Meet The Team

Hani Abuali

Partner & CEO

Hani is the former Chief Executive Officer of Petiole Asset Management AG, an independent multi-family office. Hani has over 30 years of experience in investment and finance.

He was previously Managing Director at Mount Kellett Capital, and Portfolio Manager at Polygon Investments. He was Managing Director at Morgan Stanley Asia, where he ran Proprietary Trading and co-headed Telecom Research (#1 ranking for five years 2000-2005 in Institutional Investor and Greenwich). Hani started his career in finance in New York as an Oil & Gas research analyst with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Hani graduated from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Dwight Nelson

Partner US

Dwight Nelson is a Founding Partner of Basso Capital Management, where he has managed multi-strategy hedge funds and managed accounts since 1999 in addition to his own Family Office.

Previously Dwight was at Grace Brothers Ltd in Chicago, employed as a portfolio manager for a multi-strategy hedge fund.

Dwight graduated from the University of Chicago with honors in Economics.

Tom Pitts

Chairman of the Board

Tom has over 25 years experience in public and private markets on the buy- and sell-side, including DE Shaw, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. He has held a number of leadership positions across leverage finance, equity derivatives, cash equities, and private placements running distribution groups in both London and Hong Kong.

Tom is an Investment Committee Member and European Head of LionRock Capital in Hong Kong / Zurich. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and the Judge Institute.

Martin von Niederhäusern

Partner

Martin has a deep understanding of connecting entrepreneurs and companies with like-minded investors.

Previously Martin was part of Citigroup’s Global Capital Markets team where he covered private banks, pension funds, hedge funds and family offices. Earlier he held a global research equity sales role with Lehman Brothers and Nomura International in both Zurich and London. He started his professional career as a financial advisor for high-net-worth individuals at a Swiss private bank.

Martin is a graduate of the University of Applied Science Bern with a specialization in banking & finance.

Roger Tan

Partner Singapore

Roger is an entrepreneur and private equity investor with over 20 years of experience in commodities trading and private equity investments across various sectors in America, Europe and APAC.

Roger is a Partner and Board Member of the Club Estate, a global, independent, real estate boutique with in excess of $500mln in concluded transactions.

Roger is a Senior Advisor to Fraxtor, a Singapore prop-tech company, and an Advisor to St Katherine Group, a New York-based Real Estate Developer.

Roger is a graduate of the National University of Singapore and the Anderson School of Management at UCLA. He is currently completing his doctoral thesis at Singapore Management University part time.

Gregor Conrad

Partner

Gregor has a strong track record in the global financial industry and has had extensive exposure to China as an entrepreneur.

His financial expertise is showcased in being one of the founding partners of an investment boutique in Switzerland / China, which provides international asset management solutions. He started his career at Credit Suisse, and eventually joined Lombard Odier in Zurich as a private equity investment professional focusing on buyout and growth capital transactions across Europe.

Gregor is a graduate (MA Economics) of the University of St.Gallen and the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS).

Russ Steenberg

Senior Advisor

Russell Steenberg was Managing Director and Chairman of BlackRock Private Equity Partners (PEP), within BlackRock Equity Private Markets (EPM) in 2023 and previously Global Co-Head of BlackRock Private Equity Partners from 1999 – 2022. Mr. Steenberg was a member of BlackRock’s Global Operating Committee, EPM Executive Committee, BlackRock’s Alternative Solutions Investment Committee and BlackRock Investment Council. Mr. Steenberg founded PEP in 1999 when he joined Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), which merged with BlackRock in 2006. Mr. Steenberg has over 40 years of private equity investment experience. Prior to joining MLIM, Mr. Steenberg was a Co-Founder and a Managing Director of Fenway Partners, a middle-market buyout group. From 1983 until joining Fenway in 1995, Mr. Steenberg was employed by AT&T Investment Management Corporation (“ATTIMCO”), where he was co-head of the AT&T Pension Fund’s private equity investment portfolio. Mr. Steenberg has and currently serves on many private equity fund advisory boards. In addition, Mr. Steenberg serves on the Board of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) and the Board of Directors of the Lasker Foundation and a member of the Lasker Investment Committee. Mr. Steenberg earned a BA from St. Lawrence University, an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and an MPA from American University.

Romana Doser

Senior Advisor

Romana has in-depth knowledge of the European impact investor landscape and a strong understanding of the respective product offerings and market trends.

Romana spent 13 years with responsAbility’s Relationship Management Team where she was heading the Institutional Team Switzerland. responsAbility is known in the impact industry as the pioneer for social and environmental impact investments, the most sustainable form of investing. Romana started her professional career at UBS Wealth Management.

Romana is part of the management team of Swiss start-up Amenti, an independent software company for real estate developers.

Romana graduated from the University of Applied Sciences Bern with a specialization in banking & finance.

Benedict O’Halloran

Senior Advisor

Ben has over 30 years experience in M&A, finance and investment transactions across various industries. He handled M&A in Europe for GE Capital and the GE parent company for 12 years, was a partner at Jones Day and was Chief Legal Officer at Verisure.

Ben is a graduate of Harvard, Oxford and Dalhousie universities and the INSEAD business school.