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The 2017 Private Equity Symposium

Private Equity in the US and Europe: Innovation and Disruption. 29-30 June 2017, London, UK

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A year after the UK’s shock vote to leave the EU, our flagship event for the global private equity and venture capital industry put the spotlight on the risks and opportunities facing private investors in two of the world’s biggest markets.

Sanjay Patel, Head of Europe, Apollo Management International, and Hanneke Smits, CEO, Newton Investment Management, joined a stellar line-up of practitioners and leading academics to debate and discuss a range of topics at the 2017 event in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

Watch interviews with some of our industry speakers

"The ability of private equity to survive is to look at what is the source of risk; what is the source of disruption; where it creates opportunity; where it creates risk."

Francesca Cornelli

Professor of Finance, London Business School

Private Equity in the US and Europe: Innovation and Disruption

Hosted by London Business School in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

Welcome and Introduction

  • Professor Sir Andrew Likierman, Dean, London Business School and Professor Bilge Yilmaz, The Wharton School

Keynote Introduction

  • Professor Francesca Cornelli, London Business School

Keynote I

  • Speaker: Hanneke Smits, CEO, Newton Investment Management and co-founder of Level 20, a not-for-profit mentoring organisation for women in private equity

Panel I: Disrupting the GP/LP Relationship and Ecosystem

  • Antoine Dréan, Founder and Chairman, Palico
  • Joe Topley, Senior Principal (London, Ontario Teachers
  • Mary Kuusisto, Partner in the Private Investment Funds Group, Proskauer
  • Moderator: Professor Eli Talmor, London Business School

Panel II: CEO Perspective on Public versus Private Ownership

  • Rob Templeman, Chairman of RAC, Non-Executive Director of Ladbrokes Coral 
  • Dennis Gillings, Chairman and CEO, GF Management
  • Moderator: Professor Bilge Yilmaz, The Wharton School

Keynote Introduction by Professor Florin Vasvari, London Business School 

Keynote II

  • Speaker: Sanjay Patel, Senior Partner and Head of Europe, Apollo Management International LLP

Keynote Introduction by Professor Francesca Cornelli, London Business School 

Keynote III 

  • Speaker: Marco De Benedetti, MD and Co-head of The Carlyle Group - Interview with Professor Francesca Cornelli 

Panel III: How to Adapt to Disruption? Technology, Strategy and Regulation 

  • Tim Hanford, MD for Europe, JC Flowers & Co
  • Kate Mitchell, founder and partner, Scale Venture Partners
  • Cécile Mayer-Lévi, Private Debt, Tikehau Capital 
  • Jeffrey Chi, MD, Vickers Venture Partners
  • Moderator Professor Michael Jacobides, London Business School 

Closing Remarks

  • Professor Francesca Cornelli, London Business School

Contact us

To find out more about Private Equity at LBS and our flagship events, please email us at the address below.

Private Equity at LBS

call+44 (0)20 7000 7000

peinfo@london.edu

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