Partner, Maples Group Ian Conlon is a partner of Maples and Calder’s funds and investment management team in the Maples Group’s Dublin office. He has extensive experience in the establishment, operation and regulation of both UCITS and AIFMD funds, with particular focus on alternatives, including hedge funds, investment limited partnership vehicles (ILPs), private equity and private debt, credit funds, loan origination and real asset structures. Ian has significant expertise in the ICAV space, having advised on the first ICAV authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland and numerous innovative ICAV structures, redomiciliations and conversions to date.

LL.M. (Wellington), head of legal CIB Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Banco Santander Timo Matthias Spitzer is an internationally acclaimed head of legal. He has worked at three major banks and three leading international law firms. Timo is dually qualified as rechtsanwalt (Germany) and solicitor (England and Wales) with a first class honors LL.M. in international economic law from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is a native German, fluent in English, French, Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish. Timo is currently Santander’s head of legal corporate and investment banking for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Scandinavia. He is also a board member and adjunct professor at the Institute for Law and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt in a globally recognised top-10 masters programme for banking, finance and securities law (LL.M. Guide in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021). Timo is chairman of The Legal 500 General Counsel Powerlist Germany advisory board as well as a member of the General Counsel Leadership Circle and an advisory board member of the German Institute for Legal Departments and Corporate Lawyers (diruj) and Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel,  Business Law Magazine, Going Digital Magazine and Sustainable Value Magazine. He is the author of The Importance of Human Leadership with Integrity in a Highly Regulated and Tech-Reliant Corporate Environment, published by Harvard Business Law Review (February 2020). Timo is a keynote speaker at reputable conferences (eg at Harvard Law School, the IBA, IFLR and ERA Academy of European Law). He is featured on The Legal 500 General Counsel Powerlists Germany 2017, 2019 and GC Powerlist Germany Teams 2018. Timo is the winner of the 2018 Santander Group Global WiseLegalSpeakers’ Award and the 2019 European and Global Counsel Awards by the Association of Corporate Counsel.

Global head of ESG integration and research, Manulife Peter Mennie is global head of ESG integration and research, and global head of investment risk and quantitative analytics for Manulife Investment Management. In these roles, Peter leads Manulife Investment Management’s team of dedicated ESG research and integration analysts to advance the firm’s ESG agenda. The team works with portfolio management teams on progressing ESG integration processes and conducting ESG engagement with investee companies; works with Manulife Investment Management’s sales and product teams on ESG strategy and marketing; and represents Manulife Investment Management on various industry groups and collaborative initiatives. Peter provides global risk leadership for all asset classes, and he ensures a consistent global approach to monitoring and managing investment risk and portfolio structure.

Global head of sustainability, Ninety One Therese is head of sustainability at Ninety One. She is responsible for overseeing the overall sustainability approach across the business, which covers three areas: ‘invest, advocate and inhabit’. She works closely with the board, executive leadership as well as the investment and risk teams to ensure that stewardship, integration and active ownership are in place and aligned with Ninety One’s business purpose and strategic priorities.