Jeroen Tielman is the CEO of IMQ Investment Management B.V. and the founder of the IMQubator hedge fund seeding platform. During his employment at ABN AMRO between 1986 and 2000, Tielman has gained experience in the area of investment analysis (incl. RBA), institutional sales (US), and international corporate finance/M&A for the Telecom sector. As global head product development within ABN AMRO Asset Management he has acquired vast knowledge and skills in the area of the design and development of investment funds. With the founding of the investment product-engineering boutique FundPartners in 2000, Tielman has also gained experience as an entrepreneur, motivator of a team of high-level professionals, strategic advisor to pension funds and private banks, and as advisor on pension product design.
Between 2006 and 2008 Tielman was Managing Director Commerce, Strategy & Innovation with Cordares. In this function he further developed experience with business development of a pension administrator, individual pension plan design and the development of a new alternative investment product. During 2008 Tielman extended his international pension fund contact network while working with among others TIAA-CREF on a pension investment collaboration initiative.
In April 2008 Tielman (together with Theo Kocken of Cardano and Tarek Saber) started working on the development of IMQubator, which he founded in January 2009. Tielman organizes the PensionSummit annually as a podium for and by pension funds (www.PensionSummit.com) since 2002. In September 2008 Tielman was organizer of the 4th Longevity Risk conference (www.LongRisk.com), together with Prof. David Blake (Cass Business School, London) and Theo Nijman (Netspar).
Rikard Lundgren (CIO) has worked in investment banking in London and Stockholm from 1984 to 1996. In 1997 he accepted a position at Inter IKEA Treasury SA (Managing Director). He was head of Inter-IKEA’s Finance division, member of the management committee of the Inter-IKEA group, member of the board of Catella Kapitalförvaltning, member of the advisory board of Triton, a Private Equity fund where Inter-IKEA and Sal Oppenheim Jr & Cie were the anchor investors. On his initiative, the investment activities of Inter IKEA were reorganised to only include absolute return strategies managed by own employed traders. The organisation operated like an in-house multi-strategy hedge fund. Their involvement in Private Equity was also deepened and re-focused during his time there.
After 2000 he had various senior advisory positions, and founded Valor partners in 2001, he was CEO of this management company acting as advisor to VALOR Alfa KB A Private Equity fund seeded by the Swedish Industrial development Fund and Skandia Life and aimed at the small and medium sized company market. As Independent Consultant and Non-Executive Director he had the following clients and board appointments:
- Senior Advisor to Unigestion SA, representing them in the Nordic region.
- Non-Executive Director and advisor to Informed Portfolio Management AB,
a GTAA and Currency Overlay provider to institutional investors. - Non-Executive Director of Shepherd Capital AB, a provider of absolute return asset management and risk management for the electrical power market.
- Chairman and owner, Cajsa Warg AB, a concept food store spun out from
Co-Op. - Consultant to a Swedish Research Foundation; Formulating and implementing a new investment strategy.
- Advisor, CV-Search AB, a specialised financial markets headhunting company
- Start up European Hedge Fund; advised on prospectus, presentation material and placement strategies for the Nordic Region.
In 2006 Mr. Lundgren became CIO of Folksam Asset Management (AUM 180 bn SEK). He had overall responsibility for all investment activities in Fixed Income, Currencies, Equities, Properties and Alternative Investments. Responsible for a team of 26 investment professionals divided into 7 groups. During the short period since he joined, a new Investment process was formulated, organisational changes and recruitments made, implementation projects defined, pilot portfolios started and external managers selected with the common goal of increasing risk and cost efficiency by separating active risk (Alpha) from passive (Beta) in combination with a modernised more rigorous risk discipline.
Remco Zomer (COO/CFO) has more than 20 years working experience and started his career a consultant at Deloitte in 1988. He co-founded a software company (development of ERP software product solutions) called VDA in 1990, growing the business to over 70 employees (1999). In 2001 Remco co-founded FundPartners (an investment fund engineering boutique with Dutch pension fund PGGM as launching customer), as COO and back-office consultant (TA, FA, Custody). From 2006 – 2008 Remco worked as senior program manager in the strategy and innovation department of the Dutch pension provider Cordares, managing projects in alternative investment areas like life settlements and relating to individual pension product innovation. Furthermore Remco was member of a newly established Information Management Platform of Cordares.
In 2008 Remco joined Orca Finance (Antwerp, London), which is an independent investment company investing in insurance related assets (life and non-life). Remco co-designed and developed a new hedge fund proposition with insurance-linked strategies. Remco was a speaker on seminars and published articles about insurance linked assets and optimized the business processes and ICT with regards to the new office of Orca Finance in London.
Remco holds a Master (“drs”) degree in business economy from the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam including investment theory and IT.
Quirijn van de Weg gained his master of science degree in management with a specialisation in finance in 2006. He started his career with Cordares, a Dutch pension services provider in their Commerce, Strategy and Innovation department. There he worked on various projects where the team developed innovative pensions (both individual and collective) products and worked with their insurance company on different insurance solutions. Quirijn was focused on the asset management, modeling and legal issues of these projects.
He was also involved in researching new investment strategies that could fit the portfolio’s of pension funds. Quirijn worked on setting up a fund structure for pension funds to be able to invest in ‘life settlements’, as well as gained extensive experience in the fund selection process of structured solutions and external funds.
Theo Tol (Admin/ICT) has over 15 years experience in the ICT sector and has worked in different functions and roles in various organizations like media investment management companies, broadcasting companies, publishers, pension funds, and more. Theo started his career as an in-house software developer working on ERP backoffice systems. In the years that followed he gained experience as an application designer and later as an application architect, analyzing business requirements to advise and support customers in adjusting and improving their systems. In the past few years, Theo added data and system integration to his toolkit and worked as a business intelligence consultant on various projects, integrating financial, HRM and market data for management information purposes.
Theo has a bachelor’s degree in information science and technology.
Hamlin Lovell (Portfolio Manager, assisting CIO) has more than 10 years of investment industry experience. Hamlin previously worked at London-based currency manager Millennium Global Investments as co-manager of a fund of funds that allocated to a number of new, early stage and emerging hedge fund managers, and operated a tactical and risk management overlay. He has also carried out hedge fund research for Duration Asset Management and The Capital Partnership, both London based.
Earlier in his career, Hamlin did equity analysis for independent research house Ideaglobal, and economic analysis for the UK Government. Journalistic experience has included researching surveys and authoring features for The Hedge Fund Journal, as well as writing blog posts for the allaboutalpha thought forum that is owned by the CAIA Association.
Hamlin has an Economics degree with honours from the University of Leicester in the UK. He also holds the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst), CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst), FRM (Financial Risk Manager) and IMC (Investment Management Certificate) designations. Hamlin’s involvement with professional associations has led to grading CFA and CAIA papers on behalf of CFA Institute and CAIA Association in the United States, and he also contributes to CAIA curriculum development as a volunteer.
His linguistic skills are currently limited to English, but the Amsterdam location of Imqubator means that learning Dutch will become a hobby.
