Cosmas Kapsanis

Cosmas is a co-founder and managing director of Ivest. He is an experienced investment banker who has been providing financial advice and raising capital for clients in Asia, the Middle East and Australia for over 20 years.

Cosmas has covered a broad range of client needs from the transportation, infrastructure, extractive resources and energy industries with a comprehensive range of wholesale banking, capital and financial markets solutions.

Prior to co-founding Ivest, Cosmas was a Managing Director and Global Head of Transportation and Infrastructure at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore. His previous roles have included Head of Specialised Finance at Investec Bank in Sydney, Executive Director and Head of Finance Asia Pacific at CMS Energy in Singapore, Executive Director and Head of Oil & Gas Asia Pacific at CIBC World Markets in Singapore and Vice President Project Finance at Banque Indosuez in Singapore and Sydney. Prior to investment banking, Cosmas was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group and a petroleum drilling engineer with Schlumberger.

Cosmas holds a MBA from London Business School and the Wharton Graduate School International Exchange Program and a BSc (Hons) in Marine Engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Cosmas is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

E-mail. cosmas.kapsanis@ivest.com.au
Mobile (Australia). +61 408 562 878
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Stéphane Chatonsky

Stéphane is a co-founder and managing director of Ivest and comes with over 15 years experience as an investment and strategy leader with a blend of private equity, venture capital, investment banking, strategy consulting and corporate experience with a strong Asian and emerging markets focus.

Stéphane has experience across a broad range of industries, including financial services and insurance, healthcare, education, medias, telecommunications, retail, consumer and business services. Prior to co-founding Ivest, Stéphane was a General Partner at LeapFrog Investments, a leading emerging markets private equity fund and had overall responsibility for South East Asia. Stéphane worked in principal investment and investment banking at Macquarie Bank and was a management consultant at McKinsey & Co focusing on financials services, media and telecommunication across the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to McKinsey, Stéphane was an investment banker at Lazard Frères & Co in Europe.

Stéphane is an Adjunct Faculty of the Australian Graduate School of Management, an Honorary Fellow at Macquarie University and Tsinghua University and has taught Private Equity, Venture Capital and Valuation and Financial Modelling to post-graduate students in Australia, Singapore, China PRC and Hong Kong.

Stéphane holds an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School and a BSc Economics from Essec (Paris). He is a Fellow from the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

E-mail. stephane.chatonsky@ivest.com.au
Mobile (Australia). +61 414 748 158
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Luigi Bernas

Luigi Bernas is a special adviser to Ivest. He currently sits on the Board of various commercial and non-profit enterprises, mostly in his native Philippines. His overseas career of over two decades as Senior Managing Director and Partner for Bear Stearns (now Deutsche Bank) and as Managing Director for Bankers Trust (now JP Morgan Chase) includes multi year stints managing revenue generating operations in Tokyo, London, Hong Kong, New York and Chicago.

In the financial services space, he cut his teeth trading securities and illiquid assets, structuring and trading credit derivatives and later managing portfolios of various types of assets. He has served as Director of the Philippine Stock Exchange and the Securities Clearing Corporation of the Philippines. He has served as Chairman of the Investment Committee on the Board of the largest privately owned pre-need fund in the country, and he continues to perform similar roles for a number of entities. His current affiliations in financial services are focused primarily on the micro-space and the emerging consumer sector. He has a special interest in innovative platforms for the delivery of microfinance and microinsurance products.

Outside of financial services, he has served as CEO of a publicly listed agricultural and food exporting company in the Philippines and as President of a Renewable Energy company. He is passionate about his involvement in both commercial and non-profit education and learning enterprises.

He currently serves as Country Representative in the Philippines for Experian Microanalytics. Luigi also sits on the global advisory board of LeapFrog Investments and Cerego Japan, a technology based education enterprise.

Luigi holds an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, the same University from which he also received an MA in East Asian Studies. He graduated from the Honors Program in Economics at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines . He is a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors.

E-mail. luigi.bernas@ivest.com.au
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