As the Chairman of the Board of Alceda Fund Management S.A., Michael Sanders is responsible for the strategic direction of the company. At IPConcept Fund Management S.A., Michael Sanders played a key role in the successful establishment of a Luxembourg based private label company and has long-standing experience in the conception and launch of integrated structuring solutions.

Tel: 00352 / 248 329-1
Email: michael.sanders(at)alceda.lu

Heinrich Echter is the Chief Compliance Officer of Alceda Fund Management S.A. and a member of the Board. He has over 30 years experience in the investment industry. Mr. Echter began his career in 1977 at Munich-based ADIG-Investment GmbH and then moved to Luxembourg in 1988 in order to create ADIG-Investment Luxemburg S.A. (now cominvest Asset Management S.A.). Mr. Echter was appointed ADIG-Investment Luxemburg S.A‘s managing director in 1994.

Tel: 00352 / 248 329 - 1
Email: heinrich.echter(at)alceda.lu

As a Managing Director of Alceda Fund Management S.A., Helmut Hohmann is responsible for the Luxembourg-based sales team. Before joining Alceda, he was a senior client advisor at DZ Bank International S.A.’s management company focussing on partner acquisitions in its fund business. In the past 17 years, he has also held positions at DekaBank Luxembourg, Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz Int. S.A. and Landesbank Schleswig-Holstein Int. S.A.

Tel: 00352 / 248 329 -1
Email: helmut.hohmann(at)alceda.lu

Marc Kriegsmann is a member of the Management Board and responsible for the structuring and setting up of Alceda’s investment funds. Prior to joining Alceda, he acted as the head of fund set-up, consulting, and international licensing at DZ BANK International S.A. Mr. Kriegsmann has over ten years experience in investment product design and fund approvals within and outside of Europe.

Tel: 00352 / 248 329 -1
Email: marc.kriegsmann(at)alceda.lu

Uwe Krönert is a Managing Director (CCO and CFO) and a member of the Board of Directors at Alceda Fund Management S.A. In his previous role, Uwe Krönert was an executive director and member of the Board of Directors of WestLB International S.A. Mr. Krönert previously worked as a Managing Director and business unit director at the private banking division of DZ BANK International S.A. Mr. Krönert started his professional career in the 1990s at SGZ Bank in Frankfurt, one of the predecessor companies of DZ Bank AG.

Tel: 00352 / 248 329 -1
Email: uwe.kroenert(at)alceda.lu

Dr. Herbert Walter, former Chairman of the Executive Board of Dresdner Bank, is the Chairman of the advisory board. Dr. Herbert Walter brings almost 30 years of experience in the financial sector to the advisory board. The graduate banker managed the private customer section of Deutsche Bank, chaired the Executive Board of Dresdner Bank and was a member of the Executive Board of Allianz
AG from 2003 to 2009.

Florence Lombard, founding member and former head of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), is a member of Aquila‘s advisory board since 2010. In addition, Ms. Lombard is a co-founder and inaugural member of the Board of Directors of the Chartered Alternative Investment Association (CAIA). Florence Lombard has a wealth of experience in the international investment industry and benefits from a broad international network.

Prof. Dr. Meadows, system analyst, published the study “Limits to growth” in 1972, which had been commissioned by the Club of Rome. The study on the consequences of unlimited growth has been updated twice in the meantime, the last update being in 2006. Today, Prof. Dr. Meadows is seen as the father of the sustainability movement. In the future, Prof. Dr. Meadows will assist the Aquila Group in the early identification of macro issues and help translate these into sustainable capital investments.

Dr. Axel Wieandt is a member of Aquila Capital’s advisory board since March 2011. Mr. Wieandt is one of Germany’s most successful bank managers. After completing his business degree and PhD at the WHU in Germany, Mr. Wieandt held positions at McKinsey and Morgan Stanley.

In 2000 he joined Deutsche Bank as one of the bank’s youngest executive managers, where he headed up the corporate development division and acted as Global Head of Corporate Investments from 2003.

Following a two-year period as a chairman of the Hypo Real Estate Holding AG, Mr. Wieandt returned to Deutsche Bank in 2010, where he currently is responsible for integration issues. Since 2005, Dr. Axel Wieandt is an honorary professor at the WHU.