Joana Castro
VP Investment Selection, Private Equity, Unigestion
Joana Castro is Vice President within the Private Equity team. She joined Unigestion in September 2016. Joana began her career in 2007 in investment banking at Goldman Sachs. In 2010, she joined the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) as Senior Analyst focusing on private equity funds investments and became Principal at EBRD in 2013. Joana graduated in economics from Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, Portugal.
Eric Cockshutt
Director, Head of RFP & Responsible Investment Coordinator, Unigestion
Eric Cockshutt, Director, is Responsible Investment Coordinator and Head of RFP at Geneva based Unigestion. He joined the firm in October 2013.
Eric began his career in 1985 in Investment Advisory at Financial Concept Group Inc. In 1996, he joined Trimark Investment Management Inc. in Toronto as Vice President, Sales focusing on independent advisors and became Vice President, Inside Sales at AIM Trimark in 2002. Eric then assumed the role of Vice President, Sales Solutions at Invesco Trimark in 2004 and was responsible for sales positioning and advisor education programs.
Eric has also served as Chair of the Presbyterian Church of Canada’s Board of Trustees and its Investment Advisory Committee and as a member of its Pension Board overseeing $250 million in assets.
Eric holds a B.A. (Econ) from Huron College, University of Western Ontario in London, Canada and CSC (Honours) from the Canadian Securities Institute.
Angela de Wolff
Founding Partner, Conser Invest and Co-Founder, Sustainable Finance Geneva
Angela de Wolff is co-founder of Sustainable Finance Geneva (
www.sfgeneva.org
), a non-profit association which aims to promote responsibility and sustainability in finance. She held the Presidency from 2008 to 2011 and is still active in the executive committee.
Angela de Wolff has been involved in the financial sector for 20 years, 12 of which in the field of sustainable investment. Angela is a founding partner of Conser Invest, an independent advisory and asset management firm (
www.conser.ch
) dedicated to sustainable investment solutions for private and institutional clients since 2007.
She began her career as a consultant with Andersen Consulting. In 1994, she was taken on as a senior financial analyst in the Research Department at Darier Hentsch & Cie. From 2002 to 2006, she was Head of the SRI team at Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch.
In 2010 she has been elected as Board Director of “Banque Cantonale de Genève” (BCGE).
Ms. Angela de Wolff obtained a Master in economics from the Lausanne University in 1989 and a Master's in international management from IFOR-Bocconi (Milan) in 1990. She became a Certified European Financial Analyst (CEFA) in 2000.
Fiona Frick
CEO, Unigestion
Fiona Frick is the Chief Executive Officer of Unigestion. She began her career at Unigestion in 1990, initially as a fundamental analyst covering traditional asset classes, subsequently taking on more senior positions as investment manager for high yield and convertible bond funds. In 1995, at the request of Unigestion’s CEO, she led the development of the company’s equity activity, based on the Minimum Variance anomaly, and started developing and heading a dedicated Equity team. As Head of the Equity team, she was responsible for the development of the approach as well as the implementation of the investment process. Fiona was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Unigestion in January 2011. She remains involved in the company’s equity activity as Chairman of the Equity Investment Committee. Fiona holds a Master of Business Administration from the Institut Supérieur de Gestion in Paris and graduated with a degree in Literature and Philosophy from the University of Dijon. She has also completed a number of executive education programmes at IMD Business School in Lausanne.
Maria Musiela
Investment Specialist, Equities, Unigestion
Maria Musiela, Senior Vice President, is Investment Specialist in the Equities team. She joined Unigestion in October 2015. Maria began her career in 1998 as Financial Analyst/Trader at Credit Suisse Asset Management in Sydney, initially in the Fixed Income team and later in Equities. In 2004, she transferred to Credit Suisse Asset Management in London, as Quantitative Analyst focusing on Equities. In 2009, Maria joined the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority, which later became known as the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) Corporation. She joined initially as an Investment Research Analyst, and later became Head of Quantitative Research and finally in 2012, Head of Market Risk and Asset Allocation. Maria holds a Masters in Finance from Imperial College London as well as a BSc in Commerce and a BSc in Science from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Alexandre Marquis
Head of Investment Specialists, Unigestion
Alexandre Marquis, Senior Vice President, is Head of Investment Specialists within the Equities team. He joined Unigestion in November 2012. Alexandre began his career in 2010 in Securitisation at Credit Agricole CIB Paris. In 2011, he joined Credit Agricole CIB New York as Portfolio Analyst focusing on Transaction Modeling and Reporting Automation. Alexandre holds a Master in Science from Ecole Centrale Nantes in France where he graduated with a specialisation in IT and Finance.
