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Speakers 
 Mr Lorenz Altwegg,
Vice President, Head of Alternative Investments,
Bank Sarasin & Cie AG
Lorenz is currently heading the Hedge Fund Investment department at Bank Sarasin & Co. Ltd. He studied economics with a focus on finance and marketing at the University of Zurich. Worked for several years as a business consultant and project management specialist at Holcim Group and gained experience in institutional investment consulting at Credit Suisse. Has worked in Alternative Investments at Bank Sarasin & Cie AG since 2001. Until 2005 he was the deputy to the Head of Hedge Funds and Senior Client Advisor for Hedge Funds, responsible for operational product management and investor relations. Since February 2005 he has been in charge of the hedge fund department at Bank Sarasin & Co Ltd.
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Mr Caron Bastianpollai,
Senior Vice President,
Optimal Investment Services
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 Mr Hans-Jörg Baumann,
Senior Partner & Chief Executive Officer,
Swiss Capital Group
Hans-Jörg Baumann, Chairman, Senior Partner of Swiss Capital Group acts as CEO of Swiss Capital Alternative Investments AG and manages the overall activities of the Asset Management Activities.
Hans-Jörg Baumann graduated from the University of Zurich in 1985 with a Master in Business Administration and is a Swiss national. Mr. Baumann joined Union Bank of Switzerland Zurich in 1985 as a capital market and derivatives specialist. In 1991 he moved to UBS Geneva as Head of the Stock Exchange Department. In 1993 he returned to UBS Zurich to assume the role of Head of Trading and Sales Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange. In 1996 his role was expanded to Head of Trading and Sales Switzerland including equity, fixed income, foreign exchange and commodities. He was a Member of the Board of the Swiss Stock Exchange. In 1998 he left UBS Zurich to co-found Swiss Capital Group and Swiss Capital Alternative Investments AG.
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 Mr Giovanni Beliossi,
Managing Partner & CEO,
FGS Capital
Giovanni Beliossi is Managing Partner at FGS Capital LLP, where he is the CEO and is responsible for portfolio management. Previously he was Associate Director of hedge funds at First Quadrant Ltd, where he set up and was the portfolio manager of its Pan European long/short equity market neutral portfolios, and was responsible for UK-based hedge fund business. He has extensive experience of managing equity market neutral portfolios since 1995, when he joined the firm. Prior to that he was a tenured Research Fellow with the Economics Department of the University of Bologna in Italy, and he has held appointments with Barra International and Eastern Group Plc. He co-founded the Real Options Group to look at research and applications of Real Options to corporate finance and investments. He is an active member of AIMA (Alternative Investment Management Association) and a Research Committee member of Inquire UK. He is a Board member of the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE). He is the European Chair of the Steering Group of the Investor Risk Committee (IRC) of IAFE working on guidelines for disclosure and transparency for hedge funds. Giovanni is a CFA Charterholder
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Mr Michael Browne,
Director,
Sofaer Global Research
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 Mr Michael Corcell,
Fund Manager, Threadneedle American Crescendo Fund,
Threadneedle Investments
Mike graduated from Colgate University in New York with his BA in Economics in 1996. He subsequently managed long only investment portfolios at AIM Investments, J&W Seligman and Farmers Insurance. Mike co-managed a long/short equity portfolio at Churchfield Capital LLC during 2002. Mike joins the team from New York-based Karsch Capital Management, a long/short US equity focussed hedge fund. He has 9 years experience in total as both an equity analyst and portfolio manager in the US market.
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Mr Marco Corti,
Bank Leu
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Garry Crowder,
Managing Partner,
Lyra Capital LLC, USA
Garry Crowder is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ursa Capital LLC (“Ursa”), the parent company to an asset management group specializing in research and in providing unique structures for corporate clients seeking hedge fund, derivative and index based product solutions. The Ursa family includes Lyra Capital LLC (“Lyra”), a registered investment adviser that manages a separate account based hedge fund investment platform providing the basis for, among other things, the creation of the Dow Jones Hedge Fund Strategy Benchmarks. Starview Capital Management LLC, Lyra’s sister company, and also a registered investment adviser, manages multi-manager hedge fund products. AIRT LLC, the most recent addition to Ursa’s family, manages and distributes the CISDM Hedge Fund/CTA Database, one of the first hedge fund and CTA databases. Mr. Crowder is also a member of the Dow Jones Hedge Fund Strategy Benchmarks Advisory Committee and a member of the Executive Board of the Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts (CISDM). Mr. Crowder has over 20 years of experience in the investment arena. Previous posts include Managing Director at Zurich Capital Markets, Inc., Managing Director at Tiger Management LLC, and Managing Director at Morgan Stanley Asset Management. Mr. Crowder holds a J.D. degree from Northwestern University School of Law, a Masters of Management degree from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School, a Masters of Science degree from the University of Louisville, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Missouri.
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Mr Eric De Sangues,
CIO,
Avendis Capital
Mr Eric de Sangues graduated as an ingénieur (engineer) from the “Ecole des Mines” in Nancy, France.
In 1998, he began working as a trader for ABC Arbitrage, a French entity specialising in proprietary trading, where he was in charge of developing equity arbitrage strategies on the European and American markets. One year later, he was appointed head of the trading department and was responsible for the management of ABC Arbitrage global portfolio.
Mr de Sangues joined Avendis Capital SA upon its creation.
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Dr Matthaeus Den Otter,
Director General,
Swiss Funds Association
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Mr Laurent Dignat,
Head of SG CIB's Alternative Risk Transfer Initiative,
Société Générale CIB
Laurent Dignat is Head of the Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) at SG CIB Equity Derivatives. He develops the ART markets and products to enhance SG’s capabilities in externalizing residual risks linked to equity markets.
Prior to joining SG, Laurent created the French operation of the Centre Group in Paris (a subsidiary of Zurich Financial Services, specialized in ART and innovative and highly customized structured (re)insurance solutions) where he served as Managing Director. Before Centre, Laurent held positions of Outward Reinsurance Manager and Asset & Liability Manager with the French Insurance Group MMA.
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Kieran Dolan,
Marketing Manager,
Citco Bank Nederland N.V, Dublin Branch
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 Mr Patrick Fenal,
Chief Executive Officer,
Unigestion
Patrick Fenal is Chief Executive Officer of Unigestion. He joined the company in 1978 and held various positions in the area of asset management including bond manager before supervising the hedge funds activities. He is heading the hedge funds investment committee and brings his experience and expertise at each step of our hedge funds process.
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 Mr Daniel Ghirardi,
Senior Vice President, Head of Switzerland,
Pioneer Investments (Geneva)
Daniel Ghirardi is responsible for institutional sales in Switzerland. This includes the acquisition and maintenance of institutional clients such as Pension Funds, Insurance companies, Private Banks and asset managers in Switzerland. Daniel’s primary focus is on alternative investments for the entire country and traditional investments for the Swiss French and Swiss Italian part of the country.
Daniel joined Pioneer Investments in January 2003, to start the Swiss operation in Geneva. Prior to joining he was Director of Business Development at Harcourt Investment Consulting AG, a specialised hedge fund boutique in Zurich. During his career, Daniel gained an international working experience while working at SBC Warburg in Hong Kong, before moving back to Zurich to join Prudential-Bache.
Daniel holds a BA in Business Administration from HEC, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, which he attained in 1994. He is also registered with the NASD (Series 7 and
3).
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Mr Vittore Greggio,
Director, Senior Portfolio Manager,
Zarattini & Co.
Vittore Greggio - Director, Senior Portfolio Manager With Zarattini & Co. since 1994
1994-97: automated trading systems developer
1997-98: analyst
Since 1998: portfolio manager
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 Mr Pierre Guillemin,
Head Strategic Asset Allocation,
Swiss Life
Pierre Guillemin, as a Managing Director at SwissLife Asset Management, is responsible for Asset Liability Management, Quantitative Research and Alternative investments.
Previously, he was Head of Asset Management at SwissLife Asset Management (France) where he developped Quantitative techniques for Asset allocation, credit management and directional trading.
Pierre Guillemin is graduated from Ecole Centrale de Paris and specialized in stochastic processes at Université des Sciences de Paris
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 Mr Jared Herman,
Founder,
Greenfield Capital Partners LLC
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Mr Niklaus Hilti,
Head of Alternative Investments,
Bank Leu
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 Mr Willem Holst,
Director, Marketing and Sales,
Citco Bank Nederland
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 Mr Simon Hopkins,
Managing Director,
The Fortune Group
Simon Hopkins has over 19 years experience in the European investment business. He started a successful career as an institutional stockbroker with SG Warburg & Co in 1986, joining UBS in 1988 as European equity specialist. From 1990 to 1996 he spent over six years as a French equity market specialist in Paris, first with HSBC James Capel, then the Japanese giant Nomura France, where as director of French equities, he built an equity sales and research arm. Simon created Fortune Group (Fortune Asset Management, a diversified hedge fund advisory firm, and its research affiliate Global Fund Analysis) in 1996. Today Fortune manages proprietary hedge funds including the Market Wizards Fund and overseas over 1.5 billion USD of assets for a diversified range of clients including private banks and public pension schemes. The firm has also seeded a number of the top performing single strategy funds of the last decade. Simon brings to the Fortune team a deep understanding of European investors and the driving forces of fund investing. Simon is a regular commentator on fund industry topics in the financial press. He graduated with honours from the University of Bristol's Faculty of Law.
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 Mr Simon Hopkins,
Chief Executive,
Fortune Group (London)
Simon Hopkins has over 19 years experience in the European investment business. He started a successful career as an institutional stockbroker with SG Warburg & Co in 1986, joining UBS in 1988 as European equity specialist. From 1990 to 1996 he spent over six years as a French equity market specialist in Paris, first with HSBC James Capel, then the Japanese giant Nomura France, where as director of French equities, he built an equity sales and research arm. Simon created Fortune a diversified hedge fund advisory firm with over 1bn of hedge fund assets under management, and its research affiliate Global Fund Analysis in 1996.Today Fortune also manages proprietary hedge funds including the Market Wizards Fund and has seeded a number of the top performing single strategy funds of the last decade. Simon brings to the Fortune team a deep understanding of European investors and the driving forces of fund investing. Simon is a regular commentator on fund industry topics in the financial press. He graduated with honours from the University of Bristol's Faculty of Law.
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 Dr Manfried Janson,
Partner,
Lungerhausen & Janson A G
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Mr Jean Keller,
Chief Executive Officer,
3A SA
Jean Keller, Chief Executive Officer, 3A SA (Alternative Asset Advisors)
Prior to joining 3A in February 2005, Jean Keller spent 11 years assuming various responsibilities within the Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch (LODH) group in Geneva, New York and London. From 2002 to 2004, he was Chief Executive Officer of LODH Asset Management Ltd in London and member of the group’s Management Committee. He also co-headed LODH’s institutional asset management division and sat on the Asset Management Board, which directed - amongst other activities - the group's alternative investment business. From 1993 to 2001, Jean Keller held various positions within LODH Asset Management, first in Geneva, then in London and New York. From 1988 to 1992, he was investment manager and investment analyst with Baring Asset Management in London and Hong Kong, where he was involved in the management of various mutual and institutional funds. Jean Keller is a Swiss citizen and holds a Degree in International Relations from the University of Geneva and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania, with a major in Finance.
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Mr Rainer Kensy von Echlin,
Managing Director,
Bear Stearns Asset Management
Over 15 years of experience in the triangle:
Alternative Investments / Product Development & Structuring. The last Stations were Global Head, Alternative Investments, UBS Private Banking
CEO of a research subsidiary of RMF, Head of Equity Sales, Salomon Brothers Germany, Equity Derivatives Credit Suisse Tokyo.
Now with Bear Stearns responsible for setting up the european Asset Management
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Mr Richard Kleinbauer,
Chief Executive Officer,
RMK Research and Markets
Richard Kleinbauer has managed institutional client assets for 15 years in traditional, hedge fund, and hybrid products in Switzerland and New York, delivering award-winning performance in several categories. Richard has also been involved in the creation and launch of several innovative funds. Recently, he established RMK Research & Markets to service institutional money managers
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Mr Jens Kothes,
Principal,
Compucom Finance Inc
1982 – to date
Dr. Kothes has been in the currency management business for over 20 years. He founded Compucom Finance Inc. (CFI) and was responsible for planning and supervising the various research and development stages of the firm’s products. He also introduced CFI’s Managed Account Program to major European clients.
1979 – 1984
Dr. Kothes specialised in management of investment funds in financial markets for a private family trust.
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Mr Markus Kroll,
Managing Director,
Palomar Capital Advisors
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Dr Peter Labhart,
First Vice President, Head of Alternative Investments,
Bank Sarasin & Co Ltd
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 Mr Rainer Lang,
Head of Alternative Sales Europe, Asset Management,
Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd
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 Dr Francois-Serge Lhabitant,
Ph.D. Head of Investment Research, Kedge Capital, Professor of Finance,
University of Lausanne and EDHEC
Francois-Serge Lhabitant is responsible for the investment research at Kedge Capital. He is also a professor of Finance at HEC University of Lausanne and at EDHEC. He has authored five books on hedge funds and emerging markets, as well as numerous research and scientific popularisation articles. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Autorité des Marches Financiers, the French regulatory body.
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Mr Philippe Manet,
CFA, Partner, Style and Portfolio Manager,
Alternative Investment Services
Philippe Manet, CFA is a partner of AIS (Suisse) SA, Portfolio Manager and Relative Value Style Specialist. Prior to joining AIS, Philippe Manet held senior management positions at HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA, Geneva (2003-2004) and UBS, SA., Geneva (1999-2003) catering to UHNW client needs. From 1992 to 1999 he ran a single family office in London, on the back of investment banking experience gained at Samuel Montagu & Co Ltd (1988-1992) and Orion Royal Bank Limited (1984-1988).
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 Mr Tony Morrongiello,
Managing Partner,
Caliburn Capital Partners LLP
Tony Morrongiello was a Director of Carnegie International and the CEO of Carnegie Italia S.I.M. Most recently he has been the CEO of 3A the alternative investment advisory subsidiary of the Geneva based Banque Syz for the last four years. During that period 3A has been transformed from a two product firm geared to serving the internal private banking needs of the group and managing $500m, into an institutional multi product fund of funds platform managing $1.5bn. Major products include:
Windrider, a Cayman Isles leveraged multi-strategy open-ended fund of funds. Launched in 2003. The Windrider Fund is run on three times leverage and was the best performing multi-strategy fund of funds in the Investhedge universe for 2004.
Altin, a closed end fund of funds which was the 8th best performing multi-strategy fund of hedge funds in the Investhedge universe of 290 comparable USD denominated funds.
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 Mr Stefan Nilsson,
Managing Director and Board Member,
ProfitFundCom AG
Stefan Nilsson is the Tokyo-based managing director and board member of ProfitFundCom, a hedge fund firm with offices in Japan and Europe.
He is a frequent chairman, speaker and moderator at industry conferences in Asia and Europe, and a regular commentator on hedge funds and the Asian markets for international media, including BBC, CNBC India and Daily Yomiuri.
Stefan is also a committee member of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan and the founder of the Tokyo Hedge Funds Club, an informal network for the Japanese hedge funds industry. Born in Karlstad, Sweden, he was educated in Sweden, the USA and England and received his MBA from Leicester University.
Prior to relocating to Tokyo in 2004, Stefan spent more than 10 years in London, England, where he held management positions at several private and public companies working with institutional investors and hedge fund managers. Stefan has extensive business and management experience from Europe, North America and Asia, including the Middle East.
ProfitFundCom runs a global macro fund (which was nominated as Best Global Macro Fund in Asia at the Asian Masters of Hedge Awards 2005) that invests in currencies, stock indices and government bonds. Investment decisions are based on proprietary in-house relative credit creation research, which reveals that general liquidity, and not interest rates, are the key to economic and currency cycles. The global macro investment team has prior experience from the central banks and ministries of finance in Japan and the UK. ProfitFundCom’s investors are both institutions and high net-worth individuals from around the world.
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 Mr s Nilsson,
Managing Director and Board Member,
ProfitFundCom
Stefan Nilsson is the Tokyo-based managing director and board member of ProfitFundCom, a hedge fund firm with offices in Japan and Europe.
He is a frequent chairman, speaker and moderator at industry conferences in Asia and Europe, and a regular commentator on hedge funds and the Asian markets for international media, including BBC, CNBC India and Daily Yomiuri.
Stefan is also a committee member of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan and the founder of the Tokyo Hedge Funds Club, an informal network for the Japanese hedge funds industry. Born in Karlstad, Sweden, he was educated in Sweden, the USA and England and received his MBA from Leicester University.
Prior to relocating to Tokyo in 2004, Stefan spent more than 10 years in London, England, where he held management positions at several private and public companies working with institutional investors and hedge fund managers. Stefan has extensive business and management experience from Europe, North America and Asia, including the Middle East.
ProfitFundCom runs a global macro fund (which was nominated as Best Global Macro Fund in Asia at the Asian Masters of Hedge Awards 2005) that invests in currencies, stock indices and government bonds. Investment decisions are based on proprietary in-house relative credit creation research, which reveals that general liquidity, and not interest rates, are the key to economic and currency cycles. The global macro investment team has prior experience from the central banks and ministries of finance in Japan and the UK. ProfitFundCom’s investors are both institutions and high net-worth individuals from around the world.
For more information about ProfitFundCom, please contact:
Stefan Nilsson, ProfitFundCom, tel: +81 3 5573 4771, e-mail: stefan.nilsson@profitfund.com
www.profitfund.com
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 Mr Antoine Prudent,
Executive Drector, Hedge Funds, Head of Product Development and Investor Relations,
Unigestion
Antoine Prudent is responsible for the development of the hedge funds products and the relationship with investors. He supervises the development of new products as well as of our client base and our client service. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Louisiana. He joined Unigestion in February 2001 and worked previously for Natexis Banques Populaires in Paris where he was responsible of the structuring and sales of Equity Derivatives & Structured Products.
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Mr Thomas Schmidt,
Member of the General Management Committee and Head of Private Banking,
Coutts Bank von Ernst Ltd, Zurich
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Mr Gerhard Schreiber,
Managing Partner & Founder,
Swiss-Hedge Capital AG
2004 Founder and Managing Partner swissuhedge capital ag
1994-2004 Co-Head of Swiss Equity Trading Deutsche Bank AG, Zurich
1990-1994 Equity Trader, Deutsche Bank AG, Stuttgart
1985-1990 Retail and private banking, Deutsche Bank AG, Ulm
1982-1985 Professional education and retail banking Langenauer Bank AG, Langenau
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Mr Dirk Soenholz,
Managing Director,
FERI Alternative Assets
Dr. Söhnholz is Managing Director of FIA and a partner of Feri Finance AG. He is responsible for Feri's hedge fund and private equity activities. Dirk founded Feri Private Equity/Alternative Assets in 1999 and was its sole Managing Partner until the 2003 merger with Feri Trust. Immediately before joining Feri, Dr. Söhnholz was Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director for Operations and Human Resources at a venture backed German telecom company. Dr. Söhnholz has a Ph.D. in finance and a diploma in business administration from the University of Mannheim as well as an M.B.A. (C.U.N.Y.).
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Dr. Eduard Stucki,
Senior Investment Consultant,
Watson Wyatt
Education:
- Edouard studied business administration and economics at the University of St. Gall and graduated in 1988 with a dissertation on equity portfolio performance measurement.
Experience:
- Prior to joining Watson Wyatt, Edouard held a senior management position in equities with a major global asset management firm.
- Worked for a multinational financial services company for over ten years as an equity and balanced portfolio manager and analyst in Chicago, London and Zurich with responsibilities for investment strategy and implementation .
- Managed a worldwide global custody project and has held various investment business management responsibilities.
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 Mr Eric Syz,
Chairman & Founder,
3A SA
Eric Syz, Founding Partner & General Manager of Banque SYZ&CO, Board Member of 3A SA (Alternative Asset Advisors)
Eric Syz began his career in 1977 with SG Warburg, where he worked in asset management and merchant banking. He continued in this field for four years with Paine Webber, in New York. He then joined Lombard Odier & Cie where he dedicated himself to institutional asset management. While there, he launched the group's merchant banking company and created a new department responsible for the engineering and promotion of the group's products, in particular investment funds. He also created a hedge fund analysis department dedicated to hedge funds, a type of assets he had been handling since the 1980s. He left Lombard Odier in 1995 to set up Banque SYZ & CO with Alfredo Piacentini and Paolo Luban. He is the general manager of Banque SYZ & CO.
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 Ms Indira Tasan,
Chief Executive Officer,
BANCO & BANCOhedge
Indira C. Tasan, born in 1960 in Bangkok, is journalist and publisher of the swiss hedge funds newsletter BANCOhedge, as well as editor-in-chief of the swiss financial magazine BANCO. After finishing her studies in Chinese and Russian at the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva, she started her carrier at a specialized publishing firm in Lausanne, where she later took the head of the banking and financial publications department.
In 1995, she founded – together with a partner – her own company in Lausanne (Switzerland), Forward SA, where she launched the french version of BANCO in 1996. A year later she launched the german version of BANCO and, in 2004, BANCOhedge in french and german versions.
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Mr. Albert Thomann,
Alternative Products,
AIG Private Bank Ltd.
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Dr Nicholas Verwilghen,
Partner, Head of Quantitative Research,
EIM
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 Mr Armin Vogel,
Managing Partner,
Primores AG, Switzerland
Mr. Armin Vogel, born in 1971, is Swiss citizen. He co-founded Primores AG in 2003.
Mr. Vogel is involved in every step of the investment process. His focus is on the qualitative and quantitative analysis. In his function he’s a member of Primores Investment Committee, which is responsible for the investment decisions.
Prior to forming Primores, Mr. Vogel was Managing Director and Co-Founder of Fund Research Partner in Zurich. At Fund Research Partner he was responsible for the Due Diligence of Fund of Hedge Funds.
Before that he was Partner and Chief Risk Officer at Adam Currency Trading, Zurich, which run Hedge Fund currency strategies. As CRO his main responsibility was the risk measurement and management of the executed strategies.
Mr. Vogel's initial exposure to the Hedge Fund universe dates back several years when he was appointed as Portfolio Manager for the Winterthur Insurance Hedge Fund portfolio. Winterthur Insurance is part of Credit Suisse Group and one of the first Institutional Investor into Hedge Funds. Mr. Vogel was responsible for the Hedge Fund investments within the Alternative Investment Department. He worked closely together with RMF, one of the biggest Fund of Hedge Funds advisor, meanwhile part of MAN Group, of which Winterthur was a shareholder.
Mr. Vogel holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Zurich where he wrote a thesis on option pricing.
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Richard A Werner,
Founder and CIO,
ProfitFundCom AG
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