Benjamin Akesson
Advisory Investments & Execution
Advisory Investments & Execution
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Ben Akesson is an Investment Advisor at Saranac Partners.
Ben has a particular focus on advisory, aggregation, analytics and execution.
Prior to joining Saranac in 2016, Ben worked within the Portfolio Solutions team at Barclays Wealth & Investment Management.
Ben gained his degree in Accounting & Finance from Warwick Business School.
Brent Seery
Advisory Investments & Execution
Advisory Investments & Execution
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Brent is an Investment Advisor at Saranac Partners, a member of the Investment Committee and responsible for the firm’s Proposition. He specialises in multi-asset class investment advisory and tactical opportunities, while providing outsourced CIO solutions to family office clients.
Brent joined Saranac in 2016 from Barclays where he led the UHNW investment proposition and formerly worked at Morgan Stanley as an Investment Advisor. He studied at the University of Sydney and completed his studies at the University of Vienna.
Chaitanya Sharma
Financing & Solutions
Private Capital
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Chaitanya is an Analyst in the Private Capital and Financing & Solutions team at Saranac Partners. Prior to joining Saranac, Chaitanya worked as an Investment Banking Analyst at Wimmer Financial and has a background in Project Finance and Real Estate Development Financing. Chaitanya holds an MSc. in Banking and Finance from King’s College, London.
Christophe Savinas
Fixed Income
Advisory Investments & Execution
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Christophe leads the fixed income proposition at Saranac Partners across discretionary and advisory portfolios. He is a member of the Investment Committee and also specialises in derivatives and structured products
Prior to joining Saranac in 2018, Christophe spent 7 years as the Investment Strategist at a London based single Family Office, advising on a multi-billion dollar balance sheet. He started his career as a Fixed Income Portfolio Manager at Société Générale in Luxembourg.
Christophe is a French citizen and holds an Master of Science in Risk & Asset Management from EDHEC Business School.
Daniel Walker
Advisory Investments & Execution
Advisory Investments & Execution
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Daniel Walker is a member of the investment team at Saranac Partners. Daniel works across equities, fixed income and derivatives. He specialises in portfolio analysis, implementation and leads the trade execution across the firm.
Daniel joined Saranac in 2019 from SS&C Technologies where he held roles in both Client Finance and Enterprise IT, providing services to asset managers and hedge funds.
Daniel has passed the IOC from the CISI, IMC from CFA UK, the CFA Level 1 and holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Bristol.
Edmond Klinke
Global Equities
Portfolio Management
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Edmond Klinke leads the Global Equity proposition at Saranac Partners and is a Portfolio Manager and member of the Investment Committee.
Prior to Saranac, Ed managed Discretionary Portfolio Management teams at both HSBC and Barclays Wealth. Ed started his career at Citigroup Asset Management as a portfolio manager in the emerging markets team, and later was responsible for managing the global equity model as well as portfolio construction and risk management of multi-asset class portfolios.
Ed has over 30 years of industry experience, a B.A. (Hons) degree in Business Studies and Italian from University College London and is a CFA charter holder.
Gonzalo Ozores
Advisory Investments & Execution
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Gonzalo Ozores is an Investment Adviser at Saranac Partners Europe.
Gonzalo has over 17 years of private banking experience and joined the firm after working in Geneva for 9 years as an investment advisor at Credit Suisse for Spanish and Portuguese families. Previously, he worked for UBS advising large Spanish Family Offices and Latin American clients.
Gonzalo holds a double degree in law and business, as well as the CFA, CAIA and CMT qualifications.
Henning Meyer
Multi Asset Portfolios
Portfolio Management
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Henning Meyer leads the multi asset proposition at Saranac Partners and is a member of the Investment Committee.
Prior to joining Saranac in 2024, Henning was a fund manager at Sarasin & Partners where he managed global multi asset and equity portfolios on behalf of high-net-worth individuals, families, and charities. He started his investment management career at Kleinwort Benson.
Henning holds an MSc Finance from the University of St. Andrews, a BA in Business Management from the University of Westminster and is a CFA Charterholder.
Jacopo Bazzano
Fixed Income
Advisory Investments & Execution
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Jacopo Bazzano is a Fixed Income Analyst at Saranac Partners. Prior to joining Saranac, Jacopo was a credit trader at Coolabah Capital Investments, a London-based long-short credit hedge fund. He also worked at Amundi Asset Management in the Global Fixed Income team, focusing on credit.
Jacopo is an Italian citizen, and he graduated from UCL with an MSc in Finance.
Jayesh Daly Devereux
Advisory Investments & Execution
Advisory Investments & Execution
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Jayesh Daly Devereux is an Investment Advisor at Saranac Partners. Prior to joining Saranac, Jayesh worked at Citi Private Bank, where he completed the graduate training programme before taking up a role as an Investment Counsellor covering clients based in the Emerging Markets.
Jayesh is a CFA Charterholder and holds an MSc in Finance from Imperial College London.
Karan Luximon
Private Capital
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Karan is part of the Corporate Finance division.
He has over 10 years of corporate finance experience and provides clients with strategic advice in relation to their businesses. He has developed a strong expertise and an outstanding deal completion track record across a variety of sectors including technology, industrials, consumer and business services.
Karan holds a dual Masters degree in Telecom Technology and Finance from Institut Mines-Telecom and Paris Dauphine University. He started his career within the investment banking division of Société Générale in London advising on large leverage buyouts, and subsequently held roles at Stanhope Capital and finnCap Cavendish where he specialised in business sales.
He has been involved in over 40 corporate finance transactions. Successful projects include Sell-Side/Buy-Side M&A, Public-to-Private, LBO and Fundraising transactions.
Martin Lee
Financing & Solutions
Private Capital
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Martin Lee is a member of the Financing & Solutions team at Saranac Partners.
Martin previously worked in the investment banking division of Wells Fargo Securities in the Real Estate Syndicated Finance group that originated, structured and distributed debt for US financial sponsors for acquisition, refinancing and event driven mandates. Martin also worked at Fiduciam, an institutionally funded direct real estate lending manager.
Martin earned a BSc in Accounting & Finance and MSc in Finance & Investment from the University of Bristol and holds the designation as a Financial Modelling & Financial Analyst (FMVA) from the Corporate Finance Institute.
Richard Urwin
Chair Of The Investment Committee
Chair of the Investment Committee
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Richard Urwin is Chairman of the Investment Committee.
Along with other members of the Committee, he is responsible for developing and implementing the investment frameworks used by Saranac to manage client assets.
Prior to joining Saranac, Richard was Head of the Outsourced CIO function at BlackRock in Europe, responsible for managing $80bn of assets. He was previously Head of Economics and Asset Allocation at Gartmore Fund Managers, and an Economist at Warburgs, the Investment Bank.
Richard has a BA and an MA in economics, an MBA, and an MA and MRes in philosophy.
Shawn Gates
Financing & Solutions
Private Capital
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Shawn Gates is Head of Financing & Solutions at Saranac Partners. Shawn has over 20 years’ experience investing and lending in emerging and developed markets.
Prior to joining Saranac, Shawn ran his own investment advisor firm, Lintel Capital, and worked as an illiquid credit trader at Deutsche Bank and UBS, investing in primary, secondary and special situation transactions.
Suraj Valand
Manager Selection
Manager Selection
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Suraj Valand is responsible for Fund Manager Research & Selection and Multi-Manager Portfolios at Saranac Partners.
Prior to joining Saranac Partners in 2016, Suraj worked at Barclays where his most recent role was Head of Alternatives Portfolio Management. Suraj began his career in 2005 within the alternatives research team at a Middle Eastern Multi-Family Office focusing on hedge funds and venture capital.
Suraj holds the CAIA qualification and level I of the CFA and graduated from CASS Business School with a BSc (Hons) in Actuarial Science.
Talveer Atwal
Private Markets
Private Capital
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Talveer Atwal is a member of the private markets investment team at Saranac Partners.
Tal leads the firms private markets funds programme and specialises in mid-market private equity and secondaries investments.
Prior to joining Saranac in 2022, Talveer worked as part of the investment team at the Nationwide Pension Fund, primarily focusing on private market investing across Europe and the US.
Talveer holds a BSc in Accounting and Finance and is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.