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

Stefan Pollmann is a Founding Partner and the Chief Operating Officer of SemperMacro Capital LLP, the Investment Manger of the SemperMacro Master Fund Limited, a discretionary Global Macro fund led by Christian Siva-Jothy, former head of proprietary trading at Goldman Sachs.
Prior to joining SemperMacro, Stefan worked at Rubicon Fund Management LLP, another Global Macro fund. From 1995-2000 he was a trader on Salomon Brothers’ Foreign Exchange desk in both London and New York where he helped build their emerging market local currency franchise business. Stefan briefly worked at Goldman Sachs in 1994 during a summer internship in their London based Fixed Income group. Stefan started his career in Salomon Brothers’ Corporate Finance department in 1991 in Los Angeles.
Stefan received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1995 and a B.A. in Economics from UCLA in 1991.
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