<meta charset="utf-8">Howard Marks

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Since the formation of Oaktree in 1995, Mr. Marks has been responsible for ensuring the firm’s adherence to its core investment philosophy; communicating closely with clients concerning products and strategies; and contributing his experience to big-picture decisions relating to investments and corporate direction.  From 1985 until 1995, Mr. Marks led the groups at The TCW Group, Inc. that were responsible for investments in distressed debt, high yield bonds, and convertible securities.  Previously, Mr. Marks was with Citicorp Investment Management for 16 years, where from 1978 to 1985 he was Vice President and senior portfolio manager in charge of convertible and high yield securities.  Between 1969 and 1978, he was an equity research analyst and, subsequently, Citicorp’s Director of Research. 

Mr. Marks holds a B.S.Ec. degree cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a major in finance and an M.B.A. in accounting and marketing from the Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago.  He is a CFA® charterholder.  Mr. Marks is an Emeritus Trustee and Advisory Member of the Investment Committee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  He is a member of the Investment Committee of the Royal Drawing School in London.  He also serves on the Shanghai International Financial Advisory Council and the Advisory Board of Duke Kunshan University and is an Emeritus Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, where from 2000 to 2010 he chaired the Investment Board.

Elena Manola-Bonthond, PhD

Elena Manola-Bonthond, PhD, MBA, CAIA, is Chief Investment Officer of the CERN Pension Fund. She is responsible for the investment of over 4 billion Swiss francs in assets across public and private markets using a risk-driven investment approach. Prior to joining the Fund in 2011, Elena worked in CERN's engineering sector, where she was responsible for the safety and risk-management systems of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Elena began her career as a research physicist at CERN, specializing in Higgs research and neutrino physics.

Elena is a member of the Pension Fund Committee of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) and also serves as an external member on the Investment Committee of UNESCO and on the Advisory Committee for Investments of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). She is a Trustee of the Standards Board for Alternative Investments and a member of the CAIA Board of Directors.

Elena earned a PhD in particle physics from the University of Savoie, France, for research conducted at CERN. She holds an MBA from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and a dipl.ing. degree in physics from the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Dominique Gilgen

Dominique Gilgen heads the Private Markets team at the Swiss Federal Pension Fund PUBLICA where he oversees private debt, foreign real estate and infrastructure investments. Prior to his current role, Dominique was a credit analyst and responsible for the build-up of the pension fund’s private debt portfolio. Before joining PUBLICA in 2015, he was a portfolio manager at Credit Suisse managing fixed income portfolios in the corporate bond and structured credit space.

Dominique Gilgen qualified as Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and holds a Master of Science in Economics from the University of Bern with focus on financial market theory and econometrics.

Jan-Willem Ruisbroek

Jan-Willem Ruisbroek is responsible for global investments in Infrastructure and Private Natural Capital at APG. Together with a team of approximately 50 specialists, he focuses on private equity investments in energy companies, transportation infrastructure companies, and telecommunications companies. Recently, he has also taken on oversight of the forestry and agriculture mandate.

Jan-Willem has extensive experience as an investment manager and serves frequently as a board member in companies within the aforementioned sectors. He holds academic degrees in Financial Economics from Erasmus University, International Business from Maastricht University, and Civil Engineering from Monash University.

Mike Chen

Mike Chen is Head of the Next Gen Research team. He joined Robeco in 2022. In the period 2016-2022, he worked at PanAgora where he was Head of Sustainable Investments. He was also responsible for model research and development in the Equity Division while managing quantitative portfolios. Prior to joining PanAgora, Mike was a Quant Portfolio Manager at BlackRock’s Systematic Active Equity (SAE) team, where his responsibilities included portfolio management and research into alpha insights for use across the entire SAE platform. Before BlackRock, Mike was a Senior Capital Market Analyst at Google.

Mike started his career in the industry in 2005 as an Interest Rates Derivatives Trader at Morgan Stanley. Mike has published in various finance and engineering journals, including the Journal of Portfolio Management, Financial Data Science, and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, among others.

Mike has a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, a Master’s in Mathematics, and a Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering, all three from the University of Illinois. He is also a lecturer at MIT Sloan for the course Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Finance.

Eveline Takken-Somers

Eveline Takken-Somers is a Deputy Head in the CILI team and the Lead Portfolio Manager of the Insurance portfolio. Since 2010 she has been responsible for building and managing the Insurance portfolio. Eveline was involved in setting up a structural allocation to catastrophe risk.

Under her responsibility, the Insurance portfolio has grown from two standalone investments to a matured portfolio of around US$ 8 billion, invested across a wide range of strategies (cat bonds, collateralized reinsurance, sidecars, rated re).  Eveline joined PGGM in 2005 where she worked for the External Alpha Mandates and Alternative Beta teams.

Christian H. Mueller-Glissmann 

Christian heads asset allocation research within portfolio strategy. He also writes research on derivatives with a focus on dividends, volatility and correlation. Christian is a member of the Structured Research Products Working Group and the Macro Model Review Working Group. He is also a trustee of the firm’s UK Defined Benefit Pension Scheme and member of its investment committee. Previously, Christian worked on the Tactical Research Group, focused on quantitative investment strategies.

Prior to that, he worked in derivatives trading in Frankfurt. Christian joined Goldman Sachs in 2005 as an analyst and was named managing director in 2015. His work has been published in academic journals such as the Financial Analysts Journal and The Journal of Portfolio Management. 

Christian earned a master's degree in Finance and Management from the University of Mannheim. He also studied at Warwick Business School and ESSEC Business School. Christian is a CFA charterholder.