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Mr. Allen is CEO of StepStone Group Europe Alternative Investments Limited. He is also a committee member of the StepStone Charitable Giving Program.

Prior to joining StepStone, Mr. Allen served as Managing Director of Cheyne Capital SMC Limited, an Irish regulated AIFM and UCITS Management company.  Before that Mr. Allen spent 15 years with the Amundi group where he filled a number of roles including Head of Operational Due Diligence, Head of Risk Analysis and Chief Administrative Officer for the alternatives business. Before joining Amundi, Mr. Allen worked for a UK hedge fund in London, for Deutsche Bank as Head of Hedge Fund Administration and for PwC where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant.

Mr. Allen holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Accounting from University College Dublin.

David is a Senior Investment Manager on the ISIF Climate Team. David focuses on investments in renewable energy generation, energy storage and other infrastructure enabling decarbonisation, as well as financing for the growth of climate technology companies.

Siobhán advises on all legal and regulatory issues relating to the establishment, structuring and ongoing regulation of investment funds and fund managers in Ireland. Siobhán has extensive experience advising a variety of fund structures and asset classes, including UCITS, QIAIFs, ICAVs, hedge funds, property and real estate funds, loan origination funds, money market funds, fund of funds and private equity funds, as well as advising on a number of cross-border and domestic fund merger transactions. Siobhán also advises investment managers, management companies, AIFMs and other fund service providers in relation to the establishment, authorisation and regulation of operations in Ireland.

Harry O’Rourke is a Managing Director in H.I.G.’s Capital Formation Group. He is responsible for capital raising and client relationships in Europe, with a focus on the firm's global real asset strategies, including real estate and infrastructure.
Before joining H.I.G., Harry was a Partner at Threadmark, a global fund placement agent, where he spent nearly nine years raising capital across real asset and credit funds. Prior to Threadmark, Harry’s experience includes treasury capital markets at Investec Bank, as well as roles with J.P. Morgan and Enterprise Ireland.
Harry holds a Master’s in Strategic Management from the Michael Smurfit Business School, University College Dublin, and a Bachelor’s in Business Studies from Trinity College Dublin. Harry is also a CAIA charterholder.

Ken is a Partner in the Asset and Wealth Management Regulatory Advisory Group at PwC Ireland, helping clients in the areas of Governance, Operational and Regulatory Risk, Outsourcing, and Regulatory Capital. He joined PwC in 1990 and has spent 23 years as a Partner.

At PwC, he spearheads the delivery of regulatory advisory services to Asset and Wealth Management clients. Ken’s clients include global investment and wealth managers doing business in and/or from Ireland, involving UCITS management companies, AIFMs, MiFID Investment Firms, and UCITS and Alternative Funds.

He is also involved with Irish Funds (IF), the representative body for firms in the funds industry in Ireland, in various roles over many years, including serving as Chair of the Counsel.