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INSIGHTS 2025
Luxembourg - October, 23
- Luxexpo Hall 8 - South Entrance, Rue Carlo Hemmer, 2626, Kirchberg, Luxembourg
- Full day conference - 8:30 AM to 8:00 PM
PATHWAY TO COMPETITIVENESS
The Insights 2025 will stay course in the need for excellence an competitiveness of Private Markets. In a moment of global challenges and transformation, the Insights is your lighthouse of guidance and best-practice sharing in buyout, venture, debt and infrastructure.
The conference will feature three stages, all of which with a strong focus on the needs and next steps of LPs and GPs.
Join us and be part of this international conference with a Luxembourg angle!
INSIGHTS 2024 HIGHLIGHTS
ABOUT THE INSIGHTS
The LPEA conference is designed by and for GPs, LPs and will also be the meeting point for all Private Equity and Venture Capital practitioners. Over 900 participants are expected to join this years’s edition. This is a unique networking event bringing local and international players together. Luxembourg’s leading Private Equity and Venture Capital conference will take place during the Luxembourg Venture Days.
The Luxembourg Venture Days (LVD), initiated in 2023, is a partnership between LPEA and LuxInnovation. This event brings together LPEA’s Insights conference audience and LuxInnovation’s Fit4Start candidates, creating a successful melting pot of investors and entrepreneurs under one roof. This year, the LVD includes de usual Fit4Start startup competition and dedicated sessions on: the UN Food Programme Innovation Accelerator, Corporate Venture Capital and many other sessions orgnaised by VCs and other partners of the event.
All participants of Insights are automatically registered in the Luxembourg Venture Days and therefore benefiting the additional events available in parallel.
INNOVATION IN ACTION
Innovating the Private Markets Landscape
The PE Tech Area at the LPEA Insights 2025 Conference will once again spotlight the latest innovations shaping Private Equity and Venture Capital. This dedicated space will bring together leading tech providers, GPs, LPs, and asset servicers to explore cutting-edge tools and digital solutions driving efficiency, transparency, and growth in private markets.
Building on the success of our past Demo Day initiatives, the PE Tech Area offers an interactive environment to connect with top solution providers, experience live demos, and discover technologies designed to meet the evolving needs of the PE-VC industry.
Tech-Driven Transformation in Alternative Investments
The PE Tech Stage is where thought leadership meets tech innovation. Join us for a curated series of short talks and panels that explore how technology is reshaping private markets — from deal sourcing and due diligence to fund administration, compliance, and investor relations.
Expect forward-looking discussions on:
- Tokenization & digital assets
- AI & data-driven decision making
- Regulatory tech (RegTech)
- Cybersecurity and infrastructure resilience
- KYC, onboarding & AML solutions
- Tech integration for GPs, LPs, and service providers
Whether you’re seeking strategic insights or your next tech partner, the PE Tech Stage is your front-row seat to the future of the industry.
WHY ATTEND?
Mind blowing talks!
Benjamin Sabatier
Bio
Benjamin Sabatier, is currently a Principal at Sofina. Benjamin Sabatier brings experience from previous roles at Typeform and M.Chapoutier.
Benjamin Sabatier holds a Private Equity and Venture Capital certificate from Harvard Business School. With a robust skill set that includes Private Equity, Management, Financial Modeling, Investment Banking, Project Management and more.
Carla Dupont
Bio
Carla Dupont joined IK Partners in 2022 and is an Associate Director within the Partnership Fund Investment team in Paris, specialising in the Consumer sector.
Prior to joining IK, Carla worked for Cobepa in Brussels and at Partners Group in Switzerland. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from IE University.
Ed Nevens
Bio
Ed is Cinven’s Head of Tax.
Prior to joining Cinven, Ed was a Tax Partner at BDO focussed on the taxation of private equity firms and their investors. Before this Ed was an Associate Partner at EY and he previously worked in-house at Apax Partners and Bridgepoint Capital.
Ed has a PhD in Pure Mathematics from Imperial College and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
He joined Cinven in 2020.
Giuliano Bidoli
Bio
Experienced International Tax Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the alternative investments industry. Strong finance professional skilled in Alternative Investments structuring, LBO, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A).
Hind El Gaidi
Bio
Hind El Gaidi, heads up the Luxembourg office of ICG, a listed British asset manager. El Gaidi also sits on the executive committee of the Luxembourg Private Equity & Venture Capital Association.
She is a Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, and holds an Executive MBA from Groningen University, The Netherlands and an MSc. in Financial Management from Nyenrode University, The Netherlands. Prior to that, she obtained her Bachelor in Economics & International Law at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France.
John Holloway
Bio
John worked 43 years in Finance, the last 20 of which in EIF where he led the Fund Investments team focusing on EU VC and Lower Mid-Market GP’s, growing AuM from 500m to 18bn.
Since leaving EIF he has taken on a number of assignments, either occupying Board positions or providing advisory services. He is a member of the iNED club at LPEA.
Kai Aschick
Bio
Kai Aschick, CAIA, is the Private Markets Lead for BlackRock’s EMEA iShares & Wealth business. His focus is to drive the product strategy and positioning of BlackRock’s Private Markets and broader Alternatives capabilities to Wealth clients in the region.
Prior to joining BlackRock Kai spent several years with BHF-BANK, where he most recently focused on the distribution of the firm’s asset management capabilities to institutional investors. Kai holds a Master’s degree in Banking and Finance from the University of St. Gallen (HSG), a Bachelor’s degree from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, and is a qualified banking professional in Germany (Bankkaufmann).
Keith O'Donnell
Bio
A tax professional since 1988, Keith has experience in advising international groups on the design and implementation of global tax strategies. He was instrumental in designing pan european RE fund structures that are widely used today. Keith is a founding Partner and Managing Partner of ATOZ. He is actively involved in several key tax international bodies. Keith is chairman of the Luxembourg chapter of IFA, chair of the ALFI Tax Commission and member of other Luxembourg advisory and industry bodies. Keith is also a Taxand board member.
Keith is a regular author and speaker at professional and academic conferences. He studied law then qualified as a Tax Adviser and a Chartered Accountant in Ireland and Luxembourg, and has completed numerous post-qualification lifelong learning education programmes.
Keith is a board member of Luxembourg Art Week, the Executive Club of Luxembourg and a number of private companies.
Michele Raba
Bio
Michele Rabà is the Lead Partner for European Private Equity at Apollo, having joined in 2010. Since he joined Apollo, Mr. Rabà has been involved in various private equity transactions, including Gala Coral, Braas Monier, Watches of Switzerland, Nova KBM, Oldenburgische Landesbank, Gamenet, Lottomatica, Reno De Medici, Allwyn, Ingenico and The Travel Corporation.
Mr. Rabà currently serves as a director of The Travel Corporation, Ingenico, Reno De Medici, Oldenburgische Landesbank and Lottomatica. Mr. Rabà is a former board member of Watches of Switzerland, Gamenet, Allwyn, Nova KBM, Abanka, Summit Leasing Slovenia and KBS Banka, among others.
Prior to joining Apollo, Mr. Rabà was with Goldman Sachs International in the Financial Institutions Group within the Investment Banking Division, based in London. Mr. Rabà graduated from Bocconi University where he earned both his BA in Financial Institutions and Markets and his MSc in Finance. In 2019, Mr. Rabà was selected by Private Equity News and Financial News as one of the 25 rising stars of European private equity and in 2024 he was selected as one of the 40 Future Leaders by Private Equity International.
Nicolas Milerioux
Bio
Nicolas leads the Venture Capital efforts at Encevo. As such, he is responsible of scouting and selecting innovative solutions for our business units across the entire Encevo Group as well as, when relevant, conduct a number of hand-picked equity in early stage companies on the European market and preferably at Series A stage.
Pedro Alonso-Lamberti
Bio
Senior Portfolio Manager responsible for Eur 10 Bn AuM with a focus on Infrastructure and Private Equity, encompassing both indirect and direct strategies.
Previous 10 years of experience were deployed in senior and management positions within transaction advisory –dealing with valuation, business modelling, project financing and M&A-, of Big 4 firms based in Madrid, Latin America and Luxembourg focusing on renewable energies (solar, wind, hydro, biomass) and core infrastructures (gas -transportation and generation-, underground, mining, toll roads, ports).
Raman Rajagopal
Bio
Raman Rajagopal is a Senior Client Portfolio Manager dedicated to Invesco’s global private credit group, which includes capabilities across broadly syndicated loans, CLO’s, direct lending and distressed credit.
Mr. Rajagopal joined Invesco in 2016. With Invesco, he has held roles focusing on private markets asset classes as well as in corporate strategy. Mr. Rajagopal was previously a management consultant with Accenture, where he concentrated on wealth and asset management companies. Prior to Accenture, he worked in asset management roles with Oppenheimer and Morgan Stanley. He began his career as a corporate attorney with Paul Hastings LLP, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Rajagopal earned a BS degree with university honors from Carnegie Mellon University and a JD from the University of Southern California Law Scho
Sara Huda
Bio
Sara Huda is a Managing Director and Head of Investment Services at EQT. Sara also serves as a board member of EQT Fund Management Sarl, EQT’s regulated investment manager.
Prior to EQT, Sara was Head of Luxembourg at the Carlyle Group, overseeing Carlyle’s European investment structures and its regulated investment fund manager. Sara was also a deals and fund tax advisor at PwC for 12 years, working in Australia, New York and Luxembourg.
Sara currently serves on the board of the Luxembourg Association of Funds, the main industry body for asset managers in Luxembourg. She is an admitted solicitor in Australia and holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Applied Finance from Macquarie University Sydney.
Stephane Pesch
Bio
Stephane Pesch is the CEO of the Luxembourg Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (LPEA)
Stephane Pesch, studied Finance and Business administration in France and finished his studies with an exchange program in the US. After some experiences in the media sector, Stephane joined the financial services and investment funds industry in 2005. He worked for various banks (BNP Paribas, KBL and Sal. Oppenheim) in different Sales, client- and product-centric positions. He switched afterwards to an international PSF providing specialised PE & VC services for which he led the business development activities in Europe. He was able to participate over the last years in the tremendous growth of the PE/VC asset classes in Luxembourg and of the LPEA via different active roles in Technical Committees. After many years as a member, he professionally joined the association in October 2019 as Director of Strategy and started working on key missions including public advocacy, thought leadership and the attraction of talents. With his team he launched the LPEA Training Academy in 2020 and took over in September the role of CEO, pursuing LPEA’s core mission of promoting, defending and representing the Private Capital industry and community.
Yannick Oswald
Dominique Gaillard
Alexandre Falin
Aurelien Roelens
Dusan Stojanovic
Charlotte Boon
Christophe Verboomen
Claus Mansfeldt
Claude de Raismes
Julien Marencic
Gwen Colin
Eleonore de Potesta
Helene Noublanche
Fabrice Jeusette
Gautier Laurent
Jeremy Shure
Lex Delles
Julien Marencic
Martine Kerschenmeyer
Joaquín Ruiz
John Sharkey
Kostas Tsiveriotis
Michael McGraw
Olivier Gerard
Michael Hoffmann
Marjut Falkstedt
Michel Rzonzef
Owen Reynolds
Sam Boughton
Richard Reis
Philippe Nyssen
Rajaa Mekouar
Sasha Baillie
Benjamin Sabatier
Catherine Pogorzelski
Vanessa Grüneklee
Victor Martin Garcia
Christian Couturier
Daniela Klasen Martin
Diana Meyel
Dominique Gaillard
Ellen Koska
Ertan Can
Ehsan Haghighi
Estelle Godard
François Pfister
Jean-Baptiste Bourdié
Jean-François Findling
Jean Winckler
Jerome Wittamer
Joé Lamesch
Jose Maria Campos Donderis
Karanvir Dhillon
Laurent Hengesch
Laura Zahren
Manon Aubry
Oliver Heiland
Owen Reynolds
Pascal Bouvier
Patrizia Luchetta
Philippe Harles
Rene Beltgens
Riccardo del Tufo
Riccardo Zorzetto
Thijs Povel
Thomas Lanigra
Valeriia Kotsur
Yves Wampach
Ydie Yuan
Antonis Anastasiou
Ashley H. Smith
Benoît Moulin
Bert Boerman
Christian Heinen
Christophe Bianco
Fouad El Berkani
Frederic Kemp
Frederic Vezon
Gaëlle Schneider-Paoli
Guillaume Michelet
Isabell de Wit
Jamie Nascimento
Janusz Weretko
Jean-Philippe Gireaud
Kai Braun
Leonhard Kossmann
Maciej Waloszyk
Marceau Visano
Michael Aldridge
Michel Lempicki
Mohamed Oumina
Pascal Hernalsteen
Prof. Dr. Florian Feltes
Rob Boerman
Robin Ledoux
Romain Swertvaeger
Thibaut Chollet
Victor Martin
Violeta Poledica
GPs & LPs Attending LPEA Insights
3i Investments (Luxembourg) S.A.
3xP Global
Adams Street Partners
Advent International
Allianz Capital Partners
āltitude
Antin INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICE LUXEMBOURG II
Antwort Capital S.A.
Apax Management Luxembourg Sarl
APEX Ventures
Apollo
Argos Wityu
Armen
Aviva Investors Luxembourg
Bain Capital
Barings
Batipart Invest
BC Partenrs
BI-Invest Endowment Management S.à r.l. / Investindustrial
BIP Capital Partners
BlackRock
Blackstone
Blisce
BTD Management Sarl
Buyck Family Advisory Office
Calista Direct Investors
Capitaliply
Castik Capital
Castlelake Luxembourg
Catalpa Ventures SARL
Cedrus partners
Chanel
Chenavari Investment Managers
Cinven
Cipio Partners sàrl
CIR INTERNATIONAL
Coller Capital
Coller Investment Company Luxembourg
Converginvest Capital Partners S.A.
Core Equity Holdings
Cromwell Property Group
Cube Infrastructure
CVC
DIVEdigital GmbH
Earlybird Venture Capital
Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity
EIF
Elaia
Elliott Management Corporation
Emerging Europe Advisors S.á.r.l.
Encevo
EQT
Eurizon Capital Real Asset SGR
European Innovation Council
EIB
Expon Capital
Fidelity
Finance in Motion GmbH
Foyer Assurances
GBL Luxembourg
Genii Capital
Gestron Asset Management
Golding Capital Partners
GP Bullhound
Hungarian Development Bank
ICG
IEE, International Electronics & Engineering S.A.
IK Investment Partners
Luxembourg S.à.r.l.
Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital
Inovia Capital
Investindustrial
Jalad Pty Ltd (Family Office)
Jamon Investments
Jera Capital
Karista
LëtzHodl
Lion Ventures Holding
Lombard International Assurance SA
Luxempart S.A.
M&G Investments
Magnum Industrial Partners
MANGROVE CAPITAL PARTNERS
Marguerite
Mikro Kapital Management S.A.
Moondare
Natixis Investment Managers
NewSpace Capital GP SA
NextWorld Services
Nordcap.lu SARL
Nordea Asset Management
Norvestor Investment Management S.à r.l.
ORAXYS – Environmental Private Equity
PAI PARTNERS SARL LUXEMBOURG
Partners Group
pm2partners / R3i capital
Porsche Ventures
Portolani
POST Capital
Providence
R3i Ventures
Radix Ventures
Rothschild & Co Investment Managers
Satgana
ScaleFund
Schroder Investment Management
SCN Invest
SEB AB
SEDIAC SA
SES
Sienna
Sofina
Souschef Ventures
Statkraft Ventures
Stonehage Fleming
Structure Capital
SwanCap Investment Management S.A.
Teklas Ventures
THE UNTITLED VENTURES
Three Hills
Triton Partners
Trois I S.A.
True Global Ventures
Union Investment Luxembourg S.A.
Vauban Infrastructure Partners
Vedihold
Vertevis Capital Partners GmbH
Vesalius Biocapital IV Partners
Volta Ventures
Wealins SA
Wendel
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Other Exhibitors
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