15 June 2017
4th Annual European Summit
The 4th Annual Women’s Private Equity Summit will take place in London on 15 June 2017
Join us and connect with the next generation of women business leaders
Welcome to the WPEN Summit
We’re connecting the next generation of women business leaders
Now in its fourth year, the WPEN Summit has established itself as the pre-eminent event for women who undertake, or in future expect to undertake, leadership roles in the private investment industry as investors, deal-makers, expert service providers or business leaders. The Summit is first and foremost a business-focused event, designed to bring tangible business benefits to the participating individuals and organisations.
The format and content of the Summit are designed to enable all participants to:
• understand how their organisations can improve
performance and profitability by nurturing and taking
advantage of the enhanced talent available from a
gender-balanced workforce; and
• make direct connections with valuable prospective
clients and partners that lead to real deals getting done.
We have been fortunate that from the very beginning of the WPEN initiative we have had the support and participation of many of Europe’s most progressive organisations and most successful, high-profile women business leaders. As the word and goodwill has spread, we are now able to involve more organisations and more individuals. Whilst we will develop the initiative by rolling out new events in other regions, we will adhere to the proven format for each event in order to maintain the exclusivity, quality and value for all participants.
We have worked with an advisory board of valued women thought-leaders to develop the agenda, which features a series of engaging and inspiring presentations, discussions and debates, as well as invaluable networking opportunities. This year's agenda features a number of exciting new entries, including ‘An entrepreneur's tale - lessons on building a business & securing funding' followed by a special Q&A.
Following its success last year, we’ll also get ‘the view from the top' and hear from women Board Directors from some of the UK’s top listed companies. There’s plenty of focus on private equity developments with sessions addressing investor appetite, LP allocations, deal-flow and trends in venture capital and entrepreneurship. With the growing level of media attention of women in private investment and finance, we’re keen to find out what’s really changing. Participant numbers will be limited to 250 and we anticipate that the Summit will be oversubscribed well in advance of the event date, as has happened for the previous three events.
WHY ATTEND?
The WPEN Summit is a must-attend event if you want to:
• Accelerate your career
• Raise your firm’s profile
• Extend your professional network
• Learn from successful women leaders
• Connect with prospective clients and get deals done
Latest WPEN 2017 speakers
Kerry Baldwin
Partner
IQ Capital
Kerry has worked in venture capital since 1997, starting as an Investment Manager with £35m Venture Technologies, a £35m high-technology fund, with important successes including Autonomy Corporation, Whereonearth, Trustbase and Durlacher. Between 2002-6 Kerry worked taking companies from concept to AIM with a group of property HNW and an €150m Italian Venture Capital Fund. She has led numerous investments including Sirigen (Acq. Beckton Dickinson) and currently sits on the boards of Digital Assess and oversees investments with Unbound, Divido and Apperio. Kerry manages the dealflow process at IQ Capital and focusses on Product, Channels, Competitive Analysis and team dynamics during due diligence. Kerry began her career with BDO Stoy Hayward following Royal College of Music and enjoys participating in off shore racing.
Deborah Zurkow
Head of Alternatives
Allianz Global Investors
Deborah Zurkow is Head of Alternatives at Allianz Global Investors. Deborah joined AllianzGI in 2012 as CIO and Head of Infrastructure Debt. The team was established to develop the institutional investor debt market in infrastructure and to secure investments in the sector for Allianz Global Investor’s parent, Allianz SE and third party investors. Since its inception, the team has made over €7 billion of debt investments in a variety of infrastructure sectors, including greenfield PPPs, utility financings and re-financings, including various landmark transactions such as the L2 Marseille bypass, the A11 in Belgium and a refinancing of the Indiana Toll Road.
Before joining AllianzGI Deborah was CEO of Trifinium Advisors Limited and head of Public Finance EMEA for MBIA UK Insurance Limited. She was responsible for the oversight for new business efforts in infrastructure, including government-supported entities, transportation, utilities and Public Private Partnerships/Private Finance Initiative financings.
She also previously served as a Director of MBIA UK Insurance Limited, and as President of MBIA Assurance S.A. Previously, she managed MBIA’s Paris office, where she was responsible for both structured and public sector business, and worked on a variety of transactions including French securitisations and European local government financings. Deborah holds an MBA from Yale School of Management and a BA from Wellesley College. She is a member of the International Project Finance Assoc. (IPFA) Council of Management, WEF (World Economic Forum). She is also on the board of the LTIIA (Long-term Infrastructure Investors Association).
Giovanna Maag
Director
3i
Giovanna joined 3i in 2008 and is a Director in the German Private Equity team and part of the global Industrial sector team.
Giovanna was active in the portfolio management and divestment of MWM where she held a board position. She has been involved in 3i’s investment in Weener, Euro-Diesel, GIF, Hilite, Dynatect and GEKA and is on the board of the latter.
Prior to joining 3i, Giovanna worked as a consultant for McKinsey and in M&A with Morgan Stanley in Frankfurt and London.
She holds a Master of Corporate Finance from SDA Bocconi in Italy, a BSc in Economics with Finance from Lancaster University, England, and has spent time studying in Singapore.
Johanna Barr
Managing Director
Advent International plc
Johanna Barr joined Advent in 2007. She co-heads Advent’s Limited Partner Services Group and is primarily focused on fundraising and investor relations activities in Europe and Asia. Previously, Johanna worked for four years in the M&A and Corporate Broking departments of Deutsche Bank, both in the London and Frankfurt offices. There she advised clients across a range of sectors on a number of transactions including international public and private mergers and acquisitions, flotations and secondary equity offerings. Johanna has a BSc (First Class Hons) in Business Administration from the University of Bath, School of Management and as part of her degree spent a semester at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.
Johanna Waterous
Independent Non-Executive Director
RSA Insurance Group
Johanna’s previous roles include Chairman of Tate Enterprises and over 20 years with McKinsey & Company, positions including co-leader of the global marketing and sales practice and leader of their UK consumer practice, director of Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation (a company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange), non-executive director and senior independent director of Rexam Plc and chairman of Sandpiper CI.
Johanna brings deep expertise on consumer behaviour, sales and marketing across multiple sectors.
Giovanna Maag
3i
Johanna Barr
Advent International plc
Kerry Baldwin
IQ Capital
Johanna Waterous
RSA Insurance Group
Deborah Zurkow
Allianz Global Investors
Anne Glover
Chief Executive and Co-founder
Amadeus Capital
Anne is Chief Executive and Co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, the international technology investor, which has raised over $1bn for investment in high growth technology companies since 1997. There she brings together her experience as a scientist, operating manager, and venture capitalist. Before founding Amadeus, Anne was a business angel and Chief Operating Officer of Apax-backed company, Virtuality Group. Early in her career she worked in the US, in manufacturing with Cummins Engine Company, and in strategy consulting with Bain & Co, before returning to the UK to join Apax Partners & Co in 1989 to invest in early stage companies.
A former Chairman of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (2004/2005) and the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (2014/2015), Anne is a member of the UK Government’s Council for Science and Technology and of the London Business School’s Private Equity Institute Advisory Board. She is a Non-Executive Director of Future Cities Catapult and serves on the board of Glysure. Anne holds an MA in Metallurgy & Materials Science from Clare College, Cambridge, and a Masters in Public and Private Management from Yale School of Management. She was awarded a CBE in 2006 for services to business, and is an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Nicola Horlick
CEO
Money&Co
Nicola Horlick is CEO of Money&Co. She has been a leading fund manager in the City of London for over thirty years. During that time, she has set up and managed several investment businesses, including SG Asset Management and Bramdean Asset Management. Horlick was a founding partner of UK-based private equity direct investor Rockpool in 2011. She is the chair of film finance fund Glentham Capital, which was raised via equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs in 2013, and is also the CEO of film producer Derby Street Films. Horlick holds a director position in an NHS Foundation Trust.
Sarah Turner
Founder
Angel Academe
Sarah is an entrepreneur, technologist and angel investor. She founded Angel Academe to encourage more women to become angel investors in early stage tech startups. She is also Director of digital strategy company Turner Hopkins and a “Dealmaker” for UKTI’s Global Entrepreneur Programme. She is spent most of the last 20 years working in and around digital technology in the UK, Europe, US and Asia. Sarah works with startups and growth stage companies as advisor, supporter and connector; and with larger organisations and multinationals to develop their peripheral vision by identifying areas for innovation and the best partners and processes to help them deliver it.
Gemma Farrell
Director
CVC Capital Partners
Gemma Farrell is a Director and member of CVC Capital Partners’ UK team, having joined in 2013 from Duke Street. During her time at CVC, Gemma has played a key role in the Consumer team and was instrumental in the firm’s investment in SkyBet, one of the UK’s leading online bookmakers. At Duke Street, she invested and was a NXD on the Boards of wagamama, Laurel Funerals, Payzone and Sandpiper CI. Prior to private equity, Gemma was a strategy consultant at OC&C, and before that a full time sailor. She holds an MA from the University of Cambridge.
Vicky Williams
Managing Director
Cambridge Associates
Vicky is a managing director in Cambridge Associates’ pension practice. Based in the London office, Vicky advises clients on asset allocation strategy, manager selection, and investment program evaluation.
Prior to joining Cambridge Associates in 2016, Vicky was the Head of Private Equity at BP Investment Management Ltd. where she was responsible for the management of the £2.0 billion private equity portfolio, defining the strategy and overseeing fund selection, due diligence and portfolio management for over 200 funds and over 90 manager relationships across the US, Europe and Asia. Whilst at BP, she also held a number of advisory board roles for funds across a variety of strategies. Prior to that, Vicky was Head of Private Equity at British Airways Pensions Management Ltd where she was solely responsible for the management of private equity portfolios of the Airways Pension Scheme and the New Airways Pension Scheme. Vicky was also Head of Private Equity at Shell Pensions Management Services Ltd. Vicky began her private equity career in the late 1990s when she was an early employee at Altius Associates Ltd., a global private equity advisory firm founded in 1998.
Vicky Williams
Cambridge Associates
Gemma Farrell
CVC Capital Partners
Sarah Turner
Angel Academe
Anne Glover
Amadeus Capital
Nicola Horlick
Money&Co
Nevena Marsili
Investment Director
Quadrivio Capital SGR
Nevena heads Quadrivio Captial’s private equity funds of funds, managed accounts and liquidity solutions. At Quadrivio Captial, Nevena is responsible for all secondaries, primary investments and co-investments. Prior to joining Quadrivio Capital in 2013, Nevena was with IDeA Capital Funds in Milan, focusing on primary and secondary investments in a wide range of private equity funds globally. Previously, she was an Investment Associate with Coller Capital in London, where she worked on all aspects of the secondary transaction process. Prior to that Nevena was with Campbell Lutyens’ private equity advisory team in London and Morgan Stanley’s investment banking team in New York.
Agate Freimane
Senior Investment Director
BrickVest
Agate is a Senior Investment Director at Brickvest. She is primarily focused on sourcing, analysing and executing real estate investment opportunities as well as the firm’s strategic partnerships and business development. Agate has extensive experience in real estate. She started her career in investment banking at Citigroup and later worked at Morgan Stanley focusing on real estate M&A advisory. Prior to BrickVest, Agate was with Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, working in both the London and New York offices on real estate investments in Europe and the United States. She has invested $1 billion of capital on behalf of commingled funds and separate account clients across fund investments, co-investments, and LP secondary acquisitions.
Rhonda Ryan
Managing Director & Head of Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA)
Pavilion Alternatives Group Limited
Ms. Ryan is a member of the global Investment Team and Head of the EMEA Investment Team. She joined Pavilion’s London office in 2013 and is a member of the Investment Committee. She is responsible for leading manager research in the EMEA region as well as having overall responsibility for EMEA portfolio which accounts for USD12.7bn (as of Q1 2016) of Assets under Advice and Management. Ms. Ryan is frequently asked to be a speaker at Private Market conferences and has been interviewed by the press including CNBC and The Wall Street Journal. Ms. Ryan has and continues to be a member of numerous external Fund Advisory Boards.
Ms. Ryan has been working in the international investment industry since 1992, and has experience in private markets since 1997. From 2006 – 2013, Ms. Ryan was Managing Director, Head of Private Funds Group Europe at PineBridge Investments (fka AIG Investments). In this role, she managed a team based in London and Zurich and invested and managed portfolios in private equity and private credit for both separate account clients and the firm’s fund of funds. Ms. Ryan was also involved in marketing the firm’s products to international clients and was a member of the Board of Directors of PineBridge Investments Europe. Prior to her appointment at PineBridge, Ms. Ryan was Head of Alternative Investments at Insight Investment (the asset management division of HBOS) where she had overall responsibility for the Alternative Investments team and portfolios. Prior to this, she spent a number of years working in Japanese organizations both in the UK and Australia.
Ms. Ryan holds a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia in addition to a Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies) Degrees from the Australian National University. She was listed in the Financial News Top 100 Women in Finance in Europe in 2011 and 2012. Ms. Ryan speaks English and Japanese.
Hazel Moore
Co-Founder and Chairman
First Capital
Hazel Moore is the chairman and co-founder of FirstCapital, an investment bank specialising in advising high growth tech companies on M&A, private equity and growth capital. Hazel has a varied background in tech and M&A; with over 25 years’ experience advising on corporate finance matters, she’s worked with technology companies and investors, great and small. From acquisitions to exits, IPOs to MBOs, Hazel’s expertise means she’s served on advisory panels and spoken at conferences across Europe and the USA. Recently Hazel won the 2016 First Woman in Finance award and the Best Corporate Finance Advisor for 2015 Women in Private Equity, as well as having spoke at many key industry events including Beltech, InspireFest, the London Stock Exchange & the Pujiang Innovation Forum. Hazel was recently announced as a judge at the 2016 European Women in Private Equity awards, and will be chairing a panel on emerging technologies revolutionising innovation at this year’s Innovate 2016.
Reshma Sohoni
Managing Partner
SeedCamp
Reshma is Founding Partner at Seedcamp, Europe’s first seed fund, investing early in the most ambitious founders and proven in supporting startups scale valuable, global businesses through its lifelong platform of learning, network and capital. Reshma has previously worked in M&A and venture capital across B2B Software and Internet services businesses in the US and India. She had a small helping hand in building MakeMyTrip (NASDAQ) in its formative days. Following on from this, Reshma went to INSEAD and earned her MBA, fell in love with Europe and stayed on to work in Commercial and Marketing Strategy at Vodafone.
Hazel Moore
First Capital
Nevena Marsili
Quadrivio Capital SGR
Agate Freimane
BrickVest
Reshma Sohoni
SeedCamp
Rhonda Ryan
Pavilion
Kerstin Cooley
Managing Partner
MOOR
Kerstin Cooley is CEO & Partner at Swedish earlystage tech investor MOOR, which was founded by Kaj Hed, majority shareholder in Rovio - the creators of Angry Birds. Previously, Kerstin held senior positions in SEB’s hedge fund practice, investing in start-up hedge funds and developing alternative investment products for institutional clients. With 20 years’ experience in the financial/IT industry, she started her career at Silicon Valley-based Echelon. In 1998, Kerstin co-founded global integrated communications agency Cognito, and spent eight years at Trema Group, managing M&A transactions and the company’s consulting organisation in the US.
Catherine Lewis La Torre
CEO
British Business Bank Investments
Catherine joined British Business Bank Investments as CEO in September 2016. Catherine was previously Head of Private Equity at Cardano Risk Management where she was responsible for a global portfolio of private capital investments with in excess of £1 billion of committed capital. Prior to this, she was a Partner with Fondinvest Capital and was one of the Founding Partners of Proventure Private Equity, where in both cases she was an investor in mid-market funds and companies across Western Europe. Catherine holds a B.Sc. (Econ.) from the London School of Economics where she graduated with First Class Honours.
Susan Holliday
Principal insurance Officer
IFC
Prior to joining IFC, Susan worked at Swiss Re, where she was a Managing Director and Head of Strategy for the reinsurance business worldwide and a member of the executive team. In this capacity she worked on all aspects of life and health and property casualty re/insurance; headed a global team; and led the strategy work for emerging markets and for Fintech. Susan also held the positions of CFO of Reinsurance Client Markets and Head of Investor Relations at Swiss Re.
Before Swiss Re, Susan worked in equity research and equity sales covering the insurance industry at UBS, JP Morgan and Paribas. Susan started her career as a Chartered Accountant with Touche Ross (now Deloitte) in London and then established a counterparty credit analysis department for an insurance broker. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments in the UK.
Susan is a British national. She graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford with a degree in modern history. In 2014, Susan completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. Susan enjoys horse riding for which she has competed and won many prizes. She is an investor and advisor to several start-ups and also enjoys discovering local history and hiking in different countries.
Ana Lei Ortiz
Managing Director
Hamilton Lane
Ana is a Managing Director at Hamilton Lane, based in the firm’s London office, where she is responsible for European client relations. Prior to joining Hamilton Lane in 2008, Ana was an Associate Director in the Corporate, Investment Banking & Markets Division of HSBC, covering European Corporate and Institutional clients. Previously, she worked in HSBC’s Reserve Managers Sector in Hong Kong working with Central Banks and Sovereign Wealth Funds. Ana received a degree from the University of Edinburgh. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of the UK.
Marzena Bielecka
Managing Partner & Founder
Experior Venture Fund
Marzena is a Managing Partner and Founder of Experior Venture Fund, responsible for Fund’s operations, including deal sourcing, supervision of investment process, fund raising for portfolio companies, supervision of exits from investments as well as for relations with the Fund’s private investors and KFK. Marzena has a key role in value creation and supervision of EVF portfolio companies, including chairing of Supervisory Boards of Algolytics, Tourmedica, WeGirls, and DrOmnibus. Marzena has also led the successful exit from EVF portfolio company - ZenCard to PKO BP.
Marzena has spent almost 20 years managing investment banking operations of several international institutions in Poland, including Raiffeisen Investment Polska, West LB Panmure, HSBC Financial Services. She has extensive experience in managing companies as well as in investment supervision, including as Chairman of the Supervisory Board (BPH TFI SA (2015 - present), Celtic Property Developments SA, Polski Gaz SA and other) and as Member of the Supervisory Board (Polbank EFG SA, Ferrum SA, MZCh Organika SA, Unimil SA. and other). She is an expert in the areas of capital markets, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring. Marzena is active in supporting women led companies – she is a mentor in Foundation for Women Entrepreneurship.
Ana Lei Ortiz
Hamilton Lane
Kerstin Cooley
MOOR
Marzena Bielecka
Experior Venture Fund
Catherine Lewis La Torre
British Business Bank Investments
Susan Holliday
IFC
Katya Zotova
Independent Board Director
Vendanta Resources
Ms. Katya Zotova is a Non Executive Director and Chairman of the Sustainability Committee for Vedanta Resources plc. Ms. Zotova has 19 years of oil & gas industry, banking and private equity experience across EMEA, Asia and the Americas. Her previous roles included M&A Principal at L1 Energy and Head of International Acquisitions and Divestments for Citigroup’s oil and gas division. Prior to joining Citigroup in 2012, Ms Zotova spent much of her career with Royal Dutch Shell based in various locations, including Amsterdam, Houston, Moscow and the Hague. Her last role with Shell was Head of Portfolio Management for Upstream International. Ms. Zotova has been a Non Executive Director of Vedanta Resources plc since August 2, 2014. She has a wide range of experience in corporate finance, strategy and mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Zotova has a summa cum laude degree in Finance and Strategic Management from the Academy of National Economy in Moscow and an MBA degree from Rotterdam School of Management / Columbia Business School.
Eileen Fargis
Co-Head
IFC African, Latin American & Caribbean Fund
Prior to joining AMC in 2010, Eileen was a Managing Director with GE Capital overseeing investments in energy, infrastructure and other capital-intensive industries, including in emerging markets, worked in the capital management division of an insurance company, and at the law firm Skadden Arps.
Eileen holds a BA from Hamilton College and an MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Michele Giddens
Co-Founder & Partner
Bridges Fund Management
Michele co-founded Bridges Fund Management along with Philip Newborough and Sir Ronald Cohen in 2002. The firm is dedicated to sustainable and impact investment and has raised more than £800m across three types of funds: Sustainable Growth, Property and Social Sector funds.
Michele has over 20 years of international development and social finance experience. She was an Investment Officer with International Finance Corporation, the private sector financing arm of the World Bank Group in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, then spent 8 years with Shorebank Corporation, which was one of the leading community development banks in the USA. There she ran small business lending programmes in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, advised on microfinance in Bangladesh, the Middle East and Mongolia and did research in the US community development finance sector.
Michele has a BA Honours in politics, philosophy & economics from Oxford University and an MBA from Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Michele is on the board of CDC, and is Chair of the UK National Advisory Board to the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group, as established by the G8.
Kelsey Lynn Skinner
Director, Venture Technology
Touchstone Innovations
Kelsey Lynn Skinner is a Partner in the Tech Ventures team at Touchstone Innovations, a £600m market cap technology commercialization and venture capital business. She leads investments across the materials sector in addition to insurance, HR / Talent and connected products. Kelsey currently is the interim Chair of ThisWay Global (machine learning recruitment) and Inflowmatix (water data analytics) as well as a board director at AQDOT Ltd (encapsulation technology), Econic Technologies (polymer catalyst), and Concirrus (insurance IoT platform) where she led financings for a combined $35m over the past three years. Before moving to London in 2012, Kelsey was in Silicon Valley for more than a decade. She was Partner at Firelake Capital in Palo Alto and also worked at Google and with Stanford University’s Engineering and Business Schools. Kelsey graduated in Mechanical Engineering and with an MBA from Stanford, where she played fullback for the national champion women’s rugby team.
Maggie Fanari
Director, Relationship Investing
OTTP
Maggie Fanari has been with Ontario Teachers' since 2006 and was based in Toronto until May 2015. She is now based in London and heads the Relationship Investing team's direct equities investments for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. She has structured and executed on large-scale, partnership-driven minority investments in both public and private companies in multiple sectors globally. Maggie started her career as an auditor at KPMG and has previously worked in equity research in Scotia Capital. Maggie is a Chartered Accountant and a CFA charterholder. She also holds a BBA from the Schulich School of Business, York University.
Kelsey Lynn Skinner
Touchstone Innovations
Katya Zotova
Vendanta Resources
Maggie Fanari
OTTP
Michele Giddens
Bridges Fund Management
Eileen Fargis
IFC African, Latin American & Caribbean Fund
Sponsors
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Attendees
• Institutional investors
• Corporate investors
• Private equity fund managers
• Venture capitalists
• Credit fund managers
• Family offices
• Investment bankers
• Corporate Financiers
• Placement Agents
• Lawyers
• Accountants
• Consultants
• Recruitment specialists
• IR & PR specialists
• And other service providers
• Leaders and board directors of private equity
or venture-backed companies
Investors
Deal-Makers
Expert Advisors
Entrepreneurs & Company Leaders
Selected organisations represented at previous events
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