Team
Sven Miserey - Founder
- Over 30 years of fund management and trading.
- Fund manager for the Coast Freehold Income Fund and the CAP Sustainable Agriculture Fund.
- Previously portfolio manager at GLG Partners. Set up GLG's structured credit portfolio (CDO).
- Co-inventor and patent holder of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's Cleared Interest Rate Swaps.
- Managed over EUR 15 billion in various long-only credit and money-market funds for the Commerzbank Group.
- BBa Finance George Washington University.
sven@capital-advisory.com
Roberto Falzoni – Fund Manager – Masayume Funds
- Founder and manager of Denarius Conseils & Gestion S.A., a Geneva-based multi-family office and wealth management company.
- Founder of Dukre Asset Management S.A., an independent asset management firm in Geneva.
- Director of GDP Gestion de Patrimoines S.A., a multi-family office in Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Head of PB Capital Markets and Derivatives at Credit Lyonnais (Suisse) S.A. in Geneva. CBC Banque, Groupe Tradicion in Lausanne.
- Founding chairman, member of the Executive Committee for the CFA (UK) Society for three years.
- Degree in Business Management from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciale (HEC) in Lausanne.
roberto@capital-advisory.com
Arik Zalishnik – Fund Manager – Masayume Funds
- Manager of the Reflex strategy.
- Over 30 years of investment, trading and fund management experience.
- Has managed the Reflex Discretionary Fund and clients' managed accounts as a senior trader at Dukre Asset Management (where he also managed the Deutsche Bank DBSelect investment platform).
- Co-founded Alternativa Portfolio Management & Consultancy ltd in Israel (trading and portfolio management).
- Served 3 years in the Israel military service. Studied economics at Haifa University, Israel.
arik@capital-advisory.com
David Gray - Fund Manager - CAP Sustainable Agriculture Fund
- Investment Manager to the CAP Sustainable Agriculture Fund.
- Over 25 years banking and corporate finance experience covering multiple sectors globally.
- Formerly Partner, Altima Partners LLP, where he focused since 2007 on agriculture investment, including real asset acquisitions.
- Helped raise and manage sector specific agriculture fund which totaled approximately $700 million.
- Oversaw portfolio of unlisted agri investments on multiple continents before selling them and returning capital to investors 2015-2016.
- Extensive advisory work for early and growth stage listed and private ag-tech companies, as well as investors covering multiple facets of the food and agriculture sector.
- MA (Hons) in Jurisprudence from Oxford University; completed the Executive Program, Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia.
david@capital-advisory.com
Ian Monks - Fund Manager - CAP Sustainable Agriculture Fund
- Investment Manager to the CAP Sustainable Agriculture Fund.
- Rural property professional with 37 years of experience in the sector and is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
- A Senior Partner and Head of Rural at Bidwells LLP.
- Oversaw close to 400,000 hectares of farmland and advised a number of European Pension Funds on their strategy fo rbuilding global portfolios.
- In the UK, advised the Wellcome Trust on the £249 million acquisition of the Co-Op Group’s farms with an ongoing role to develop the portfolio.
- Advised the South Yorkshire Pension Authority on building up the largest portfolio of Grade 1 farmland in the UK.
- Trustee, Director and Adviser to a number of private farming and property businesses including Elveden Farms Ltd, one of the largest lowland farming estates in the UK.
- Studied at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.
Ian@capital-advisory.com
Ken Kinsey-Quick, CFA – Fund Manager – Hedge Funds
- Over 25 years of experience in the fund management industry focusing on hedge funds.
- Founder and CEO of Diamond Capital Management (Pty) Ltd, manager of the Green and Blue Diamond funds.
- Partner at Thames River Capital, research committee member for Haussmann Holdings (funds of hedge funds).
- Founder of Redwood Investments, CIO for Coronation Holdings’ fund of hedge funds business. Fund manager at Ifabanque (Permal Group). Assistant fund manager at CCF Foster & Brathwaite, Blue Circle Pension Investments.
- Founding chairman, member of the Executive Committee for the CFA (UK) Society for three years.
- Bachelor degree in Commerce from the University of Cape Town. CFA, CAIA charterholder.
ken@capital-advisory.com
Gareth Robertson – Advisor
- Over twenty five years of experience, both in institutional fund management with Barclays Bank, M&G and Invesco, and in UK and European corporate stockbroking as a director of Swiss Bank Corporation in London.
- Management consultancy work for a wide range of clients, including Siemens, Compart-Montedison, Cedel Bank (now Clearstream), Man Group and the European Commission.
- Business Development Director of Allenbridge Group plc.
- Trustee of the pension fund of a listed UK company.
- Degree in Modern Languages from Brasenose College, Oxford.
gareth@capital-advisory.com
Tim Doolan - Compliance Consultant
- Compliance consultant for CAP.
- Founded Solutions 4 Compliance London in 2000.
- Compliance consultant for traditional and alternative asset management firms. Responsible for attaining FCA Authorisations and on-going compliance issues.
- 30 years' experience within the financial services industry across global banks to start-up investment management boutiques.
- Extensive experience within the financial services industry across operational and regulatory risk management.
tim@s4clondon.com
Louise Thomson - Legal Consultant
- Legal consultant on structuring and expert witness areas for CAP.
- Worked as a senior legal counsel for Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, JP Morgan and Renaissance Capital.
- Extensive experience in structuring, executing and advising on a wide range of transactions including funds, structured derivatives, synthetic and cash CLOs and CDOs, credit derivatives and other complex products.
- Managed complex international transactions. Set up numerous securitisation and repackaging programmes and structures for various businesses. Experienced in issues of custody, security and SPVs.
- Called as a Barrister at Lincoln’s Inn, London in 2000; transferred to Solicitor status in 2004.
- Master’s Degree in International Business Law from King’s College, London.
louise@capital-advisory.com