Molly is a Principal at Index Ventures, based in London. She focuses on venture and growth investments across enterprise SaaS, consumer subscription, and health-tech. Prior to joining Index, Molly spent four years at Insight Partners in NYC, where she helped lead investments in growth-stage software businesses throughout the US, Europe, and Israel.

Molly holds a degree from Harvard University where she studied the History of Science.

Mark Corbidge, based in London is a Managing Director of Sun European Partners, leading the firm’s European investment strategies. Sun European Partners, LLP is a leading private investment advisory firm, focussed on defensible businesses in growing markets with tangible performance improvement opportunities in the Business Services, Healthcare, Industrial, and Technology sectors.

Mark has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector, having transacted in business services, industrials, TMT and consumer across Europe.

Mark speaks French and German fluently as well as intermediate Dutch and Italian. Mr. Corbidge was awarded his Bachelor of Arts (BA) (Hons) from Middlesex University and from Groupe ESC Reims, France. Mark is a driven dealmaker who enjoys a challenge.

Anne-Sophie is Co-Founder and Deputy CEO at CIAM, a European Event Driven & Activist investment management firm, which she co-founded with Catherine Berjal in 2010. Over the last five years, the funds managed by CIAM have been involved in a number of engaged situations, the most public ones being Club Med and Euro Disney, which each time addressed poor corporate governance practices.

Anne-Sophie has a professional experience of more than twenty years in Finance, amongst which fifteen years in the Hedge Fund industry. Prior to launching CIAM, Anne-Sophie worked eight years at Systeia Capital Management, a Paris based hedge fund manager, subsidiary of Amundi, mainly as a portfolio manager of their Event Driven funds.

Anne-Sophie holds a Master degree in Finance from Rouen Business School (NEOMA).

Michel de Fabiani mainly held executive positions in the energy sector, where he began his career at BP in 1969 and rose to the position of Regional President Europe of the BP Group in 2005 and Vice President of EUROPIA. He is still Independent Director of two entities, Valco and Ebtrans and Founding Chairman and President for Le Cercle Economique Sully.

Anglophile and deeply European Michel was also President of the Franco-British Chamber in 2005 and 2010, of which he is currently Vice-President.

Director of industrial companies and specialist in Corporate Governance, he is also Chairman
of the Policy Committee of ecoDa (The European Confederation of Directors’ Associations) in Brussels and the Chair Nomination and Remuneration Club of IFA (Institut français des administrateurs).

Ertan Enginalev is the founder and CEO of WSD Capital Management, a value-oriented investment firm that commits people, capital, and fortitude to help address the critical issues facing public companies. Founded in 2014, WSD is the first activist investor and the first global hedge fund management firm in Turkey. Mr. Enginalev is known for his unique position in the investment profession built on a distinctive process of developing outstanding assets into outstanding companies through “benevolent hostility”. He has 20 years of experience in the financial markets, with particular emphasis on mergers, acquisitions and special situation equities. Mr. Enginalev received a MBA and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Miami’s School of Business.

Kyle has worked in capital markets for over 17 years led over $75bn of debt and equity transactions globally. Most recently she served as the Global Head of Capital Markets at HIG Capital. She founded the team and led over 60 debt financing transactions globally across their investment strategies including credit, real estate and LBO. Providing strategic advice and co-investment for Corporate Clients, Real Estate focused firms, Private Equity, Insurers, BDCs, REITs, RIAs, Family Offices, Endowments REITs, high growth companies and Banks. Aligned with key stakeholders including CEOs and CFOs, Investment and Asset Management teams. We provide advice and work strategically with our clients to achieve their goals and capital raise.

She has experience in sourcing and financing deal acquisitions and exits across the corporate, and real estate sector. She has work with private and public companies performing several roles including M&A advisor, investor, lender and borrower. Prior to HIG Capital, she has held various roles including at Lloyds Banking Group, Deutsche Bank and Duff & Phelps.

Kyle holds a BA in Political Science and an MBA in finance from Fordham University.

Mr. Haarmann is a Founding Partner of Searchlight, and is jointly responsible for overseeing the Firm’s activities with the two other Founding Partners. Mr. Haarmann serves on various portfolio company boards. Prior to co-founding Searchlight, Mr. Haarmann was a partner of KKR & Co L.P. in London. He serves as a trustee of ArtAngel, Brown University, IntoUniversity, and Surgo Foundation. He graduated from Brown University with BA degrees in International Relations and History and received an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Michael is the Global Head of Corporate Governance within the Sustainability Centre. He is working within BNPP AM since 2008. He is in charge of the implementation of the stewardship policy, which includes voting, engagement and corporate governance analysis. He also contributes to the development and implementation of the Global Sustainable Policy and is a key driver for the firm’s ESG research and integration. He is also member of the Board of Governors of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN).

His wider industry activity includes being a Chair of the “Corporate Governance” committee at the French Association of Asset Managers (AFG) and Chair of the International Corporate Governance Committee at the Council of Institutional Investors (Cii). He is also member of the “Oversight committee” of the Best Practice Principles (BPP) and member of the “Shareholder rights” committee and the “Global Network of Investor Associations ‘GNIA’ committee” at the ICGN.

He graduated from the University of Paris XI (France) and has a master degree of Corporate and business law (2008).

Mr Hufnagel is Partner at Petrus Advisers, a Europe focused long/short hedge fund based in London. He is Co-CIO and Head of Activism focused on investing opportunities across Europe. He has 22 years of experience in the financial industry, 14 of which with Goldman Sachs International where he was a Managing Director in the Private Equity business. Mr Hufnagel received his diploma from EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht and is a CFA charterholder.

Cynthia Jamison, serves on the Board of Directors of Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ:TSCO), a position she has held since 2002, where she is Chairman of the Board, after serving as Lead Director, and Chair of the Audit, Compensation & Corporate Governance Committees. Since 2013, she also serves on the Office Depot Board (NASDAQ: ODP) where she Chairs the Audit Committee and is a member of the Compensation committee. Ms Jamison was elected to serve on the Darden Restaurants Board (NYSE: DRI) in October 2014 as part of a complete Board replacement slate through Starboard Value’s proxy fight; there, she serves as Chair of the Audit Committee as well as serving on the Compensation Committee. In May of 2015 she joined the BigLots, Inc (NYSE: BIG) Board where she sits on the Capital Allocation and Compensation Committees and Chairs the Nominating and Governance Committee. Her previous Board roles includes: Horizon Organic Holdings, Cellu Tissue, Caribe Media and B&G Foods.

Prior to joining True, Rachel worked at Blue Coast Capital, a single family office with a broad portfolio of investments. Having started her career within public equities, Rachel has spent the past 7 years sourcing and executing a number of consumer related growth stage investments in both the UK and US.

Pat McHugh is a Founder and Senior Managing Director of Okapi Partners. He has over 20 years of experience in managing complex solicitations and campaigns. Pat has managed solicitation campaigns related to annual and special meetings (domestically and abroad), M&A solicitations, consent solicitations as well as fixed income-related matters, including numerous tenders and exchanges.

In addition to hundreds of annual and special meeting solicitations, Pat has represented Fortune 500 corporations involved in complex transactions including contested M&A deals, proxy fights and restructurings. He frequently works on contested solicitations where he provides strategy and advice to clients including campaigns on behalf of activist investors as well as providing defensive counsel to corporations that have been targeted by activists.

Prior to establishing Okapi Partners, Pat was a Senior Managing Director of Georgeson Inc. and a member of its Global M&A Advisory team. He received his B.A. in Economics from East Stroudsburg University.

Merrick heads the European Private Equity team within the Private Markets division of Aberdeen Standard Investments (“ASI”), and is based in its Edinburgh and London offices. With European AuM of €8bn, ASI’s private equity activities include making primary commitments, secondary fund investments and co-investments for clients and pooled funds, undertaken by a European team of 25 investment professionals. Merrick sits on the Investment Committee for all European mandates as well as the overall Portfolio Construction & Management Committee, and is responsible for relationship management with a number of key clients.

Merrick is a member of Invest Europe’s Limited Partner Council, an Advisory Board member of numerous funds, and a regular speaker at private equity conferences.

Merrick holds Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of Queensland.

Tristan Nagler joined Aurelius in January 2014 as Managing Director of the firm’s London office and is responsible for sourcing, identifying and executing equity investments across the UK and Ireland. Notable deals recently led by Tristan include complex carve-out acquisitions from GKN, Wincanton Plc, Knauf International GmbH and BT Group Plc.

Tristan started his career with KPMG where he held a variety of roles including the position of Director in the London-based M&A team. In 2010 he joined Investec as a senior banker in the firm’s Growth & Acquisition Finance department, originating and executing a number of UK mid-market debt facilities including company refinances, MBOs and acquisition finance transactions.

Tristan is a Chartered Accountant and holds an Executive MBA in Business Administration from École des Ponts Business School as well as a BA in History from the University of Leeds.

Dan Oates is a partner in Fried Frank’s Corporate Department and Private Equity Practice, resident in the London office. He advises private equity and corporate clients on a wide range of multi-jurisdictional transactions, including acquisitions and leveraged buyouts, disposals, public-to-private transactions and initial public offerings.

Mr. Oates has completed a significant number of transactions on behalf of clients including 3i, Accel KKR, AEA Investors, Apollo Group, Apax Partners, Audax Group, Bain Capital, Barclays Capital, Blackstone, Candover, CCMP Capital, CVC Capital Partners, Dyal Capital, Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital, Goldman Sachs, KKR, Marathon Asset Management, Metalmark Capital, Oaktree Capital Management, Paul Capital, Silver Lake Sumeru, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and Yellow Wood Partners.

Based in London, David Peerless is a Director of Boustead Capital Markets LLP, and is responsible for distribution in the United Kingdom and Europe.

Mr. Peerless has worked in financial services since 2004, primarily focused on China and Asia, initially in equity research – both on the sell-side and buy-side – and latterly in equity sales. During this time, while based in Shanghai, Hong Kong and London, Mr. Peerless has been involved in IPOs of Chinese companies on London’s AIM Market, the Hong Kong and New York Stock Exchange, and NASDAQ.

Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Mr. Peerless has a MA degree in Chinese from Edinburgh University, studied at the Johns Hopkins Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, and was awarded his MBA from Manchester Business School. Mr. Peerless has lived and worked in Greater China for more than a decade. Mr. Peerless is licensed under the Financial Conduct Authority (UK).

Diane Rochereau is an Associate Partner at EY-Parthenon. She is a strategy and transaction professional with over 20 years consulting and corporate experience in the Retail and Consumer Products sector, delivering transformations, due diligences, growth strategies and performance improvement.

Prior to joining EY-Parthenon, Diane has been a Strategy Director and Head of Transformation at Kingfisher plc, and a Principal at Bain & Company. Diane holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a master’s degree in management from HEC Paris.

Mauro is Partner and the Chief Investment Officer at Ambienta. He is among the promoters of Ambienta and joined the firm since its founding. At Ambienta, he has been involved in a number of transactions including Nactarome Group, Lakesight Technologies, IPCleaning, Pibiplast, Tower Light, Envirogen, AICO and Energy Wave. Prior to Ambienta, Mauro spent seven years at SG Capital Europe, a pan-European mid-market buyout fund and five years at Groupe Zodiac. Mauro holds a degree in Business Administration and an MBA from SDA Bocconi School of Management.

Eric Sibbern is senior partner at VERAISON Capital, an independent asset manager based in Zurich, Switzerland investing in publicly listed small- and mid-cap companies, where long-term value can be enhanced through active shareholder engagement.

Eric has more than 15 years of experience in M&A, corporate governance and shareholder engagement. He worked at international law firms in Zurich and New York and as director in the M&A/Corporate Development team at Credit Suisse.

Eric holds a master degree in law from the University of Zurich and a master degree in Banking and Finance from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA).

Mr. Sinclair is a Partner in the Ares Credit Group, where he focuses on European direct lending. Additionally, Mr. Sinclair a member of the Ares Credit Group’s European Direct Lending Investment Committee. Prior to joining Ares in 2007, Mr. Sinclair was an Associate Director in the Financial Sponsors Group at Barclays, where he focused on originating and transacting mid-market leveraged financings. Previously, Mr. Sinclair was part of the Marks & Spencer graduate program, where he focused on finance, undertaking roles in procurement, marketing and corporate finance. Mr. Sinclair holds a diploma from Leicester University in Management and an M.B.A., with merit, from Imperial College London.

Matt Skurbe is a Senior Managing Director and the COO and CFO of CC Capital. Prior to joining CC Capital, he was a Managing Director in Finance and the Treasurer for Blackstone. Matt was also the Chief Operating Officer for Blackstone Liquidity Solutions and a member of the firm’s Valuation and Enterprise Risk Committees. Before joining Blackstone in 2009, he was the Chief Financial Officer for Merrill Lynch Bank & Trust, a multi-billion dollar bank housing several of Merrill Lynch’s consumer lending and banking businesses. Matt was a member of the bank’s Asset Liability and Market Risk, Finance and Product Control, and Credit Committees. Earlier in his career, he spent seven years supporting Merrill Lynch’s Treasury function and had previous roles with Amerada Hess and Arthur Andersen LLP. Matt is a board member and audit committee chairperson for the Association for Financial Professionals, as well as a board member for Project Sunshine and the Children’s Specialized Hospital Foundation. Matt received a B.S. in accounting from Rutgers University, achieved the Certified Public Accountant certification, and is a Certified Treasury Professional

Matthew Turner serves in senior leadership capacities for a number of companies. He has been operating in the financial, healthcare and investment arenas for over 25 years. He has held a number of significant positions including International Head of Global Private Equity at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, managing over $20 billion, designate CEO of Kaupthing Bank overseeing the successful restructuring post the financial collapse in Iceland and was also a senior director at Prudential. He has also served on the Boards of a number of companies in both Europe, US and Asia. Currently he is a director of a number of businesses including Atnahs, DSI, Chevron and IFCO.

Mary Wallace works with IBM clients on what directly affects their customers, employees, business and industry landscape, and what they can do about it – with practical, hands-on real-world delivery for sustainable, scalable, meaningful value. She helps businesses create value from a customer experience – whether that is achieving a sale, connecting processes together to deliver useful services or transforming the business organisation.