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Board of Directors

Advisor to the Chair of the Board, BIL SA

Bernard Mommens

Bernard Mommens is the Secretary General & General Counsel of Banque Internationale à Luxembourg, S.A. (BIL) and was first appointed as a Member of BIL’s Management Board/Executive Committee in March 2010. He also represents BIL on various other Boards of Directors of BIL Group entities.

Prior to taking up his current position, Bernard Mommens occupied senior management positions within Paribas Bank Belgium, Artesia Banking Group and Dexia Bank Belgium. He started his carreer in the Legal Department of Paribas Belgium and became Head of the Legal Department in 1990 and a Member of the Paribas Group Legal Affairs Committee in 1991.

Bernard Mommens is a Belgian national and holds an LLM from Leuven University, Louvain, Belgium (magna cum laude).

Head of CEO Office, BIL SA

Emilie Hoël-Serrurier

Emilie Hoël-Serrurier has been the Head of Wealth Management of Banque Internationale à Luxembourg, S.A. (BIL) and a Member of the Executive Committee since January 2020.

Prior to taking her current position, Emilie Hoël-Serrurier occupied different senior management positions within BIL, including Head of Process Management, Head of Strategy, Corporate Development and Marketing, and Head of Wealth Management Europe. In her function as Head of Strategy, Corporate Development and Marketing, Emilie Hoël-Serrurier was also a Member of BIL's Executive Committee from October 2018 to April 2019.

Emilie Hoël-Serrurier is a French national and holds a Master's degree in Management from EM Lyon Business School.

Head of Strategy,SGO & Balance Sheet Mgt, BIL SA

Jérôme NÈBLE

Jérôme Nèble has been the Head of Products and Markets of Banque Internationale à Luxembourg, S.A. (BIL) and a Member of the Executive Committee since June 2020.

Jérôme Nèble started his career with BIL in 2002 and has since held various senior roles in Risk Management, Treasury & Financial Markets and in Finance.

Jérôme Nèble is a French national and graduated as a civil engineer from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Nancy, France. He also holds a degree in Mathematics from Henri Poincaré University, Nancy, France.

Secretary General & General Counsel, BIL Group

Frédéric Sudret

Frédéric is BIL Group’s Head of Legal & Deputy Secretary General and oversees in this capacity the legal function of BIL and its subsidiaries, branches and offices in Luxembourg and abroad. Frédéric holds a Master of Laws from Boston university (U.S.A.).

Prior to joining BIL, he used to work for the UBS group where he was Head of Legal Third Party Funds, ManCos and Depositary activities in Luxembourg. Frédéric is a former Avocat à la Cour and has more than 15 years of experience in the Luxembourg legal market, where he held several senior legal positions in the ABN AMRO and State Street groups.

Non-Executive Director, INSEAD IDP-C & ILA Cert. Director | Certified pension actuary

Fernand Grulms

Fernand has an experience of 35 years in financial services, ranging from banking and insurance to investment funds.

In former roles, he was the Chief-Economist and Deputy Director General of the Luxembourg Bankers Association ABBL and later the founding CEO of Luxembourg for Finance. Fernand has also run as managing director an actuarial and risk management consulting firm for 10 years. He has been a lecturer in mathematics of finance at the University of Luxembourg for 18 years. Apart from his activities as a professional company director, Fernand is Treasurer of ALAN, the Rare Disease Association of Luxembourg and a Member of the Executive Board of ILA.

Non-Executive Director

Yvon Lauret

Yvon Lauret is a founding partner of Adeis S.A. and spent more than 30 years in the banking and financial industry in various positions linked to M&A activities, alternative investments, fund distribution, and business consulting. He has also been involved in strategic projects and has strongly contributed to launch & develop new business units, within multi-cultural, multi products and global organizations.

Yvon is a graduate of INSEAD (A.M.P.), and he also holds a Master in Economics (the University of Nancy II).

He serves as a Director on the boards of several private equity funds, industrial start-ups, family-owned midcap firms and regulated collective investment funds.

Yvon is also a sworn expert in financial matters & risk management with Tribunal d’Arrondissement Luxembourg.

Executive committee

Chief Executive Officer
Conducting Officer

Alain Bastin
alain.bastin@­bilmanageinvest.com +352 27 2160-9831

Alain is one of the founders of BIL Manage Invest S.A. (BMI) and is today the Chief Executive Officer of the company.

He has over 30 years of experience in various executive positions in the Banking and Fund industry with a specific focus on risk management and audit.

He joined BIL Group in 2001 as Head of Market & Operational Risk Management until 2013. Before, he has been heading the Risk Management and Audit Department of ING from 1993 to 2001.

As a member of the GFI Committee of the CSSF, Alain has also an active role in the regulatory landscape of Luxembourg.

He is a founding member of ALRIM and has been the Chairman of ALRIM from 2000 to 2005, and also a Board member for 20 years.

Furthermore, he is acting as Board Member of several internal and external alternative structures.

Head of Risk Management, Valuation & Fund Control / Conducting Officer

Riccardo Palma
riccardo.palma@­bilmanageinvest.com +352 27 2160-2017

Riccardo has more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry where he started his career as a quantitative analyst – financial markets, in Milan.

Before joining BIL Manage Invest S.A. (BMI), Riccardo was Conducting Officer in charge of Risk Management for the AIFM of an international private equity group; previously he held the position of a Director for a financial advisor in Luxembourg where he worked on financial markets, UCITS and structured products.

His role within BMI is to lead the Risk Management and Valuation Team.

Riccardo is both, a CFA and FRM charter holder.

Head of Client Relationship Management, Business Development, Administration of OPC & Marketing / Conducting Officer

Karim Rani
karim.rani@­bilmanageinvest.com +352 27 2160-9850

Karim holds a master degree in risk management from the University of Mediterranean and is a CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) since 2015.

Before joining BIL Group, Karim occupied various positions with Pictet & Cie within the Asset Servicing area and support to clients. Before working for Pictet & Cie, Karim worked for JPMorgan Bank as Investment Funds Expenses Analyst. Karim's fields of expertise are the following:

  • Alternative Investments
  • Fund structuration
  • Depositary, global custody and Fund administration activities
  • Transaction management process
  • Client management and business development

Global Head of Portfolio Management
Conducting Officer

Giulio Senatore
giulio.senatore@­bilmanageinvest.com +352 27 2160-9835

Giulio has over 17 years of experience in portfolio management in the asset management industry. He started his career as Credit Analyst in New York with Sanpaolo IMI Bank.

Before joining BIL Manage Invest in 2015, Giulio has been a portfolio manager for Eurizon Capital in Milan and for ING IM Luxembourg. He has also been a director for two different management companies in Luxembourg.

His role within BMI is to lead the investment process and the portfolio management oversight activities in order to meet the regulatory requirements and provide state-of-the-art portfolio analytics solutions for both listed and alternative assets.

He is a member of the Luxembourg CFA Institute and a CFA charter holder since 2009.

Head of Legal & Corporate Administration
Conducting Officer

Karima Smaini
Karima.Smaini@­bilmanageinvest.com +352 272160-3087

Karima holds a Master in Business Law and Tax and has over 15 years of experience in the Luxembourg fund industry.

Prior joining BIL Manage Invest S.A. (“BMI”), Karima was Head of Legal of a third-party SuperManCo. Before that, she worked for several years at Deloitte as a regulatory expert and specialist in cross-border distribution for funds (UCITS and AIFs).

She also held several legal positions in Luxembourg and Paris at Nomura Bank, CACEIS and Allianz Banque.

Her role within BMI is to lead the Legal Department and Secretary General where she is responsible of all legal and corporate aspects related to BMI and to the funds under management. She is also an expert in ESG regulation.

Chief Compliance Officer, Complaints Handling, RC / Conducting Officer

Marc Vanmansart
marc.vanmansart@­bilmanageinvest.com +352 27 2160-9854

Marc has nearly 30 years of experience in the Fund Industry in Luxembourg.

He held different management positions in Pan-European Financial Institutions with a specific focus on Compliance topics.

His role within BIL Manage Invest S.A. (BMI), as subject matter expert and "RC", is to ensure that the compliance program is effective and efficient in identifying, preventing, detecting and correcting compliance breaches with applicable rules and regulations.