Our Team

Overview

The investment team at NGEN Capital has extensive experience in managing private and institutional pools of capital, having worked together at Morgan Stanley in London and Zurich for many years.

Neil Chakraborty

Managing Director

BIOGRAPHY

Neil is a partner at NGEN Capital and works as a Portfolio Manager. Before NGEN Capital he was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley in London from October 2006 to April 2013. In his last role as Portfolio Strategist he managed the signal analysis, optimisation and portfolio construction architecture that powers the investment product suite built around Morgan Stanley’s research content. He was also a leading product architect in the Innovation Working Group that drives the development of discretionary PWM strategies within the EMEA region. Before joining Research, Neil was a portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, where his team managed $1.4 billion in open-ended funds and separately managed accounts. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Neil was a Vice president at Credit Suisse, where his responsibilities included the allocation of risk capital to hedge funds.

Neil holds an MSc in Mathematics and Finance from Imperial College and an MBA in Finance from The University of British Columbia.

William Mok

Portfolio Manager

BIOGRAPHY

William is a partner at NGEN Capital and works as a Portfolio Manager. William joined NGEN Capital from MSCI, the leading provider of investment indices, where he conducted research and development on MSCI/BARRA’s Risk Premia or Smart Beta indices. In addition, he provided equity investment advice to the largest pension funds and sovereign wealth funds in Europe, Middle East & Africa. Before joining MSCI, he was a Vice President at Nomura International in London, managing the bespoke equity factor alpha solutions and advising institutional clients on index enhancement strategies and portfolio construction. Prior to Nomura, William worked as a senior quantitative analyst at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, where he developed equity strategies in a team that managed over $4 billion.

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

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.

Susie Bolton

Compliance Director

BIOGRAPHY

Susie heads up the compliance function at NGEN Capital, and is responsible for ensuring that regulatory obligations are met across the group.

She has over 20 years of experience in financial services compliance, previously holding the position of Strategic Compliance Director at SimplyBiz where she coordinated tailored compliance support for specialist firms under the Signature service. She has a diverse knowledge of financial services regulation, including direct FCA intervention, due to a broad range of technical roles with institutions such as Legal and General and Just, and supporting a multitude of small regulated firms throughout her career. She held senior roles with two networks, managing the supervisory teams; and developed and implemented a sector specific oversight and monitoring regime within top ten accountancy firm Smith and Williamson.

Debashis DasGupta

Operations Support

BIOGRAPHY

Debashis DasGupta, a Post Graduate in Business Management and a Bachelor in Commerce with 24 years of experience in Retail Banking and Wealth Management roles. He has been in senior roles with organizations like CITI, UTI and Standard Chartered. His last assignment was as a consultant to an Indian Private Sector Bank for their Private Banking business.

Associate Partners – NGEN Brands Strategy

Edwin De Bruijn

Partner

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.

Benoît Zingraff

Partner

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.

Jérôme Koelewijn

Partner

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.

Our Team

Overview

Neil Chakraborty

Managing Director

William Mok

Portfolio Manager

Graham Spinks

Portfolio Specialist

Susie Bolton

Compliance Director

Debashis DasGupta

Operations Support

Associate Partners – NGEN Brands Strategy

Edwin De Bruijn

Partner

Benoît Zingraff

Partner

Jérôme Koelewijn

Partner

Brand Capital Fund

NGEN Markets