Miguel López de Silanes Gómez
Managing Director, Market Leader for Europe and Latin America
Family Office Exchange
Miguel López de Silanes Gómez is the Market Leader for Europe and Latin America at Family Office Exchange (FOX). He is responsible for delivering FOX services to current members, and actively works to expand the network in Europe and Latin America.
Miguel has most recently been director of the family office for one of Europe’s leading real estate families, with specific responsibility for designing and implementing the family’s investment strategy and for providing owner education to the younger family members. Previously, he worked at UBS Wealth Management in New York, Chile, and other locations in Latin America. He began his career at Bain & Company as an Associate Consultant in London and Madrid. He has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Economics from Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE) in Madrid.
Senior investment banking professional, coming from legal, amassing over 19 years’ experience with extensive cross border investment activities between UK, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa either by direct investments and either through Managers.
Antonio is the Founder and Managing Director at MIELI Private Office MPO (trading name by MIELI Capital Ltd) a London based Multi Family Office with strong Switzerland affiliations; he also is in charge of the MIELI Investment Research Unit “MRU”, founded in 2020 and offering strategic markets intelligence to the private clientele;
Prior he was at a Nordic Family Office in London UK, in charge of Private Capital Advisory and Global Macro Economic Research where he was awarded of several professional public accomplishments, he is also founder from 2020 of “MPO” professional education and global macro research firm with specific focus in offering professional services to Family Offices, prior he was a senior investment team member of a Private Equity Fund owned by 3 Families and an Investment Banking boutique firms based in Brazil for 9 years and he began his career as business lawyer in M&A department in Italy at an International Law Firm. Antonio has extensive “hands on” experience in Private Markets (Renewables/Infrastructure, Commodities, Real Estate and Technology) across UK, Europe, LatAm. From 2024 Antonio is Senior Independent Advisor at SubstrateAI a leading european listed Tech Company with HQ in Spain;
Antonio serves as Senior Advisors in Private Equity Firms and Asset Managers and he is frequently contributor of several financial and economic conferences and magazines and he speaks fluently English, Portuguese and Italian.
I master the emerging bio-products sector where I can help clients to establish new business starting from the idea phase all the way to industrial scale operations.
I know what drives the regulations and business decisions in bioenergy, biofuels & bio-chemicals as well as recycling and waste management and what can be expected from the future development of these sectors.
I have a deep and holistic understanding of the global packaging and paper markets and industry that I have worked with for over 20 years.
My expertise covers the value chain dynamics, business strategies, market trends and foresight as well as financial fundamentals of the industry and its players and end-users.
I am the Customer Insight Manager at Screwfix. Prior to that I worked within Supply Chain and Merchandising management across both DIY and Luxury retailers including Argos, Homebase and Fortnum & Mason. I manage the insight research we conduct at Screwfix in understanding why our customers behave as they do. I also gain insight and ideas from our customers to help understand how we maximise our business to continue meeting their needs and improving their experience with us. This is a very exciting time as Customer Insight is looked to more and more to drive businesses forward and my team are very much at the forefront of that for Screwfix
Carla Wilkins has over twenty nine years professional experience as an independent Architectural Lighting Designer. In 1997 Ms. Wilkins was one of the founding partners of Lichtvision where she continues working to expand the traditional boundaries of lighting design to encompass all manner of visual experience. In Lichtvision Design she overviews the Concept and Design Department and provides the design synergies of all three Lichtvision offices Berlin, Hong Kong and London. Carla Wilkins is an active Professional Member of IALD.
Scott Samuel is a strategic and entrepreneurial leader with a multi-disciplinary set of skills, including but not limited to strategic direction; governance; enhancing enterprise value; M&A; corporate finance; tax; capital raising;
and succession. Developing and keeping strong relationships with all stakeholder constituencies has been a focal point of Scott’s career.
Professionally diverse; senior management backgrounds in technology, life science and consulting with profitable exits of two technology companies in 8 years.
Scott and Skura founders drove the successful sale and spin off of Skura Corp in 2008 with the sale of the consulting arm (75 employees) to IMS Health (now IQVIA – IQV (NYSE)).
Scott and Skura founders then built up the software spin out (of IMS Health exit) and Scott sold that to Indegene, Inc., a global health solutions company in 2016.
Holds a Master of Science in Engineering & Management from Linköping University in Sweden. 30 years of experiences within the power and automation industry, abroad assignments in Germany, Ecuador, USA and Denmark. Competences from several roles from engineering, internal auditing, controlling to management positions. Today she is responsible for developing new IoT services for the mining businesses including Virtual, Augmented, Mixed, Extended Reality and Drones. In parallel, an industrial PhD student at Mälardalens University focusing on the subject Energy & Safety Diagnostic for Underground facilities.
Gaëtan Herinckx is a senior investment professional passionate about working with growing businesses having positive impact on societies.
He is Manager at BIO, the Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries. He oversees BIO’s direct investments SME and Corporate (including Agribusiness). BIO invests in financial institutions, enterprises, infrastructure and funds across Africa, Latin America and Asia with an objective to promote economic and social development.
Gaëtan has been working in sustainable investment field over the last 19 years. He first worked for Candriam Asset Management as Head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment. He then participated to the launch of Sustainable Capital, boutique asset manager focusing on investment in Africa (ex-SA) investments. In 2016, he joined BIO with a focus on providing funding to SME and Corporates.
Mr. Herinckx hold a Msc in Business Engineering (UCL, Louvain-La-Neuve), a post-graduate in Financial risk management (Saint-Louis, Brussels) and an International Management Program – MBA (Stern Business School, New-York)
Mr. Berger joined the UBC team in 2003 and has since served in a range of diverse roles leveraging global capabilities in the execution of peri and post marketing product development programs and Real World Evidence generation. In this role, Mr. Berger supports the development of RWD / RWE architectures and solutions to drive greater insight into the safety profile and value proposition of medicines.
Mr. Berger received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas, holds the Project Management Professional credential and Six Sigma Green Belt certificate.
