GUY FRASER-SAMPSON has over twenty years' experience of theprivate equity industry, most notably having set up and run forseveral years the European operations of Horsley Bridge. As apartner in the firm, and Managing Director of Horsley BridgeInternational, he had a unique opportunity to interactsimultaneously with private equity managers from all over theworld, including famous golden circle venture firmsbased predominantly in California. He previously lived and workedin the Middle East as Investment Controller with the Abu DhabiInvestment Authority (ADIA). He has extensive experience of the evaluation of private equitymanagers, including having personally designed and developed acomputer model for the evaluation of buyout performance, but isequally recognised as an expert on venture capital. In addition tohis work with funds, he has also conducted direct, secondary andmezzanine transactions over the years. Guy teaches post-graduate modules on private equity and investmentstrategy at Cass Business School in the City of London, and is alsorecognised as an authority on all types of alternative assets. Heperforms consultancy and high level executive training assignmentsfor clients around the world, and is also in demand as a providerof keynote addresses at investment conferences. In addition tovarious professional qualifications, he holds an LLB with honoursfrom King's College London, and an MBA majoring in finance fromWarwick Business School. Guy writes for a number of finance and investment publications,including his influential monthly column in Real Deals. Heis the author of Multi-Asset Class Investment Strategy, alsopublished as part of the Wiley Finance series, which questionsaccepted views of risk and return, and sets out ways in whichinvestors could and should incorporate a wide range of so-calledalternative assets into their planned portfolios. He conductsregular investor workshops around the world based upon his books.