Thursday 30th May 2019

6 Waterloo Place

London

SW1Y 4AN

Registration & light lunch

Welcome:
Jack Inglis, Chief Executive Officer, AIMA

Opening remarks:
Todd Johnson, Chief Operating Officer, GPP

Panel One: Regulation
What is keeping managers awake currently and looking ahead.

Speakers:
Ira Asthana, Associate, Equitile Investments Ltd
Andrew Main, Consultant, INDOS Financial
Pieter van Putten, Managing Director, Pelargos Capital B.V

Moderator: Bill Prew, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, INDOS Financial 

Keynote speech: Alignment of Interests

Tom Kehoe, Managing Director, Global Head of Research and Communications, AIMA

Scott Mackey, Partner, RSM

Panel Two: How to successfully get on the investors' radar
What investors want to see and how managers should present themselves.

Speakers:
Ed Lewis, Albourne Partners Ltd
Anthony Pratt, Senior Analyst, Aurum Research Limited
Zoe Russell, Head of Sales & Investor Relations, Tolomeo Capital AG
Joanna Thompson, Principal, Tembo Associates

Moderator: Devarshi Saksena, Partner, Simmons & Simmons

Panel Three: Operational infrastructure. To outsource or not to outsource
The importance of Operational Due Diligence in the allocation process. How outsourcing is working in practice for next generation managers.

Speakers:
Olive Gibson, Chief Operating Officer, Salt Rock Capital Partners LLP
Louise Mourgues, Head of Operational Due Diligence, Kedge Capital Fund Management Limited
Melanie Pittas, Partner, Financial Services, haysmacintyre LLP
Marc Sharman, Chief Operating Officer, Tresidor Investment Management LLP

Moderator: Todd Johnson, Chief Operating Officer, GPP

Panel Four: Planning ahead-Big considerations for smaller managers
ESG & D&I – how to lay the foundations for these topics and what next generation managers need to be thinking about.

Speakers:
Jessica Craven, Head of Responsible Investment & Compliance, Kimura Capital
Simon Elvidge, Board Director, EOS Investment Management Ltd
Shenan Dhanani, Managing Director and Co-Head, Trium Capital LLP
Gilly Uppal, Partner, Cedarknight Partners LLP

Moderator: Delphine Amzallag, Global Director for Prime, ABN Amro Clearing Bank NV

Closing remarks
Andrew Main, Consultant, INDOS Financial

Delphine Amzallag, Global Director for Prime, ABN AMRO Clearing

Delphine joined the firm in June 2015 as European Head of Relationship Management for Prime and then moved to her current position in 2018. Her teams are responsible for originating, developing and maintaining client business relationships and products for prime services covering institutional investors and alternative investment managers, with a specific focus on arbitrage strategies, relative value, equity Long/ short & CTAs.

Ira Asthana, Associate, Equitile Investments

Ira has worked at Equitile Investments since the launch of the Management Company in 2015 and as part of a core team that manages regulatory issues, legal matters and fund operations.
Prior to joining Equitile, Ira worked for as a corporate lawyer in Delhi, India. During her career as a lawyer, Ira worked at one of India’s premier law firms, Dua Associates and gained extensive experience in the field of corporate and commercial laws, private equity, foreign direct investment in India, international collaboration and disputes , IPOs and mergers & acquisitions.

Jessica Craven, Head of Responsible Investment & Compliance, Kimura Capital LLP

Jessica joined Kimura in early 2018, she is responsible for the oversight of Kimura’s regulatory, compliance and ESG framework at a corporate and transactional level. Jessica started her career in finance as a graduate at Standard Bank in the physical commodities logistics team. She then went onto originating, structuring, managing the risk of physical commodity transactions. She later joined the Global Markets Management Team to pursue a more strategic role across Commodities and Global Markets with a focus on the financial crime and the regulatory compliance environment. 

Shenan Dhanani, Managing Director and Co-head, Trium Capital LLP

Shenan has 22 years’ financial markets experience. He is the co-founder and co-head of Trium Capital and, together with his co-head, has overall responsibility for the day-to-day management and strategic direction of the firm. In addition, Shenan leads the portfolio manager selection process, is a member of Trium’s Executive Committee and champions Trium’s ESG and D&I initiatives. Prior to co-founding Trium Shenan was at HSBC Global Markets having joined in 2007, where he led the origination, structuring and marketing of structured products for private banking, corporate, and financial & non-financial institutional clients in EMEA and the Americas.

Simon Elvidge, Board Director, EOS Investment Management Ltd

Based in London, Simon is a Board Director of EOS Investment Management Ltd providing oversight and strategic direction in relation to the control, assurance and operational activities of EOS IM Group. As part of his role, the scope encompasses compliance, risk and corporate governance aspects of EOS IM Group’s activities. He has previously held a variety of executive board, global and group senior management level positions within international firms. These roles covered business activities across the financial sector, including financial firms engaged in asset management investment banking and broking affirms such as Société Générale group, HSBC and Numis Securities. 

Olive Gibson, COO, Rock Capital Partners LLP

Olive began her career in Fund Administration, having worked in various jurisdictions including Ireland, Australia and Bermuda.  Olive then transitioned over to the Managers side of the industry fourteen years ago, gaining experience at large institutions such as Man and Schroders as well as smaller boutiques. During her career she has worked across various product types, including UCITS, Hedge Funds, Private Equity and Unit Trusts.  Olive is a Certified Investment Fund Director (CIFD) and a qualified accountant.  She is a member of the AIMA’s Next Generation Managers’ Group.

Jack Inglis, Chief Executive Officer, The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA)

Jack Inglis has been in the financial services industry and closely involved with hedge funds for over 30 years. He has held senior management positions at both Morgan Stanley, where he served for 16 years, and Barclays, where he was prior to joining AIMA. From 2007 to 2010 he was CEO of London based hedge fund manager, Ferox Capital Management. He served as a non-executive director of London Capital Group plc from 2007 to 2010 and currently sits on the board of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA). 

Todd Johnson, Chief Operating Officer, GPP

Todd Johnson joined GPP at the beginning of 2019 having amassed over 25 years of experience in the financial services, fintech and engineering sectors.  He has held a number of senior buy and sell-side roles, including Head of International Prime Brokerage at Deutsche Bank and Head of European Prime Brokerage at Citi. 

Ed Lewis, Partner, Fund Relations, Albourne Partners Ltd

Ed is a Partner and responsible for EMEA fund relations having spent over 13 years at Albourne. He joined Albourne London in July 2005 to be a client account manager. In April 2007 Ed spent 6 months in their Tokyo office before moving to Bahrain to help open up and develop Albourne’s office in the Middle East. After 4 years in Bahrain he relocated back to London in 2012 to focus on business development. Most recently Ed established the Fund Relations function within Albourne in 2015. 

Scott Mackey, Partner, Audit Services, RSM US LLP

Scott Mackey is a leader of the financial services practice in New England. He is responsible for all aspects of our delivery of assurance, taxation, risk advisory and IT consulting services to the New England asset management and financial services sector. Scott brings more than 20 years of public accounting experience to RSM. He has extensive experience across the financial services and asset management industry, having served both the alternative investment space, including hedge fund, private equity and fund of fund complexes, where he gained exposure to hard to value securities and complex financial instruments, registered investment vehicles including mutual funds and broker-dealers. 

Andrew Main, Consultant, INDOS Financial Group

Since stepping down 5 years ago as Managing Partner of Stratton Street Capital LLP he has built a non-executive and advisory portfolio with a number of groups. He remains a Director to Stratton Street Funds in Guernsey and Chairs their Luxembourg Fund Board. He also is a Consultant to INDOS Financial Group, the fast developing independent Depository and Fund Oversight Group. He is  Senior Adviser to a number of Far Eastern Fund Management Groups based in Hong Kong, Singapore and an Isle of Man Trust Company. 

Louise Mourgues, Head of Operational Due Diligence, Kedge Capital Fund Management Limited

Louise joined Kedge Capital as a Senior Operational Due Diligence Analyst in 2008 and became Head of Operational Due Diligence in January 2019.  Prior to joining Kedge, Louise held various Prime Brokerage Hedge Fund Sales and Client Service roles over a 15 year period at Barclays Capital, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch.  Louise graduated from St. Lawrence University with a BA in French in 1993. 

Melanie Pittas, Partner, Financial Services, Haysmacintyre LLP

Melanie is a Partner at top 25 accountancy firm haysmacintyre and a leading member of the Financial Services sector team with over ten years’ experience of working with FCA regulated entities. Her client base is focused on hedge fund managers but includes private equity, corporate financiers and sub-advisers. 

Anthony Pratt, CFA, Senior Analyst, Aurum Research Limited (“ARL”)

Anthony joined Aurum Research Limited (“ARL”) in 2006 and is a Senior Analyst in the Investment Research team, with a focus on macro, commodity and quantitative strategies (including statistical arbitrage, quantitative equity market neutral and managed futures). Anthony has a number of years of experience in due diligence and portfolio management in both the investment and administration areas and originally joined to strengthen ARL's administration process before moving across to join the Investment Research Team in 2007.

Bill Prew, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, INDOS Financial

Bill Prew is the Founder and CEO of INDOS Financial, an independent depositary and fund oversight business. Bill is a qualified accountant, with over 23 years’ financial services experience, starting his career in 1993 in the investment management division of Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC). After leaving PwC, he joined Barclays Global Investors in 2002 and served as European Chief Financial Officer and then Head of Supplier Management. In 2007, Bill joined Moore Capital Management to support the spin-out of the management of the $3.5bn Moore Credit Fund to James Caird Asset Management, a Hedge Fund manager with offices in London and New York. At JCAM,  he was responsible for a range of operational areas including finance, legal, compliance, product control, investment operations, fund accounting and technology.

Zoe Russell, Head of Sales & Investor Relations, Tolomeo Capital AG

Zoe joined Tolomeo Capital as Director of Sales & Investor Relations in 2016. In this function, she is responsible for new business development, asset raising and retention, marketing communications and client relationship management as well as the continued build out of associated practices and systems. From 2015 to 2016, Zoe headed the Distribution team at Trium Capital during which time she streamlined the firm’s investor services infrastructure and led the sales process, driving the early stage growth of its funds. 

Devarshi Saksena, Partner, Simmons & Simmons

Devarshi is a partner in the London office of Simmons & Simmons.  Devarshi is an investment funds specialist, focusing on structuring alternative investment funds, single investor vehicles and managed accounts, as well as providing continuing advice to asset managers on their investment product ranges.  Devarshi advises some of the largest and best known hedge fund management businesses in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Marc Sharman, Chief Operating Officer, Tresidor Investment Management

Marc is a Partner and the Chief Operating Officer of Tresidor responsible for building and managing the entire operational infrastructure. Marc has a long history of performing senior operations roles, including having twice been COO of new launches. Marc was most recently COO of a long/short equity hedge fund, Tencendur Capital, in which he managed all aspects of the non-investment side of the business, which he joined before launch. 

Joanna Thompson, Principal, Tembo Associates 

Joanna has worked with, and for alternative investment manager groups, including GAM, Fortis Investment Management, FX Concepts, for over 25 years in trading; business development and retention; strategic marketing and client management, with both niche and major firms, in London, New York and Paris.

She now runs Tembo Associates, a strategic marketing and development consult to niche, ‘next generation’ alternative managers, including Clerkenwell Capital, an Absolute Return Listed European Real Estate manager, and two start-up managers. Clients also include ESG/Sustainability and Ethics and Governance specialists,  including Borg Consulting and GM Associates in Dublin.

Joanna also serves on the advisory boards of a US based multi-strategy trading firm, Typhon Capital, and an independent marketing specialist, River Wey LLP, in London, and is working to build a small portfolio of non-executive directorships, within the financial services and more broadly.

Chair of the Paris Chair of 100 Women in Finance since 2013, Joanna also advises the Dublin chapter, launched with her support in 2017. This enables her to promote and support efforts for the alternative and broader financial sector to recognise its diversified talent.

She is a regular speaker at industry conferences on major industry themes: Strategic marketing, ESG, especially Governance, Diversity and Inclusion.

Gilly Uppal, Founding Partner, CedarKnight

Co-founded CedarKnight Investment Management in 2013, consolidating a career in structured finance with leading Big 4 accounting, investment banking and hedge funds  organisations.

Having trained in international finance and tax with KPMG (London and New York), Gilly moved to banking to develop and manage in-house sponsored proprietary trading strategies at CBA and, later in 2004, with BNP Paribas Fortis as Executive Director. He left banking in 2010 to join Chenavari to set up and manage these strategies outside a bank aimed at family office investors in cooperation with financial institutions. 

Pieter van Putten, CFA, Managing Director, Pelargos Capital BV 

Pieter van Putten, CFA, is Managing Director of Pelargos Capital BV in the Netherlands, a Japan long/short equity manager, where he is responsible for business development, operations, IT, compliance and risk. Pieter holds 2 MBA degrees from Nijenrode University in the Netherlands and University of Florida in the US, and is a Fulbright scholar. He started working in the asset management industry in 1989 when he joined the institutional fund management division of Commerzbank in Frankfurt.

Hosted by: Fiona Treble, Global Head of Membership, AIMA

Fiona joined AIMA in April 2013 after a long association with AIMA that included contributing as an editor to AIMA’s Guides to Sound Practices.  As well as heading membership, she leads the UK Business Development & Investor Relations and Next Generation Manager groups at AIMA.

She has worked within the alternatives investment industry since 1998 and is an investor relations and marketing specialist experienced in both single manager hedge funds and funds of hedge funds. Her career within the hedge fund industry started in the late 1990s when she joined Park Place Capital, one of the first European long/short European equity hedge funds. Since then she has worked in marketing and investor relations roles at Beaumont Capital, Schroders, Kazimir Partners and Wadhwani Asset Management. She has a degree in Theology and Religious Studies from the University of Bristol.

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