Our Team - NGEN Capital

The team at NGEN Capital has extensive experience in managing private and institutional pools of capital, raising funds for private placements and developing financial technology

NEIL CHAKRABORTY

MANAGING PARTNER

BIOGRAPHY

Neil is a partner at NGEN Capital, and is responsible for investment management and corporate strategy. Before NGEN he was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley in London where he worked as a portfolio manager. He and his team managed equity assets of $1.4 billion; his group managed $7 billion. Previously Neil was a Vice President at Credit Suisse in London. He started his career at a mining firm in Canada followed by a financial technology firm specialising in banking applications.

Neil holds an MSc in Mathematics & Finance from Imperial College, London and an MBA in Finance from The University of British Columbia, Canada. He also holds degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

WILLIAM MOK

INVESTMENT DIRECTOR

BIOGRAPHY

William is a partner at NGEN Capital and works as a Portfolio Manager. William joined NGEN from MSCI, where he conducted research on MSCI/BARRA’s Risk Premia indices and provided advice to the largest pension funds and sovereign wealth funds in Europe, Middle East & Africa. Previously, he was a Vice President at Nomura International in London, managing equity factor alpha solutions and index. Prior to Nomura, William worked as a senior quantitative analyst at Morgan Stanley in a team that managed over $4 billion. He started his career at Lehman Brothers.

William holds an MSc in Finance as well as a PhD in Mathematical Finance from Birkbeck College, University of London.

MARK HIGTON

PARTNER

BIOGRAPHY

Mark is a partner at NGEN Capital. He is a founding partner of Higton Associates, and has held various profit and non profit directorships.

He advises major family offices and banks and has extensive experience in the fields of quantitative strategies, analytics, capital structuring, and risk. He commenced his career applying machine learning to trading and trade processing systems; clients included Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank. and Greenwich Natwest.

Mark read an MSc in Economics from The London School of Economics, and holds a BSc (Hons.) in Computer Science from NTU.

NICHOLAS HIGTON

PARTNER

BIOGRAPHY

Nicholas is a Partner at NGEN Capital, and a Partner at Higton Associates.

Prior to joining Higton Associates, he was a Director at various Financial Services firms including GSK and Watmough-Mallett working across Risk Analytics, Treasury, and Quantitative Solutions. Before this he was a Senior Developer/Technologist at The IoGroup (Valad Property Group) and NTC Research (IHS MarkIT) within MIS Operations & Technology.

He holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from University College Northampton focused on Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Logic.

DEBASHIS DASGUPTA

HEAD OF OPERATIONS

BIOGRAPHY

Debashis is the Head of Operations at NGEN Capital, responsible for operational management and business processes. He is a lead sponsor of the firm’s strategic initiatives. Before NGEN, Debashis was a private banker at IDFC First Bank in India. Previously, he was International Banking Head at Standard Chartered Bank in India, Service & Operations Head for Citi’s UK and Europe NRI Business in London, and Service & Operations Head at UTI International in Singapore.

Debashis holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India and a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from St Xavier’s College, University of Calcutta.

GRAHAM SPINKS

PORTFOLIO SPECIALIST

BIOGRAPHY

Graham is a Portfolio Specialist at NGEN Capital and works very closely with the portfolio management team in areas of asset allocation and research. He started his career as a barrister and is a member of the Middle Temple, which is one of the four Inns of Court in England & Wales. Previously, he has worked for private banks such as Robert Fleming and Duncan Lawrie as well as smaller niche financial planning firms. In his last role he designed and managed a non-discretionary portfolio management service for wealth management clients.

Graham has over 30 years’ experience in financial services. He has previously written articles in the Financial Times as well as specialist financial planning magazines. His areas of expertise include investment, retirement and estate planning.

EDWIN DE BRUIJN

PARTNER, BRANDS

BIOGRAPHY

Edwin is a Partner of the NGEN Brands strategy. Edwin previously held an executive management role at Jefferies International Wealth Management, where he headed up the Benelux team and developed the discretionary wealth management offering for the European business. Before Jefferies, Edwin was the head of Morgan Stanley’s wealth management activities for the Benelux region, serving family offices, foundations and high net worth individuals. He also led the Investment Committee for the Swiss bank’s pension fund and served as a board member of the pension fund from 2005 till 2011. He was a founding member of the Innovation Working Group that drove the development of non-traditional wealth management strategies within the EMEA region. From 2007 till 2009, he served as an Investment Officer at a Luxembourg based family office.

Edwin holds an MBA from IESE Business School, Spain and has an MSc in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.

BENOIT ZINGRAFF

PARTNER, BRANDS

BIOGRAPHY

Benoît is a Partner of the NGEN Brands strategy, and previously served UHNWIs and family offices as a Senior Relationship Manager at Credit Suisse Private Banking in Zürich following the sale of Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management to Crédit Suisse. Prior to this, he was based in London and led the development of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management for French speaking countries serving UHNWIs and family offices. He was also the co-portfolio manager of a SICAV at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. He previously worked at Citibank in Frankfurt and Crédit Commercial de France in Paris as a corporate banker. Benoit has been in the finance industry for nearly 30 years.

Benoît holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and has an MSc in Mining Engineering from the Ecole des Mines in France.

JEROME KOELEWIJN

PARTNER, BRANDS

BIOGRAPHY

Jérôme is a Partner of the NGEN Brands strategy, and previously held international leadership positions in finance, technology, and advisory: over ten years in private wealth and investment management at Morgan Stanley (officer, Swiss-based Benelux team) and Wealth Management Partners (partner, co-head institutions); and fifteen years in strategy consulting and corporate finance at Arthur D. Little (partner, co-head TMT sector) and Roland Berger (partner, co-founder Amsterdam office). Jérôme has two decades of early-stage and scale-up experience as office founder, board member, and private investor. He is an independent adviser to and investor in fin-, health- and clean-tech companies.

Jérôme is versed in five languages, having lived in five countries and worked in the majority of EU-15 countries. He holds an MSc in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science from Delft University of Technology and an MBA from IESE Barcelona and Columbia University, New York.

NEIL CHAKRABORTY

MANAGING PARTNER

WILLIAM MOK

INVESTMENT DIRECTOR

MARK HIGTON

PARTNER

NICHOLAS HIGTON

PARTNER

DEBASHIS DASGUPTA

HEAD OF OPERATIONS

GRAHAM SPINKS

PORTFOLIO SPECIALIST

EDWIN DE BRUIJN

PARTNER, BRANDS

BENOIT ZINGRAFF

PARTNER, BRANDS

JEROME KOELEWIJN

PARTNER, BRANDS

Brand Capital Fund

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