Arnault de Torquat, worked 12 Years at Citibank in London and Zurich, Managing Director at Bankers Trust in 1993, Managing Director at Salomon Brothers in London, CEO of Salomon Smith Barney (France) in 1996, and Managing Director at Barclays Capital from 2000. Arnault is graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and holds a master in law of the University of Paris.

Luigi Barzini, started his career at S.G. Warburg & Co in 1978.  He was Director in charge of Credit Suisse First Boston’s investment banking activities in Italy until 1990, and an early participant to the London hedge fund community. He is a graduate “summa cum laude” in Economics at the University of Rome.

 

Abid Majid, Portfolio Manager, worked for at Goldman Sachs in London in Debt Capital Markets, Emerging Markets in the Fixed Income division and then in the Credit Risk Management & Advisory department; he followed this by moving into the buy-side and worked as an investment analyst with Tailwind Advisory & Management and previously as a Portfolio Manager at Harmony Capital Management. Abid graduated in economics from the London School of Economics.

Pascal Dubois-Pelerin, worked for 14 years in London in risk management and derivatives. He first spent 8 years at Bankers Trust (now Deutsche Bank), then 6 years at Barclays Capital, where he was a Managing Director of equity and funds derivatices in charge of trading, arbitrage, exotic and structured products. Pascal graduated in business administration from the Solvay Business School at the Univeristy of Brussels in Belgium.