Global Private Equity Initiative

Claudia Zeisberger

Academic Director GPEI
Senior Affiliate Professor for Entrepreneurship & Family Enterprise, INSEAD
Teaching electives: Private Equity, Managing Corporate Turnarounds, Risk Management

Claudia Zeisberger is known for her extensive research on PE in emerging markets, and her output is a function of her extensive links and close working relationships with private equity firms and their investee companies, institutional investors, family offices and sovereign wealth funds. She has frequently been nominated for the “Best Teaching Award” in her PE elective and has been awarded the “Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in MBA Teaching” annually since 2008. Claudia initiated the launch of GPEI and through the centre’s work, INSEAD has established itself as the go-to source for insights on PE in emerging markets and as an incubator for talent and professionals.

"My PE elective offers relevance through interaction with regular guest speakers and hands-on company projects. Relevance in education lies where theory and practice collide."

Philip Anderson

INSEAD Alumni Fund Chaired Professor of Entrepreneurship
Teaching electives: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital/Private Equity, Innovation and Creativity, Managing Technological Change, Change Management, Leadership, Managing Growth

Philip Anderson has taught MBA courses on how private equity firms screen opportunities, and has written more than 30 cases for his courses featuring private equity professionals. He has taught courses for a number of professional investors in private equity, including the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Intel Capital, Navis Partners, Procuritas, and the Singapore Venture Capital Association. From 2001-2009, he headed the 3i Venturelab, a research organisation sponsored by 3i.

Vikas Aggarwal

Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise 
Teaching electives: Venture Capital and Private Equity, Entrepreneurial Field Studies, Organizational Foundations of Financial Markets

Vikas Aggarwal's research centres on strategy issues in entrepreneurial settings, focusing on venture-backed start-ups as well as larger firms experiencing significant environmental change. He is particularly interested in the interdependencies that occur across multiple strategic decisions and the implications of these decision portfolios for outcomes, such as innovation and long-run performance. His work examines sectors such as biotechnology, software and the U.S. defence industry, and combines empirical studies with agent-based simulations.

Jasjit Singh

Professor of Strategy and Academic Director of INSEAD Social Impact Initiative
Teaching electives: Impact Investing, Strategy and Impact

Jasjit Singh’s interests include inclusive business, sustainable development, impact investing and impact evaluation. He is particularly passionate about how business can be used as a force for good. He regularly teaches, gives speeches and offers advice related to how enterprises, non-profits and investors can systematically think about maximizing their impact. He holds a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University. More information about him and his work is available on his website.

Lily Hua Fang

Associate Professor of Finance 
Teaching electives: Corporate Finance, Private Equity, Alternative Investments

Lily Fang is an Associate Professor of Finance at INSEAD. She teaches corporate finance, capital markets, valuation, private equity, and entrepreneurial finance in the MBA and Executive Education programmes. She has won the Dean's Commendation Award for Excellence in MBA Teaching, and has taught in and directed numerous Executive Education programmes.

Loïc Sadoulet

Loic Sadoulet is an Affiliate Professor of Economics at INSEAD, and Visiting Professor at CEDEP. Loic holds a PhD in Economics from Princeton University. He has been teaching at INSEAD since 2000 in Executive Education, MBA and Executive-MBA programmes.

Bill Magill

Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Teaching elective: Private Equity

Bill has held senior positions in venture capital, investment banking, and market research over the past 20 years, mostly in Silicon Valley. He advises international investors on fund-raising and strategy and teaches PE at INSEAD's Europe campus annually.

Joost De Haas

Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Teaching elective: Managing Corporate Turnarounds

Joost de Haas has (co)founded a number of businesses in various industries and has been active in turnaround management since 2001. Currently, Joost is the CEO of Roto Smeets Group, one of Europe’s leading printing and multimedia companies. Roto Smeets Group is listed on NYSE Euronext in Amsterdam.

Joost has been an active private equity investor for more than 15 years. He specialises in investing in distressed situations and managing turnarounds. 
 

Deepak Natarajan

During his 35-year career in Silicon Valley and Asia, Deepak established a strong track record of success and accomplishment as a marketing and sales executive in large organizations, startups, and in venture capital. During the first half of his career at pioneering technology companies including Intel, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, and Autodesk, he led several successful entrepreneurial efforts that established these companies as leaders in new sectors and geographies.  In 2000, Deepak parlayed his experience building high-growth businesses to a career in venture capital at Redwood Ventures and Storm Ventures in Silicon Valley. In 2008, Deepak undertook one more entrepreneurial challenge and moved to Singapore to establish Intel Capital's operations - over an eight-year period, Deepak served on the boards of 10 companies in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, and New Zealand, and India and helped the founders and executives build these companies.

David Lai

Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Teaching elective: Leveraged Buyouts

David Lai was a practitioner in private equity and leveraged buyouts for over 17 years in Asia Pacific/Australasia region, and is one of the pioneers in LBOs in Asia. He founded an independent Asian based buy-out firm, Affinity Equity Partners, following a management spin off from UBS Capital.

David sold his business interest in 2008 and currently teaches and consults on part time basis.

Graham Wrigley

Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Teaching elective: Leveraged Buyouts

Graham was part of the senior management team at Permira where he worked for 17 years. He stepped down in 2006 to focus on economic development in low income countries. He is now Chairman of Aureos (leading SME investor in low income countries), a board member of Manocap a PE firm based in Sierra Leone, and works in microfinance. In 2006 Graham started the LBO course at INSEAD.