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Speakers 
 Mr José María Amusátegui,
Founding Partner, President,
Cygnus Asset Management SGIIC
José María Amusategui worked during 14 years for UBS. Initially based in London, he was involved in M&A deals; IPO’s; Equity derivatives structures while at Corporate Finance. During his years in WM he created a Corporate Finance capacity and the Key Clients Group for large private clients in Spain. José María began his professional career in 1986 working for the consulting division of Arthur Andersen (now Accenture), gaining experience on information systems and strategic management consulting. Later in 1988 he worked for Advent a venture capital firm, generating deal flow, doing financial analysis and due diligence. In April 2006 he established alongside Isabel Serra Dosrobles Capital dedicated to alternative investments. In October 2006 Dosrobles Capital and Zisne Capital created Algebra Partners SGIIC S.A. one of the first few independent regulated asset management companies with authorisation to manage hedge funds in Spain.
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 Mr Dídac Artes,
Chief Executive Officer,
Próxima Alpha Investments
Didac Artés has been in working in the financial markets for more than 25 years. He has acquired this experience working in well-known institutions such as Chase Manhattan Bank, Bankers Trust Company, Banco Santander and BBVA, where he held several positions starting as an FX Dealer at Chase to Treasurer of Santander and afterwards of BBVA. In addition, he has also served in the board of several financial institutions like MEFF, Türk Merchant Bank and Andorra Banc Agricol Reig. Didac has worked in several cities including Madrid, Milan, London and New York. He is fluent in Spanish, Catalan and English and proficient in French and Italian.
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 Mr Xavier Auguets,
Director de Área de Seguros, Gestoras y Participaciones Empresariales,
Caixa Catalunya
Xavier is currently the Head of the Division of Insurance, Asset Management and Equity Shareholdings of Caixa Catalunya. He started to work at Caixa Catalunya in 1989 moving from different positions in the Bank to the Capital Markets Division were he stood for 7 years. He is also member of the Executive Board of INVERCO, the Spanish Association of Investment Managers and occupies positions in several Boards of Spanish companies in sectors like Energy, Infrastructure, Hotels, Pharma, Private equity funds, etc.
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 Mr Gabriel Bobadilla,
Head of Asset Management,
Omega Capital
Gabriel F. Bobadilla is Head of Asset Management at Omega Capital, where he has worked since the year 2000, and Chairman of Omega Asset Management Ltd (UK), the alternative investment arm of Omega Capital. He is a director of Laredo Umbrella Fund an Irish-domiciled fund of funds of which Omega Asset Management is the Investment Manager. He has lectured on the subject of Hedging and Risk Management at CEMFI and on Corporate Finance at the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid). He received a Master’s degree in Economics and Finance from CEMFI (Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros), foundation of the Bank of Spain, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Caltech (California Institute of Technology, USA) and a Ph.D. and Industrial Engineer degrees from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (U.P.M.). He holds the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) designation. He is also a board member of Neotec Capital Riesgo, S.C.R.
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 Steven Bossi,
Managing Director, Global Head of Fund of Hedge Funds,
DB Absolute Return Strategies
Head of Funds of Hedge Funds for DB Absolute Return Strategies: New York Joined the Company in 2001 after 9 years of experience as president and chief investment officer of small firm actively invested in hedge funds and as fixed income portfolio manager at Aetna Life & Casualty.
BS from University of Connecticut; MBA from University of Chicago
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Mr Antonio Carrascosas,
Director General de Entidades,
Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores
Antonio has occupied various positions within the ministry of economy, as Deputy Director of the International Financial System, Economic and Commercial Advisor, Chief of the Spanish Embassy in Tokyo and Deputy Director of the Treasury. At present Antonio is Entities Director for the Spanish financial regulatory body, CNMV, Antonio will offer some valuable insights into the latest developments in the industry and prospects for the future.
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 Mr Jaime Castán,
Head of Hedge Fund Research,
RMF Investment Management (was at Vega Asset Management)
Jaime Castán is Head of Hedge Fund Research at RMF, a member of the Man Group, with over $20bn under management. Jaime has 19 years of trading, risk management and hedge fund investing experience, and has worked across 3 continents (Europe, America and Asia).
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 Carlos Cerezo Jiminez,
Socio Fundador & Director de Gestion,
Belgravia Capital
Carlos Cerezo, Gestor. Trabajó en Park Place Capital, Londres, durante cinco años como Director de Análisis y Gestor pan-europeo de renta variable. Con anterioridad, y durante cuatro años, formó parte del equipo de renta variable europea de UBS, Londres, tras dirigir el equipo de renta variable española de Nomura International, Londres, durante dos años. Comenzó su carrera profesional en Cofir donde ocupó el cargo de Director de Inversiones. En 1989 obtuvo su MBA en Columbia Business School, Nueva York, tras licenciarse en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales en C.U.N.E.F. en 1987.
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 Mr Miguel Colombás,
Chief Investment Officer,
SOGEVAL (Grupo Banco Popular)
Miguel Colombás, Deputy Managing Director of Sogeval, joined the company in 1994 and is Chief Investment Officer. Sogeval manage Eurovalor Mutual Funds, commercialized by Banco Popular Group amount $14 billion in 67 Funds. Miguel has a B.S. in Quantitative Economics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and received a Master of Quantitative Finance from Escuela de Finanzas Aplicadas (AFI).
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 Mr Juan Cruz,
Chief Investment Officer,
Cygnus Asset Management SGIIC
Juan Cruz is the Chief Investment Officer of Algebra Partners SGIIC SA. From 2000 until May 2005, Mr. Cruz was one of the founding partners of BBVA & Partners, a Madrid-based hedge fund, and was responsible for its utilities portfolio, among other things. Mr. Cruz has been involved in long/short equity and/or proprietary trading for more than ten years; among them as responsible for the Equity Arb teams at both Argentaria and Santander.
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Mr Pedro Dañobeitia,
Managing Director,
DWS Investments (Spain)
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 Mr Francisco J. de Blas Cruz,
Subdirector General de Planes y Fondos de Pensiones,
Dirección General de Seguros y Fondos de Pensiones
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Jose Luis del Rio,
Socio Director,
Nmas1 Patrimonios (Spain)
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Mr Manuel Delgado,
Structured Credit,
Cairn Capital
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Carlos Dexus,
Managing Partner,
Altex Partners SL
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Mario Diaz Serrano,
Grupo Santander
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 Mr Gys Ekker,
Partner,
Orienta Capital
Gys Ekker
Estudió Econometría en la Universidad de Ámsterdam
Empezó sus actividades como jefe del servicio de estudios económicos en el banco mercantil holandés Pierson, Heldring & Pierson, en el año 1984.
Entró en el mundo de la gestión patrimonial en el año 1989, con la apertura de la oficina de la gestora del mismo banco en España.
Desde entonces ha sido, entre otras cosas, consejero delegado de Beta Capital S.V., S.A., y responsable mundial de MeesPierson, para hedge funds y fondos de terceros.
Desde Julio de 2005 es Socio de Orienta Capital AV, empresa que se dedica principalmente al asesoramiento patrimonial.
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 Mr Alvaro Elices,
Director de Estrategia de Mercado y Negocio Institucional,
BBVA Gestión de Activos
Licenciado en Derecho y Ciencias Empresariales. Actualmente Director de Estrategia de Mercados y Negocio Institucional de BBVA Gestión de Activos, responsable de los equipos encargados de definir el asset allocation táctico de la unidad, de gestionar los productos de los clientes institucionales del área, y también la actividad de Private Equity que lleva a cabo Gestión de Activos. Anteriormente fui responsable de Renta Fija en Argentaria Gestión y en WestLB Madrid. Mi carrera profesional la inicié en la Tesorería de BBV en Madrid, dirigiendo posteriormente la sala de Tesorería de BBV Frankfurt.
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 Mr Michel Escalera,
Chief Executive Officer,
CA-AM España, S.L
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 Mr Esteban Estevez,
Managing Director,
Optimal Alternative Investments
Esteban Estevez, Senior Vice President in Optimal Investment Services, is reponsible for the business development in Spain, Portugal & Latam. He has been working in Santander Group for the past 11 years with different management responsabilities. Prior to Santander, Esteban worked as a lawyer for Garrigues and as consultant for Accenture. He holds a Banking Programme Degree (Insead School of Management) and a Bachelor Degree in Businees Administration & Law (Comillas University-ICADE- Madrid).
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 Mr Sasha Evers,
Country Manager,
Mellon Global Investments (Spain)
Sasha joined Mellon in 1999 and established the Madrid branch of Mellon Global Investments in 2001. Today Sasha’s responsibilities include all commercial activity for Mellon Global Investments’ in Spain and Portugal as well as representing Mellon's independent specialist asset management boutiques. Through Mellon Global Investments Institutional & wholesale clients as well as retail distributors in the region can access the alternative as well as long only capabilities of Mellon’s boutique asset managers. Prior to joining Mellon Sasha worked at Indocam (Credit Agricole Group) where he started his career in financial services. At Indocam Sasha was responsible for all the marketing and sales activities of the groups’ alternative products in Southern Europe and Latin America. Sasha graduated from Eton College in Windsor and holds a MA in General Arts from Edinburgh University.
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Simon Ewart,
Chief Executive Officer,
Key Asset Management
- Simon Ewart, Chief Executive Officer of Key Asset Management Group Ltd. With over 16 years of experience managing funds of hedge funds Key manages and advises on $1.8 bn in a range of hedge fund-of-funds and single manager funds for both institutional and private clients. Before becoming CEO Mr. Ewart held the positions of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Group.
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 Mr Valentín Fernández García,
Director de Estrategia y Relaciones Institucionales,
Fonditel Gestión, S.G.I.I.C
Valentín currently acts as Director of Strategy for asset allocation within the investments committee as well as being responsible for communications with institutional investor clients for Fonditel Gestión and Fonditel Pensiones. Prior to that Valetnín was Director of Fixed Income and before joining Fonditel he worked as Chief Market Economist for various European Banks. Some of the funds that have been managed under Valentín have been acclaimed in the last few years as the most profitable in their category according to institutions such as Morningstar and Standard&Poors.
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 Mr José Manuel García de Sola Arraiga,
Chief Investment Officer,
BANIF
José Manuel García de Sola y Arriaga, Managing Director, Banco BANIF
Is responsible for the asset management business; research and analysis for equities and fixed income;Private banking products;Estructured products. BANIF has obtained in the last three years the best Private Bank in Spain award for Euromoney magazine.
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 Mr Bruno R. Gerard Phd..,
Director, Currency Strategist,
Mellon Capital Management Corporation
Bruno R. Gerard is Director Currency Strategies and has 17 years of finance and investment experience. He is responsible for Mellon Capital’s active currency product development and strategy. Prior to joining Mellon Capital, he was a professor of finance at the Norwegian School of Business in Oslo and Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Previously, on the faculty of the Marshall School of Business at USC, the Anderson School at UCLA and the University of Michigan business school. He has extensive teaching and research experience in empirical asset pricing, international asset pricing, financial econometrics, asset allocation, currency markets and risk management. He is a noted author of numerous finance and investment journal articles, including publications in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Business. He is a frequent speaker at investment seminars sponsored by a variety of academic and professional organisations such as INSEAD, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank and The Institute of Quantitative Investment Research (INQUIRE EUROPE). He is a member of the executive committee of the European Finance Association.
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Margaret W Gilbert,
Managing Director,
Greenwich Alternative Investments
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Mr Daniel González,
Head of Global Funds Services - Spain,
BNP Paribas Securities Services
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 Jesus Gonzalez Nieto,
Director Gerente,
Mecardo Alternativo Bursatil
JESUS GONZALEZ is Market Development Director of Bolsa de Madrid (Madrid Stock Exchange), Coordinating Director of Latibex (the Euro-denominated Market for Latin American Stocks) and Vice-Chairman and Executive Director of MAB (Spain’s Alternative Investment Market).
He joined the Clearing and Settlement Department of Bolsa de Madrid in 1987. In 1989 he was appointed Manager of this department, until 1992, when he took the responsibility of organising a Market Development Department.
Mr. Gonzalez has been a member of the Board of Directors of the former SCLV (now IBERCLEAR, Spanish central depository) until 2000 and currently participates in the Mediation Committee of IBERCLEAR.
Jesus Gonzalez has degrees in Law and in Economics from ICADE (University of Comillas). He is also a member of the Spanish Institute of Financial Analysts.
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 Mr José González-Heres,
Executive Director, Alternative Investment Partners,
Morgan Stanley Investment Management
José is a portfolio manager for the Fund of Hedge Funds portfolios at Morgan Stanley AIP, focusing on credit and event-driven strategies, including merger arbitrage, equity special situations, credit arbitrage, capital structure arbitrage, and distressed investing. He is also a voting member of the Investment Committee and serves on the Risk Management Committee. Prior to his current role, José served as a senior research analyst on the investment team. He joined Morgan Stanley AIP in 2001 and has more than thirteen years of investment experience. Before joining the firm, José was chief executive officer of Suggestionator, Inc., a privately held software company, and was an investment banker in the public finance areas of both Bear Stearns and Prudential Securities. He has also worked at IBM and has earned U.S. and international patents for his work on algorithms.
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 Mr Lars Hagenbuch,
Head of Investment Strategies,
Barclays Global Investors
Lars Hagenbuch is a strategist in the Alpha Management Group, responsible for product development and marketing of BGI's fund-of-hedge-fund products. Lars joined BGI in 2001 as a strategist working in the Global Market Strategies Group, focusing on global asset allocation products. Prior to joining BGI, Lars was a partner in a quantitative asset management firm in Cape Town, South Africa, and has also spent two and a half years working as a quantitative portfolio manager for Southern Life Asset Management in Cape Town and four years as an asset consultant for Old Mutual South Africa.
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 Mr Rafael Hurtado Coll,
Fund Manager,
SOGEVAL (Grupo Banco Popular)
Miguel Colombás, Deputy Managing Director of Sogeval, joined the company in 1994 and is Chief Investment Officer. Sogeval manage Eurovalor Mutual Funds, commercialized by Banco Popular Group amount $14 billion in 67 Funds. Miguel has a B.S. in Quantitative Economics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and received a Master of Quantitative Finance from Escuela de Finanzas Aplicadas (AFI).
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 Mr Mark Knapen,
Sales & Marketing Manager,
Citco Bank Nederland
Mark, having obtained a degree in Accounting and Economics at the Higher School of Economics in Amsterdam, has spent the last decade working in the funds business, specialising in alternative investment products. He initially worked with an internationally operating tax and accounting firm. In 1994, joining Citco Fund Services Curaçao, one of the leading hedge fund administrators of the world, he served as an account manager responsible for some famous hedge funds. Having moved into a trading and relationship management role in Amsterdam in 1998, he assumed responsibility for the trading desk within Citco Bank Nederland N.V. a specialist broker/custodian for alternative investment products and mutual funds. Since 2002, Mark has managed the sales and marketing efforts of Citco Bank Nederland N.V.
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 Mr José Antonio López Jiménez,
Head of Lyxor Spain,
Lyxor Asset Management
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 Mr Jesús Mardomingo,
Partner,
Cuatrecasas
Partner. Banking and Financial Institutions
Madrid Office
Specialist in banking law. Has broad experience as a legal advisor to credit and financial entities and investment services companies. His areas of specialization include the distribution of financial products using alternative channels, e-banking, venture capital, collective investment institutions, derivative financial instruments, bank trading and investment services companies.
Bachelor of Laws Universidad Complutense, Madrid and member of the Madrid bar association. Master in Real Estate Companies by the Architecture High School of Madrid. He is a lecturer at the ICAM, Instituto de Empresa, Financial Studies Fundation, ICADE. Author of several collective books related to his sector. Regular collaborator in the financial press.
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Ángel Martínez-Aldama,
Managing Director, Asociación de Instituciones de Inversión Colectiva y Fondos de Pensiones,
Inverco
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 Mr José Miguel Maté,
Chief Executive Officer,
Tressis, A.V.
Certified European Financial Analyst, Licenciado en Derecho y Diplomado en Ciencias Empresariales por ICADE. Hasta mayo de 2000 fue Director General de BSN BANIF. Experiencia en Marketing, Productos, Análisis y Área Comercial. Comenzó su carrera como analista de inversiones en Banco Banif en el año 1988. Ha desempeñado los cargos de Director de Análisis, Director de Innovación Financiera, Director de Productos, Director Comercial y Director de Marketing y Productos en Banco Banif, BSN Banca Privada y por último, hasta mayo de 2000 en BSN BANIF.
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 Ms Amanada McCraken,
Director,
Turnstone Asset Management
Amanda McCracken is a Director of Turnstone Asset Management. She is head of the multi-manager team responsible for advising the Turnstone European Fund and allocating to hedge fund managers. Amanda is an Associate of the Institute of Investment Management and Research (AIIMR) and has 10 years experience of analysing and managing multi-manager funds. Initially trained as a performance analyst in Frank Russells’ European consulting department, she then spent 3 years at Greig Middleton Asset Management where she managed both the Unit Trust Management Service and the Offshore Portfolio service. She joined Old Mutual International in August 1998 as Associate Director responsible for the investment management of Elite, OMI’s offshore funds of funds service. Amanda went on to join the multi-manager team at EFG Private Bank, before joining Appleton International in July 2000. While at Appleton she was promoted to CEO and was responsible for managing the Condor European Fund from launch in February 2001 until August 2003, before joining Turnstone Asset Management at its inception in August 2003.
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 Mr Sergio Miguez,
Chief Executive Officer Alternative Investments-Hedge Funds,
BanSabadell Inversión
Sergio Miguez, Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, is currently CIO in charge of Hedge Fund investments at BanSabadell Inversión SGIIC.
Previously he was Managing Director at Atlántico Fondos SGIIC, the mutual fund management company of former Banco Atlántico.
Before that, he worked for the Banco Popular Group, where he took the responsibility as CIO for the Equity investments at Sogeval SGIIC. He started his professional career working for Siemens Finance department both in Germany and Spain.
He has a 5 year track-record in Hedge Fund investing and currently coordinates the Senior Management Program in “Hedge Funds and Alternative Investments” from Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles (IEB), exclusive provider for CAIA education in Spain.
Sergio Miguez holds Business Administration & Law Degrees from ICADE University in Madrid.
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Louay Mikdashi,
Senior Portfolio Manager,
Optimal Alternative Investments
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Mr Miguel Mora Santesmases,
Senior Manager Financial Services,
KPMG
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Mattia Nocera,
Chief Executive Officer,
Belgrave Capital Management
Mattia Nocera, Chief Executive Officer of Belgrave Capital Management Ltd. Established in 1994 Belgrave Capital Management, is a London based Investment Manager regulated by the FSA. BCM specialises in the research and selection of talented investment advisors and in the management of Alternative Investment Strategies. BCM is part of the Banca del Ceresio Group, a Lugano based Swiss Bank focused on Asset Management for private and institutional clients. With over 40 years of experience, this Group is considered to be one of the oldest and most respected investors in the field of Hedge Funds. It acts as the Investment Manager for a number of Multimanager Hedge Funds and advises a number of segregated institutional portfolios and other Multimanager Hedge Funds.
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 Dª Soledad Núñez Ramos,
General Director of the Treasury and Financial Policy,
Ministerio de Economía y Hacienda
Having graduated in economics from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Dña Soledad Núñez has developed an illustrious career in the financial sector. At present she acts as General Director of the Treasury and Financial Policy in the Ministry of Economy.
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 Ramon Olleros,
Partner,
BBVA & Partners
Ramón Olleros, socio responsable de la labor de relaciones con inversores así como desarrollo de negocio. Ramón, posee una dilatada experiencia en el ámbito de gestión y comercial, con más de trece años de experiencia en el sector financiero. Los últimos diez en Morgan Stanley, siendo responsable del equipo de mercado de capitales para Mid-market y red de oficinas hasta la fecha. Con anterioridad fue gestor de renta variable durante siete años en el grupo. Habiendo formado parte de los equipos de gestión en Madrid y en Nueva York.
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Ramon Olleros,
Partner,
BBVA & Partners
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 Mr Enrique Pardo,
Director of Alternative Investment,
Ahorro Corporacion Gestion S.G.I.I.C.
Enrique Pardo, CFA is currently a Director for Alternative Investments at Ahorro Corporacion Gestion in Madrid. He has a broad experience in financial markets as a trader on Fixed Income and Derivatives. Previous to join Ahorro Corporacion, he managed the fixed income book at proprietary trading desk in BBVA. Previously he worked for Santander Investment in Madrid and BBVA in New York, where he was involved in US and Latin America local markets.
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 Mr José Manuel Pérez-Jofre Santesmases,
Chief Investment Officer,
Mutuactivos S.G.I.I.C.
Dirección de los departamentos de Renta Fija, y Riesgos (5 personas) y Renta Variable,(4 personas)
Miembro del comité de inversiones del grupo
Gestión / Supervisión de 12 fondos de inversión, y distintas carteras del grupo
Diseño de nuevos productos / estrategias de gestión.
Patrimonio bajo gestión: 3.000 mill€
Anteriormente: Director de Estrategia y Renta Fija
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 Ivan Poza,
Harcourt Investment Consulting
Ivan Poza: Managing Partner Harcourt Investments SGIIC, SA. Graduated in 1991 BBA Finance and MBA Harvard University. Started professional career in corporate finance in Mexico and New York and thereafter accumulated more than 12 years experience in Structured Investment Products industry. Country Head and/or responsible of different areas in business development and distribution of structured investment products in fixed income, equity, investment funds and alternative investments at following companies: Santander Financial Products, KBC Financial Products and NIBC Petercam Derivatives.
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Michele Ragazzi,
Fund Manager,
Giano Capital
- Michele Ragazzi, Fund Manager of Giano Capital, a long/short european equities hedge fund started in November 1994, that has achieved a compound ROR of 17.31% as of January 2007. In 2003 Giano Capital received the EuroHedge Award for the best long/short european fund. Newman Ragazzi & Partners LLP is the investment manager of the Fund.
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 Mr Sebastián Redondo,
Chief Investment Officer,
Gesmadrid, S.G.I.I.C., S.A.
Sebastián is currently responsable for the investments division of Gesmadrid, the asset management arm of Grupo Caja Madrid. His professional career has been completely dedicated to the world of finance both in Banco Atlántico (today Banco de Sabadell) and in Caja Madrid.
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 Mr Alfonso Roa,
Partner,
Tecnocapital
Alfonso Roa is currently Partner at Tecnocapital and President of the committee of certification and accreditation for EFPA Spain. Prior to this he acted as President of the Board for Atlantico Fondos SGIIC. Alfonso graduated from the university of Barcelona and is also co-author of the book Fondos Hedge: Conceptos y Estrategias. Ed. Pirámide.
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Simon Ruddick,
Chief Executive Officer,
Albourne Partners
- Simon Ruddick, is Managing Director & Co-founder of Albourne Partners Ltd. Established in 1994 Albourne Partners is one of the world’s most prestigious hedge fund advisor. Albourne’s clients have over US$150bn invested in hedge funds and these investments are spread amongst over 1,200 funds. However Albourne does not run fund-of-funds itself. Albourne is also very well-known in the industry for its educational and networking events like it is the case of The Albourne Village - a virtual hedge fund community with nearly 45,000 residents, which is a free and independent website for all involved in the alternative investment business.
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 Mr Kyril Saxe-Coburg,
Principal,
GLG Partners
Prior to joining GLG Partners, Mr Saxe-Coburg spent 10 years at Lehman Brothers Corporate Finance and Mergers and Acquisitions areas, firstly in New York and subsequently in London. During his period in London, Mr Saxe-Coburg specialised in M&A transactions for South European clients. Since 1997 Mr Saxe-Coburg joined GLG with main responsability in Spanish and Portuguese markets. During his early days at GLG he was a pioneer in introduction of absolute return Long-Only strategies to spanish investors, and has had ongoing conversations with investors and regulators on the merits of Hedge Funds. At present he is a Principal in Asset Allocation Group and jointly responsible for the management of the GLG Multistrategy Fund, a fund of GLG Funds.Kyril holds a BA degree (Cum Laude), in Physics from Princeton University.
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 Mr Rafael Serrano,
Managing Director,
Focus Investment Group
Rafael is currently Managing Director of Focus Investment Group in Europe, where he is responsible for both advisory and investor relations as well as the pre-selection of single managers. Today Focus manages over 1 billion USD of assets for a diversified range of clients worldwide. The firm has also seeded a number of the top performing single strategy funds for the last 14years. Rafael joined the company in London in September 2001, and has developed and implemented a comprehensive sales and strategic plan for the group. Through his deep understanding of the international investors'
community and the driving forces of fund investing, he has been able to expand Focus to reach global distribution, demonstrate the breadth of the group's alternative investment products to both private and institutional clients and increase significantly assets under management. Rafael has a Postgraduate Certificate in Finance and Investment Portfolio from London Business School, a Diploma in Business and Management from Oxford Brookes University and a First Class Bachelor and Master of Arts with honours from University of Madrid's Faculty of Law.
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 Amar Sil,
Managing Director & Co-Portfolio Manager,
Focus Investment Group
Mr. Sil is a Managing Director and Co-Portfolio Manager of multi-strategy portfolios in Focus Investment Group and is responsible for manager selection, portfolio construction and risk management. He is a member of the Asset Management and the Investment Committees. Prior to joining Focus, he was a Director and Senior Risk Manager for Mortgages and Fixed Income Derivatives at Solomon Smith Barney. Prior to that he was a Senior Consultant at Capital Market Risk Advisors, and before that, he managed the Short Term Opportunity Fund, an Equity/Futures Long/Short hedge fund for 2 years as a Principal/Portfolio Manager under ADKAP, LLC. Mr. Sil traded interest rate and mortgage derivatives for 5 years for Nomura Securities’ swaps desk and has a Ph.D from Columbia University.
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Augusto Siljestrom,
Head of Market and Distribution,
Altitude Investments - BBVA Gestion de Activos y Banca Privada
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Mr Rajiv Sobti,
Portfolio Manager,
Nayan Capital Fund - Próxima Alfa Investments*
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 Mr Massimo Talia,
Managing Director,
Fortis Prime Fund Solutions
Massimo Talia, 40 years old, graduated in economics at the Università Bocconi in Milan, joined Fortis Prime Fund Solutions as Managing Director in 2004, after a seven years experience within BNP Paribas as securities lending trader. He built and he’s Managing Director of the Italian Branch of Prime Fund Solutions, where he developed the fund administration, custody and financing solutions for Italian based alternative asset management industry. He is now also responsible for the business development of Fortis Prime Fund Solutions in Spain.
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 Dª Inmaculada Vadillo Muñoz,
Chief Investment Officer,
ALTAE Banco Privado - Grupo Caja Madrid
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 Ms Monica Vidal,
Partner,
Nmas1 Gestion Alternativa
Monica Vidal is Managing Partner of Nmás1 Gestión Alternativa, a division of Nmás1 group specialized in building hedge funds portfolios. Prior to this, Ms Vidal was founding partner and Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Value Management (UK) LLP an FSA Investment Company specialized in alternative investment products. Ms. Vidal has been managing money for several family offices since June 1996, through a vehicle named Gestinvest. She has direct investment experience in all major international equity, fixed income and convertible bond markets and direct investment experience into hedge funds. From June 1995 to June 1996 she worked at Banque du Louvre in Paris and before that she managed proprietary portfolios in emerging markets for Banesto. She started her career at Banco Santander as an analyst in the emerging markets group. Ms Vidal passed the Securities and Financial Authorities Regulatory and Markets exam in September 2002. She followed the investment management program at the London Business School in 2003 and graduated In Economics in 1992 from CUNEF, Madrid.
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Mr Lionel Welch,
Executive Director,
Morgan Stanley Prime Brokerage
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Jorge Yzaguirre Scharefhausen,
Director Renta Variable,
Bolsas y Mercados Españoles
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 Jorge Yzaguirrre Scharfhausen,
Director Renta Variable,
Bolsas Y Mercardos Españoles
Jorge Yzaguirre Scharfhausen
Ph.D. in Economics and Business Administration- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Master’s Degree in Financial Management and Investment Analysis- Universidad Complutense de
Madrid Associate Professor in International Finance and Spanish Financial System- Universidad Carlos III
Member of the Faculty of IEB-Options and Futures Institute (Master’s Degree in Financial Markets),
CEU (Master’s Degree in Portfolio Management), Universidad de La Coruña and Instituto de Empresa
(Postgraduate Programme in Portfolio Management).
Co-author, together with Prof. Pablo Fernández, of the book IBEX 35: Análisis e Investigaciones,
Editorial EUNSA. Author of several articles in specialised sector publications.
Head of Equities Unit of Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME). Market Supervision Director of
Sociedad de Bolsas, the company that manages the Spanish electronic equity market (SIBE).
Coordinator of the Spanish Stock Exchanges’ Trading and Supervision Commission. Member of
Bolsas y Mercados Españoles’ Coordination Committee. Chairman of the FTSE Latibex Index
Committee.
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Heidi Zatlukal,
Managing Director, Prime Brokerage,
Morgan Stanley
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Guillermo Zunzunegui,
Partner,
Altex Partners SL
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