On the 29th of September, Calista Direct Investors held a VIP Dinner with its board and closely knit Family Offices as well as selected PE investors.
September 29, 2021
On the 29th of September, Calista Direct Investors held a VIP Dinner with its board and closely knit Family Offices as well as selected PE investors.
The evening started with a cocktail at Cercle Munster Library, where our guests could meet each other. This pre-dinner time gave our friends the time to talk to their old acquaintances and connect with new people.
Our Chairman, Serge de Ganay, opened the seated dinner part with his insightful views on PE and on how our founder, Rajaa Mekouar, captures the essence of what it means to help Family Offices invest in this growing asset class by partnering with them.
The seated dinner included the discussion of three attractive themes:
Mr. Norbert Becker surprised us when he wrapped the speaking part of the evening with his speech around what t takes to succeed for a firm like Calista
Passion - Patience - Execution.
Our guests then stayed to continue exciting conversations until midnight.
Calista was honoured to host such incredible professionals and role models in the sector and appreciated that people traveled from different continents to join the Calista team that memorable night.
Francis Bento
CEO & Founder of Divergent Investments
Francis Bento is a renowned investor with 30 years of experience, first as a senior derivatives trader at international investment banks, then at INTER IKEA as a PE executive advisor. He grew up in Luxembourg and lives across 4 continents. Francis recently founded Divergent Investments, an independent PE fund. He is a Private Equity lecturer at leading Universities in Europe.
Nadav Berger
Founder & Managing Director
PeakBridge
Nadav is a third-generation food entrepreneur, actively built companies specializing in food applications, marketing and distribution. In 2008, Nadav co-founded the food applications lab FoodLab. The innovative developments at FoodLab lead to the founding FoodLab Capital, a premier seed fund. Nadav holds a B.A in economics and political science from Tel Aviv University and an EMBA from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management.
Erich Sieber
Founder & Managing Director
PeakBridge
Erich has 18 years of experience as a Partner with Nestlé’s strategic venture fund manager. Formerly, Erich was an executive at Nestlé, the World Economic Forum, and the German Finance Ministry. Erich holds a B.A.in business, economics, and law from HSG University of St Gallen, Switzerland, a tri-lingual MBA of EAP-ESCP (Paris-Oxford-Berlin), and an L.LM. in financial law of Geneva University, Switzerland.
Dr. Stefan Larson Ph.D.
Partner
Sectoral Asset Management
Stefan joined Sectoral in 2018 as Partner - Private Equity, responsible for leading biotechnology private equity investments and is a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Also, he serves as a director on the boards of Pipeline Therapeutics, Prilenia Therapeutics, eFFECTOR Therapeutics and Turnstone Biologics. Stefan graduated in 1997 from McGill University with a B.Sc. in Biology, and in 1999 from University of Toronto with an M.Sc.in Molecular and Medical Genetics. He completed his Ph.D. in Biophysics at Stanford University in 2004.