SIMCo Credit Asia-Pacific Limited
SIMCo Credit Asia-Pacific Limited (SIMCAP) has obtained a Hong Kong Type 9 licence and will serve as the investment manager for a Hong-Kong based fund upon its launch. SIMCAP will provide strategic portfolio management, risk management, compliance, and credit origination services.
SIMCAP is wholly owned by SIMCo with an office and experienced team based in Hong Kong.
SIMCAP team
- Joined in July 2022, working with new and existing investors across SIMCo’s products and responsible for evaluating and proposing new strategies.
- Nearly 30 years’ experience in investment management, principal investments, and investment banking, including equity capital markets and M&A.
- Led extensive fund-raising and new product development activities, including at InfraRed Capital Partners, notably the launch of Europe’s leading listed renewables infrastructure fund, TRIG, and at Swiss Life Asset Managers Real Estate.
- Prior senior roles at Macquarie Capital and GE in both Europe and Asia.
- MBA from INSEAD; MA in Classics from the University of Oxford.
▪ 15 years’ experience in investment management of infrastructure and private equity
▪ Was Director of infrastructure investments at Ping An, the leading Chinese insurer, researching
and executing fund investments and co-investments globally
▪ Previously a partner at Cobalt Equity Partners, the spin-out of the GE Equity private equity
platform, where he spent 6 years earlier in his career, based in Hong Kong
▪ Had roles in private equity at Sin Capital and Advantage Partners in Hong Kong
▪ MBA from University of Chicago; MPA and BBA (Accounting & Finance) from University of Hong
Kong; CFA (all three levels)
▪ 12 years’ experience in financial compliance roles in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom,
including leading process implementation and ongoing monitoring activities
▪ Previously Compliance Officer in Hong Kong at Acwires, an alternative investment management
platform and was the compliance lead at Bullish Capital in Hong Kong
▪ Earlier in his career had roles in banking compliance in Hong Kong with HSBC and with RBS Ulster
Bank in the UK
▪ BSc in Marketing and Advanced Diploma in Management from the University of Ulster
SIMCAP non-executive directors
- Founding Partner, Chief Investment Officer, and member of SIMCo’s Investment Committee.
- Drives SIMCo’s strategy, product offerings, and fundraising activities.
- Over 30 years of experience in the capital markets and a broad range of expertise in the international and domestic credit markets and infrastructure debt markets across three continents.
- Previously served on the Board of Directors and as Head of Structured Finance for LCF Rothschild, and with Morgan Stanley as Head of Euro-Credit Market Strategy.
- Institutional Investor-ranked industrial credit analyst with CS First Boston (energy & transportation).
- MBA from The George Washington University; BSc from the University of Maryland; passed all three levels of CFA.
- Former US Army 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne); Ranger qualified.
- Founding Partner and member of SIMCo’s Investment Committee.
- Primarily responsible for structuring SIMCo’s funds and portfolio and balance sheet oversight.
- Over 20 years of infrastructure debt experience across origination, structuring, and execution of all types of infrastructure, commercial property, asset-backed and whole business transactions in the bank and bond markets.
- Over his career has advised major issuers on raising funding, restructurings and workouts, working with companies in infrastructure, utilities, property, leisure, healthcare, and private equity funds globally.
- Formerly headed infrastructure and securitisations teams at UBS and Morgan Stanley.
- MA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.
- Founding Partner and a member of SIMCo’s Investment Committee.
- Oversees and leads origination of infrastructure debt opportunities.
- Over 35 years of experience leading teams across Europe in investment banking, commercial lending, and the transfer of loan assets into capital markets, spanning project finance and infrastructure sectors such as shipping, construction, and real estate.
- Former Head of Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group at Société Générale, as well as Head of Structured Solutions at Nomura International.
- During his 16-year tenure at Morgan Stanley, served as the Head of Debt Capital Markets Financial Institutions Structured Solutions.
- MA in French Literature from the University of Oxford.
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