Christophe de Dardel is the Executive Director responsible for Unigestion's Private Equity Investments.  He previously worked in Europe and the USA for Société Générale de Surveillance and more recently as head of Swisscom's venture capital activities.

Olivier Lemarois, CEO of Riskdata since 2000, is a recognised authority on risk management for Hedge Funds investors, speaking globally and consulting leading Fund Management firms on the practical implementation of portfofio risk applications. After 4 years in the French public administration, he joined in 1993 the Vivendi Group where he was in charge of the energy business development.

Agustin Sevilla, Chief Investment Officer of AXA Rosenberg Investment Management (Europe), oversees the investment process for all portfolios invested in the European markets. Agustin originally joined AXA Rosenberg in 1989 as director of portfolio management for Japanese equity accounts. He left in 1995 to join Chancellor LGT Asset Management (now Invesco), New York, as director, global quantitative equity research. In 2000, he rejoined AXA Rosenberg and moved to Tokyo as Chief Investment Officer and Chief Executive Officer of AXA Rosenberg Investment Management (Japan).

Fons Lute, Chief Investment Officer of Blue Sky Group, the pension service provider of the KLM pension funds in the Netherlands. Fons Lute started working in financial markets in 1984 as a portfolio manager for real estate and private loans after which he moved to Pensioenfonds Hoogovens as an economist and combined this with, first, equity portfolio management and later fixed income portfolio management. In 1993 he became a deputy director of investments at Delta Lloyd Insurance Company in Amsterdam, responsible for asset allocation for segregated funds. In 1997 he went to Fortis Investments Management in Utrecht as a senior portfolio manager focusing on asset allocation after which he joined  the Blue Sky Group as head of the Investment Strategy Research department.

Jean François Lepetit spent most of his career at Banque INDOSUEZ from 1969 to 1996 in charge of money and capital markets and investment banking activities and became Vice Chairman and CEO in 1994. He joined the Banque Nationale de Paris in 1997 where he was appointed Advisor to the Chairman of the Board, and Chairman of the groups Market Risk Committee. He left the BNP at the beginning of 2000 in order to focus on his regulatory activities. In November 2003 he retired and became an Associate Professor at EDHEC business school; he is Chairman of the EDHEC Risk en Asset Management Research Centre Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Board of BNP PARIBAS.

Nicolas Marque is Deputy Head of Structured Products Sales for Europe at BNP Paribas. After a first experience in BNP Milan, He was appointed in 2001 as Equity Derivatives Sales on the French Market. In 2005, he became head of Structured Product Sales for French and Belgian Institutional clients. He is now heading the European Sales teams based in Paris.

Louis Chaillet, is Senior Researcher at ABP. His research specialisation is in Risk and ALM. He joined ABP Investments in 2003 and has been Senior Controller and Global Risk Manager for ABP. Louis has a 22 year experience in the investment profession. Before joining ABP he was head of investments at the Doctors pension fund. He has previously worked as head of research, and head of institutional asset management. 

 
COMPANIES

EDHEC makes use of its strong company ties to form an outstanding final module, in terms of quality, rhythm and professional contact.  The guest lecturers involved in this intense final module include directors from the following companies:

UNIGESTION
One of Europe's leading players in alternative investment management and alternative management of investments

AXA ROSENBERG GROUP
Founded in 1985, AXA Rosenberg is an investment specialist in regional and global equities with US$120 billion* in assets under management across a diversified global client base.  

ABP INVESTMENT
ABP is the pension fund of participants in service of the Dutch government and the educational sector with 2.6 million participants. It invests close to € 209 billion.  

BLUE SKY GROUP
Blue Sky Group manages € 12 billion of pension assets for six separate pension funds.   

FORTIS INVESTMENTS
As the asset manager of Fortis, Fortis Investments is a multi-centre, multi-product asset management company  and has EUR 121 billion of assets under management.

BNP PARIBAS
Rated Aa2 by Moody's, AA by Standard & Poor's, leads Euro Zone banks in terms of profit and market capitalization and is an equity derivatives pioneer. Many of the most sophisticated equity or fund derivatives structured products in issuance are currently engineered and marketed by BNP Paribas teams.