Martin Armitage-Smith has worked for 25 years in finance, including 14 successful years in proprietary trading for Citibank, where he also gave frequent technical forecasting seminars around the world. During his career Martin has progressively explored connections between markets and other disciplines, such as psychology, ecology, NLP, system theory and consciousness. He is currently managing editor of Mozambique Review, and co-founder of Motherland Entertainment, a talent agency managing African artists, including Youssou N'Dour of Senegal. Martin has acted as an angel investor in a number of art, music and media projects, and has been an energy practitioner for over 10 years. 

Steven Bell is a director of GLC, the long-established hedge fund company based in London. He is principal portfolio manager of its Global Macro Fund, with AuM of U$600 million. Steven started his City career 25 years ago as chief economist for Morgan Grenfell, then Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, Deutsche Bank and Deutsche Asset Management. His macro hedge fund experience came in the five years before he joined GLC, when he was fund director of Deutsche’s asset allocation funds. Steven has Economics degrees from the London School of Economics and Stanford University and was an Economic Adviser at the Treasury. 

Alexandre Col is a member of the executive committee and head of the investment fund department of Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild S.A., Geneva - headquarters of the Group Edmond de Rothschild.
The Group invests more than $14 billion in hedge funds among which are the two Luxemburg funds of funds umbrellas Edmond de Rothschild Prifund (with $5.2 billion assets under management) and Asian Capital Holdings (with $600 million assets under management). The Group has more than 40 years experience in hedge fund industry as it launched the first fund of funds in 1969.  
Alexandre holds three degrees, in Business Administration, Economics and Political Science, and two post-graduate diplomas in Political Science and International Economic Relations.

Teun Draaisma is the portfolio manager at TT International for the TT Equity Macro Fund Europe, a long/short European equity fund driven by global macro themes. Prior to joining TT, Teun was head of Morgan Stanley’s European equity strategy team, ranked best European equity strategy team in nine out of the last 10 years in the Extel investor poll. Teun was on the right side of almost all major market moves during his time at Morgan Stanley and gained most publicity by putting a sell recommendation on equities during the summer of 2007. Teun obtained a Master’s Degree in Econometrics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and studied at the ESSEC Business School in France.  

Luke Ellis is head and CIO for Man’s Multi-Manager business and a member of the Man Executive Committee. He is responsible for Man’s Multi-Manager range of investment solutions for private and institutional clients, and further developing Man’s leading position in structured products, funds of funds, managed accounts and tailored portfolios. He has been non-executive chairman of GLG’s Multi-Manager activities and manager of the GLG Multi-Strategy Fund. Man is a leading alternative investment management business. With a broad range of funds for institutional and private investors globally, it is known for its performance, innovative product design and investor service. Luke was a partner of Financial Risk Management (FRM), where the business grew from $100 million AUM with 12 employees to managing $15 billion with 250 employees globally. 

Steve Foster,
Credit Suisse

Stephen Foster is the COO for the Single Manager Hedge Fund Group at Credit Suisse Alternative Investments (CSAI).
CSAI has approximately $220 billion of managed assets across hedge funds, private equity, real estate, credit, and quantitative and index strategies.
Stephen previously had roles within the prime brokerage business at Credit Suisse including global co-head of hedge fund services. He has been involved in the hedge fund industry since 1995 and has been a director of several hedge funds and hedge fund managers including the CQS Convertible and Quantitative Strategies Fund. Stephen remains on the board of several hedge funds and has been a member of the London Investment Banking Association Prime Brokerage Committee.

Richard Haas,
Trafalgar Funds

Nicolai Borcher Hansen is a founding partner and CIO at London based Aros Capital Partners. He is co-managing the Aros Paradigm Fund, a global macro fund focused on fundamental cross asset investments. Before Nicolai co-founded Aros Capital in 2008, he was responsible for the equity strategy and asset allocation at Formuepleje where he was instrumental in taking AuM from $500 million to $4 billion during his five year tenure there. Nicolai holds a MSc from Aarhus School of Business, Denmark. He has also been a lecturer at the University of Aarhus in Denmark where he taught Financial Risk Management and Portfolio Theory.

Jeff Holland,
Liongate Capital Management

Jeff Holland is a managing director of Liongate Capital Management and sits on the firm’s investment committee.  Jeff co-founded Liongate in 2003. Jeff is responsible for business development for Liongate. The firm manages both commingled and single client portfolios for institutional clients, with over $3 billion in AUM.  Liongate is known for its focus on mid-sized managers and top-down, dynamic strategy allocation approach. Jeff previously worked with Deutsche Bank as a vice president within investment banking. Jeff holds a Master’s in Finance from London Business School.

Caroline Hoare is a consultant in the hedge fund industry. She has over 17 years' experience in the alternative and derivative sectors.  
Caroline was called to the Bar in 1978 and admitted to the Roll of solicitors in 1985.  She joined GNI Ltd in 1994, becoming a director of GNI Fund Management Ltd in 1999.  Caroline was the chief executive officer of GLC Ltd from 2001 to 2010 and was also a director of the company.
Last year she was named as one of the Top 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds (The Hedge Fund Journal in association with PwC) as well as one of the 100 Influential Women in Finance working in European financial markets (Financial News).  She also serves on the Corporate Advisory Board of the Royal National Theatre.  

Robert Howie
Mercer

Robert Howie is the European head of Mercer's Alternatives Boutique, a unit within the investment consulting business. He leads the manager research and generation of intellectual capital for alternative assets in Europe and is global lead researcher for funds-of-hedge funds. Additionally, he advises institutional investors on the use of alternative assets.
Mercer has been providing investment services to clients for over 35 years and works with the investors in 40 countries. More than 1,000 employees in 59 offices around the world provide advice to over 2,700 clients with more than £1.9 trillion in assets. Prior to joining Mercer, Robert worked for Barclays and African Life.
Robert has a Master of Business Science from the University of Cape Town, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.

Guy Ingram
Albourne Partners 

Guy Ingram is a co-founder of Albourne Partners and head of the research group, responsible for the evaluation of hedge fund managers and assessing the prospects for various hedge fund strategies. Previously at Albourne, Guy has been directly responsible for the analysis of individual hedge funds. 

Albourne Partners Ltd is a consultant, advising hedge fund, private equity and real assets investors for a fixed fee per month.
Prior to co-founding Albourne Partners in 1994, Guy worked from 1989 with Simon Ruddick at Westminster Equity. In 1989, Guy received a first class honours degree from the University of Bristol in Economics and Politics.

Alex Kamunya is a hedge fund research consultant at NEPC. Alex joined NEPC in 2004 and is involved in fund of hedge fund research, sourcing and due diligence in addition to providing hedge fund consulting services to public, corporate, Taft-Hartley and endowment/foundation clients. NEPC is one of the industry’s largest independent, full-service investment consulting firms, serving nearly 300 retainer clients with total assets approaching $350 billion. Alex received a BA with a concentration in Finance and Economic Development from Hampshire College. He became a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designee in 2008 (CAIA).

Henry Kenner is the chief executive officer and chief risk officer for Arrowgrass Capital Partners LLP, as well as being one of the founding principals. 
Arrowgrass Capital Partners is an alternative investment manager that employs a non-siloed, multi-strategy approach to investing. With 103 employees globally it offers four products, the Multi-Strategy Fund, the Distressed Opportunities Fund, the Equity Focus Fund and the Vega Fund. AUM as of 30 June 2011 totalled $4.256 billion.
Throughout his career, Henry has worked within the investment banking and insurance arenas, focusing on equity, equity derivative, convertible and credit bond trading. He has a BSc, Honours in Finance from City University and is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Rikard Kjorling,
AP1

Marc de Kloe is responsible for alternative investment product management at ABN AMRO Private Banking. Based in Amsterdam but responsible globally, he has rebuilt the department and service offering and coordinates efforts between the local country needs and bringing the product to market, managing the process from start to end. This includes business and product development as well as strategy. Marc has a background in law and asset management, beginning his career at Clifford Chance. He has over 15 years of investment experience, working through the whole range of alternatives and involvement in all areas from legal, selection, structuring and investment.

Conrad Levy is chief operating officer at Benros Capital Partners LLP (BCP) which he joined in January 2011.
BCP manages the Benros Event Driven and Opportunistic Funds, which were launched in June 2011.
Before joining BCP Conrad was COO of Peloton. After its collapse he was retained to manage the wind-down and subsequently created Elsworthy Associates, a specialist consultancy focusing on hedge fund due diligence, turnarounds and liquidations. In 2009, he uncovered irregularities at Weavering, and worked closely with PwC to manage the ensuing fall-out and investigations. Conrad is a Chartered Accountant who read Law at Cambridge before spending nine years at KPMG.  

Jon Little is a partner of Northill Capital LLP.
Northill was founded at the end of 2010 by Jon with the backing of substantial private capital. The business will provide long term equity and seed capital to a small number of high quality start-ups or early stage managers, and equity capital to replace existing shareholders in larger more established asset managers.
Prior to founding Northill, Jon was vice chairman at BNY Mellon Asset Management. He was educated at Oxford Brookes University and his interests are running, skiing, sailing, wine and music.

Swen Lorenz is CEO and a major shareholder at ARBB AG, Zug, a listed investment vehicle that he co-owns with city financier Jim Mellon. ARBB is pursuing an activist investment approach, currently aimed at getting the listed German wealth manager PEH Wertpapier AG, €5 billion AUM, to deliver shareholder value. Swen has been an active private investor for 20 years. He is a journalist with articles in more than 40 publications in 6 countries and is author of two books about international investing. Swen has a passion for conservation and science. He is a board member of the Charles Darwin Foundation.

Damien Loveday is the global head of hedge fund research at Towers Watson and also heads the team responsible for researching fixed income hedge funds. In addition, Damien sits on the multi strategy/macro and equity long short hedge fund teams together with the distressed research team.
Towers Watson is a leading global professional services company that helps organisations improve performance through effective people, risk and financial management. Towers Watson Investment is focused on creating financial value for the world's leading institutional investors. It is a division of Towers Watson's risk and financial services business and has assets under advisory of over $2.1 trillion.
Prior to Towers Watson in 2006, Damien spent seven years at RBS Asset Management.
He was educated at Yale and the London School of Economics, gaining a BSc Honours in Accounting and Finance from the latter. Damien is a CFA charterholder.

Gustav Lundeborg is Swedish pension fund manager at Skanska. As a pension fund manager Gustav is responsible for the asset management of the company’s Swedish pension trust with approximately $570 million in AUM.
Skanska is a leading international project development and construction company, developing offices, homes and infrastructure projects, such as schools and roads. The company creates sustainable solutions and aims to be a leader in quality, green construction, work safety and business ethics.
Previously Gustav has been a FX and IR trader at Skanska´s central treasury desk. In his spare time Gustav is an enthusiastic cross country skier.

Davina MacKail, author and metaphysical consultant, currently works with both companies and individuals advising them on matters ranging from the health of their environment to the well-being of their psyche. Davina, who is featured in City AM, Harpers Bazaar, Eve magazine and Good Housekeeping and seen on ITV’s This Morning show, is the Dream whisperer for Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff and The Vanessa Show among others.  She is author of The Dream Whisperer and weekly columnist for the Daily Mail’s Weekend magazine.

George Main is a co-founder and chief executive officer of Diversified Global Asset Management (DGAM). In addition to overall firm management and direction, George is involved in investment decision-making including hedge fund selection, portfolio construction and tail hedge overlay management.
DGAM is an independent institutional fund-of-hedge-fund manager based in Toronto, Canada with over $5 billion in managed and advised assets.
George is a member of the investment committee for the endowment and pension funds at Trinity College, University of Toronto. He was also appointed to the hedge funds investors’ committee of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets.

Ted Malloch serves as research professor at Yale University. His most recent books concern the nature of doing virtuous business, the practice of ‘ethical business,’ the pursuit of happiness, and the virtue of thrift.  He is also chairman and CEO of The Roosevelt Group, a strategic management and leadership company. He has served on the executive board of the World Economic Forum (Davos), has held an ambassadorial level position at the UN in Geneva and has sat on a number of corporate, mutual fund, and not-for-profit boards. Ted earned his PhD in International Political Economy from the University of Toronto and an M.Litt. from the University of Aberdeen. He has three sons and a daughter and his wife is in wealth management at UBS; and he enjoys golf and sport fishing when not traveling the globe.

Mandy Mannix,
CQS

Mandy Mannix is global head of sales and marketing at CQS in London. Founded in 1999 by Michael Hintze, CQS is a $11 billion global multi strategy asset management firm. Mandy was previously a managing director at Nomura International plc, London and Lehman Brothers, where she held roles such as global head of capital introductions. Mandy won The Women in Banking and Finance Award for Outstanding Achievement in 2006 and the inaugural Women in the City ‘Award of Achievement’ in 2007. Most recently, Mandy was ranked in FN100 most influential women in finance in 2010 and profiled in the best of the best.
 

As CEO of Hermes Equity Ownership Services (EOS) Ltd, Colin Melvin helps pension funds to become active owners of public and private companies, advising on responsible investment and corporate governance on £90 billion of assets. Colin is a member of the UK Commission on Ownership and the Supervisory Board of Eumedion. He has co-founded and led various investor groups and initiatives such as the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment, for which he was the first chairman. 

Ian Morley,
Allenbridge

Ian Morley is one of the pioneers of the hedge fund Industry. He was the founding chairman of AIMA, the global hedge fund trade association. He is chairman of Allenbridge Hedge and Wentworth Hall Consultancy, director of Allenbridge Epic, director of Infonic and Condor Trade. Ian is senior adviser to Castellain Capital and global economic adviser to CSWM. Ian has advised Central Banks, the OECD, and the EU among others about the hedge fund industry. He has published numerous articles, lectured throughout the world and is an Industrial Fellow of Kingston University. Ian is a regular contributor on radio, TV and the press on matters of financial and economic interest, including several FT Comment pieces. Ian has run 16 marathons and is a thespian of note and lifelong Spurs fan.  He lives in London with a dog, two cats and sometimes his children. Ian is a graduate of LSE.

John Novogratz
Millenium

Stephen Oxley is a managing director of PAAMCO, an independent institutional fund of hedge funds firm with around $10 billion in assets under management. PAAMCO manages multi-manager hedge fund portfolios for some of the World’s most sophisticated institutional investors.  Stephen heads the firm's account management group and is also responsible for maintaining relationships with PAAMCO's European pension fund and other institutional clients. Stephen is involved in all stages of the investment process and is a member of the investment management committee. Prior to joining PAAMCO, Stephen was a partner and senior investment consultant at Watson Wyatt, LLP. He is a frequent guest speaker at numerous European pension fund conferences and writes regularly in various industry publications. Stephen has 20 years of investment management experience with institutional investors.

Alice Polkinghorne is a research manager at LCF Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management Ltd in London. Alice joined the group in 2003 and has undertaken manager research with a particular focus on Europe and the Middle East.
LCF Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management Ltd lead manages the Capital Holdings Funds ($3.2 billion AUM), including Leveraged Capital Holdings, the oldest multi manager fund in the world, launched in 1969. These funds are the flagship funds of the Capital Holdings/Edmond de Rothschild Group, which won the InvestHedge Award for Group of the Year in 2007 and 2010.

Jan Erik Saugestad is chief investment officer at Storebrand Investments, the asset management branch of Storebrand. The asset management operation spans across domestic and international fixed income, credit and equity markets, while the investment products cover managed accounts, mutual funds and hedge funds. AuM is $75 billion.  Jan Erik joined Storebrand Investments in 1999 and in 2002 he assumed the role as head of asset allocation. Prior to joining Storebrand he worked at Handelsbanken Markets, Marsoft Capital, Nordea Markets and McKinsey & Co.  Jan Erik holds an MSc from The Norwegian Institute of Technology and an MBA from INSEAD.  

Daron Sheehan is the CEO of Active Earth Investment Management, an independent and privately owned fund management company, which manages performance-driven funds that meet sustainable and responsible investment criteria.
Daron has managed the development of the investment team and process, operational controls, regulatory and legal set-up of the company. He designed the proprietary system (SEVMA), led the testing and implementation of investment strategies, and built the team and infrastructure.
Daron is a Chartered Certified Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst with 22 years industry experience.  He is a sports enthusiast and is passionate about driving real sustainable change. 

David Smith
GAM

David Smith is chief investment director for GAM Multi-Manager. He is responsible for GAM's multi-strategy investments and co-manages several single strategy portfolios.
Prior to joining GAM in April 1998, David was head of investment research and management at Buck Consultants. He joined Buck in 1992 from the actuarial investment consultancy division of Mercer Investment Consulting.  David holds a BA Honours in Economics and has associate qualifications from IIMR (now known as the CFA Society of the UK) and the Securities Institute (now known as the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment). He is based in London.

Astrologer Shelley von Strunckel is universally respected as a voice of reason in an often confusing field. In addition to her columns, published in London’s Evening Standard, The Sunday Times Style, Tatler, French and Chinese Vogue, she speaks frequently and is a regular guest on radio and television. Shelley’s renowned for her unique ability to explain the unsettling but ultimately productive changes reshaping the world around us and the lives of individuals. She blends astrology, an insider’s clarity on the current Mind, Body, Spirit phenomenon and experience from her background in the business world. As part of this, she teaches techniques such as meditation and other tools for transforming challenging cycles into productive ones.

Jeroen Tielman is founder and CEO of IMQ Investment Management, the manager of the IMQubator fund seeding hedge fund start ups. Jeroen founded IMQubator in 2009 and is amongst others responsible for business development, deal making and investment team evaluation.
IMQubator has €250 million AUM provided by APG and has committed €200 million to eight start up hedge funds so far. By the end of 2011 IMQubator wants to have raised additional capital to accelerate its funds.
Over the last 15 years Jeroen has developed expertise in the triangle asset management – innovation/business development and pensions. Jeroen started his career with ABN AMRO in 1986, and founded PGGM backed fund engineering boutique FundPartners in 2000 before he joined the management team of a €24 billion pension operator in 2006.

Charlotte Valeur Adu is a managing director of Brook Street Partners Ltd which she founded in January 2003. She launched Global Governance Group in 2009 as a division of Brook Street Partners.
Brook Street Partners is a consulting company within Alternative Investments. Global Governance Group advices on fund governance and conducts fund board reviews.
Prior to founding Brook Street Partners, Charlotte worked in London as a director in capital markets, heading up institutional fixed income sales desks at Warburg, BNP Paribas, Societe Generale and Commerzbank.
Charlotte is a member of The Institute of Directors and the European Corporate Governance Institute and is regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission in the conduct of Trust Company business.

Jim Vos is CEO and head of research at Aksia. He is responsible for the overall management of the firm, including the research and advisory processes and advising clients about top down alternatives portfolio construction.
Aksia is an independent hedge fund research and advisory firm that works with institutional clients globally, providing manager, strategy and portfolio-level services.  Currently, Aksia advises on over $42 billion assets committed for allocation to hedge funds.
Jim has over 25 years of fund of hedge funds, research and derivatives experience in New York, London and Tokyo. Jim won the Institutional Investor Hedge Fund Consultant of the Year award in both 2009 and 2010.

Allan Yip
Simmons & Simmons

Allan Yip is a partner of the international law firm Simmons & Simmons LLP.  He specialises in advising hedge funds, investment banks and other corporate and financial institutions on all aspects of derivatives, prime brokerage and structured products.
Prior to joining Simmons & Simmons as a partner in 2008, Allan was a managing director, principal and head of the legal team for Bear Stearns's equity and fund derivatives, prime brokerage and asset management businesses in Europe and the Middle East. He previously worked at JPMorgan Chase and at Clifford Chance.