Hamilton Lane Incorporated Announces Executive Appointments
May 19, 2021 at 01:30 pm IST
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Hamilton Lane Incorporated announced that Managing Director Ralph Aerni has joined the firm as Head of European Sales, leading institutional business development efforts across continental Europe. At Mercer, Aerni served as global Co-CIO, Chairman of the IC and business development in Europe. Most recently, he was the Head of Business Development at a European investment management firm. Freddie Gore Browne and Rainer Kobler have also joined as Vice Presidents on the Private Wealth distribution team. They will focus on further broadening the distribution of the firm's Global Private Assets Fund, open to high net worth and wholesale investors in parts of Europe. Gore Browne is responsible for capital raising from private wealth channels including private banks and family offices and will be based in the UK. He joined the firm after founding and managing a food business, Prime. Previously, he served as a VP with Pinebridge Investments, where he ran intermediary sales in the UK and France. Kobler is responsible for capital raising from private wealth channels, including banks, asset managers and family offices, and will be based in Switzerland. Prior to Hamilton Lane, Kobler worked at Partners Group in Zug between 2014 and 2021, where he was part of the Client Solutions Team covering distribution partners across Europe.
Hamilton Lane Incorporated is a private markets investment company providing solutions to institutional and private wealth investors around the world. The Company offers a variety of investment solutions to address its clients' needs across a range of private markets, including private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, natural resources, growth equity, venture capital and impact. These solutions are constructed from a range of investment types, including primary investments in funds managed by third-party managers, direct investments alongside such funds and acquisitions of secondary stakes in such funds, with a number of its clients utilizing multiple investment types. These solutions are offered in a variety of formats covering some or all phases of private markets investment programs, which include customized separate accounts, specialized funds, advisory services, distribution management, and reporting, monitoring, data and analytics.