Speakers
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Mark Parry Principal, Head of Manager Research Team, Barnett Waddingham LLP
Mark leads our Manager Research Team. Working closely with our consultants his team provides clients with the resources to help them make investment decisions that are aligned to their investment strategy.
A senior investment professional with over 20 years’ experience as a multi asset and fixed interest fund manager, Mark has the knowledge and expertise to assist clients with the information and support they need.
Mark is part of our research leadership team, so has a firm-wide view of research across different areas. This enables him to identify and develop research opportunities that are likely to benefit our clients.
Mark has wide ranging experience of strategic and tactical asset allocation, fund and manager selection, portfolio construction and risk management, along with macroeconomic and asset class research.
He graduated with a degree in Economics and Computing and has held a variety of fund manager roles in fixed interest and multi asset at various investment and asset management companies.
Mark has worked with a range of pension funds, charities, family offices, and sovereign and supranational entities, to manage risk and return, and implement new strategies.
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Max Weitzmann Investment Director, Octopus Investments
Max in an Investment Director on the care homes team. He joined Octopus Real Estate in 2018, having previously worked at Cushman & Wakefield, where he qualified as a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 2013. Max’s role is split between origination and executing new acquisitions for the Fund, as well as ongoing asset management and fundraising.
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Sian Roberts Institutional Sales Director, Octopus Investments
Sian leads the UK institutional sales function. Sian joined Octopus Investments from BlackRock, where she spent more than six years fundraising for the group’s Alternatives platform, most recently as a director in the Multi-Alternatives Product Strategy Team. Her responsibilities included designing innovative solutions for investors, client engagement and fundraising. Prior to this Sian spent time in the Investment Solutions Team at Partners Group, as an Investment Manager at Railpen, and in the multi-asset team at Schroders. She began her career at JPMorgan.
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Jason Bermont-Penn Director, UK Distribution, TD Global Investment Solutions
Jason is director for distribution in the UK for TD GIS, covering both public and private markets, having specialised in private markets and infrastructure in his prior role.
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Carl Elia Client Portfolio Manager, TD Global Investment Solutions
Carl is a senior member of the Infrastructure Investments team, responsible for investment strategy and execution, operations and client servicing for the TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund. He has experience across infrastructure investing, private equity and investment banking. He was previously Vice President at a private equity firm and Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions at a major Global alternative asset manager. Post-MBA, Carl developed his career as an Associate in investment banking at various securities firms. Pre-MBA, he gained experience in business development at a multi-unit franchise operator. Carl holds a B. Comm. from the Toronto Metropolitan University and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
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Gautam Sahdev Portfolio Manager, Gemcorp Capital Management
Gautam is a portfolio manager for an affiliate of the Advisor. He is responsible for private credit investments and is a member of the Investment Committee. He has spent most of his career in Emerging Markets structured credit trading at Deutsche Bank. He was based in both London and Dubai, responsible for financing solutions for corporate clients. Prior to that, he worked in the UK mid-market Leveraged Finance team at HSBC. He holds a BSE in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management. He has 16 years of EM experience and has been at Gemcorp since 2016.
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Pranav Khamar Portfolio Manager, Gemcorp Capital Management
Pranav is a portfolio manager for an affiliate of the Advisor. Pranav is a member of the Investment Committee. He has recently been focused on working out a number of stressed portfolio assets following the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as developing the firm’s clean energy strategy. Prior to joining Gemcorp, he spent most of his career at RBS in both London and Dubai executing structured finance transactions across Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Pranav has an MA in Economics from the University of Cambridge. He has 13 years of EM experience and has been at Gemcorp since 2014.
