Head of ETFs at Fidelity International. Alastair has 19 years of industry experience in multi asset portfolio management and quantitative research and joined Fidelity in 2015 as a Senior Strategic Analyst. Prior to Fidelity he was Head of UK Investment strategy at MN, a Dutch fiduciary manager with over Euro 92 billion of assets, providing investment advice, constructing and implementing investment strategies for Dutch and UK pension funds. Having previously been Head of Quantitative Services at Moody’s Analytics (Barrie & Hibbert) delivering risk models and capital optimised solutions to the insurance, pensions and banking industries with clients managing in aggregate over $10 trillion of assets. Alastair has a MSc in Operations Research & Management Science and a Bsc in Mathematics from Edinburgh University.

David Zahn, head of European Fixed Income and senior vice president within Franklin Templeton's Fixed Income Group. Joining Franklin Templeton in 2006, he manages the UK and European fixed income strategies and is Fixed Income's Head of Sustainable Investing. Mr. Zahn holds a B.S. in business administration from the University of Maine and an M.B.A in finance from the University of Connecticut.

Akua is an Executive Director in the Client Solutions Group, specialising in Private Credit fundraising within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 2023, she worked within the Investor Relations team at Permira Credit for five years. Before that, Akua spent three years at Pantheon Ventures, focused on portfolio strategy across fund of fund portfolios.

Akua earned a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from The University of Edinburgh in 2015.

Based in Paris, Charles Moussier leads the client solutions development for France, Belgium & Luxemburg and the insurance solutions for EMEA. He joined Invesco as the Head of EMEA insurance Solutions within Invesco.

Charles has a broad insurance and investment banking background. He studied engineering, he holds a Business Administration Diploma and a Master in Insurance and Finance and qualified as an actuary.

In his last role he developed the financial institutions advisory business for Natixis CIB. He was Deputy Head of Global Investment Solutions for the AXA Group. Before that, he was co-head of the Insurance & Pension funds solutions team for Crédit Agricole CIB in Paris, Head of Investments and ALM for AXA RE in Paris, Equity derivatives trader assistant for BNPP Americas in New York (USA) and Securitization credit analyst for IXIS Capital Markets in Paris. Charles started his career as scientific coordinator for Airbus Space in 2001 on the Mars express mission.

Alison Porter is a Portfolio Manager on the Global Technology Leaders Team at Janus Henderson Investors, a position she has held since joining Henderson in 2014.Prior to Henderson, she was at Ignis Asset Management (formerly Resolution and Britannic Asset Management) as an investment analyst, portfolio manager, and head of US equities.

Alison has a BA degree (Hons) in economics and industrial relations from the University of Strathclyde and a master’s degree in investment analysis from the University of Stirling. She has 28 years of financial industry experience.

Nicolas Deblauwe, Managing Director and Country Head Benelux, joined J.P. Morgan in 1997 as head of Sales for Belux. Before joining J.P. Morgan, he worked for four years as the head of Institutional Sales at Petercam. Prior to that, he worked as a private banker at Bank Dewaay. Nicolas Deblauwe graduated as an economist from the University of Ghent and holds an MBA from the University of Brussels.

Alexis Drouillot joined CIC Private Debt in 2013 to create and manage the senior debt funds activity (> 1 Bn€ of AUM). Alexis is also member of the executive committee and involved in the launching of new projects such as a CLO platform and a retail private debt fund. He previously spent 15 years in CIC's corporate banking, including 10 years in origination of leveraged finance transactions.

Daniel White joined M&G in 2005 as a sector analyst and has worked on various value strategies since 2008. Before joining M&G, Daniel worked at Deloitte & Touche as an accountant after graduating from the University of Southampton with a BSc in oceanography in 2001. He qualified as a chartered accountant in 2005 and is a CFA charterholder. He is manager and deputy manager for a range of American and European value strategies domiciled in London and Luxembourg.

Federico is a Senior Investment Specialist at Nordea Asset Management (NAM) for Multi Assets solutions. Before joining NAM back in 2023, he worked in the investment oversight team for internally and externally managed traditional/alternative funds at a UK-based asset manager. Prior to that, he spent 3 years as co-portfolio manager for discretionary mandates and multi assets UCITS funds in a Swiss-Italian independent asset manager. He holds a Master of Science in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan and a Bachelor in Business & Management, with a major in Financial Market, from LUISS University in Rome. He is a CFA charterholder.

Since 2014, Janis Heck has been High Yield Portfolio Manager at ODDO BHF Asset Management. Since 2022, Janis has served as Deputy Head of High Yield, overseeing strategies and leading teams in the high-yield space.

From 2014 to 2022, he worked as a Portfolio Manager and Analyst for High Yield at ODDO BHF AM, following three years as a Corporate Bonds Analyst at WGZ BANK AG (2011–2014). A graduate of the University of Duisburg-Essen, Janis holds CIIA and CEFA designations.

Ms. Medema is an executive vice president and alternative credit strategist in the London office, responsible for credit alternatives and mortgage- and real-estate-related strategies. Previously, she worked in the portfolio management group and focused on mortgage-backed securities and residential whole loans. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2006, she worked at Deutsche Bank’s Trust & Securities Services Division, specializing in collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). She has 21 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. She also received an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Henrik Adam is working as a Private Market Specialist within Rothschild & Co Asset Management. He joined Rothschild & Co in 2014 to build-up Business Development in the German-speaking countries.

Prior to this, he founded and managed his own hedge fund strategy. He began his career as a Proprietary Trader at Dresdner Kleinwort after studying Business Administration at the University of Mannheim, Germany.

Benjamin Alt is head of Global Private Equity Portfolios and also heads the Private Equity Consumer Investments team.
Prior to taking on his current role, Benjamin covered Schroders Capital private equity investment activity in Europe, as well as in the US while in secondment in New York. Before joining Schroders Capital in 2008, Benjamin worked in the Investment Banking division of Sal. Oppenheim in Frankfurt and Cologne, Germany.
Benjamin holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Private University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany.