Barbara Rupf Bee
Head of EMEA, Allianz Global Investors
Barbara Rupf Bee is Head of Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Allianz Global Investors, and a member of the firm’s International Management Group and Global Distribution Committee. Barbara joined AllianzGI in 2019 from UBS, where she led its wealth management business in Germany. Previously, she served as the Head of EMEA Global Client Group at Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management responsible for distribution and business development. Before this, Barbara spent eight years in the UK, most recently as Chief Executive Officer of Renaissance Asset Managers Group, a specialist asset manager focused on Emerging Europe, Russia and Africa. Prior to Renaissance, she worked for almost 10 years for the HSBC Group. Her roles included Global Head of Institutional Sales for HSBC Global Asset Management and CEO of HSBC Alternative Investments Ltd, the investment advisor to HSBC’s fund of hedge funds and institutional client portfolios. Barbara started her financial services career in private banking at J.P. Morgan. Barbara is a graduate of the San Jose State University where she gained a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. She also holds a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Banking from Swiss Finance Institute.
Valentina Clarke
Vice President, CEPRES GmbH
Valentina Clarke is Vice President and Senior Invest-Technology Consultant at CEPRES. She is responsible for quantitative financial analytics and institutional client delivery across the Americas and Europe for key CEPRES clients. She works with several of the worldwide largest institutional Asset Management and Investment Companies and applies technology and data driven investment solutions for them. From the start of her career Valentina has grown with this decades’ accelerating demand for professional invest-technology mixed with fundamental Private Equity Data that is the basis of modern portfolio and investment management in private markets today. Prior to this, Valentina has specialized in predictive intelligence that is applied for portfolio forecasting and risk modelling and a pioneer with CEPRES to innovate this market. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Regensburg and completed her master’s in Management and Finance at WBS in London.
Raluca Jochmann
Managing Director and Head of Alternatives and Portfolio Solutions, Allianz Global Investors
Raluca Jochmann is Managing Director and Head of Alternatives and Portfolio Solutions at Allianz Global Investors. Her main responsibility is the development and delivery of advice and custom solutions on asset allocation, commitment planning, portfolio construction and monitoring of multi-alternatives private markets portfolios. Furthermore, Raluca is responsible for bespoke portfolio solutions mandates across traditional and alternative assets. Raluca joined Allianz Global Investors in 2010. Previously, she worked in the Investment Consulting practice at Hymans Robertson in the UK and in the Securities and Finance practice at NERA in New York. Raluca has a bachelor’s degree in economics and international relations from Mount Holyoke College and a master’s degree in internal economics from Konstanz University. She is a CFA charterholder.
Christian Subbe
CIO, Frankfurter Leben-Gruppe
Christian Subbe is Chief Investment Office (CIO) of Frankfurter Leben-Gruppe. He takes responsibility for investments as a member of the Management Board. He has 25 years of experience in the financial industry, including 10 years working as a consultant to the pension and insurance industry as well as 11 years working as a fixed income and currency fund manager. Before Christian joined Frankfurter Leben-Gruppe he worked for Allianz Global Investors in its Global Solutions and the Multi Asset department. Prior to that he was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Deka Investment for Global Fixed Income and Emerging Markets as well as currencies. Christian completed a master’s degree in economics at the University of Heidelberg and is a Certifed European Financial Analyst (CEFA/DVFA).
Olga Braun-Cangl
Senior Portfolio Manager, Allianz GIobal Investors
Olga Braun-Cangl is a Senior Portfolio Manager at Allianz Global Investors based in Munich, Germany. Since 2008 she advised European institutional clients on the Alternative Investment products and implemented customised Private Markets solution. She contributed to shaping of AllianzGI’s Private Markets capabilities from the different investment roles in Munich and New York offices. In her current role she drives the development of the Private Debt effort at AllianzGI and serves institutional clients through creating customized Global Private Debt solutions and managing the Allianz Global Diversified Private Debt Fund. Previously, Olga was a portfolio manager and hedge fund analyst at Berenberg Bank and UniCredit. She earned her Master of Science from the University of Munich in 2002 and continuously continued her professional education completing dedicated alternative investment programs, such as ebs Hedge Funds advanced program (2005), CAIA (2011) and ILPA Private Equity executive education (2018).
