Capital Dynamics (global asset manager)

Capital Dynamics (also known as CapDyn) is an asset management firm focusing on private assets including private equity, private credit and clean energy infrastructure. Capital Dynamics offers products including primary funds of funds, secondaries, direct investments, co-investments, customized separate accounts as well as structured private equity solutions. The firm currently has USD 15 billion in assets under management and advisement.

The firm as structured today was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. However, the history dates back to 1988 when the predecessor of Capital Dynamics commenced operations in Birmingham, UK.

Key people

• Thomas Kubr - founding Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Executive Chairman of the Board
• Martin Hahn - current Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Head of Business Development and President of the Executive Committee
• John Gripton - Managing Director and Chairman of the Private Equity Investment Committee
• Angela Willetts - Managing Director in Investment Management, Co-Head of Private Equity Investment Management and member of the Investment Committee and the Executive Committee
• Andrew Bernstein - Managing Director in Investment Management, Co-Head of Private Equity Investment Management and member of the Investment Committee and the Executive Committee
• John Breckenridge - Managing Director, Head of Clean Energy and Infrastructure in Investment Management and member of the Executive Committee
• George Georgiou - Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer (COO) and member of the Executive Committee
• Emma Anderson - Senior Director, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and member of the Executive Committee
• Harald Zeiter - Managing Director, General Counsel, Head of Legal and Compliance and member of the Executive Committee
• Jens Ernberg - Managing Director in Investment Management, Co-head of Private Credit Asset Management and member of the Private Credit Investment Committee and the Executive Committee
• Thomas Hall - Managing Director in Investment Management, Co-head of Private Credit Asset Management and member of the Private Credit Investment Committee and the Executive Committee

Specialties

Capital Dynamics developed proprietary portfolio risk management methodologies that have been adopted by rating agencies Moody's and Standard & Poor's for evaluating risk and collateral requirements for securities collateralized by private equity. In addition, the firm has developed a number of proprietary patented benchmarking and performance-measurement models used to quantitatively evaluate private equity portfolios such as Public Market Equivalent Plus (PME+). PME+ provides a comparison with public markets by comparing the performance of a private equity portfolio to the public market, as represented by the performance of a given public index.

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