Agenda

of the Swiss Private Equity Conference, February 8th, 2013

Time
8:00 - 8:45Registration & Breakfast
8.45 - 8.55Opening of the Conference
Bernd Pfister
(Chairman SECA & MD Paros Capital)
8.55 - 9:30Opening Keynote
Andrea Bonomi
(Senior Partner Investindustrial)
9:30 - 10:00Networking Break
10:00 - 11:00
Deal and Market Review Switzerland

Tobias Valk (Mod.)
(Partner KPMG)
Frank Becker
(Partner Invision)
Guy Semmens
(Partner Argos Soditic)
Andreas Ziegler
(Partner Zurmont Madison)
Marc Erni
(Investment Director
Equistone)
Markus Weber
(MD & Co-Head Mid-Market Advisory Team Switzerland UBS)
Latest Breakthroughs in PE-research

Stefan Morkötter (Mod.)
(Professor University of St. Gallen)
Peter Cornelius
(Head Research AlpInvest)
Florin Vasvari
(Professor London Business
School)
François Degeorge
(Professor of Finance Swiss Finance Institute University of Lugano)
Christian Diller
(Partner & Co-founder
Montana Capital Partners)
Ivan Herger
(Director Capital Dynamics)
Investor's Perspective - Finding the Right GP

John Cook (Mod.)
(Chairman Rock Lake)
Oliver Schumann
(MD Capital
Dynamics)
Søren Andersen
(Partner ATP-PEP)
Helen Steers
(Partner Pantheon)
Nicolas von der Schulenburg
(MD Portfolio Advisors)
Christian Hinze
(Head PE EMEA BlackRock)
11:00 - 11:30Networking Break
11:30 - 12:30
Investment Opportunities in Latin America


Cate Ambrose (Mod.)
(President and Executive
Director LAVCA)
Scott Voss
(MD HarbourVest)
Fernando Borges
(Vice-Chairman ABVCAP & MD The Carlyle Group)
Francisco Alvarez-Demalde
(Founder and Partner Riverwood Capital)
Francisco Roque de Pinho
(CEO UCG Investments)
Secondary PE - Ways to Increase Liquidity


Nicolas Lanel (Mod.)
(MD & Head European Secondary Advisory UBS)
Guy Rico
(Partner Paul Capital)
Vincent Gombault
(Global Head of Secondaries AXA Private Equity)
François Aguerre
(Partner Coller Capital)
Augustin Duhamel
(Managing Partner 17Capital)
Richard Nairn
(Director & Secondary Specialist F&C Investments)
Developments in Debt Financing and Distressed Investing

William van Eesteren (Mod.)
(MD Wilshire)
Ansgar Zwick
(MD Houlihan Lokey)
Christian Fritsch
(Partner Anchorage Capital)
Alexander von Preysing
(Head Issuer Services
Deutsche Börse AG)
Till Spillmann
(Partner Bär & Karrer)
12:30 - 13:30Lunch
13:30 - 14:30Lunch Keynote
Hari Sven Krishnan
(Head Lifestyle Commerce, COO, Seven Ventures GmbH)
14:30 - 15:00Networking Break
15:00 - 16:00
Private Equity - Future Challenges


Lars Niggemann (Mod.)
(Executive Director LGT Capital Partners)
Jan Petzel
(MD Goldman Sachs)
Andrew Musters
(Global Head of Private Equity
Robeco and SAM)
Jan Masek
(Head of Corporate Finance and
M&A - Switzerland J.P. Morgan)
Torsten Vogt
(Partner Permira)
Operational Excellence - How to Leverage Alpha


Andreas Demmel (Mod.)
(Director Aztec Group)
Joerg Dreisow
(Partner Waterland)
Nils Stoesser
(Partner Arle)
Daniel Flaig
(Partner Capvis)
Oliver Roll
(Partner Prof. Roll & Pastuch – Management Consultants)
Middle Market - Ways to Achieve Competitive Advantage

Daniel Wiegand (Mod.)
(Partner Hengeler Mueller)
Xavier Robert
(Partner Bridgepoint)
André Perwas
(Director 3i)
Rogier Engelsma
(Partner Gilde)
Thorsten Gohlke
(MD Gohlke Family Equity)
16:00 - 16:30Networking Break
16:30 - 17:15Closing Keynote
Gabriele Cipparrone
(Partner APAX Partners)
17:15 - 18:00Cocktail Reception

 

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