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Alessandro Ciravegna
MA MML, University of Cambridge
Alessandro Ciravegna has 31 years experience in financial markets. He began his career at Merrill Lynch in London and subsequently joined Citigroup in various investment advisory and business management functions in London, Milan, Athens and New York. In 2002, he founded New College Capital Ltd to provide specialist investment advice to European investors.
T: +44 (0)207 4958720
E: ac@newcoll.com
Rob Reoch
MA Chinese Studies and Law, University of Cambridge
Rob Reoch is a seasoned financial services professional with over three decades of experience spanning banking, corporate and investment advisory, asset management, and financial technology. Rob began his career at J.P. Morgan in corporate advisory (1986–1993) before taking a pioneering role in the development of the credit derivatives and structured credit markets in 1994. In 2001 he founded a specialist consulting practice, delivering strategic, transactional, and operational expertise to the structured finance sector. Since 2010, Rob has been actively engaged in the FinTech space with a focus on alternative lending and advising innovative financial technology firms. From 2016-2024 he ran digital strategy for HSBC’s Institutional Sales division. With a unique blend of institutional and entrepreneurial experience, Rob brings strategic insight, governance expertise, and a deep understanding of financial markets, risk management, and technology innovation.
T: +44 (0)207 4958720
E: rr@newcoll.com
Lokhi Banerji PhD
PhD Finance, Harvard University
Lokhi Banerji has 30 years experience in financial markets. He began his career at Chase Manhattan Bank where he spent 15 years in foreign exchange and treasury functions including Head of Foreign Exchange Trading and Treasury in Chicago and Tokyo. He subsequently joined Citigroup in London as CPB Treasurer. At Citigroup, he was involved in structuring some of the industry’s first ABS vehicles. In 1998 he joined Pareto Partners where he set up and managed an in-house CDO vehicle.
T: +44 (0)207 4958720
E: lb@newcoll.com
Milan S. Morjaria
BSc. (Hons) Economics, London School of Economics, London
Milan has 25 years experience in financial markets in Europe and Asia. He joined Citibank as a graduate trainee and during his career fulfilled FX and interest rate trading, investment management and business management roles. In 2001 Milan moved to Geneva Switzerland to manage Citigroup’s UHNW and family office franchise. In 2010 Milan founded MSM Investment Advisors S.A. In Geneva to provide financial advisory and investment management services to family offices and institutional investors.
T: +41 22 8173700
E: milan@msmiam.ch
Raffaello Nemni
MA Economics, Universita’ Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Milan
Raffaello has 30 years experience in private banking as an advisor to UHNWIs and as senior executive. He started his career in a Family Office where he spent 10 years specialising in asset allocation, fixed income/currency trading and manager selection. From 2001 until 2007 he was one of the founding members of the UK team at UBS Wealth Management focusing on servicing UHNW & Family Offices. From 2008-2014, he set up and ran the UK Resident Non-Domiciled business at Credit Suisse. Since then, Raffaello held leadership roles at HSBC Group as a Managing Director in charge of UHNW in the UK Private Banking division, and Deutsche Bank as MD – Head of UK Coverage team.
T: +44 7815 207 691
E: rn@newcoll.com
Maurizio Sella
MA Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome
Maurizio has more than 28 years experience in financial markets gained principally while working at Citibank and Julius Baer in London, Rome and Switzerland where he held positions with responsibility for client management and country management. In 2007 Maurizio was one of the founders and assumed the position of CEO of the first peer-to-peer financial institution in Italy. In addtion to his role at New College Capital, Maurizio continues in his role as CEO of Smartika SpA, Italy’s leading peer-to-peer consumer lender.
T: +44 (0)207 4958720
E: ms@newcoll.com
Alexandros Rammos
BA Business Administration, Webster University, Leiden, Netherlands
Alexandros has 20 years experience in financial markets. In 1990, his family founded Pegasus Securities in Athens, a brokerage company which rose to prominence by eventually becoming one of the largest privately owned retail brokerage houses in Greece with a client base in excess of 55,000. Alexandros worked his way through the company eventually becoming CEO in 2009 until 2011 when he left the company. In 2014 he became Managing Partner of Versal Investment Services, an independent investment advisor in Athens. He joined New College Capital in October 2015 mainly focusing on compliance and business development.
T: +44 (0)207 4958720E: ar@newcoll.com
Amit Saxena
MBA Bristol University- UK, Engg - Manipal, India
Amit began his banking career as a corporate banker with Citigroup in Singapore and has since held key positions as a Private Banker with Credit Suisse (based out of Dubai, UAE) and Barclays Wealth (based out of UK) where he successfully built a strong client franchise business focusing on UNHW African and Global NRI clients providing them with Structured Finance and Wealth Management solutions. His deep market insight and extensive expertise in Corporate and Investment banking will be instrumental in building our MSM – NCC Strategic Partnership in London, Geneva and Dubai.
T: +44 (0)207 4958720
E: as@newcoll.com
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