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CEO  &  Managing Director

Dr. Olaf Neubert

Olaf is the Founder and Managing Director of TopCap Partners. He is responsible for the management and development of the firm and its clients' product offerings. Olaf has been involved with Private Equity, Venture Capital and Secondaries since the 1990's and has seen our industry expand and mature over the last three decades. He gained deep insights into the industry building the leading Secondaries Buy- side agency – originally known under the name Hedges Capital. That afforded him in-depth knowledge of the Alternative Asset industry and a deep network and access to its salient players, be it Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Venture, Secondaries or Real Estate fund managers.

Olaf combines this in a unique blend with a wealth of experience in international relationships and investor contacts acquired over the years in his successful business career in international banking. It is this unique network and his expertise that position him to be one of the more sought after and successful placement agents in the Alternative Asset universe.

Prior to founding his own firms and dedicating himself to Alternative Assets, Olaf spent 16 years as Managing Director with Citibank in international postings. He served in senior executive positions in New York, Buenos Aires, Brussels, Dublin, as Chairman of Citibank AG in Vienna, Austria, and as Managing Director of Citibank Germany in Frankfurt. Olaf is a German and US citizen. He graduated from the University of Hamburg, Germany, with undergraduate degrees in Business Administration and Economics and a Masters in Business Administration with Honors. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel.

Managing Director

Alexander Mettenheimer

Alex is Managing Director and Co-founder of TopCap Partners (Europe) GmbH. He has more than 30 years of experience in banks, 18 years of them as general manager in diverse tasks in senior positions. He worked at Citibank, London where he gained experience in commodity trade financing and in the derivatives and securities markets. Alex worked in various capacities for Citibank Privatkunden AG, today's Targo Bank, including as spokesman of the Board. While working at Citibank Group, he faced new challenges in two posts which gave him regional responsibility first in Mexico and then in Latin America. He served as CEO of Merck Finck & Co., a leading German Private Bank from 2001 to 2010. Alex currently serves as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SMC Investmentbank. He has been Non-Executive Director of The European Smaller Companies Trust PLC since 2011. He was Interim CEO of BHF Bank in Frankfurt from 2015-2016 and has served on ODDO BHF Supervisory Board from 2016-2019. He also served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Bayerische Landesbank from 2010 to 2013. He is a fully- qualified lawyer and studied in Frankfurt, Bonn and Modena.

Managing Director

Konstantin Seliverstov

Konstantin is Managing Director of TopCap Partners (Europe) GmbH. In that capacity he is responsible, respectively supporting, the European origination and fundraising activities of the firm. Konstantin has built long standing relationships with European LPs since the beginning of his career. He is expandingand developing these now with strategic advice regarding positioning and marketing. Previously he was a Managing Director at Moravia Capital, where he advised multiple international funds in fund structuring, documentation and placement. Konstantin holds a M.A. in Politics & Economics from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, a M.Sc. in Finance & Accounting from University for Applied Sciences for Economics and Management in Munich, and is currently partaking in the Executive M.Sc. Finance Program at HEC Paris. He has completed the Private Equity and Venture Capital Program at Harvard Business School, is a certified Private Equity Advisor (EBS/BAI) from the European Business School and a certified Financial Investment Professional from the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

Chairman of the Advisory Board

Camiel Jeurissen

Camiel Jeurissen is the Chairman of the Advisory Board at TopCap. Previously he was responsible for infrastructure investments at KENFO in Germany. Prior to that, Camiel was the Fiduciary Manager at DSM in The Netherlands where he was responsible for all public and private market investment strategies, including investment strategies in infrastructure & energy for the Dutch, UK and US pension funds of DSM. He has successfully invested in more than 20 infrastructure funds, next to a number of co- investments, with a total commitment of more than € 2 billion. He is an active member of several fund advisory boards. Before joining DSM Camiel was a Vice President at Lombard Odier Investment Managers where he was responsible for institutional Relations and Sales in the Benelux. He held prior roles in both academia and finance. Camiel studied at The International Management Institute in Antwerp and Brussels and has received executive education at Cornell, London Business School and Harvard Extension School. He holds an MBA and is a CAIA charter holder.

Associate Partner

Miguel Medina

Miguel is an Associate Partner of TopCap Partners, based in Madrid. Prior to joining TopCap, Miguel spent 18 years in different positions in capital markets with Citibank, originating and distributing risk-management and investment products for institutional and corporate clients. During his career with Citi, Miguel has been covering clients in derivatives, fixed income and foreign exchange, building long-lasting relationships and being a trusted advisor to banks, asset managers, insurance companies, family offices and corporations. Miguel has a legal and financial education: The combination of the BA Degree in Law (Complutense University of Madrid) and a Masters in Financial Markets (Instituto de Estudios Bursatiles, Madrid).

Associate Partner

Bjarni Karl Gudlaugsson

Bjarni is an Associate Partner with TopCap Partners, based in Reykjavik, and in that capacity is responsible for supporting the team with Icelandic and Scandinavian outreach. Bjarni has worked in the field of accounting and asset management over the past twenty-five years, inter alia with KPMG in New York, and with firms such as Stefnir Asset Management – Arion Bank, Kaupthing and Bunadarbank. He has managed and invested three fund of funds programs for the biggest asset management company in Iceland, all of which have been ranked in the top quartile by Preqin for their vintage years. Bjarni's experience and extensive knowledge of the Nordic private equity landscape has enabled him to forge excellent relationships with Icelandic and Nordic LPs and GPs alike. Bjarni received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from Coastal Carolina University in the US.

COO

Richard Boeckel

Richard is COO of TopCap Partners (Europe) GmbH. In that capacity he is responsible for all organisational aspects associated with the running of the company, more specifically, the management of the origination and fundraising activities of the firm. Richard spent 4 years at a small Family Office in Munich, where he worked both strategically and operationally across the group of four companies. Shortly after the successful exit of the main company in 2018, Richard co-founded a SaaS start-up in the elderly care sector, moved to London, and built up the UK subsidiary from scratch. Before working, Richard read PPE (Philosophy, Politics, Economics) at the Universities Witten-Herdecke and Oxford, New College.

CFO & FinOp, Principal Operations Officer

Ken George

Ken is the CFO and provides financial and FinOp services to TopCap Partners. Ken has been a licensed FinOp since 1996 and founded FinOp Services, LLC in 2003. He and four staff members provide FinOp and compliance services to broker-dealers throughout the United States. He has been FinOp for many types of broker-dealer including but not limited to: self-clearing firms, exchange member firms, municipal, research, introducing and investment banking broker-dealers. Prior to 1996, Ken worked at Creelman & Smith, CPA, a Boston-based accounting firm that specialized in consulting and auditing broker-dealers throughout New England. From 1987 to 1991, Ken was a Compliance Examiner at the Boston District of the National Association of Securities Dealers, the predecessor of FINRA, where he conducted examinations of self-clearing, market maker, municipal securities and general securities firms.

Executive Assistant and Office Manager

Barbara Probeyahn

Barbara supports TopCap Partners as the Executive Assistant and Office Manager. In that respect, she is responsible for providing comprehensive support and efficient operational functions of the Southampton, New York office with her wide range of technical, business and communication skills obtained through a combination of education and work experience. Before joining the firm, she provided 10+ years of wide range support at Verizon Wireless. When she isn't working, Barbara enjoys spending time with her family, friends, and most especially her dog.

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