Advisory Board

Most recently, Ms. Bhatia served as the United Nations’ Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director for UN Women, the flagship entity in the United Nations system charged with advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment globally. In that role, she led external stakeholder relations with both public and private sector partners, fundraising, communications, strategy planning, as well as finance and HR.

As a technology-enabled credit fund manager with a global reach and 12 years of experience, we are committed to advancing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives, and we believe that this new addition to our team will help us further our goals.

Filippo has the responsibility to streamline the Generali Insurance’s portfolio, with a description and definition of the investment strategy on all asset classes. With more than 35 years of experience in principal and real assets investing, Filippo’s key skills include infrastructure/real asset debt & equity investments, Institutional Investor and implementation with international and board directorship experience. Filippo graduated in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan.

APG Asset Management NV. Senior Portfolio Manager Structured Credit with 21 years of investment experience. He is responsible for managing the European ABS/MBS portfolios and cooperates with the Alternative Credits team on overlapping strategies. Prior to joining APG AM in 2006, he worked at Faxtor Securities as a distressed debt Analyst/Portfolio Manager and subsequently as a Portfolio Manager responsible for various structured finance funds. Chris earned a master degree in Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam / Univerista Commerciale Luigi Bocconi-Milano, Italy.

APG Asset Management NV. Senior Portfolio Manager Alternative Credits with 14 years of investment experience. Next to being responsible for analysis and execution of (external) investment mandates, Pavel is the lead of digitalization and portfolio monitoring platform. In his previous role as a Fund Controller at APG, Pavel was responsible for portfolio management analytics of APG’s global Infrastructure and Real Estate equity platforms. As a founding member of ILPA’s Reporting Standards Advisory Council, Pavel contributes to multiple industry-wide initiatives in the field of reporting and digitalization.

Giuseppe is the founder of Method Investments & Advisory Ltd. Prior to establishing Method in 2001, Giuseppe was co-founder and majority shareholder of Banor in Milan. He also established and developed Banor’s family office service. In 1988, Giuseppe joined Goldman Sachs to provide EU Institutions with a research-based brokerage service on equities. In 1993, he moved to Goldman Sachs’ Wealth Management Division. In 1997, he moved to London, to head the Italian Wealth Management Team of Goldman Sachs, and was appointed Executive Director and portfolio manager of the European Wealth Management team.

Massimo currently serves as a Professor of Practice in Investment Banking at Università Bocconi and at SDA Bocconi School of Management. He has held this responsiblity since 2010. Previously Massimo was the Country Head of Goldman Sachs in Italy. He joined Goldman Sachs as a Managing Director in 2006 and was named Partner in 2010. Prior to joining the firm, Massimo was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan in London from 1993 to 2006. From 1988 to 1993, he worked at Credito Italiano. He earned a Bachelor’s degree from Università Bocconi in 1988. From 2019 he is Full Professor of Practice in Finance at the Department of Finance of Bocconi University.

Ron has been serving as Senior Advisor at a pension consulting firm, River and Mercantile, for the last 2 years. Prior to that, Ron was the VP, Chief Investment Officer, Pension Investments at Alcoa Corp, where he spent 10 years, overseeing the investment of $12 billion in pension assets. Prior to that, he was Senior Director (CIO) of Pension Investments & Director of Financial Risk Management at a large pharmaceutical company, where he spent 13 years. Earlier in his career, he worked for Emcor Risk Management Consulting, Estee Lauder & Unilever in various treasury financial risk management roles.

Steve is a leading expert in the Quant community. Co-Founder of OxFORD Asset Management, where he served for nearly 20 years. He started his career in BP in 1981 before joining Bank of America. Steve later joined CSFB and subsequently served as Managing Director, Proprietary Trading at Deutsche Bank.

Vijay is CEO of Navik Consulting, which advises hedge funds at varying stages of their life cycle on trading, risk management and strategy globally. He has over 25 years of experience in the hedge fund industry. Previously, he was the Chief Risk Officer of Capula Investment Management, one of the largest global hedge funds. Prior to that, he was a portfolio manager at several other prominent hedge funds. He started his career in finance in at Deutsche Bank before making the transition to hedge funds. Vijay holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Paul is senior advisor to the COO & the CCO of Fasanara Capital ltd. Paul is a seasoned Executive Director, COO/CFO, Chartered Accountant and Treasurer with over 25 years’ experience in the financial services sector, covering Finance, Operations, Treasury, Compliance, IT infrastructure and other support areas. A strong grounding in the development of best-in-class infrastructure, representing to investors in operational due diligence.