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Maylix Brianto, CAIA, MBA, CESGA is an Economist from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, MSc in Finance from IESA, and an MBA specializing in International Business Management from Grenoble Business School in France. Her current position is in Portfolio Management and the Family Office Team at Apricus Finance. She has experience working at Banque SYZ in Geneva as a Junior Portfolio Manager within the Discretionary Portfolio Manager department and experience within the LATAM team. Previously, she worked at Société Générale within the LATAM team, as well, and at JP Morgan in the Hedge Funds trading team, also in Geneva. Before being in Switzerland, she did an internship at the Inter-American Bank in Washington, D.C., USA, and then worked for 5 years for the Venezuelan Central Bank as a financial & economic researcher and Caracas Stock Exchange as a market analyst. She is a member of Sustainable Finance Geneva and 100 Women in Finance.

Carlo Farina was born in Italy in 1976 and moved to Switzerland in 2004 for professional reasons. Throughout his career he has held different positions at Reuters Sa and HSBC. Since 2013 he serves as real assets portfolio manager for the CERN Pension Fund. In this role he is responsible for the real estate, timber/farmland and infrastructure portfolio of the CERN Pension Fund and also being focused on sustainability practices for the Pension Fund. Moreover, he is a frequent speaker on ESG and climate investing related themes. He holds different professional certification including CAIA, CFA ESG, CFA Climate and Investing and APRM, Professional Risk Management Association and Microsoft Office Master level, Carlo speaks fluently Italian, French and English.

Pieter-Jan Fissette, CAIA is Head of Marketing at Pictet Asset Services (PAS). His responsibilities include Sales Enablement for the 5 regional markets of PAS, communications and events. He is also the Head of Club 1805. Before joining the Pictet Group in January 2022, Pieter-Jan was Head of Business Development Switzerland and European banks & insurance companies for Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH). He joined BBH from a French banking group, where he held a wide range of executive positions across Europe and Asia. Pieter-Jan holds an MBA from London Business School. He is a CAIA Charterholder and CAIA Chapter Head in Geneva. He is a passionate member of the Traveller’s Century Club and Mensa Switzerland. Happily married and proud father of two sons.

Mr. Miller serves as Group Managing Director, Chief Investment Officer and Chairman of the Investment Committee of the TCW Private Credit Group. Mr. Miller joined TCW in 2013 with the acquisition of the Special Situations Funds Group from Regiment Capital Advisors, LP which he led since the group’s inception in 2001. Mr. Miller has over 30 years of experience in the capital markets and previously was ranked on the Institutional Investor “All American High Yield Research Team” for six consecutive years, focusing primarily on the Metals and Mining sector. Prior to his involvement in high yield research, he was at Chase Manhattan Bank in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group. He then moved on to become a Managing Director with the High Yield Group. Subsequently, he became the Head of High Yield Research at BankBoston Securities and in 1999, Mr. Miller joined UBS as a Managing Director and Head of the Global High Yield Research Group. Mr. Miller currently serves as an ex officio Trustee of the University of Rochester Endowment and is a Board Member of the Nativity Preparatory School and a former Board Member of the Dexter Southfield School. Mr. Miller received his BS from Syracuse University and his MBA from the University of Rochester.

Nicolas has over 20 years of experience in the field of alternative, private assets & niche strategies with a demonstrable expertise and track record in hedge funds, private credit, distressed real estate, real estate debt as well as Southern Europe non-performing loans (Spain, Portugal and Greece) Combining deep industry knowledge, global network and technical / due diligence skills with solid soft skills such as client facing, writing and interviewing skills.

Kirsten Winterhager joined Pictet Asset Management in 2024 as Head of Private Debt, UK based in London. Prior to Pictet, Kirsten was at ICC for over 12 years, where she worked in the Mezzanine and Credit Fund Management teams, and latterly as Managing Director in the Senior Direct Lending team. She also was a Senior Associate in Lexington Partners' Secondary Funds team. Kirsten began her career in financial services at UBS Investment Bank in 2003, where she worked on M&A, equity capital markets, restructuring and leverage finance projects. Kirsten holds an MSc in Management from ESCP Europe and an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Passau University.