Hugues Lepic is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer and the Chair of the Investment Committee. Prior to founding Aleph, he spent 22 years at Goldman Sachs where he was the Head of the Merchant Banking Division in Europe. He spent most of his career building the Principal Investment Area and Merchant Banking franchises of Goldman Sachs in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and established Goldman Sachs as one of the leading principal investors in Europe in private equity, credit, and infrastructure investing.

Hugues holds an MSc from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Ben Freeman is the Chief Financial Officer. Previously, he spent 11 years at Bridgepoint, in the non-investment side of the business as the Finance Director, and more recently in a portfolio management role. Prior to that, he was the Finance Director of an AIM listed investment company.

Ben is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a BA in Economics from the University of Manchester.

Jean de Pourtales is a Managing Director. Previously, he enjoyed a 24 year career at Goldman Sachs where he worked in the Mergers and Acquisition advisory business in London, Paris and New York, before joining the Principal Investment Area at its inception in London in 1992. In 1997 he moved to the Real Estate Principal Investment Area in Europe, which he then co-headed from 2010.

Jean holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Merton College, Oxford University.

Maneesh Sharma is a Managing Director. Previously, Maneesh worked as an independent investment consultant on a number of private equity investments. Prior to that, he was at Lazard, where he completed a wide range of M&A and financing transactions.

Maneesh holds a BSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Justine Dobbs-Higginson is a Managing Director and is responsible for Investor Relations. Previously she spent ten years in investment banking, where she worked at Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank and ten years raising alternative assets at Co-Investment Capital LLP, which she founded in 2007.

Justine holds a BA in International Politics & Economics from Middlebury College, USA.

Jamie Rahamim is a Managing Director. Previously, he was responsible for deal origination and execution in the private equity team at RIT Capital. Before joining RIT, Jamie worked as both an Analyst and an Associate at UBS, advising on a range of M&A, equity and debt capital market transactions.

Jamie holds a BA in Modern Languages from the University of Bristol and has a Masters in Finance degree From London Business School.

Gabriele Galli is a Principal. He was previously responsible for structuring and underwriting financings in the Leveraged Finance team of Bank of America – Merrill Lynch. Before that he spent many years in the Leveraged Finance and M&A teams at Deutsche Bank advising European corporates and financial sponsors on a number of M&A, financing and equity capital market transactions.

Gabriele graduated cum laude with an MSc in Finance at Bocconi University in Milan.

Carl Olsson is a Director. Previously, he worked with the Nordic Investment Banking Coverage team at Nomura in London.

Carl holds an MSc in Finance from ESADE Business School and a BSc in Business Administration from Stockholm University.

Junaid Khan is an Associate. Before joining Aleph, he worked in the Diversified Industries Investment Banking Coverage team at J.P. Morgan in London.

Junaid holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Warwick.

Giovanni Guidotti is an Associate. Before joining Aleph, he was at Barclays, where he worked across the M&A and FIG & FinTech Groups in London.

Giovanni holds a BSc in Business Administration from Bocconi University and a Double MSc in International Management from Bocconi and Fudan University.

Sophie Lanfranc is Executive Assistant to Hugues Lepic. Previously, she held positions supporting senior executives at PrePay Solutions, Condé Nast Jonhansens, Christie’s and Discovery Channels.

Sophie holds a degree from the INALCO and studied Anthropology at University Paris VIII.

Sandina Pozzuto is Executive Assistant to the Investment and Fundraising Teams. Sandina has over 20 years’ administrative experience within the financial sector and holds a PRINCE2 Project Management Practitioner qualification.