Speakers
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Lucie Majstrova Investment Specialist - Baillie Gifford
Lucie is in investment specialist in the Clients Department and is a member of the Private Companies Team. She joined Baillie Gifford in 2021. Prior to joining the firm, she spent nine years at HSBC Private Banking where she focused on investment advice for private clients. Lucie has an MA in International Economics from IHEID in Geneva.
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Clare Erskine-Murray Client Relationship Director - Baillie Gifford
Clare is a client relationship director with responsibility for a number of UK-based clients, including many charities, foundations and endowments, investing in a range of strategies. Prior to joining Baillie Gifford in 2012, she worked as a European Equity broker at Credit Agricole Cheuvreux and at Cazenove & Co, both in London and New York. Clare graduated BA (Hons) in French from the University of Durham in 1992 and holds a postgraduate diploma from the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.
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Adam Johnson Senior Client Portfolio Manager, Pictet Asset Management
Adam Johnson joined Pictet Asset Management in September 2018 and is a Senior Client Portfolio Manager in the Developed Equities team.
Before joining Pictet, he spent four years at Janus Henderson, where he was a Senior Product Specialist covering a wide range of global equity products and responsible for establishing the Product Specialist team in the London office. Prior to that, Adam worked at Allianz Global Investors as a Product Specialist on the Global Equity team for nearly ten years.
Adam holds a Master of Arts in International Trade and Finance from Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies, South Korea, and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Mandarin and Management Studies from Durham University, UK.
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Kate Rickards Head of UK Institutional, Pictet Asset Management
Kate joined Pictet Asset Management in 2019 with a focus on the UK institutional market covering consultant relations, pension funds and charities and endowments. Kate has been in the industry since 1998 and has held similar roles at Epoch Investment Partners, SKAGEN and Schroders.
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Brad Ross-Williams Investment Director, Securitized Product & Asset-based Finance, Schroders Capital
Bradley Ross-Williams serves as an Investment Director on Schroders Capital's Private Debt & Credit Alternatives product strategist team, bringing more than 22 years of experience in financial services.
After graduating from the University of St. Andrews with and MA (Hons) in Modern Languages, he began his career at Morgan Stanley. He later spent time as a Portfolio Manager at HSBC Alternative Investments and a Senior Alternatives Product Specialist at Natixis Global Asset Management. He then spent several years as a relationship manager in private equity before moving to Haitong Investment Bank where he was responsible for Fund Advisory with a focus on Chinese asset managers.
Brad was a Partner, Head of Investor Relations at the ABS hedge fund East Lodge Capital before most recently joining CQS ABS/ABF team as Senior Investment Specialist.
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Andrew Gnaneswaran CIO, Vivensa Foundation
As Chief Investment Officer, Andy oversees a £180M multi-asset investment portfolio, supporting the Vivensa Foundation in designing and implementing its ‘impact conscious’ investment strategy, across public and private markets, alongside overseeing a £5M social investment portfolio.
Prior to joining Vivensa, Andy worked at several foundations developing blended-finance funds and supporting the roll-out of impact investing strategies. Andy started off his career working at Goldman Sachs in London, before doing a range of international roles including supporting small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Uganda. He holds the ACA qualifications and is passionate about supporting asset owners from the foundation sector and beyond, to consider the impact across every investment, alongside financial risk and return factors.
