SBAI - Key Persons
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- Managing Director, CHEYNE CAPITAL
- Member of Committee
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- Manager ODD, Investment Ops & Performance, AUSTRALIAN RETIREMENT TRUST
- Member of Committee
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- Member of Committee
- PM, Absolute Returns, VICTORIAN FUNDS MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ( VFMC )
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- Global Co - Head, Client & Partner Group, CITADEL
- Member of Committee
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- Member of Committee
- Senior Portfolio Manager - Alternative Investments, TELSTRASUPER
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- Member of Committee
- Product Strategy, Head of Alternatives Partnerships, Asia - Pacific, PIMCO
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- CIO
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Chief Investment Officer of the Future Fund
- CIO, Future Fund
Ben Samild was appointed Chief Investment Officer of the Future Fund in August 2023, having previously served as DCIO, Portfolio Construction.
As CIO, Ben leads the Future Fund's investment team investing A$250bn across all asset classes and geographies, with a particular focus on stewarding the Fund's joined-up whole portfolio approach.
He joined the Future Fund in October 2013, as Director, Alternatives, following a 10 year career in the hedge fund industry, and 4 years as Head of Investment Strategy at LUCRF Super.
Ben is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Standards Board for Alternative Investments.
Ben completed a 6 year undergraduate degree at the University of Melbourne majoring in behavioural finance, psychology and history, and has a Masters of Applied Finance.
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- Co - CEO, SRILIM, SWISS RE
- Member of Committee
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- Managing Director, Head of External Managers Department
Betty is Managing Director, Head of External Managers Department in GIC. In her current capacity, Betty oversees the day-to-day activities of the External Managers Department, including portfolio management for all of GIC's public market external managers programs, manager selection and monitoring, operations and administration for the department. In addition, Betty is a member of GIC's Business Continuity Plan Steering Committee.
Betty joined GIC in July 1999 as a Senior Portfolio Manager. She served as a Portfolio Manager within the Emerging Markets Group from 1999 to 2002. In this capacity, Betty was posted to GIC's London office, and was instrumental in developing portfolio management expertise in non-Asia emerging markets. In 2002, Betty joined the External Managers Group.
Betty has over 20 years of experience in international financial markets including trading functions across various products in local and international financial institutions. She began her career as a proprietary trader with the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS). Prior to joining GIC, Betty spent 6 years as a Principal at Bankers Trust Company (Singapore). She served as the Head of the Foreign Exchange Forwards Division and managed the firm's balance sheet in Singapore.
Betty graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1991 with a BSc in Mathematics. She also holds both Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designations. She completed the Stanford Executive Program in August 2014. Betty is a member of the Investment Advisory Committee for the Lee Kuan Yew Fund for Bilingualism Limited.
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- Director, Research & Content
Brian Digney joined the SBAI in March 2023 in the role of Research and Content Director. He is responsible for content development and co-ordination of the ongoing and future working groups on a wide variety of topics, including valuation of private assets, ESG & carbon footprinting, governance, insurance linked strategies, digital assets, asset management regulation and compliance as well as new topics to be determined in the future.
Prior to joining the SBAI, Brian was the Head of Due Diligence & Governance Oversight at Innocap Global Investment Management (Ireland) Ltd (2018-2023) in Dublin, a subsidiary of Innocap Investment Management Inc., a US$50bn hedge fund platform. He acted as Designated Person for Operational Risk Management, a regulated role by the Central Bank of Ireland. He also sat on Innocap's Irish Risk Oversight and Valuation Committees. In 2017, Brian joined Albourne Partners in London as a Senior Operational Due Diligence Analyst. From 2015 to 2017 he was employed as an Operational Due Diligence Analyst at Mercer Sentinel in London. From 2010 to 2015 he held various Associate level roles at Decura LLP, Morgan Stanley and Citi.
Brian holds an LLB Hons in Law with Criminology and an M.Sc. in Management and Corporate Governance from University of Ulster. Brian is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst.
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- Member of Committee
- Portfolio Manager, Fixed Income and Global Macro, External Managers' Department, GIC
The ASEAN Committee replaced its predecessor, the Singapore Committee, which was active between 2022-2025.
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- Managing Director, Blackstone
- Member of Committee
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- Chairman
- Member of the Committee
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- CEO and Co - Founder, PAG
- Member of Committee
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- Member of Committee
- Partner, Head of Global Business Development, PERSEVERANCE ASSET MANAGEMENT
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- Chief Investment Officer, Income Insurance
- Member of Committee
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- Member of Committee
- Partner, Albourne Partners
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- Chairman
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- Portfolio Manager, Funds Alpha, State of Wisconsin Investment Board ( SWIB )
Derek Drummond, CAIA, is the Portfolio Manager for the Funds Alpha team at the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB), overseeing approximately $30B in assets.
Derek and his team are responsible for the sourcing, evaluation and implementation of external investment managers across both traditional and alternative investment strategies.
Derek has over 20 years of experience developing and implementing investment structures for both asset owners and managers, including developing portfolio construction, analytics and risk management frameworks, and establishing manager due diligence and evaluation processes.
John Claisse joined Albourne in July 1996, relocated from London to San Francisco in July 2003 and became Albourne Group CEO in August 2015. John is an equity partner and member of Albourne's Executive Committee and also chairs the firm's Corporate Planning Council, which comprises Albourne's function and region heads. John helped develop the firm's proprietary risk analytics and was formerly the Senior Analyst for quantitative equity strategies and multi-strategy hedge funds. John remains a Portfolio Analyst working with several public and corporate plans, large endowments and foundations. John also serves on the Advisory Board of the University of Sussex Business School, on the Board of Trustees of Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI), and on the Governing Board of The Robert Toigo Foundation.
John holds a first class Mathematics Degree and a PhD from Sussex University.
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- Senior Managing Director and Global Head of the Client and Partner Group at Citadel
Ed O'Reilly is a Senior Managing Director and Global Head of the Client and Partner Group at Citadel. He is responsible for managing the firm's relationships with all investors globally. Ed is on the Executive Leadership Team and a Portfolio Committee member.
Ed started his career at The O'Connor Partnership, Chicago, where he managed the non-investment aspects of a dynamic, derivatives market making and proprietary trading business within the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) and Equities strategies in a COO function. Throughout his career with O'Connor / Swiss Bank Corporation / UBS, Ed was based in a variety of financial centers: Chicago, Singapore, Zurich and London. This experience ultimately led him to spend 18 years abroad.
Ed is a member of The Cleveland Clinic International Leadership Board, The Economic Club of New York, The Aspen Institute Society of Fellows, The Development Committee for the Brunswick School in Greenwich, Connecticut. Ed is on the Investment Committee for the Miami University Endowment and a Director of the Miami University Foundation Board. He is also a Trustee of the Standards Board for Alternative Investments.
Ed received his Master of Business Administration from Duke University and a bachelor's degree from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Elena Manola-Bonthond, PhD, MBA, is Chief Investment Officer of CERN Pension Fund, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The Fund manages approximately 5 billion Swiss francs in assets, both internally and externally. Elena has played an instrumental role in defining and implementing an investment governance framework optimised for dynamic risk management. Before joining the CERN Pension Fund, Elena worked in CERN's science sector where she was responsible for the safety and risk management system of CERN's flagship installation, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Before that, she worked as a research physicist at CERN.
Elena holds a PhD in particle physics from the University of Savoie, France, and CERN, and an MBA in international management from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Furthermore, she is a CAIA charterholder
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- Co - Founder, NOAH HOLDINGS LTD
- Member of Committee
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- China General Manager, ASPECT CAPITAL
- Member of Committee
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- Head of External Partnerships, AP1
- Member of Committee
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- Chief Investment Officer, Khazanah Nasional Berhad
- Member of Committee
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- Partner, SLR CAPITAL PARTNERS
Isabelle Mather joined the SBAI in March 2021 and is responsible for the SBAI's EMEA Relations.
Prior to the SBAI, Isabelle was Head of Sales for Aurum Funds Ltd and before that COO and Head of Marketing at Salt Rock Capital, a Global Macro Hedge Fund. In total, she has 19 years' experience in the alternative investment industry.
Isabelle holds a BSc in Physics from Imperial College, University of London.
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- Investment Director, QIC
- Member of Committee
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- Chairman, CEO, Martlet Asset Management
Jane is Chief Executive Officer of Martlet Asset Management responsible for firm strategy, organization and performance. Martlet is based in Newport Beach, CA and was founded in July 2018. The firm's strategies include alternative risk premia and developing liquid strategies with a focus on fixed income.
Prior to this, Ms. Buchan co-founded and led Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO), a Fund of Hedge Funds focused on institutional investors for 18 years. Under her leadership first as CEO of PAAMCO and then co-CEO of PAAMCO Prisma, the firm grew to $32 billion AUM placing it third globally in the league tables by the time of her retirement in July 2018 (HFM InvestHedge Billion Dollar Club).
Jane began her career at J.P. Morgan Investment Management in the Capital Markets Group where she was trained in quantitative fixed income portfolio management. She has been an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She recently served as chairwoman of the board for the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA) and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Master of Financial Engineering Program at UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Jane holds both a PhD and an MA in Business Economics (Finance) from Harvard University. She earned a BA in Economics from Yale University. Jane has thirty-three years of experience in investment management and portfolio construction with institutional investors.
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- Head of Operational Due Diligence, AIA Insurance
- Member of Committee
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- Head of Asia Pacific, Orchard Global
- Member of Committee
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- Chief Client Officer, GRAHAM CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
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- COO, IONIC CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
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- Member of Committee
- PM, Hedge Funds, VARMA MUTUAL PENSION INSURANCE COMPANY
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- Member of Committee
- Partner, ALBOURNE PARTNERS
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- CEO, Systematica Investments
Leda acts as CEO of Systematica Investments, an institutional hedge fund manager with approximately $14 billion in AUM and offices in London, Geneva, New York, Singapore, Shanghai and Jersey.
Systematica was formed in January 2015 as a spin-off of BlueCrest Capital, where Leda was President and Head of Systematic Trading for 14 years since 2001. • Prior to BlueCrest, Leda was part of Cygnifi Derivatives Services (a J.P. Morgan spin-off). At Cygnifi she was a member of the management team and head of its Valuation Service. Prior to Cygnifi, Leda spent nearly seven years at J.P. Morgan as a Quantitative Analyst in the derivatives research team. Her past experience includes modelling of interest rate exotics, FX/interest rate hybrid instruments and equity derivatives.
Leda holds a PhD in Engineering from Imperial College London, where she worked as a lecturer and led research projects for over three years prior to joining J.P. Morgan. In addition, Leda has served on the advisory board of the pension fund of the CERN in Geneva and on the advisory board of the London School of Economics' Systemic Risk Centre. Leda currently serves on the board of trustees of the SBAI - the Standards Board of Alternative Investments and on the NY Fed's Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets (IACFM).
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- Member of Committee
- Portfolio Analyst / Partners, ALBOURNE PARTNERS
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- Member of Committee
- Partner, CLOCKTOWER GROUP
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- Head of Investment Funds and External Management, CDPQ
Mario Therrien leads CDPQ's investment funds activities. The teams he oversees invest in private investment funds and credit in private markets, as well as in venture capital in Québec and internationally. They are also responsible for external management in equity markets, as well as developing and managing strategic and institutional relationships. His mandate consists of adding value by building portfolios with the best external managers, while improving in-house management through the sharing of knowledge and expertise. He sits on the Investment-Risk Committee.
Prior to this role, Mr. Therrien was Senior Vice-President and Head of Strategic Partnerships, Developed Markets. He joined CDPQ in 1993 as an Analyst before taking on the role of Portfolio Manager in the group responsible for absolute return activities. Subsequently, he was mandated to develop external management activities in liquid-asset classes.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and a Master's degree in Finance from Université de Sherbrooke. He has also completed the Canadian Securities Course given by the Canadian Securities Institute, and is a CFA charter holder.
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- Research & Content Analyst
Marissa Goodier joined the SBAI in October 2022. In her role as Research & Content Analyst she works closely with the Research & Content Director, helping co-ordinate SBAI working groups and communities, as well as assisting with research into emerging issues within the alternative investment industry.
Prior to joining the SBAI, Marissa held a number of research-based roles and internships including at the M&A Research Centre and IHS Markit.
Marissa received an MSc in Investment Management from Bayes Business School (formerly known as Cass) in 2022, and a BA in Economics from Richmond the American International University in London in 2019. Marissa has passed CAIA level 1.
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- Co - Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, & Chief Risk Officer, Dymon Asia Capital
- Member of Committee
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- Head of Alternatives, NSW TREASURY CORPORATION ( TCorp )
- Member of Committee
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- Member of Committee
- PM, Hedge Funds, ELO MUTUAL PENSION INSURANCE COMPANY
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- Head of Listed and Alternative Assets, Brunei Investment Agency
- Member of Committee
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- Global Chief Operating Officer, Blackstone
- Senior Managing Director in Institutional Client Solutions
Paget MacColl is a Senior Managing Director in Institutional Client Solutions (ICS), where she serves as the Global Chief Operating Officer. Ms. MacColl most recently served as the Global Head of ICS for Blackstone Multi-Asset Investing (BXMA). Prior to joining Blackstone, Ms. MacColl spent 20 years at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), where she served as the Co-Head of the Americas Institutional Client Business through which she was responsible for leading business strategy and client engagement with institutions across the US, Canada and Latin America. Prior to that, she led the institutional distribution and fundraising efforts in GSAM as the Global Head of Institutional Capital Markets. Ms. MacColl earned a BA in Politics from Princeton University. In addition, she serves on the Board of Trustees of Greenwich Academy and The Children's School.
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- Expert PM, APG ASSET MANAGEMENT
- Member of Committee
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- Vice President and Chief Investment Officer at the Rockefeller University
Paula Volent is Vice President and Chief Investment Officer at The Rockefeller University, the world's leading biomedical research university. Prior to joining The Rockefeller University in August 2021. Ms. Volent served as Chief Investment Officer and Senior Vice President at Bowdoin College, a private, residential college in Brunswick, Maine. At Bowdoin, where she was responsible for the oversight and management of the College's endowment. Prior to joining Bowdoin in July 2000, Ms. Volent was a Senior Associate at the Yale Investments Office.
Ms. Volent has a BA from the University of New Hampshire; a Master's Degree in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University; a Certificate in Conservation from the Conservation Center at NYU, with a specialization in the conservation of works of art on paper; and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. Prior to focusing on endowment management, Paula worked as a paper conservator at the New-York Historical Society, the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts, the LA County Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. She also ran a private paper conservation studio in Los Angeles, California. She serves on the Board of Directors of MSCI, Inc.; the Board of Directors of 1 st Dibs; a member of the Investment Committee of the Pritzker Family Foundation, a member of the Advisory Board of Girls Who Invest, a Trustee of the Skowhegan School of Art and Painting, and an Investment Committee Member of the Rockefeller Foundation. She is also Vice Chair of the Yale School of Management Advisory Board, a member of the Milken Institute's Global Markets Advisory Council, a member of the Advisory Board of the Private Capital Research Institute and a member of the National Gallery of Art Investment Subcommittee. In 2020 Barron's named Ms. Volent as one of the "100 most influential women in U.S. Finance.
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- Chairman - Asia, ALBOURNE PARTNERS
- Chairman of Committee
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- Director, External Investments, NEW ZEALAND SUPERFUND
- Member of Committee
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- CEO of the LSE
- CEO, Man Group
Robyn Grew is CEO of the LSE-listed active investment management firm Man Group, and an executive director on the Man Group Board. The global firm manages USD 151.7 billion (as at 30 June 2023) across a broad range of alternative and long-only portfolio solutions. As CEO, Robyn leads the firm's Executive Committee, which is focused on ensuring the firm continues to evolve to meet the needs of its clients and the millions of pensioners and savers they represent.
Robyn was previously President of Man Group, based in the US, and has a strong track record of demonstrating strategic vision and leadership. Since joining Man Group, via GLG, in 2010, Robyn has managed the solutions business, overseen trading and execution as well as acted as Group COO, Head of ESG and General Counsel. She has been integral to the firm's global strategic expansion and oversaw the reorganisation of Man Group's corporate structure in 2019 to better align it with the global footprint of the business. She has also spearheaded the firm's diversity programme, Drive. Before joining the firm in 2009, Robyn held senior positions at investment banks Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers as well as at LIFFE, the largest futures and options exchange in London - since renamed ICE Futures Europe. These roles saw her based for periods of time in New York, London and Tokyo giving her broad, global experience. Robyn is a qualified barrister and has worked in the investment industry since 1994.
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- Deputy Chair
- Member of Committee
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- Events and Marketing Manager
- Manager, Events & Marketing
Shani Mogan joined the SBAI as Events and Marketing Manager in September 2021. She is responsible for coordinating and managing the SBAI's global events and marketing activities.
Prior to working with SBAI, Shani was an Events Specialist at IHS Markit in their financial services division and working with the CEO's office. Before this she was a Regional Sales Manager at Close Brothers Premium Finance, bringing 18 years of experience working in the financial services industry.
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- Director, Credit, FUTURE FUND
- Member of Committee
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- Head of Investor Relations, SPRINGS CAPITAL
- Member of Committee
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- Head of Investment Office, Singapore University of Social Sciences ( SUSS )
- Member of Committee
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- Member of Committee
- Relationship Manager, WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT
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- Global Co - Head, Client & Partner Group, CITADEL
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- CEO, UBIQUANT ASSET MANAGEMENT
- Member of Committee
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- Co - Founder, President and Director of Research of Cheyne Capital
- Co - Founder, President and Director of Research, Cheyne Capital Management
Stuart Fiertz is the Co-Founder, President and Director of Research of Cheyne Capital. From 1991 to June 2000, and prior to establishing Cheyne Capital, Stuart worked for Morgan Stanley where he was responsible for the development and implementation of customised portfolio strategies and for credit research in the convertible bond management practice.
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Stuart was an equity research analyst for the Value Line Investment Survey, and a high yield credit analyst in Boston at Merrill Lynch and in New York at Lehman Brothers. Stuart is a CFA® charterholder and a CAIA designee. He is chairman of the Alternative Credit Council (ACC) and a Founder & Trustee of the Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI). From 2014 until 2020, Stuart was also a council director of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) board. Stuart has been awarded the CFA Certificate in ESG Investing.
Stuart was educated at the International School of Geneva and at Dartmouth College where he was awarded a BA degree in Political Science and Economics.
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- Deputy Chief Investment Officer & Head of Alternatives, Fullerton Fund Management
- Member of Committee
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- Senior Advisor to the Committee
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- Absolute Return Strategies, GCM GROSVENOR
- Member of Committee
Thomas Deinet was appointed Executive Director of the SBAI in September 2008. In 2007, Thomas joined the Hedge Fund Working Group to project manage the development of practice standards proposed by a group of 14 leading hedge fund managers that led to the establishment of the SBAI (then known as the HFSB).
Before joining the SBAI, Thomas was a senior manager at Oliver Wyman, a management consulting firm, where he extensively worked with major financial institutions in Europe in both asset management as well as corporate and investment banking. He joined Oliver Wyman in 2002 after working as an analyst in energy trading for a major commodities trading firm.
Thomas is a regular speaker at hedge fund and regulatory conferences, and represents the SBAI at the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).
He is a holder of a Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany and an MSc from Purdue University, USA. Thomas is a CFA charterholder.
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- Director, Business Development, CHEYNE CAPITAL
- Member of Committee
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- Partner, MAGNETAR CAPITAL
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- CIO, GROW INVESTMENT GROUP
- Member of Committee
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- Director, Stakeholder Relations & Operations
Zarrina joined the SBAI in October 2009. In her role as Director of Stakeholder Relations and Operations, she is responsible for managing all aspects of the relationship with the stakeholders (Signatories, Investor Chapter Members and Core Supporters) and overseeing the business operations of the SBAI.
Prior to joining the SBAI, she worked in the telecom industry as Business Manager at NEC UK Ltd. Between 1995-2005, she worked at the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) as Liaison Officer/ Interpreter for His Highness the Aga Khan. She was also a member of the executive team responsible for preparing the AKDN's international treaties and agreements for development projects in Central Asia. Prior to that (1992-1995), she was Protocol Officer/Translator for the American Ambassador in Tajikistan.
Zarrina has a Master's Degree in International Business Management from the University of Westminster and a Master's Degree in English as a Foreign Language from Dushanbe State Pedagogical University, Tajikistan. In addition to English, she is also fluent in Russian and Tajik (Persian).