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
Simon Walker is Chief Executive of the BVCA – The British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association.
Between 2003 and 2007 he worked at Reuters, first as director of corporate communications, and subsequently became director of corporate communications and marketing. Before joining Reuters, he was communications secretary to HM The Queen at Buckingham Palace. He was previously director of corporate affairs at British Airways and a non-executive director of Comair Ltd (South Africa). He was a special adviser in the prime minister’s Policy Unit at 10 Downing Street (1996-97).
He was previously a partner at Brunswick, the public relations group, and director of European public affairs for Hill & Knowlton in Brussels. He was born in South Africa, and has worked as a journalist and consultant in New Zealand, Belgium and the UK.
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He is a member of the Better Regulation Commission, a member of the UK-Jamestown Committee and a trustee of the New Zealand-UK Link Foundation.
He read PPE at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was president of the Oxford Union. He was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. He is married with two children.
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