Highlights / Key Themes


  • Only the top speakers: Over 220 of the world's most influential private equity leaders came together for discussion and, at times, heated debate on the current position of the industry and future opportunties and challenges.
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  • John Mickelthwait, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist got the show going with entertaining and, at times very controversial comments about  the global economic and political outlook for the coming decade.
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  • The innovative e-networker, My SuperReturn International enabled attendees to view the full delegate list in advance of the event and allowed delegates to load their profiles, make introductions and set up meetings ahead of the conference. Delegates arranged a diary of meetings around the event to do business and maximise the value of every minute spent in Berlin.
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  • 16 funds put themselves forward for the delegate QuickFire Showcase, in which each had 90 seconds to pitch their fund, without the use of financial and performance data, to the SuperReturn audience and the expert LP panel who gave informal feedback and picked the winners. A variety of methods methods were used to attract attention, including free handouts to the judges and audience. This year fo the first time, the showcase volunteers were grouped into Emerging Managers, and Specialist Funds.
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  • The audience interactive polling session was a sell-out. The audience response was compared with that for similar questions asked at SuperInvestor in November, and demonstrated that industry sentiment had noticeably improved over those three months.
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  • The ever popular German Summit and Mid Market Summit brought together hundreds involved in these markets, and the new Secondaries Summit provided a single day bringing together the leading players who debated the challenges and reality of opportunities in the red hot market.  
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Leon Black
Leon Black Founding Partner APOLLO MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL
David Rubenstein
David Rubenstein Founder & Managing Director THE CARLYLE GROUP
Jon Moulton
Jon Moulton Chairman BETTER CAPITAL
George Anson
George Anson Managing Director HARBOURVEST PARTNERS (UK)
Jonny Maxwell
Jonny Maxwell Industry Veteran
Guy Hands
Guy Hands CEO TERRA FIRMA CAPITAL PARTNERS
Scott Sperling
Scott Sperling Co President THOMAS H LEE PARTNERS
Thomas Pütter
Thomas Pütter Chief Executive ALLIANZ CAPITAL PARTNERS
Helen Steers
Helen Steers Partner PANTHEON VENTURES
Olivier Sarkozy
Olivier Sarkozy Managing Director & Head of Global Financial Services Group THE CARLYLE GROUP
Wim Borgdorff
Wim Borgdorff Managing Partner & Head of Fund Investments ALPINVEST
Richard A. Friedman
Richard A. Friedman Head of Merchant Banking GOLDMAN SACHS
Erol Uzumeri
Erol Uzumeri SVP, Head of Private Equity TEACHERS' PRIVATE CAPITAL
Greg Brenneman
Greg Brenneman Chairman CCMP CAPITAL ADVISORS
Jos van Gisbergen
Jos van Gisbergen Senior Fund Manager, Private Equity & Infrastructure MN SERVICES
John P. Grayken
John P. Grayken Managing Partner LONE STAR
£1100
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