The 4th Course on Private Equity is organized by National Alternative Investment Management Association at the SKOLKOVO Business School. The 3-day course was dedicated to the activities of private equity funds – one of the most interesting segments of the international financial industry that has been gaining significance in Russia. The Private Equity Course allows to learn the main concepts, strategies and instruments employed by private equity funds from a practical perspective. The courses on private equity held at SKOLKOVO Business School in the previous 4 years were extremely popular and received massive positive feedback from the audience.
As part of the established tradition VIYM supports Skolkovo EMBA/NAIMA PE course with Kwek Ping Yong, (CEO, Inventis,AUM$6bn)/SMU/Wharton). This time Dmitry Schuetzle (VIYM MD) and Michael Alsufyev (Agro-Alliance CFO) presented a case-study on the PEF exit from its investments, which took place in April this year.
Kwek Ping Yong who is teaching this year has more than ten years of private equity investment experience in China. He started his first China-focused growth fund in 2001 and has since made more than thirty investments in different Chinese cities. Yong is the author of the first industry focused book on “Private Equity in China: Challenges and Opportunities” published in 2012. He is currently an adjunct faculty at the Singapore Management University, a visiting lecturer at the Imperial College Business School in the UK and a Senior Fellow of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA.