London School of EconomicsSU | Alternative Investments Conference2008
- Speakers:
- Private Equity:
- David Blitzer, The Blackstone Group
- Marc Rowan, Apollo Management
- Lord Clive Hollick, KKR
- Sir Ronald Cohen, Portland Capital
- Alex Dibelius, Goldman Sachs Germany
- Arif Naqvi, Abraaj Capital
- Colin Taylor, DLJ Merchant Banking
- Andrew Cowley, Macquarie
- Brian Dickie, Investcorp
- Conor Kehoe, McKinsey
- Robert Ramsauer, The Blackstone Group
- Michael Abraham, UBS Financial Sponsors
- John Sinik, UBS Financing
- Jon Mills, KPMG AIU
- Vincenzo Morelli, TPG Capital
- Bastian Lueken, TPG Capital
- Heino Meerkatt, The Boston Consulting Group
- Veronica John
- Brian Phillips, Greenhill Capital Partners Europe
- Michael Goold, Ashridge SMC
- Prof. Viral Acharya, LBS
- Charlie Green, Candover, PE foundation
- J.C. van den Branden, Bain & Company
- Simon Walker, BVCA
- Hedge Funds:
- Randall Dillard, Liongate Capital Management
- Anthony Clake, Marshall Wace
- Daoud Zekrya, Marshall Wace
- Paul Harvey, GLG Partners
- Stanley Fink, Man Group plc
- Adam Glinsman, Lansdowne Partners
- Guy Hurley, Merrill Lynch
- Appu Mundassery, Highland Capital
- Morten Spenner, IAM
- Alon Avner, Sankaty Advisors
- Lara Sevanot, UBP
- Terry Mellish, UBP
- Thomas Deinet, Oliver Wyman
- Jeff Biss, Société Générale
- Clive Emery, Société Générale
- Mark Yallop, ICAP
- Nikhil Mankodi, Pine River Capital
- Steven Drobny, Drobny Global Advisors
- Prof. M. Choudhry, London Metropolitan
- Stefan Pollmann, SemperMacro Capital LLP
- Savvas Savouri, QuantMetriks Research
- Chairs:
- Sir Andrew Large, Hedge Fund Working Group
- Sir Geoffrey Owen, Financial Times
- Martin Arnold, Financial Times
- Paul Mullins, Boston Consulting Group
- Neil Wilson, Hedge Fund Intelligence
- Howard Davies, LSE
- Prof. Ron Anderson, LSE
- Prof. Danny Quah, LSE
Alon Avner is Executive Vice President at Sankaty Advisors, responsible for the European Media, Telecoms and Cable portfolio. Sankaty Advisors, a division of Bain Capital acts as a debt focused hedge fund and has offices in Boston, Chicago and London. Sankaty Advisors manages $25 billion in assets and invests across the entire capital structure of companies (from equity to senior debt).
Before Joining Sankaty Advisors, Alon worked for Bain & Company as a manager in the Telecoms and Private Equity practices. Prior to that, Alon worked for seven years in the high tech and telecoms industries in operational and commercial roles.
Alon obtained an MBA from INSEAD Business School in 1999 and a BSc. in Industrial Engineering from the Tel Aviv University.
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