2012 Keynote Speakers Included:

Mario sits on Hamilton Lane’s Investment Committee. He is responsible for the firm’s strategic direction and oversees the development of the firm’s management structure and process. Mario also plays a significant role in providing client services to the firm’s numerous clients and in marketing the firm’s products and services.

Joseph P. Landy is based in New York and has been with the firm since 1985. His principal areas of investment focus have been information technology, Internet applications and infrastructure and communications applications. Mr. Landy holds a B.S. in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from The Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. He serves as a director of AmRest and Bausch & Lomb.

William E. Macaulay co-founded First Reserve Corporation in 1983. With over US$23 billion of raised capital since inception, First Reserve is a premier energy and natural resources industry investor. Prior to this, Mr. Macaulay was a co-founder of Meridien Capital Company, a private equity buyout firm. From 1972 to 1982, Mr. Macaulay was with Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., where he served as Director of Corporate Finance with responsibility for managing Oppenheimer's buyout business. He also served as a General Partner and member of the Management Committee, as well as President of Oppenheimer Energy Corporation.

Marvin Zonis has written extensively on globalisation, digital technologies, emerging markets, Middle Eastern politics, the oil industry, Russia, and U.S. foreign policy. He is the former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. At Chicago Booth, Zonis continues to teach courses on International Political Economy and Leadership. He was the first professor at the Business School to teach a course on the effects of digital technologies on global business. He also consults to corporations and professional asset management firms throughout the world, helping them to identify, assess, and manage their political risks in the changing global environment. His writings have been published in numerous journals. His books include The Kimchi Matters: Global Business and Local Politics in a Crisis Driven World, The Eastern European Opportunity, Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah, Khomeini and the Islamic Republic of Iran, and The Political Elite of Iran.

Bob Geldof is incredibly well informed, not just about African famines and aid organisations, but also about London and Washington politics, global communications and business. After a series of hits with his band, The Boomtown Rats, including two UK number 1 singles, Geldof emerged as one of the most well known pop personalities of his era. After starring in the film of Pink Floyd's The Wall, he turned his attention to the dreadful famine that was plaguing Ethiopia in 1984. By 1992 Bob Geldof had established himself as a highly astute businessman with his co-ownership of the television production house Planet 24, and he has since been involved with the launch of several successful business ventures. At the forefront of Geldof’s public activities in July 2005 were the Live 8 concerts which took place in London, Paris, Philadelphia, Rome and Berlin. A sixth concert was organised on Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium four days later. In addition to receiving many accolades, Bob has now been nominated seven times in succession for the Nobel Peace Award.

Wouter Pelser is Chief Investment Officer and Director Fiduciary Management at Mn Services. As Director of Fiduciary Management, he is responsible for strategic advice, portfolio construction and relationship management. He has held this role since the 1st of January 2011. Prior to this, he was responsible for the asset management department. Wouter joined Mn Services in 2001. The assets under management of Mn Services are euro 70 billion. Before joining Mn Services, he worked at a pension fund where he was responsible as Deputy Director for asset management and pension affairs.

Mustafa Abdel-Wadood is a member of the Board of Directors and Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of Abraaj Capital. In his capacity as CEO of Abraaj Capital Ltd., he oversees the company’s investment activities. Mr. Abdel-Wadood has 20 years of experience in the field of investment management, corporate finance and business development throughout the Middle East region and beyond. Prior to Abraaj Capital, Mr. Abdel-Wadood was at the regional investment bank EFG-Hermes with his last position there as CEO in the United Arab Emirates, overseeing the bank’s expansion in the lower Gulf.

Mr.Davidson co-founded Silver Lake in 1999. He has been an active advisor to and investor in the technology industries for more than 25 years. Prior to Silver Lake, Mr. Davidson was a Managing Director at Hambrecht & Quist, a technology-focused investment bank and venture capital firm (now part of JP Mogan Chase & Co., "H&Q"). Prior to H&Q. Mr. Davidson was a corporate-securities attorney for Pillsbury. Madison & Sutro. Mr. Davidson serves on the boards of Flextronics International Ltd. and SMART Modular Technologies (WWH), Inc.

Robert S. (“Steve”) Miller joined as Chairman of MidOcean Partners in 2009. Mr. Miller is currently Chairman of insurance conglomerate AIG, and recently served as Chairman and CEO of auto parts giant Delphi Corporation (2005-2009). He has also held top leadership posts at many companies including Federal Mogul, Bethlehem Steel, Waste Management, and Morrison Knudson. Mr. Miller began his career in 1968 at Ford Motor Company and after more than a decade there joined Chrysler Corporation where he worked for 13 years, eventually serving as Vice Chairman under Lee Iacocca. Mr. Miller led the financial negotiations with 400 bank lenders and the Federal government, which resulted in the Loan Guarantee Act bailout package in 1980 that saved Chrysler.

Dwight Poler co-heads Bain Capital’s Private Equity business in Europe. Bain Capital is one of the world’s leading private alternative asset management firms with $66 billion in assets and 10 offices globally, including London and Munich. Prior to joining Bain Capital in 1994, Dwight worked at Bain & Company, and in M&A at Morgan Stanley.

James (“Jim”) Coulter is a Founding Partner of TPG Capital, L.P., one of the world’s largest private equity firms, managing in excess of $48 billion in assets in more than 35 countries. TPG is based in San Francisco and Fort Worth and has 14 offices in 10 countries around the world. Prior to cofounding TPG in 1992, Mr. Coulter began his career at Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. In 1986, Mr. Coulter joined Keystone Inc., a private equity firm formerly known as the Robert M. Bass Group.

New Mountain currently manages over $8.5 billion in partnership commitments,with a strategy that emphasises intensive fundamental research,proactive pursuit of the most attractive “defensive growth” sectors, and a proven ability to add value and build businesses post-investment. Prior to founding New Mountain, Mr. Klinsky was co-founder of Goldman Sachs & Co.’s Leveraged Buyout Group (1981-1984).He joined Forstmann Little & Co. in 1984 before leaving to found New Mountain in June 1999. Mr. Klinsky’s tenure at Forstmann Little coincided with a period of exceptional investment success for that firm, generating over $6 billion of gains on investments made in the 1990 – June 1999 time period without one principal loss.

David co-founded the firm in 1987. Since then, Carlyle has grown into a firm managing more than $150 billion from 36 offices around the world. From 1977-1981, during the Carter Administration, David was Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. After his White House service and before co-founding Carlyle, he practiced law in Washington with Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge (now Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw Pittman).

In 1990, Leon founded Apollo Management, L.P., a global alternative asset manager, with a proven track record of successful private equity, distressed debt and mezzanine investing. The firm has over $40 billion in assets under management. From 1977 to 1990, Mr. Black worked at Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated. He serves on the boards of directors of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., and the general partner of AP Alternative Assets.

Scott Sperling is Co-President of one of the United States leading buyout funds with over $22 billion under management. Mr. Sperling’s current and prior directorships include Clear Channel Communications, Thermo Fisher Corp., Warner Music Group, Fisher Scientific, Experian, PriCelluar, Houghton Mifflin, The Learning Company ProSiebenSat.1 and several private companies

Prior to Oaktree, Howard was with the TCW Group where from 1985 – 1995 he led the groups responsible for investments in distressed debt, high yield bonds and convertible securities. He was also Chief Investment Officer for Domestic Fixed Income at TCW. Previously, Howard was with Citicorp Investment Management, where he was Vice President and senior portfolio manager for convertible and high yield securities.

Guy is Terra Firma’s Founder, and sits on the General Partners’ boards. He started his career with Goldman Sachs International where he went on to become Head of Eurobond Trading and then Head of Goldman Sachs’ Global Asset Structuring Group. Guy left Goldman’s in 1994 to establish the Principal Finance Group (PFG) at Nomura International plc which acquired 15 businesses with an aggregate enterprise value of €20 billion. Guy led the spin out of PFG to form Terra Firma in 2002.

USS is the principal pension fund for the UK university sector with in excess of 250,000 members and approximately £32 billion in assets as of March 2011. USS has targeted a 20% allocation of total assets into alternatives and currently has approximately £5 billion invested across private equity, infrastructure and hedge funds. Mike has overall responsibility for the Alternatives programme and is Chairman of the Alternatives Investment Committee. He is a member of the Asset Allocation Committee and the Management Committee for the London Investment Office of USS. Prior to joining USS, Mike spent the majority of his career at Shell Pensions Management Services Limited.

Josh Lerner’s position is a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management Areas. Much of his research focuses on the structure and role of venture capital and private equity organisations. (This research is collected in three books, The Venture Capital Cycle, The Money of Invention, and the recent Boulevard of Broken Dreams.) He founded, raised funding for, and organises two groups at the National Bureau of Economic Research: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy. In recent years his course, "Venture Capital and Private Equity" has consistently been one of the largest elective MBA courses at Harvard Business School. He also teaches a doctoral course on entrepreneurship and in the Owners-Presidents-Managers Program, and organises an annual executive course on private equity in Boston and Beijing. He has led an international team of scholars in a multi-year study of the economic impact of private equity for the World Economic Forum. He is the winner of the 2010 Global Entrepreneurship Research Award.

Jon Moulton was formerly Managing Partner of Alchemy, a UK-based private equity firm, which invested over £2 billion with an emphasis on dealing with troubled companies and distressed debt. He is a Chartered Accountant, a CF and Fellow of the Institute for Turnaround Professionals. Jon previously worked with Citicorp Venture Capital in New York and London, Permira and Apax. He is a trustee of the UK Stem Cell Foundation and an active angel investor. He is non-executive Chairman of FinnCap, the stockbroker.

Baring Vostok Capital Partners is the largest private equity firm focused on Russia and the CIS. Baring Vostok's funds currently own 20 businesses with combined turnover of approximately $1.3 billion and operations primarily in the media, banking, and oil & gas industries. The firm is presently investing its fourth fund with total capital of $1.5 billion. Mr Calvey is the Chairman of the Investment Committee for all of Baring Vostok's funds and is also a member of the Investment Committees of affiliated Baring funds in China and India.

Mr. Kojima is also Co-Chairman of the PEG’s Investment Committee. The PEG manages over $24 billion across a variety of private equity strategies, including primary commitments, co-investments, and secondary market investments.