Should you have any changes, corrections or questions, please contact us at reunions@anderson.ucla.edu, 110 Westwood Plaza He holds an MBA from the Cornell University Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management in New York, USA. She holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland. They are known for both their top 5 distressed fund and top REPE (Real Estate Private Equity) business. Ed Diffendal is Co-Head of Private Infrastructure in the Americas, based in Denver. Adjust your consent in the settings. He is also a Swiss certified public accountant, a CFA charterholder, and passed both levels of the CAIA program. Co-Founder, Member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Client Oversight Committee. He is a member of the board of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce. Andreas Knecht is the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Partners Group, based in Zug. He has 29 years of industry experience and, prior to joining Partners Group, worked for eight years at Goldman Sachs and co-founded an ETH spin-off company in the computational finance space. Luv holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, New York, USA, where he graduated as a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honors Society and was a recipient of the Board of Overseers Fellowship. She has been with Partners Group since 2007 and has 18 years of industry experience. Nick Kuys is part of the Private Infrastructure Asset Management team, based in Sydney. He has 24 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked at Credit Suisse Asset Management. He holds a bachelor's degree in banking and finance from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. He has established and led real estate operating businesses across Europe. Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked at UniCredit Group, L.E.K. Prior to joining Partners Group, Mike worked at GE Capital Real Estate, HVB Real Estate Capital, Erste Bank, Coopers and Lybrand, and Cushman and Wakefield. Managing Director, Client Solutions Americas. He has 32 years of industry experience, having previously worked at UBS as Head Resources Region Central Switzerland. She is admitted to the bar in Malta. Managing Director, Co-Head Private Infrastructure Europe. He is a member of the Global Investment Committee, the Private Equity Direct Leads Investment Committee and Co-Chairman of the Private Equity Direct Co-Investments and Direct Lead Growth Investments in Services Investment Committee. He holds an MBA with distinction from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, Washington, D.C., USA and a B.S. Andreas Baumann is part of the Private Equity Partnership Investments business unit, based in Zug. He is an executive member of Partners Group Holding AGs Board of Directors, based in Zug. Andreas Holzmller is part of the Private Equity Goods and Products business unit, based in Munich. Chris Ip is part of the Operating Directors and Entrepreneurial Governance business unit, based in Singapore. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree in economics from Occidental College. Partner, Head US Private Equity Health and Life. She is a member of the Private Infrastructure and Global Investment Committee. He has been with Partners Group since 2013 and was an independent member of the Board of Directors of Partners Group Holding AG, Chairman of the Americas and a member of the Board's Client Oversight Committee until 2019. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the firm's portfolio company KinderCare. Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked in Leveraged Financed at UniCredit in Munich, London and Milan. Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked at VentureCapital Magazin and Munich Re Group. Oscar Huggare is Co-Head of the European, Middle East and Africa Client Solutions business unit, based in Zug. Prior to joining Partners Group, she was a Senior Partner at Korn Ferry, where she built and led their global Culture Transformation practice. Andre Blanadet (MBA) from Karlsruhe University / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Charles Miller-Jones is part of the Private Equity Services business unit, based in London. He has 20 years of industry experience. He holds a master's degree in finance from the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. He has been with Partners Group since 2007 and has 15 years of industry experience. He is a member of the Private Real Estate Direct Investment Committee. She holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton University, USA, a master's degree in finance from the University of London, UK, and has been a LEED Accredited Professional since 2008. Managing Director, Head Client Solutions Southern Europe, France and Israel. Hal Avidano is Co-Head Private Equity Partnership Investments Americas. Surya Ysebaert is part of the Liquid Loans business unit, based in London. Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked at Guggenheim, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America. Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked at Credit Suisse Financial Services. This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. He has been with Partners Group since 2008 and has 18 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked at Aberdeen Asset Management, Goldentree Asset Management, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and ING. He is a member of the Global Executive Board has 20 years of relevant experience. He is a member of the Global Executive Board, Chairman of the Structured Credit Investment Committee and a member of the Global Liquid Loans Investment Committee. With 22 years of industry experience, he was formerly the Legal Due Diligence Officer, Compliance Officer and Money Laundering Reporting Officer at Sigma Asset Management, a fund of hedge funds manager. Stefan has been with Partners Group since 2002 and has 27 years of industry experience. Partner, Private Equity Partnership Investments. He is a member of the Direct Debt Europe Investment Committee and the Direct Debt Asia Investment Committee. Dr. Cyrill Wipfli is Vice Chairman of Asia and part of the Portfolio Management business unit, based in Zug. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School in Massachusetts, USA. Previously, he worked at MidOcean Partners, Sun Capital Partners and Lazard. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the firm's portfolio companies Civica and SPi Global. Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked at Zurmont Management and SBC Warburg. He is Head of the Group Finance and Corporate Development business department and a member of the Executive Team and Global Executive Board, with 32 years of relevant experience. He has been with Partners Group since 2004 and has 22 years of industry experience. He is a member of the Private Equity Direct Leads Investment Committee and the Private Equity Direct Co-Investments and Direct Lead Growth Investments in Goods and Products Investment Committee as well as the Board of Directors of the firm's portfolio companies Schleich, Foncia and Techem. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the firm's portfolio companies Greenlink and VSB Renewables. Prior to joining Partners Group, he was a Managing Director at Ardian and a founding member of the North American buyout fund, focused on industrial and industrial services investments. He is also admitted to the Swiss bar. He holds a masters degree in finance and accounting from the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland. He has 26 years of industry experience and holds a master's degree in mathematics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland. Trish Halamandaris (MBA), Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this donor honor roll. Prior to joining Partners Group, she was a Partner at CapMan Infra. He is also a Fellow of the International Compliance Association. Benno Lchinger is Co-Head of Private Equity Partnership Investments in Europe, based in London, also serving as a member of the Global Investment Committee, the Private Equity Partnership Investment Committee and the Private Equity Direct Co-Investments and Direct Lead Growth Investments Investment Committees. Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked at PJT Partners, Blackstone, The Thomson Corporation and Bear Stearns. She is a certified FINMA lead auditor, Swiss and Turkish Certified Public Accountant and holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Istanbul, Turkey. Joel Schwartz is Co-Head of the Private Equity Services business unit as well as a member of the Global Investment Committee, the Private Equity Direct Leads Investment Committee, and Co-Chairman of the Private Equity Direct Co-Investments and Direct Lead Growth Investments in Services Investment Committee, based in New York. Additionally, he chairs the International Advisory Council for PG LIFE, the firm's SDG-focused fund series, and leads the development of relationships with key strategic clients in Asia. Recent Posts. Nicholas Hegarty is part of the Client Solutions Americas business unit, based in New York. He has also held the position of Head of Partners Groups Singapore office, being responsible for the firms Asia-Pacific private equity investment activities between 2010 and 2014. Prior to that, he worked at Lazard Ltd in the corporate finance department in London. Marlis Morin is Head of the Client Services business department, based in Singapore, and is a member of the Executive Team and the Global Executive Board. Prior to joining Partners Group, he was the Head of Business Development at NBK Capital Partners, one of the largest private markets firms in the MENA region. He has been with Partners Group since 1999 and has 29 years of industry experience. She has been with Partners Group since 2006 and has 16 years of industry experience. He started his career as a project finance legal counsel at Milbank Tweed in New York. Gordon Brothers appraises, acquires, sells, invests and lends against a wide range of assets. He began his career as a corporate credit analyst, and also served as a lending officer and a high yield investment portfolio manager for Union Bank of Finland (now Nordea Bank) in New York for a ten year period. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in Illinois, USA and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Santa Clara, California, USA. Previously, he was Head of Partners Group's New York office and Co-Head Private Equity Integrated Investments. Before that she led global client relationships in the telecoms and financial services sectors and advanced the firm's talent management practice. They are known for both their top 5 distressed fund and top REPE (Real Estate Private Equity) He started with the firm as a member of the Associate Program and later joined the Corporate Development and Communications team, which he headed from 2014 to 2017. Gordon Bellis.