Speakers at Seminar 'Capital Introduction Private Markets' with Walking Dinner

Boris Harmsen is Managing Director, Head of Origination, Europe at Pemberton. Prior to joining Pemberton in 2019, Harmsen was at Deutsche Industriebank AG, between 2015 and 2019, where he headed the Benelux leveraged finance and sponsor coverage activities. He has over 15 years’ experience in the Benelux loan, credit and private equity market, including an investment manager role at Egeria, a Dutch private equity firm, and positions at Deutsche Bank and ABN AMRO. Harmsen graduated from the University of Groningen in The Netherlands with a Master of Law.

Koen Ronda is Head of Private Markets Investments at IBS Capital Allies. He is responsible for fund investments, direct co-investments and direct secondary deals in private equity, private debt and infrastructure. IBS has several funds of funds in private markets and, under the IBS Vantage Point strategy, a Co-investment Fund and a Secondary Fund. Before Ronda took the helm of the Private Markets Investments platform in 2019, he was Portfolio Manager in the listed investment team at IBS.

Marieke van Kamp is Head of Private Markets at NN Group. As Head of Private Markets she is responsible for the real estate, private equity, infrastructure equity, mortgages and private loans allocations of NN’s investment portfolio. Van Kamp has a Master’s degree in Real Estate Management and in Sustainable Development.

Niamh Whooley is Managing Director and Head of Responsible Investing at Pemberton. She is responsible for driving the firm’s continued growth trajectory as an responsible investing pioneer in the alternative credit direct lending space. Whooley brings over 17 years of experience and leadership in responsible investing, where she has been dedicated to developing end-to-end ESG (environmental social governance) investment solutions across asset classes, ranging from sustainability-focused investment research and integration to commercial messaging and delivery. Prior to joining Pemberton, Whooley was Global Head of Fixed Income ESG at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM). Her role centred on working closely with analysts, economists and portfolio teams to define the intersection of material ESG factors and fundamental investing within corporate, emerging market and sovereign debt. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Whooley was a Senior Vice President at PIMCO, where as Head of the ESG Desk she served on the firm’s CIO-chaired ESG Executive Leadership Committee. Before that she was Director, ESG Equity Investment Research at Societe Generale for more than 6 years, while she began her responsible investing career at Fidelity International in 2005. Whooley received her MBA from University College Dublin (UCD) and her Bachelor of Arts from University College Cork (UCC).

Raman Rajagopal is a Senior Client Portfolio Manager dedicated to Invesco’s global private credit group, which includes capabilities across broadly syndicated loans, CLO’s, direct lending and distressed credit & special situations. Mr. Rajagopal joined Invesco in 2016. With Invesco, he has held roles focusing on private markets asset classes as well as in corporate strategy. Mr. Rajagopal was previously a management consultant with Accenture, where he concentrated on wealth and asset management companies. Prior to Accenture, he worked in asset management roles with Oppenheimer and Morgan Stanley. He began his career as a corporate attorney with Paul Hastings LLP, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Rajagopal earned a BS degree with university honors from Carnegie Mellon University and a JD from the University of Southern California Law School.