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Brahm Cramer Co-Chief Investment Officer—Real Estate Group AllianceBernstein Brahm Cramer is the Co-Chief Investment Officer of AllianceBernstein’s Real Estate Group. Prior to joining AllianceBernstein, Mr Cramer was a partner at Goldman Sachs and served as the Co-Head of the firm’s Real Estate Principal Investment Area. He co-chaired the Whitehall investment committees and also served on Goldman Sachs’ firmwide risk committee. The Whitehall Funds included $18bn in fund equity across more than a dozen funds with a total cost of real estate assets under management, across more than 20 countries, in excess of US$100bn. Other strategies included origination and acquisition of mezzanine debt, core plus acquisitions and investment in developing markets. Mr Cramer also had oversight for Goldman Sachs’ balance sheet real estate positions. Having formerly served as Chief Financial Officer of the Whitehall Funds, Mr Cramer has relationships with lenders both in the US and around the world. His experience in real estate debt and equity acquisitions dates back to Resolution Trust Corporation auctions in the early 1990s, and as a real estate investment banker advising on restructuring transactions in the mid-1990s. In 1996, he relocated to Paris and was a founding architect of Goldman Sachs’ European franchise for acquiring distressed banks, non-performing loans and real estate that also included the construction of one of the European market’s leading real estate asset management platforms. Mr Cramer holds a BCom (Hons) from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Thompson Dean Co-Managing Partner and Co-CEO Avista Capital Patners Thompson Dean is Co-Managing Partner and Co-CEO of Avista Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm with over US$5 billion under management and offices in New York, Houston and London. Founded in 2005, Avista’s strategy is to make controlling or influential minority investments in growth-oriented energy, healthcare, communications & media, industrials, and consumer businesses. Through its team of seasoned investment professionals and industry experts, Avista seeks to partner with exceptional management teams to invest in and add value to well-positioned businesses. Prior to co-founding Avista Capital Partners in 2005, Mr Dean led one of the largest and most consistently successful private equity franchises in the world, DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, for 10 years. Mr. Dean served as Co-Managing Partner of DLJMB beginning in 1995 and was Chairman of the Investment Committees of DLJMB I, DLJMB II, DLJMB III and DLJ Growth Capital Partners through December 2007. Mr Dean currently serves on the boards of ConvaTec, IWCO Direct Holdings, Sidewinder Drilling, Zest Anchors, and VWR International. He formerly served as the Chairman of the Board of Nycomed, Arcade, DeCrane Aircraft, Mueller and Von Hoffmann. He also formerly served on the boards of American Ref-Fuel, Argyle Television, BioPartners, Charles River Labs, Evergreen Media, Merrill, Safilo and Visant, among others. Mr Dean is a trustee of Choate Rosemary Hall and The Eaglebrook School. He is Former Chairman of the Special Projects Committee of Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital and served as a member of the College Foundation Board of the University of Virginia. In addition, he serves on various committees of the Boys Club of New York, the Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association and the Museum of the City of New York. Michael Levy Managing Director, Global Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing Michael Levy is the Global Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI), Morgan Stanley’s real estate investment management group. MSREI pursues opportunistic and core real estate investment strategies on a global basis on behalf of leading institutional and individual investors. His current responsibilities include oversight of the group’s financial, operating, regulatory and reporting activities as well as portfolio management for MSREF VII, a global opportunistic fund. He is chairman of MSREI’s valuation committee and a senior member of the investment and risk committees. Mr Levy also leads the capital markets effort for the firm’s broader merchant banking business with investment strategies across multiple sectors. Since joining Morgan Stanley in 1998, Mr Levy has worked with the firm’s clients
across a broad range of investment, financing, advisory and capital markets
activities. Most recently he was co-head of the firm’s US real estate investment
banking practice, until 2008.
Bhagesh Malde Senior Managing Director, Global Co-Head of Private Equity and Real Estate State Street Bhagesh Malde is the global Co-Head of the private equity and real estate fund servicing business at State Street. Both the private equity and real estate are respectively the leading fund administration services businesses in the world, and form part of the Alternative Investment Solutions group at State Street. State Street provides a world-class offering for private equity and real estate fund sponsors and limited partners with a dedicated team of around 1,000 professionals from locations in North America, Europe and Asia. Mr Malde was formerly the founder and head of JP Morgan’s Hedge Fund Services business. Previously, he worked at Citigroup where he held senior positions in corporate and investment banking in Europe and North America. Mr Malde began his career in 1987 at the investment bank, Samuel Montagu, which today is part of HSBC. Paul O'Dowd U.S. Editor MandateWire Paul O’Dowd is the US Editor of MandateWire, a position he has held for nearly three years. In this role he oversees a team that tracks institutional trends and introduces business leads to investment managers. Before joining MandateWire, he was a senior reporter for FundFire where he covered pension funds, investment consultants, hedge funds and investment managers. Prior to that he worked at Euromoney Institutional Investor Alex Pigliucci Global Managing Director, Wealth and Asset Management Services Accenture Alex Pigliucci is the Global Managing Director of Accenture Wealth and Asset Management Services. In this role, Mr Pigliucci is responsible for developing new products and offerings that serve the wealth and asset management industry and defining the go-tomarket strategy. Mr Pigliucci has extensive experience working with investment banks, investment managers and leading global wealth managers to develop and implement transformational programmes that increase revenue and efficiencies. Mr Pigliucci joined Accenture in 1995. During the past 17 years, he has held various leadership roles within the company’s financial services practice both in the US and Europe. |
