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Maximilian Buttinger is a Vice President in Warburg Pincus’ Technology Investment Group with a specific focus on investments in Telecommunications, Digital Infrastructure and Tech-Enabled Services. He has been involved in investments by the Warburg Pincus funds which include Inmarsat, Community Fibre, Odido, blau direkt and Arsipa. Previously, Maximilian was an Analyst at J.P. Morgan’s Investment Banking Division in Frankfurt. He holds an MSc in Finance and Private Equity from the London School of Economics and Political Science

Nick is part of the Secondary Team, based in London, focused on European GP Led and LP Led Secondaries. Prior to joining Unigestion, he worked at Hamilton Lane and Pantheon in London across Secondaries and Direct Equity.

KfW Capital Co-CEO and Senior Managing Director Alexander has been working in various positions at KfW group since 1996, having held senior positions since 2002. He has business policy and operational experience in SME finance as well as in structured finance activities. Together with Jörg Goschin, he set-up and manages KfW Capital as Co-CEO

Thomas has more than 25 years of international experience in the financial industry. He worked with banks in Prague and New York as well as investment firms in London, Vienna and Zürich in senior roles. During his 15 years at Erste Asset Management, Thomas held various management positions. In recent years, he built up the private equity investment department and founded Erste Private Capital. Thomas holds a degree in international business at the University of Vienna, completed the private equity programme at the University of Oxford and is a CFA Institute charter holder.

Dr. Holger Kleingarn, Managing Director and Head of H.I.G.’s German office, has been working in the Private Equity Industry for over 15 years. Throughout his private equity career Holger focused on mid cap buyouts, growth investments and turnarounds across Europe. He currently holds board positions in a number of H.I.G.’s portfolio companies in Germany, among those in the TMT, business services, health care or industrials sectors. Prior to joining H.I.G. Capital 2013, Holger was a Partner and Member of the Management Committee of London-based private equity group Palamon Capital. Previously he led the management-buy-out of a Mittelstand software company as CEO. He started his career in strategic management consulting with Bain & Company and Roland Berger, most recently as Partner and member of its financial services management team. Holger holds a PhD in Business Administration from the Universität der Bundeswehr in Munich and a master-equivalent degree in Business Administration from the University of Hamburg.

Joe Schorge is the Founder and Managing Partner of Isomer Capital, based in London and focused exclusively on European venture capital. Isomer accesses high-potential opportunities in European technology through limited partner investments in early-stage funds, company co-investments, and secondary purchases of both funds and company positions. Joe has over 25 years experience as an LP, GP and technology operations executive, previously at Pomona Capital, a leading global secondaries firm, and at Cambridge Associates responsible for advising institutional investors on private equity investments. Joe began his career in information technology operating roles at Invensys plc (now Schneider Electric) in the US and Europe. He received a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth and an MBA from London Business School.

Nemanja Stevanović is the Director of Erste Group in Vienna responsible for the bank's efforts in Alternatives Investments space including for selective taking of LP positions. His responsibilities include other special situations like aircraft finance portfolio management. Prior to joining Erste Group in Vienna, he worked for five years in the Bank's New York Branch where he was focused on the U.S. broadly syndicated leveraged loan market and CLO debt. He started his career in Serbia where we was involved in large corporate banking including several high-profile restructurings. Nemanja graduated from Faculty Economics in Belgrade. He holds both CFA and CAIA charters.

Christoph Klink is a partner at Antler based in Germany. Antler is the world’s leading day zero investor and one of the most active early-stage VC firms in Europe. Christoph is responsible for Antler’s investments across Continental Europe. Since launching its first residency for founders in Berlin in 2021, Antler has made >100 investments into tech startups, spanning multiple sectors that include climatetech, fintech and healthtech. Many of these startups are now recognised as the most promising startups in the DACH region, including NeoCarbon, Peec AI and Tapline. In the last five years, Christoph has run residencies for hundreds of founders in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and Munich. Antler is specifically designed to remove the barriers to entrepreneurship and to support a new generation of diverse tech founders. Founders participating in the residencies have come from 50+ different nationalities and a third of the startups have at least one female founder. Christoph is recognised as one of the leading experts on early-stage investment trends in Germany and has published reports on the demographics of DACH unicorn founders and the rise of technical founders in Europe. Prior to Antler, Christoph was a Partner at McKinsey. Over more than ten years, he held leadership positions in McKinsey’s Strategy and Corporate Finance Practice & the Advanced Industries as well as its Logistics and Infrastructure Sector Practices. Working from the US and Germany, Christoph advised a range of leading technology organisations on disruptive strategy and building innovative business models. Christoph holds a PhD in Business Administration and Management from the Technical University of Munich.