Seminar 'Capital Introduction Private Markets: can you afford not to invest in Private Markets?', met aansluitend Walking Dinner
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Abigail Dean
Global Head of Strategic Insights, Nuveen Real Assets
Abigail Dean is the Global Head of Strategic Insights for Nuveen Real Assets. In this role she is responsible for the organisation’s global sustainability, proptech and research functions. She is a member of both the Nuveen Real Estate and the Nuveen Real Assets Executive Leadership Team and has spearheaded the integration of sustainability considerations into the investment process. She is also leading the organisation to develop investment guidelines related to physical and transition climate change risk. She previously worked at JLL, as a Director in JLL’s sustainability consulting team, Upstream. Dean sits on several industry committees including the GRESB Standards Committee, chairs the INREV ESG committee and is a Better Buildings Partnership Board Member. -
Alex Neve
Independent Consultant & Interim Management
Alex Neve is an independent consultant focused on business development for alternative strategies (hedge funds, alternative credit, forestry, insurance-linked, impact private equity and real estate) for institutional clients. His firm, Hyferion Asset Management, was established 21 years ago to promote and develop hedge fund strategies. Since then, Neve has built up extensive experience in managing, selecting, designing and promoting a broad range of (alternative) strategies at organisations including APG Asset Management, Univest Company, Robeco and ABN AMRO Asset Management. -
Emaad Sami
Infrastructure Credit, Product & Solutions Director, Schroders Capital
Emaad Sami is Product & Solutions Director Infrastructure Credit bij Schroders Capital sinds januari 2023. Eerder werkte hij voor LCM Partners als Client Solutions Director en was hij bij Citi verantwoordelijk voor de institutionele plaatsing van geselecteerde alternatieve beleggingen in EMEA. -
Erik Jan van Bergen
Managing director Investments, VGZ
Erik Jan van Bergen is Managing Director Investments bij VGZ. Van Bergen is begin 2020 toegetreden tot het asset management-team van VGZ. Het asset management-team van VGZ is verantwoordelijk voor het beheer en de rapportage van de beleggingen van VGZ in Fixed Income & Equities. Verder vervult het team de Treasury-functie en voert het het duurzaam beleggingsbeleid van VGZ uit. Van Bergen is sinds 1991 actief in de institutionele beleggerswereld in verschillende rollen bij NN Investment Partners, Citigroup, ACTIAM en AXA Investment Managers. Hij behaalde een masterdiploma in Econometrie aan Tilburg University. -
Erik Leseman
Independent investment advisor
Erik Leseman is an independent investment advisor. He is currently working as Interim Programme Manager at Achmea. From March 2024 to February 2025, Leseman served as Head of Investment Implementation & Oversight at a.s.r. Vermogensbeheer. Prior to that, he held various management positions at Aegon, Aegon Asset Management and Knab Bank. In 2017 was appointed Head of Investment Management at Aegon Netherlands. Prior to 2005, he worked at ABN AMRO, the Dutch Central Bank (DNB), and the Central Bank of the Netherlands Antilles (BNA). Leseman holds a Master’s degree in Monetary Economics from the University of Groningen and has been a CFA Charterholder since 2004. -
George Nijborg
Head of EU Private Placements & Insured Strategies, Aegon Asset Management
George Nijborg is Head of EU Private Placements & Insured Strategies at Aegon Asset Management. In this role, he leads the team responsible for government guaranteed, insured credit and corporate private placements. Prior to joining the firm, he worked for Goldman Sachs as an executive director in the debt capital markets (DCM) team in London, focusing on the origination and syndication of public, private and structured debt transactions. Before that, he worked as a director in the DCM team of Citigroup, and as an associate in the DCM team of Citigroup, and as an associate in the DCM team of Morgan Stanley in London. Nijborg has been in the industry since 2006 and joined the firm in 2020. He holds a Master’s degree in industrial relations from Warwick Business School. -
Hans de Ruiter
CIO, Pensioenfonds TNO
Hans de Ruiter has been Chief Investment Officer at the TNO Pension Fund since 2012. In addition, he serves as a Board Member of the Achmea Pension Fund, Senior Lecturer in Finance at Nyenrode Business University, and Associate Professor of Finance and Investments at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. -
Koen Ronda
Head of Private Markets Investments, IBS Capital Allies
Koen Ronda is Head of Private Markets Investments at IBS Capital Management. He is responsible for the private markets investments of IBS Fund Management, a division of IBS Capital Allies. Through the IBS Private Markets Platform, clients gain exposure—via IBS fund-of-funds structures—to institutional investments and managers across private equity, private debt, and infrastructure assets. IBS provides this access through fund investments and direct co-investments in collaboration with private equity managers. Previously, Ronda served as Portfolio Manager within the listed equities team at IBS. -
Luc Toren
Senior Fund Manager, Wealth Management Partners
Luc Toren has been a Senior Fund Manager at Wealth Management Partners since 2020. Prior to this, he worked for over six years as a Fund Manager at a.s.r. real estate investment management. Toren studied Business Economics at the University of Amsterdam and obtained his MSc in Real Estate Management & Development from the Eindhoven University of Technology. -
Maciej Tarasiuk
Head of Investments, Economic Infrastructure, Aberdeen Investments
Maciej Tarasiuk is based in the London office overseeing the investment activities of the Economic Infrastructure strategy and is an Investment Committee member. He is also directly involved in the asset management of the Finnish and Polish energy investments across various funds and sits on the respective Board of Directors. Tarasiuk has over 17 years of infrastructure M&A and investing experience, across Macquarie Capital, MAp Airports, OTPP and Amber Infrastructure. He holds a master’s degree in Finance from the University of Cambridge and is a CFA Charterholder. -
Marieke van Kamp
Head of Private Markets, NN Group
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. -
Markus Schaen
Senior Investment Manager Fixed Income
Markus Schaen has been working at MN as Principal Fixed Income from 2008 until May 2025. Previously, he held positions at Maastricht University, Deloitte, Metro AG, Draka Holding, and Koninklijke Wegener NV. He obtained his Master’s degree in Business Economics from Maastricht University, where he also completed the Postgraduate Accountancy programme. In addition, he pursued a Postgraduate degree in Treasury Management at VU Amsterdam and completed the Executive Pensions Programme at Nyenrode Business University. -
Marsha Sinninghe
Fund Manager, a.s.r. real estate
Marsha Sinninghe has been senior fund manager of the ASR Dutch Core Residential Fund at a.s.r. real estate since 2019. In this role, she is responsible for portfolio management, strategy development, investor relations, and capital raising. She is part of the fund management team of the Fund. She has over ten years of experience in real estate investment management and previously held various positions at Syntrus Achmea Real Estate & Finance, including program manager and proposition manager. Sinninghe holds a Master of Science in Real Estate from the University of Groningen and a Master of Real Estate (MRE) from the Amsterdam School of Real Estate (ASRE), where she graduated cum laude. For her graduation research, she focused on impact investing, examining its role in the asset allocation of institutional investors and their preferences and requirements regarding its implementation. -
Menno van den Elsaker
Head of Alternative Credits & Mortgages, APG Asset Management
Menno van den Elsaker is Head of Alternative Credits and Mortgages at APG Asset Management. With investment teams based in Amsterdam and New York, he is responsible for all (internal and external) private and alternative credit investments across Europe and the United States. Operating under a broad investment mandate designed to generate added value over public credit markets, the team invests in strategies such as mortgages, specialty finance, structured credit, direct lending, non-performing loans and distressed debt. He is a member of APG’s Global Strategy & Management Team for Fixed Income and has over twenty years of investment experience. Prior to his current role, Van den Elsaker was responsible for European securitised investments. He graduated in Financial Econometrics from the University of Amsterdam in 2002 and is a CFA Charterholder. -
Michael Neal
Global Chief Investment Officer, Savills IM
Michael Neal is the Global Chief Investment Officer, Savills IM and has held senior positions in real estate for over 25 years. Prior to joining Savills IM, Neal spent over 15 years at Nuveen Real Estate where he held various roles including CIO and Head of Funds Management, EMEA; and CIO, Europe and APAC; Head of UK Investment. Neal has a BSc Honors, in Urban Land Economics from Sheffield Hallam University and is a Chartered Member, RICS. -
Niranjan Sirdeshpande
Global Head of Investments, Catalyst Funds, M&G Investments
Niranjan Sirdeshpande is the Global Head of Investments for the M&G Catalyst Fund and is based in London. The Catalyst Fund manages committed capital and invests in world-leading technology and life-sciences companies that create a positive impact for society and our planet. Niranjan has successfully executed transactions in diverse sectors such as Life-sciences, Deep-tech, Clean Energy, Enterprise SaaS, Fintech/Consumer Credit, Micro Finance, Aircraft Leasing, and Music Royalties, among others. Sirdeshpande also represents M&G on the Board and Investment committees of a number of portfolio companies. -
Ralph Engelchor
Lead Portfolio Manager Impact Investing, Achmea Investment Management
Ralph Engelchor is an impact portfolio manager with a focus on Private Equity including Venture Capital, Private Debt and Infrastructure. He started at his current role at Achmea IM in July 2024. His focus themes are Climate, Health and Equal Opportunities. He has 18 years of experience in asset management, the last 8 of which in impact investing. Engelchor started his career at ABN Amro as an Investment Advisor and then worked for 11 years as a portfolio manager at Kempen Capital Management, the last 5 years as portfolio manager of Kempen's Global Impact Pool. Engelchor is a CFA Charterholder and has completed the CAIA training. -
Scott McClurg
Head of Private Credit, HSBC Asset Management
Scott McClurg is a Chartered Accountant with 25 years’ experience in corporate finance. He has a background spanning Transaction Services, Corporate Finance and industry, having been both on advisory and corporate side as a Finance Director. McClurg was previously Head of the HSBC UK Leverage Finance team where he lead the development of the private credit collaboration between the bank and asset management. in October 2022 he joined Asset Management to undertake the role of, Head of Private Credit. McClurg joined HSBC in 2010 and has held various senior roles across the Corporate bank. McClurg is a Chartered Accountant, trained with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Qualified in 2000.
