PODIUM Geneva

📅 13 May 2025 (13:15-19:30)

📍Metropole Hotel Geneva 

Since 2016, SPHERE has connected the Swiss financial community, offering professionals a platform through newsletters, a website, a magazine, and events covering key financial topics. Over 3,000 wealth management professionals have participated in its Geneva and Zurich events, solidifying SPHERE as a leading media platform and event organizer for wealth managers.

In 2025, SPHERE unveils PODIUM, an innovative afternoon event culminating in a networking cocktail. Investment services/products providers will present impactful pitches on diverse themes in a plenary session, followed by focused roundtables fostering meaningful connections with investors. Original conferences will explore practical challenges faced by investors, enriching the program.

PODIUM’s dynamic format combines engaging presentations with tailored networking opportunities, addressing the needs of asset managers and investors in a focused, collaborative setting.

TOPICS COVERED

  • Venture Capital, Growth Equity, Secondary Market, Evergreen
  • Energy Transition, Infrastructure & Natural Resources
  • Private Debt, Infrastructure, Real Estate, Hedge Funds, Digital Assets

PARTNERS

CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION

This event is exclusively dedicated to qualified investment professionals: independent wealth managers (EAM), single and multi family offices, investment decision makers in banks, pension funds and institutional consultants.

PROGRAM (full programme coming soon)

Power talks - Private Equity

Why is the generational shift at the helm of European SMEs an opportunity for investors?

Tanguy Tauzinat

Tanguy Tauzinat

Co-Founder, Trajan

Before co-founding Trajan in 2018, Tanguy was a Director at Andera, where he worked for 6 years as part of the Mid-Cap team. He had previously worked for 2 years at the investment bank Messier Maris & Associés and for one year in the project financing teams of Société Générale in New York.

Navigating Private Secondary Market

Nicolas Renauld

Nicolas Renauld

Global Head of Private Markets, CA Indosuez

Based in Geneva, Nicolas is Global Head of Private Markets for the Indosuez Wealth Management Group. Before joining Indosuez, Nicolas began his career at PwC in 2002 and then at Ardian in 2006. He joined Indosuez in Switzerland in 2008 and was actively involved in the launch and development of the private markets platform and took responsibility for global investments. Nicolas holds a Master’s degree in Finance from Kedge Business School and a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from ICN Artem Business School.

Why Are Private Markets Going Evergreen?

Vai Rajan

Vai Rajan

Managing Director, Head of EMEA Private Wealth, EQT Group

Vai Rajan joined EQT Partners in August 2021 and is a Managing Director in the Client Relations & Capital Raising Team, responsible for EMEA Private Wealth.

Previously, Vai was a Principal at HarbourVest Partners in London, and a Product Specialist at HSBC Alternative Investments Ltd. prior to that. Vai worked in Geneva, New York, and Singapore before moving to London, and has focused on the research, selection, structuring, and distribution of private market investment opportunities to Family Offices and Private Banks since 2007.

Vai holds a Master of Science degree from Imperial College London (UK), a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College (NH, USA), and is a CFA Charterholder.

Power talks - Powering tomorrow

Backing midcap leaders of the low-carbon transition

Rodolphe Brumm

Rodolphe Brumm

Head of Infrastructure Private Equity, BNP Paribas Asset Management

Rodolphe Brumm is Head of the Private Infrastructure Equity group at BNPP AM Private Assets, which he joined in November 2023. He was previously Partner at Antin Infrastructure Partners’ €1.2bn NextGen fund, focused on energy transition assets. Prior to that, he led Origination and Execution in Europe for UBS AM Direct Equity Infrastructure, where he shifted the strategy towards digital and energy transition investments. His earlier roles include advising the sustainability-focused NextWorld Evergreen Fund in San Francisco, working as Managing Director at ARDIAN, and co-founding Cube Infrastructure Partners. Rodolphe holds master’s degrees from Stanford GSB, Sciences Po Paris, and Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas.

Powering tomorrow

Pierre Mouton

Pierre Mouton

Partner, Head of Long Only Investments, NS Partners

Pierre Mouton first joined NS Partners in 2003 and heads the Group’s Long Only Strategies. He is also member of the Asset Allocation Committee.
He started his financial career in1993 at AG2R La Mondiale, where he successively managed money-market, fixed-income and equity portfolios, before moving on in 2000 to Fiduciary Trust in Geneva as a Portfolio Manager. He then joined NS Partners in 2003 as Portfolio Manager. In 2004, he co-founded Messidor Finance, before returning to NS Partners in 2010. Pierre holds a Degree and a MSc in finance, actuarial studies and portfolio management from SKEMA Business School in Lille (France).

Power talks - Alternative investments

Contemporary art as a strategic asset

Hugo Rouast

Hugo Rouast

Head of Art Investment Advisory - Switzerland, Matis

Hugo Rouast has over ten years of expertise in asset management and investor relations. He has notably developed alternative co-investment opportunities in Switzerland and successfully expanded investor relations teams in Geneva and Zürich.

Investment Challenges and Trends in DeFi (Decentralized Finance)

Gonzague de La Tournelle

Gonzague de La Tournelle

General Partner at w3i & Associate Partner at Belem Capital

Based in Paris, Gonzague de La Tournelle began his career in digital media at AOL France, then launched a mobile ad network at Nokia, which he later spun off into Madvertise, a company listed on the French stock market in 2012 with $20M in revenue and teams across France, Germany, and Italy. He exited the company in 2022.

He is a Partner at French accelerator 50 Partners and a founding affiliate of True Global Ventures (TGV4), a global tech equity fund focused on blockchain. He also launched several digital asset funds, including w3i, w3index, w3i Hardware, and Belem Capital.

An active startup mentor and investor in over 20 companies, Gonzague has been involved in crypto since 2017. He graduated from CESEM Reims and ICADE Madrid in 1999.

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EVENT

PODIUM Geneva

DATE

13 May 2025

TIME

13:15 – 19:30

LOCATION

Metropole Hotel Geneva

REGISTRATION

Will open soon! contact SPHERE at +41 22 566 17 32 / events@sphere.swiss