2025 Annual General Assembly

Mika Jaatinen

SBAI EMEA Committee Member; Portfolio Manager Hedge Fund Investments, Elo Mutual Pension Insurance Company

Mika Jaatinen is a Portfolio Manager of Elo’s Hedge Fund investments. Mika joined Pension Fennia (Pension Fennia and Pension Tapiola merged in 2014) in 2004 as a risk analyst covering Fennia’s capital market investments. Mika became portfolio manager of hedge fund investments in 2007. Mika has also been responsible for equity mutual fund selection in Fennia from 2010 until the merger with Pension Tapiola.

Mika holds an MSc in economics degree from the Jyväskylä University.

Yan Kvitko

Managing Director, External Portfolio Management, CPP Investments

Yan Kvitko is a Managing Director with CPP Investments’ External Portfolio Management (EPM) team. Yan is responsible for the Emerging Manager program globally which pursues investments in early stage hedge fund managers. Prior to joining CPP in 2019, he worked at New Holland Capital where he was a Senior Portfolio Manager responsible for investment research and portfolio management with a focus on quantitative strategies. Yan began his career at Ziff Brothers Investments.

Yan holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University and an MA in piano performance from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He is a CFA Charterholder.

Paula Volent

SBAI Trustee; Vice President & CIO, The Rockefeller University

Paula Volent is Vice President and Chief Investment Officer at The Rockefeller University, the world’s leading biomedical research university. Prior to joining The Rockefeller University in August 2021. Ms. Volent served as Chief Investment Officer and Senior Vice President at Bowdoin College, a private, residential college in Brunswick, Maine. At Bowdoin, where she was responsible for the oversight and management of the College’s endowment. Prior to joining Bowdoin in July 2000, Ms. Volent was a Senior Associate at the Yale Investments Office.

Ms. Volent has a BA from the University of New Hampshire; a Master’s Degree in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University; a Certificate in Conservation from the Conservation Center at NYU, with a specialization in the conservation of works of art on paper; and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. Prior to focusing on endowment management, Paula worked as a paper conservator at the New-York Historical Society, the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts, the LA County Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. She also ran a private paper conservation studio in Los Angeles, California.

She serves on the Board of Directors of MSCI, Inc.; the Board of Directors of 1st Dibs; a member of the Investment Committee of the Pritzker Family Foundation, a member of the Advisory Board of Girls Who Invest, a Trustee of the Skowhegan School of Art and Painting, and an Investment Committee Member of the Rockefeller Foundation. She is also Vice Chair of the Yale School of Management Advisory Board, a member of the Milken Institute’s Global Markets Advisory Council, a member of the Advisory Board of the Private Capital Research Institute and a member of the National Gallery of Art Investment Subcommittee. In 2020 Barron’s named Ms. Volent as one of the “100 most influential women in U.S. Finance.

Jane Buchan

SBAI Chair; CEO, Martlet Asset Management

Jane is Chief Executive Officer of Martlet Asset Management responsible for firm strategy, organization and performance. Martlet is based in Newport Beach, CA and was founded in July 2018. The firm’s strategies include alternative risk premia and developing liquid strategies with a focus on fixed income.

Prior to this, Ms. Buchan co-founded and led Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO), a Fund of Hedge Funds focused on institutional investors for 18 years. Under her leadership first as CEO of PAAMCO and then co-CEO of PAAMCO Prisma, the firm grew to $32 billion AUM placing it third globally in the league tables by the time of her retirement in July 2018 (HFM InvestHedge Billion Dollar Club).

Jane began her career at J.P. Morgan Investment Management in the Capital Markets Group where she was trained in quantitative fixed income portfolio management. She has been an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She recently served as chairwoman of the board for the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA) and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Master of Financial Engineering Program at UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Jane holds both a PhD and an MA in Business Economics (Finance) from Harvard University. She earned a BA in Economics from Yale University. Jane has thirty-three years of experience in investment management and portfolio construction with institutional investors.

Erich Gerth

Chief Executive Officer, RBC BlueBay Asset Management

Chief Executive Officer, executive member of the Board of BlueBay Asset Management, member of the RBC GAM and European Executive Committees (Parent Company) and Head of RBC GAM in EMEA & APAC. BlueBay is a London headquartered active fixed income specialist, structured to deliver outcomes tailored for investors seeking to enhance the returns of their portfolios. Investing globally for clients across corporate and sovereign debt, rates and FX, we manage over US$60 billion in AUM and embody the best of alternative and traditional asset management.

Prior to BlueBay, Erich was Chief Executive of APAC, Head of Global Business Development and member of the Executive Committee of London based Aviva Investors. Erich has over 30 years’ experience in financial services and over 15 years managing global businesses, working across institutional and wholesale markets in both traditional and alternative asset classes.

Erich has an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MBA (Asia Focus) from the National University of Singapore.

Dr John Claisse

CEO, Albourne Group

John Claisse joined Albourne in July 1996, relocated from London to San Francisco in July 2003 and became Albourne Group CEO in August 2015. John is an equity partner and member of Albourne’s Executive Committee and also chairs the firm’s Corporate Planning Council, which comprises Albourne’s function and region heads. John helped develop the firm’s proprietary risk analytics and was formerly the Senior Analyst for quantitative equity strategies and multi-strategy hedge funds. John remains a Portfolio Analyst working with several public and corporate plans, large endowments and foundations. John also serves on the Advisory Board of the University of Sussex Business School, on the Board of Trustees of Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI), and on the Governing Board of The Robert Toigo Foundation.

John holds a first class Mathematics Degree and a PhD from Sussex University.

Albourne is an independent advisory firm focused on hedge funds, private equity, private credit, real assets, real estate and dynamic beta. Founded in 1994, Albourne has over 350 clients with over $750bn invested directly in alternative investments.

Magdalena Hogberg

Head of Strategic Asset Allocation, AP4

Magdalena Högberg, CFA is the Head of Strategic Asset Allocation and Quantitative Analysis at the Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4) in Stockholm. She has been working at AP4 since 2013 focusing on global equities, hedge funds and asset allocation across asset classes and liquidity spectra.

Ms Högberg holds a Master of Science in Engineering Physics from The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and a Master of Science in Business and Economics from Stockholm University, Sweden.

Rishab Sethi

Director, External Investments & Partnerships, New Zealand Superannuation Fund

Rishab is Director, External Investments and Partnerships at the New Zealand Superannuation Fund with responsibilities for external investment manager selection, mandate design and opportunity evaluation.

He has previously worked in asset allocation and corporate strategy roles at the Fund. Prior to joining the Guardians, he was a research economist with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and has been a research fellow at the Bank for International Settlements.

Rishab has Bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and economics from the University of Auckland and the Australian National University, and Master’s degrees in public administration and finance, from the London School of Economics and Columbia University.

Stuart White

Independent Board Director, NEST

Stuart is an independent Board Director of the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST), the UK Government’s workplace MasterTrust pension scheme. Stuart currently sits on NEST’s main Board and is a member of the Nominations & Remuneration and Customer committees. Stuart also has main Board investment oversight responsibility.

Since 2010, Stuart worked for almost 15 years at HSBC in various roles: as a Board Director and member of the Management Committee of HSBC Global Asset Management Ltd, the c. 3,000 person, c.USD750bn asset manager of the HSBC Group; as the Chief Executive Officer and Board Director of the HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Ltd the c.400 person, c.USD200bn UK subsidiary; Managing Director responsible for the global oversight of sovereign wealth funds, public pension plans, central banks, development banks and supranationals. Previous roles included: Global Head of Strategy & Chief of Staff; CEO of International Markets; and Head of UK Institutional. Stuart was also the accountable executive for the firm’s global Diversity Equity & Inclusion programme, including 16 workstreams with over 300 volunteers across 14 countries. Stuart was the executive sponsor for the Mental Health & Wellness workstream.

Before that he worked at Insight Investment for 5 years and started his investment management career at Threadneedle Asset Management in 1998. In addition to his executive roles, Stuart has also spent 10 years (from 2014-2024) as a non-executive Trustee Director of the c.£30 billion HSBC Bank Pension Trust (UK) Ltd (HSBC UK Bank’s DB & DC Pension schemes), including being Chair of the Trust’s Investment Committee for 4 years.

Stuart graduated with a BSc honours degree in Chemistry and European Studies (German) from the University of Sussex and the University of Freiburg. He holds: an MBA from London Business School (1997-1999); the CFA Investment Management Certificate; the CFA ESG in Investing Certificate; and the PMI Award in Pension Trusteeship. Stuart is currently on the: Advisory Board of Asset Owner Diversity Charter (representing USD2 trillion of pension scheme assets); the Board & Advisory Council of the UK’s Diversity Project.

Stuart was also a member of the UK Investment Association’s Advisory Council and their Trade & Investment sub-committee. Stuart is married with two daughters. Stuart is also a keen advocate of removing the stigma of metal health in the workplace and society and along with his four brothers raised over £50,000 for mental health charities competing in Marathon des Sables in 2016 (6 marathons in 6 days in the Sahara Desert) which was captured in a charity documentary ‘Brothers in the Sand’, featured on Amazon Prime.

Baroness Sharon White

Senior Managing Director & Head of Global Affairs, La Caisse

Sharon White (Baroness White) is Senior Managing Director and Head of Global Affairs. Based in London, she works closely with asset class managers across the organization. In her role, she represents La Caisse in various markets, as well as with partners, governments, regulators, and commercial organizations.

Sharon joined La Caisse in January 2025 as Managing Director and Head of Europe. Before that, she was Executive Chair of John Lewis Partnership, the U.K.’s largest employee-owned company. From 2015 to 2019, she served as Chief Executive of Ofcom, the U.K.’s media, telecoms and postal regulator. She began her career in the U.K. Government as an economist. She held a series of roles, including in the U.K. Prime Minister’s office, the Diplomatic Service, and at the World Bank, based in Washington, D.C. She was Second Permanent Secretary at the U.K. Treasury, overseeing public finances between 2013 and 2015. She has held various non-Executive roles and is currently the non-Executive Chair of Frontier Economics.

Sharon was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for public service and is a crossbench (non-politically aligned) Member of the House of Lords.

She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Cambridge University and a Master’s Degree from University College London.

Becky Wood

Chief Executive Officer, National Infrastructure & Service Transformation Authority

Becky was a partner at the consultancy firm EY and, prior to that, held a role as a Commercial Advisor at the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, as well as government-appointed Non-Executive roles on the TfL Board and with the Trans-Pennine Route Upgrade Programme. Before returning to work in the UK in 2021, she gained valuable international experience, working on significant infrastructure programmes across both public and private sectors in Australia and New Zealand. Her previous roles for HM Government included oversight of various major infrastructure projects at the Department for Transport, serving as the Senior Responsible Officer for the Crossrail, Thameslink and Intercity Express programmes as well as working as the lead negotiator on the PPP Administration of Metronet. Prior to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games, Becky took a secondment to work as the DfT's transport lead on the Paralympics.

Becky is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales, and a Fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers. She is passionate about ensuring infrastructure development, design and delivery is focused on the end-users and communities that it is intended to serve, as well as the importance of collaboration between public and private partners as well as across the sector as a whole to achieve this. She lives with her family in Southwest London and can usually be spotted enjoying a game or three of rugby at the Harlequins home ground with her daughter and husband.

Gavin Haran

Asset Management & Investment Funds Policy, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

Gavin Haran leads the FCA’s reforms to the UK’s AIFM regime and is also working on institutional investment in private markets.

Prior to this, he worked for the British law firm Macfarlanes and for JP Morgan. He began his career at HM Treasury working on banks during and after the Global Financial Crisis.

Steven Lighthouse

Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

Steven Lightstone advises on financial services, securities, and derivatives regulatory issues. His clients include asset managers across a wide range of asset classes and their funds, banks, broker-dealers, fintech firms, payment institutions, institutional investors, insurers, lenders, and market associations. Steven serves as a co-leader of the firm’s global fintech industry team.

Steven earned a BA in Philosophy from the University of Nottingham in 2007, completed the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) at Nottingham Law School in 2008, and went on to obtain his Legal Practice Course (LPC) qualification from the College of Law of England and Wales in 2009.

Karl Wachter

General Counsel, Magnetar Capital

Karl Wachter is General Counsel and a Partner at Magnetar Capital, a $19 billion multi-strategy hedge fund manager with headquarters in Evanston, Illinois. Karl is a member of Magnetar’s Management, Valuation and Operations Committees and is based in its New York office.

Prior to joining Magnetar in 2010, Karl served as General Counsel of hedge fund managers Amaranth Advisors and Diamond Lake Investment Group. Karl began his legal career in 1997 as an associate in the New York office of Clearly Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

Karl actively participates in industry trade associations, having served on the board of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) since 2014, and as its chairman since 2020. He is also a member of the regulatory committee of the Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI).

Karl earned a J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 1997, an M.A. from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University in 1992, and a B.F.A. with honors from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1988. He is a member of the New York bar.

William Yonge

Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

William Yonge specialises in UK and European financial services law and regulation, an area in which he has more than 20 years’ experience, drawing on his background of working in-house for UK financial services regulators. William concentrates his practice on the investment industry, advising alternative and traditional asset managers and their funds, brokers, corporate financiers, institutional investors, and fintech businesses. William increasingly counsels corporates, financial market participants, institutions, and multinational businesses on the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and sustainability laws and regulations, including the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, Taxonomy Regulation, and Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and their UK counterparts.

William earned a BA in Law with Honors from the University of Durham in England.

Thomas Deinet

Executive Director, SBAI

Thomas Deinet was appointed Executive Director of the SBAI (previously known as the HFSB) in 2008. In 2007, Thomas joined the working group to project manage the development of practice standards proposed by 14 leading international alternative investment managers that led to the establishment of the SBAI.

Prior to joining the SBAI, he was a senior manager at Oliver Wyman, where he extensively worked with major financial institutions in Europe covering asset management as well as corporate and investment banking. Thomas also worked as an analyst in energy trading for a major commodities trading firm.

Thomas is a graduate of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, with a major in industrial engineering and holds an MSc from Purdue University, USA. Thomas is a CFA charterholder.

Dan Blanchford CBE

Head of Global Government Relations, Prevail Partners

Dan recently joined the strategic leadership team at Prevail Partners as Head of Global Government Relations, following a distinguished 34-year career in the Royal Marines, retiring as Major General. Specialising in operations and crisis leadership, he served with UK Special Forces and commanded Operation PITTING, the evacuation from Kabul.

He brings deep expertise in defence, inter-agency coordination, and national security. His final roles in the Ministry of Defence included Head of Military Operations during the early Ukraine response—where he founded Task Force KINDRED, a rapid capability and procurement disruptor—and serving as Senior Responsible Owner for cross-government delivery of the Afghan Resettlement Programme.

Mike Pyle

MD, Deputy Head of the Portfolio Management Group, BlackRock

Mike Pyle, CFA, Managing Director, is Deputy Head of the Portfolio Management Group (PMG), which encompasses BlackRock's Fundamental and Systematic investing across Fixed Income, Equities and Multi-Asset Strategies, as well as the Private Debt business. Mike is a member of the firm’s Global Operating Committee and GEC Investment Subcommittee.

Mike previously worked at BlackRock from 2014 to 2021, culminating as the firm’s Global Chief Investment Strategist and leading the investment strategy function within the BlackRock Investment Institute (BII). Earlier, he had been the Deputy Chief Investment Officer of BlackRock’s Multi-Asset Strategies and Solutions platform and a portfolio manager on the firm’s Global Tactical Asset Allocation (GTAA) team.

Mike has served extensively in government. Most recently, Mike was U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics. In this role, he led the Biden-Harris Administration’s international economic policy efforts and was President Biden’s Sherpa to the G7, G20, and APEC Summits, in which capacity he acted as the President’s principal negotiator with Europe, Japan, and other partners in crafting common approaches to issues such as Russia’s war against Ukraine; global energy, trade, and technology policy; and geopolitical competition with China. Prior to this role, he had been the Chief Economic Advisor to Vice President Harris during the Administration’s first year. Mike also served for five years across a range of international and domestic economic policy roles in President Obama’s White House and Treasury Department. He began his career in public service as a law clerk to then-Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Mike graduated summa cum laude with a degree in economics from Dartmouth College, where he was salutatorian of his class and recipient of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Prize as the top graduate in the economics major. He also holds degrees from Yale Law School and from the University of Cambridge, where he studied graduate economics and law as a Keasbey Scholar.

Ben Broadbent

Head of European Macro Strategy , Balyasny Asset Management

Ben Broadbent is head of European Macro Strategy at Balyasny Asset Management (BAM), a global investment firm that focuses on delivering consistent, alpha-driven returns through a multi-strategy, multi-manager approach. Broadbent joined BAM in June 2025 from the Bank of England, where he served as Deputy Governor for monetary policy from 2014 to 2024, and as an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee for the three years prior to that.

Previously, Broadbent was a Senior European Economist at Goldman Sachs, where he researched and wrote widely on the UK economy and monetary policy. Before that, he was an assistant professor of Economics at Columbia University and an economic adviser at HM Treasury, the UK economic and finance ministry.

Broadbent has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. Prior to his undergraduate studies, Broadbent spent two years at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, earning a diploma in piano performance. He supports Liverpool Football Club and is an enthusiastic but poor cricketer.