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The 2nd Annual Event28 - 30 June 2010Intercontinental Hotel, Geneva
Telephone Hotline: +44 (0) 20 7017 7200
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Highlights / Key Themes


  • 100+ Private Equity Emerging Markets Speakers Including Regional Experts From Africa, Middle East, Latin America, Asia, CEE, Russia & CIS

    • Hear the best in the industry as they explain which markets are going to become the most important in the next decade and where the possibilities lie in key sectors like agriculture, clean tech & infrastructure. The only opportunity to hear the people who shaped the last thirty years of private equity give their predictions on the future engines of growth.

    • David Rubenstein, Co-Founder & Managing Director, THE CARLYLE GROUP
    • Josh Lerner, Jacob H Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
    • Miriam Schmitter, Managing Director, CAMBRIDGE ASSOCIATES
    • Drew Guff, Co-Founder SIGULAR GUFF & Managing Director, RUSSIA PARTNERS
    • Anil Ahuja, Managing Director & Head of Asia, 3i
    • Jesus Zamora, Founder, ENFOCA
    • Mr Rod Evison, Managing Director, Africa and Latin America, CDC
    • Sev Vettivetpillai, CEO, AUREOS
    • John Zhao, CEO, HONY CAPITAL
    • Archana Hingorani, CEO, IL&FS INVESTMENT MANAGERS
    • Juan Delgado-Moreira, Managing Director, HAMILTON LANE
    • Gordon Hargraves, Partner, RHO FUND INVESTORS
    • Mr Henry J Owainati, Co-Head of Private Equity Management, GUTMANN BANK GROUP
    • Álvaro Gonçalves, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, STRATUS GROUP

  • Insights From 50+ LPs Including THE BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION, THE GUARDIAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, FMO, NORFUND & IFC

    • Gain access to the biggest and the best investors in the industry in one place, and hear them discuss their future investment decisions, manager selection and their thoughts on the next key countries and sectors. Speakers Include:

    • Volkert Doeksen, CEO, ALPINVEST PARTNERS
    • Yvonne Bakkum, Director of Private Equity, FMO
    • Elizabeth Lee Marinelli,     Head of Financial Institutions & Funds, NORFUND
    • Anne Fossemalle, Director of Private Equity, EUROPEAN BANK OF RECONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT
    • Rod Evison, Managing Director Africa & Latin America, CDC
    • David Turner, Managing Director & Head of Private Equity, GUARDIAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA
    • David G Pierce, CEO, SQUADRON CAPITAL
    • Hany Assad, Chief Investment Officer, IFC
    • Koonal Gandhi, Director Investment Funds Department, OPIC

  • NEW! Opportunities In Private Equity Within CEE, Russia & CIS Summit

    • Explore a diverse region which is brimming with potential as valuations remain low and competition scarce. Learn more about the rising stars of the region in our dedicated sessions on Poland & Turkey, discover where the deal flow in Russia is coming from and which sectors are generating the best returns. It’s never been a better time to discover the potential of this fascinating region.

  • Investor Summit Hear From Over 20 LPs During This Special Focus Day

    • The ever popular Investor Summit brings you an entire day dedicated solely to the opinions and thoughts of investors who are re-balancing their portfolios right now in favour of emerging markets. Hear about their strategies for manager selection, where they see future returns coming from and their shifting priorities in a new age of private equity.

  • More Networking Opportunities Than Any Other Emerging Markets Conference

    • SuperReturn Emerging Markets provides more opportunities to meet the people that you want to meet than any other Emerging Markets conference. Relax at our informal evening cocktail reception, discuss your interests with like-minded LPs at our champagne roundtables or swap business cards at our LP/GP speed networking. Whoever you want to meet, SuperReturn Emerging Markets is the provides the perfect venue.

  • Access The Attendee List & Schedule Meetings Ahead Of The Event

    • MySuperReturnEmergingMarket lets you load your profile and contact delegates and speakers. The online system goes live two weeks before the event, allowing you to maximise your time at the conference and meet the attendees most important to you.

  • Delegate Quickfire Showcase  

    • This is your opportunity to showcase your fund to a panel of LPs in two minutes flat, and get their feedback on your investment strategy and returns potential. A unique chance to simultaneously gain publicity for your fund, impress an audience of LPs and win their backing.

  • Electronic Polling Sessions

    • See what the industry really thinks and participate in the debate with our confidential real time delegate polling sessions, followed by analysis and feedback from industry experts, David Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, THE CARLYLE GROUP and Josh Lerner, Jacob H Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL

  • NEW! Meet The VIP Lunch tables Discuss The Future Of Private Equity With Our Special Guest Speakers

    • World renowned expert, Josh Lerner, Jacob H Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL and Nenad Pacek, Vice President, ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT.

    Nenad Pacek - 29th June 2010
    Josh Lerner - 30th June 2010

  • NEW! Live Debate On Impact Of Environmental Regulation

    • Hear the arguments from Pat Dinnen, Managing Director, SIGULER GUFF, Tom Rotherham, Senior Advisor, UN PRINCIPLES FOR RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT & Ron Steenblick, Senior Trade Policy Analyst, OECD. Then vote in real-time polling to have your say.

  • Truly Global Event With 38 Countries Represented in 2009

    • Last year 250 senior attendees came to Geneva from all over the world, including Kuwait, Vietnam, Peru, Kazakhstan, South Africa, China, India, UAE, Morocco, Egypt, Japan, Slovenia, Brazil & Ukraine - just to mention a few.

  • "A very high quality event - in fact, it is among the best conferences I have attended" Fawzi Jumean, Executive VP, UAE Country Head, AMWAL AL KHALEEJ
  • ‘This was an excellent conference with lots of interesting content and a great networking forum’ Axel Kuehn, Head Of Private Equity Funds Group, AIG INVESTMENTS

Petr Rojicek
Petr Rojicek Partner & CIO ALPHA ASSOCIATES

Petr Rojicek is Partner and Chief Investment Officer at ALPHA Associates, an independent private equity fund-of-funds manager based in Zurich, Switzerland, with USD 2b assets under management. ALPHA Associates builds and manages globally diversified private equity fund portfolios for institutional and private investors, and is also the leading fund-of-funds manager for private equity in Central & Eastern Europe.
Roger Pim
Roger Pim Partner SL CAPITAL PARTNERS LLP

Roger is a Partner at SL Capital Partners (formerly Standard Life Investments Private Equity Limited) which manage in excess €6.3 billion of capital on behalf of 150 clients worldwide. He is responsible for all aspects of private equity investing, sits on 10 European private equity fund advisory boards and has responsibility for a portfolio of direct co-investments. Roger joined Standard Life Investments in 2002, prior to which he worked in M&A and Corporate Finance at Goldman Sachs.
Henry Owainati
Henry Owainati CFA, Managing Director Private Equity GUTMANN BANK GROUP

Henry co-heads private equity for Bank Gutmann.  His alternative investments team manages 48 primary partnership interests, secondaries, and co-investments in buyouts, growth capital, and special situations.  He has experience in principal investing, due diligence of partnerships, and active portfolio monitoring, with additional expertise in emerging markets.  Prior to Bank Gutmann, Henry was with Bank Austria Group and Spectrum Capital Partners. 
Gordon Hargraves
Gordon Hargraves Partner RHO FUND INVESTORS

Gordon Hargraves has been actively investing private equity since 1993. He is a Partner with Rho Fund Investors ("RFI") and has overall responsibility for its activities. RFI is the division of Rho Capital Partners that commits to venture capital and other specialized private equity funds whose strategies afford unique advantages, such as domain expertise, operational expertise or focus on a particularly attractive sector.
Koonal Ghandhi
Koonal Ghandhi Director, Investment Funds Department OPIC

Koonal Gandhi is currently a Director at The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), an agency of the US Federal Government working on private equity transactions across Asia, the Middle East and Africa, Russia and Eastern Europe and Latin America.
Brian Lim
Brian Lim Principal PANTHEON VENTURES

Brian focuses on the sourcing, selection and monitoring of private equity funds in Asia at Pantheon.  He was previously a portfolio director with CDC Group, the emerging markets specialist, where he helped build their Asian portfolio and sat on a number of private equity and other fund advisory boards in the emerging markets. Prior to that, he was with Watson Wyatt where he advised institutional investors on private equity selection and investment strategy.
Patricia Dineen
Patricia Dineen Managing Director SIGULER GUFF

Patricia has responsibility for managing the BRIC Opportunities Funds, focusing on Brazil, Russia, India, China. Prior to joining Siguler Guff in 2004, she was at Cambridge Associates, where she led the emerging markets private equity advisory business.
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