Asia Annual Investor Summit 2026

Ivan Vercoutère (French) is a Managing Partner at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He heads the global Private Equity team and is a member of the Executive Committee. He also chairs the private equity Global Investment Committee. Prior to joining the Firm in 1998, Mr. Vercoutère was Vice President and a member of the investment committee of Pacific Corporate Group, Inc. (PCG), a California-based global private equity advisor and manager. While at PCG he was responsible for private equity investments and portfolios on behalf of large institutional investors, including The World Bank and CalPERS. He holds a BSc in Finance from San Diego State University and serves on the advisory board of a number of private equity funds. He is fluent in English, French, German and Spanish.

André Aubert (Swiss) is a Partner within the Secondaries team at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He is a member of the private equity and infrastructure Global Investment Committees. Prior to joining the firm in 2005, he was a principal at Index Ventures, a pan-European venture capital firm, which he joined in 1999. At Index Mr. Aubert focused on investment opportunities in the communications, semiconductor and embedded software sectors. Prior to joining Index, Mr. Aubert worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company in the Zurich and Geneva offices, primarily in the telecommunications and banking sectors. Before that, he worked as a research assistant in the telecom laboratory of the University of Tokyo in Japan. He holds an MSc in Telecom Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Duke University and an MBA from INSEAD. He is fluent in English, French and German.

Thomas Kyriakoudis (British) is a Partner at LGT Capital Partners in London, and is the co-head for our Private Credit Solutions team. He is a member of the private credit Investment Committee. He is responsible for origination, due diligence, execution and monitoring of private credit transactions. Prior to joining the firm in 2021, Mr. Kyriakoudis was a Partner and CIO at Permira Credit, one of Europe’s largest private credit managers. As one of the two initial partners, Mr. Kyriakoudis helped to build the business from the ground up to around EUR 10 billion in assets under management. During his 13 years at Permira, Mr. Kyriakoudis was a member of all Permira Credit Investment Committees, founded the structured credit business, was co-portfolio manager of the CLO business and led a significant number of direct lending transactions. Prior to Permira, Mr. Kyriakoudis worked on the structured credit trading desk of Morgan Stanley in London. Mr. Kyriakoudis holds an MA in Business Administration from the London Business School and an MSC in Engineering from Cambridge University.

Jetro Siekkinen (Finnish) is a Partner at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He is responsible for the Emerging Market Fixed Income team.
Mr. Siekkinen has long-standing expertise in emerging market debt and currencies since 1998. Before joining the firm in 2021, he was with Aktia Asset Management for over 15 years where he was responsible for the Fixed Income Portfolio Management team, management of the portfolio, and development of Aktia’s fixed income mutual fund platform. Prior to that, he worked at SEB on the strategic sell-side and with Nordea and Sampo Banks on the fixed income sales teams.
Mr. Siekkinen holds an MA in Economics from Tampere University. He is fluent in Finnish, English and Swedish.

Antonio Ferrer (Spanish) is a Partner on the Multi-Asset Team at LGT Capital Partners (Asia-Pacific) Limited in Hong Kong. He is the Global Head of Multi Asset Portfolio Management, and responsible for the Liquid Markets activities in Asia-Pacific. Moreover, he serves as one of the lead managers of the LGT Endowment Portfolio and the Liquid Multi-Alternatives Fund in Australia.

Before joining the firm, Mr. Ferrer started his career at UBS Wealth Management as a relationship manager for high-net-worth clients in Argentina and in Switzerland. He was then appointed to become a team head in the respective area at UBS. In 2008, Mr. Ferrer joined LGT as a portfolio manager for multi-asset funds and institutional client mandates. In 2012, he took over additional responsibility in the manager selection area specializing in equity emerging market single countries. In 2018, he relocated to Hong Kong to set up and expand LGT Capital Partners' Asset Management activity being licensed with the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) as the manager in charge (MIC) for Type 9 activity and as a Responsible Officer.

Mr. Ferrer is a Certified International Investment Analyst (CIIA). He holds the Swiss Federal Diploma for Experts in Finance and Investments (AZEK) and a BSc in Business Administration from the University of Applied Science in Chur. Mr. Ferrer is fluent in English, German, Spanish, French and Italian.

Vivek is a Senior Partner and Global co-leader of McKinsey’s Private Equity & Principal Investors Practice. Vivek serves the world’s leading investors and shareholders on strategy, origination, transformations, sustainability and exits. Vivek works with leading family-owned businesses, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, social impact & sustainability focused funds, private equity funds and investor-backed digital disrupters. Vivek joined McKinsey in New York and has worked across offices in North America, Europe, Japan and India.
Vivek serves as a Trustee of the Aspen Institute India, an Advisor to Social Finance India (Social Impact Bonds) and serves on a variety of non-profit education and healthcare boards including Magic Bus. He holds advanced degrees from Stanford University and the University of California. He currently resides in Mumbai with his family

Brooke Zhou (Chinese/American) is a Partner at LGT Capital Partners in Hong Kong. She is responsible for origination, due diligence, execution and monitoring of Asian primary and secondary investments.
Prior to joining the Firm in 2010, she worked for CDH Investments, a leading Chinese private equity firm in Beijing. Before that, she worked for Bain & Company in Shanghai and Oracle Corporation in California.
Brooke holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is fluent in English and Mandarin.

Nathan Pensabene, CFA, CAIA (Australian) is a Partner at LGT Capital Partners (Australia) Pty Limited. He leads the Business Development Asia-Pacific (ex-Japan) region and is responsible for the firm’s client relationships and business development activities in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.
Prior to joining the firm in 2014, he was with Pendal Investment Management in Sydney, where he was responsible for business development for Australian and offshore institutional clients. Prior to that, Mr. Pensabene was with Global Trading Strategies in Sydney, where he led business development for institutional and high-net wealth clients globally. Earlier in his career, he worked with Goldman Sachs Asset Management in London and Blackrock in Sydney.
Mr. Pensabene holds a Bachelor of Business with a major in Finance from the University of Technology, Sydney, and he is a CFA and CAIA Charterholder.