Gareth Anderson
Gareth Anderson (M.A. (Cantab), M.Sci. (Cantab), MCSI is a senior investment professional over 17 years of real estate and financial markets experience. Over the course of his real estate career he has advised in excess of £6bn in real estate transactions.
He is currently Head of Strategy and Origination at Keystone Real Estate Partners, where responsibilities include the capital raising for a £100m commercial real estate fund. Earlier in his career, Gareth held Senior Associate Director roles at HSBC Real Estate Advisory as well as DTZ Corporate Finance in London.
Gareth is a guest lecturer on the Judge Business School (University of Cambridge) MBA programme. He also participates in ultra-running.
Keith Arundale
Keith Arundale (MSc, ARCS, DIC, FCA, FCIM, FIoD, FInstP, FRSA) has many years of experience as a professional services marketer having led marketing and business development and the venture capital programme for PwC’sGlobal Technology Industry Group in Europe. He developed thought leadership and marketing programmes for PwC’sventure capital practice across Europe, led business development programmes for both multi-national and fast-growth, venture backed technology companies, directed a central marketing team and championed 20 country marketing teams in Europe. Keith is a Chartered Accountant (FCA) and Chartered Marketer (FCIM) and now specialises in private equity and venture capital university teaching and executive education.
Dr. Robert Bain
Robert Bain is an independent infrastructure investment analyst. A Chartered Civil Engineer, he was a transportation consultant for 15 years working in Asia, Latin America, the USA and Europe for private sector investors and public sector promoters. In 2002 he moved into financial services and was employed as a senior credit analyst with Standard & Poor’s for five years. As a Director in the London-based Infrastructure Finance Ratings practice, he was responsible for credits in the transportation and PPP sectors. Robert’s portfolio covered corporate issuers and structured finance transactions – typically project finance deals and securitisations.
Robert holds a PhD from the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds. His doctoral thesis focused on investor-financed infrastructure projects. He is currently retained by several banks on a freelance basis and runs his own specialist consultancy providing technical and credit-related support services – and project finance training courses – to institutional investors, insurance companies and infrastructure funds.
Dr. Mike Hicks
Dr. Mike Hicks has been involved with private equity for the last 21 years as an LP and a GP, an adviser to business owners, a writer of research reports on the PE/management relationship and, above all, an adviser to PE investors on handling management and organisation issues pre- and post-deal.
He has been involved in hundreds of situations across multiple industries and varying geographies.
Sneha Hiremath
Sneha Hiremath has over 10 years of private equity investor relations and fundraising experience. Currently she heads Ace Advisors, a firm she founded to help private equity firms with their fundraising and investor communications. Earlier in her career, Sneha was a Fund Analyst at Global Private Equity, a placement agent. She then joined Truffle Capital, a leading European player in venture capital, as Head of Investor Relations.
Sneha has an executive diploma in marketing from INSEAD, a Masters in Banking and Finance from the University of Dauphine (Paris IX), and a Master 1 in Management Sciences from the University of Assas(Paris II). Sneha also has AMF certification and Level 1 of the CFA.
Robin Illingworth
Robin Illingworth Robin specialises in commercial due diligence training. He worked for many years in finance and business around the world before moving into the M&A market. He is also a director at Armstrong Transaction Services. Armstrong is the second Commercial Due Diligence practice Robin has led and he has now personally overseen and conducted reviews for over 150 transactions.
Previously he worked for Inchcape and then Coca Cola in South America, specialising in strategic development and mergers & acquisitions. Robin has a degree in banking and international finance from the City University Business School and an MBA from Manchester Business School.
Kapriel Kasbarian
Kapriel Kasbarian is responsible for all aspects of the day to day running of Ascentium Associates. His exposure to private equity is both from an entrepreneurial perspective - Ascentium Associates is backed by private equity investors - as well as that of a private equity service provider (commercial due diligence, and publishing and training services). His keen interest in hedge funds started during his career in financial markets, various research projects and trading activities, where he was able to put hedge fund strategies into practice. Kapriel also designs and delivers our range of management and soft skills training courses. He is a learning and development professional who was previously a strategy consultant at Armstrong Transaction Services where he undertook commercial due diligence and strategy consulting projects for private equity and corporate clients.
Prior to that he was at PEI where he established and ran their training business for 5 years. Prior to setting up the training division, he ran PEI’s specialist book publishing and online database and directory division. Whilst at PEI, he regularly trained his team members on different aspects of private equity. He has also gained strategy consulting and commercial due diligence experience at PMSI and Bain & Co, and financial markets experience at RBS. Earlier in his career he worked in retail audit at MEMRB International in Cyprus and Russia. Kapriel has an MBA from Cass Business School, London and a BA in Management from the University of Hull.
Andre Lanser
Andre Lanser is a consulting trainer as well as a corporate finance practitioner and he has delivered courses around the world in the areas of Credit, Corporate Finance, Valuation and Financial Modelling both for Corporates and Banks. He originally qualified as a Chartered Accountant, completing articles with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He started his career with a subsidiary of Commercial Union, involved in the steel manufacturing industry. His experience ranged from systems implementation, credit assessment of the highly risky construction industry customers, heading up the finance functions to successfully turning the business around and then selling the company through a trade sale.
He later joined Commercial Union in the investment back-office function, reengineering the investment back office and later headed-up a team who implemented a new investment management system for both the back office and the front office. His commercial experience includes restructuring and turning around a Steel Manufacturing operation, consulting to a Pharmaceutical company involved in medical devices for both Government and Private Hospitals and an in depth knowledge of the citrus industry, consulting to South African Airways and extensive work at Hanover Acceptances property company, Dorrington in London.
His career then spanned over 15 years in the Venture Capital and Private Equity arena, where he has gained a vast amount of experience in the corporate analysis, credit analysis, balance sheet structuring and valuation field. Andre is a specialist in developing and training finance related courses, including corporate credit related topics, credit analysis and cash flow analysis with a special focus on the banking sector, derivatives, and financial modeling courses. His training experience spans a period of more than 15 years.
Susan Lawrence
Susan Lawrence has over 25 years of hands-on experience in the commercial real estate field, including the areas of development, acquisitions, dispositions and management. Currently she heads Real Estate Strategies, a firm she founded to provide strategic consulting and transaction services to owners of commercial real estate portfolios. She has served on several real estate advisory boards for the University of Central Florida Foundation, and currently serves as an advisor on the $1 billion development efforts of one of the nation’s largest public school boards.
In addition to holding an undergraduate degree in Financial Management, she obtained a Masters Degree in Business from the Crummer School of Finance at Rollins College. Susan earned the CCIM designation following completion of the real estate education and performance requirements in commercial real estate analysis, taxation, modeling, negotiation and marketing. Susan served as an associate VP with Merrill Lynch Commercial Real Estate where she was recognized as a national top producer.
Dr. Roger Mills
Professor Dr Roger Mills PhD, MSc, BTech (Hons), Cert Ed, MColl, FCMA, FCIS, FCT. Roger Mills is Emeritus Professor of Finance and Accounting at Henley Business School, University of Reading and he has a unique blend of academic and business experience.
From his academic studies, all undertaken part-time whilst working, he has a PhD in Finance, a Masters in Management Studies (MBA) and a first degree in Psychology, Sociology and Economics. During the professional part of his career he qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant, Company Secretary and Corporate Treasurer. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, and the Association of Corporate Treasurers.
Currently, he is the CEO of his own group of companies and an advisor to a number of organisations at board level, including one Middle East bank. He has consulted to numerous companies and organisations in many countries around the World. He has worked extensively with banks and financial institutions, primarily in France, UK and Scandinavia, in corporate and investment banking (including private equity).
As a private equity investor Roger was a founding member of a group that secured a successful AIM listing on the London Stock Exchange for a dotcom company in the late 1990’s. This listed company went on to acquire a number of businesses to refocus its activities before being acquired by a private equity player. Roger has written numerous articles and both authored and co-authored many books, the most recent co-written with Dr Peter Clark, Masterminding the Deal(August 2013).