Julien Sevaux

Founding Partner & CEO

Julien has over 25 years of investment experience in public and private markets on behalf of leading entrepreneurs and industrial families. He was previously a partner at Stanhope Capital which he co-founded in 2004.

Julien was formerly a principal in Lehman Brothers' Private Equity Group and a senior M&A banker at Lehman in New York and London. He was a Board member of Worms & Cie, the diversified banking and industrial family group.

Julien is a trustee of Somerset House and chairs the development board of the Voltaire Foundation at Oxford University.

He received his MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business, his BA from Brown University and is an alumnus of Oxford University.

Tarek AbuZayyad

Founding Partner

Tarek has over 25 years of experience in private equity / venture capital and asset management for families and institutions. He is a director of Rezayat Investments and co-founded early stage VC investor Initial Capital.

Tarek was a partner at Stanhope Capital, where he led Merchant Banking and relationships in the Middle East Region. He was formerly a Managing Director at Berggruen Holdings, a family office and private equity firm, and a director in the M&A group at Credit Suisse / DLJ in M&A, corporate finance and private equity New York and London.

Tarek is a member of the council of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.
He received his MBA from Harvard Business School and holds an AB Economics from Stanford University.

Edward Clive

Chief Investment Officer

Edward has more than 15 years of experience in investment management. Prior to Eighteen48, he was Investment Director of a large single family office where he was responsible for asset allocation and investments across all asset classes.

He was previously a Senior Director in the investment team at Stanhope Capital. He led research into equity-related strategies in both public and private markets, and latterly designed and invested the firm’s first private equity funds programme.

Before his time at Stanhope Capital, Edward was an equity analyst at Vantage Group, a global equity hedge fund manager. He began his career in M&A at Lazard & Co in London.

He graduated with a double first in Classics from Oxford University.

John Baron

Chief Financial Officer

John has over 35 years’ experience working in the financial services industry. He was previously a partner at Stanhope Capital, where he spent ten years as Group CFO and was a member of the Executive Committee.  He was responsible for all the group’s statutory, regulatory and management reporting.

Prior to Stanhope, John was the CFO for the listed derivatives business at UBS. He has worked in a number of different senior financial roles within ABN Amro, Merrill Lynch and Chase Manhattan Bank, managing a wide range of different financial exposures.

He received his BA in Economics from Exeter University and qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Coopers & Lybrand.

Simon Paul

Portfolio Management

Simon has over 35 years of experience in portfolio management and construction. Prior to joining Eighteen48, Simon was a Partner at Stanhope Capital where he worked for seven years managing the affairs of high-net-worth families and institutions.

Simon was previously the Head of Client Relationships at multi-family investment office Sand Aire where he was a member of the senior management team responsible for investment strategy and all client facing activities. Simon has continuously worked in leadership roles at various leading private banks in London including HSBC Private Bank, Schroder & Co, Barclays Private Bank and Kleinwort Benson.

Simon is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments and a Member of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers.

Tim Evans

Portfolio Management

Tim has over 12 years’ experience as a Private Banker in both Hong Kong and the UK.

Prior to joining Eighteen48, Tim spent 10 years with J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Hong Kong and 2 years before that in the London office. Tim was primarily covering Private Equity and Hedge Fund principles as well as large family office clients, providing them with wealth management and lending solutions at an individual and institutional level.

Before his career in finance Tim was a Captain in the British Army serving on tours of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Tim holds a MA in Politics and Economics from the University of Edinburgh and is a Member (MSCI) of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments.

Mirko Backovic

Portfolio Management

Mirko has over 16 years of experience in investment management, with a particular focus on portfolio and client management.

Prior to joining Eighteen48, he was a Senior Director in the portfolio management team at Stanhope Capital where he spent nine years managing the affairs of a number of UHNW client relationships.

Mirko previously worked for Royal London Asset Management where he supported the pension fund managers and begun his career within the global custody world spending a number of years working for ABN Amro, Northern Trust and HSBC.

Mirko is a Chartered Member (MSCI) of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments holding the Investment Advice Diploma, Investment Management Certificate and Investment Operations Certificate.

Sue Woodhead

Systems and Middle Office

Sue has 30 years of experience in portfolio administration and front-to-back office portfolio management systems.

She was most recently a Senior Business Analyst working for Kleinwort Hambros, responsible for the migration of their legacy wealth management and banking systems onto a new platform.

Sue previously worked for portfolio management software companies, spending six years at Third Financial Software and five years at Wealth Management Software, in both cases providing full project management and implementation support for new clients.

She has worked on the buy-side at AIB Govett Asset Management, Leopold Joseph & Sons and the Charities Aid Foundation. Sue is a PRINCE2 ® Practitioner and holds the Investment Management Certificate (‘IMC’).

Chandan Khanna

Direct Public Equity

Chandan has over 15 years of experience as a public equity investor, most recently as lead global equity portfolio manager at Rezayat Investments, a family investment company with a concentrated approach and long-term investment horizon.

Prior to Rezayat he was a Vice President at Capital Group, a $1.4 trillion asset manager, where he invested in growth stocks across sectors and market caps in Western Europe, India and Australia.

Chandan also worked with Morgan Stanley in Investment Banking, covering Financial Institutions.

He began his career at KPMG. He received his MBA from INSEAD and is also a Chartered Accountant.

Charles Magnay

Private Fund Strategy

Charles is a highly experienced investor in private equity funds, having spent much of the last 20 years investing in the asset class. He was latterly Head of Alternative Investments at the Kuwait Investment Office, focusing on private equity and credit fund investments across Europe.

Prior to that Charles was a Partner at Altius Associates, adviser to a number of leading institutional investors in private markets. He oversaw clients' European private equity portfolios and was a member of the firm's global investment committee.

Charles started his career in corporate finance at UBS and Robert Fleming.

He holds a BSc in Social Sciences from Durham University and an MSc in Finance from London Business School.

Oliver Mayer

Co-Investments

Oliver has over 20 years experience in private equity investing. He was latterly CIO of PMB Capital, focusing on co-investments.

Prior to that Oliver founded Moniol GmBH, an investment firm based in Switzerland that acts for HNWs and corporations as principal on private transactions. He was a partner at Duke Street in London, a mid-market private equity firm, and worked for Rhone Capital, a private equity firm based in New York. He started his career at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette in the media and telecoms investment banking group.

Oliver has sat on various company Boards, including Xafinity and Independent Clinical Services.

He received his MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from the University of Basel, Switzerland.