Our team of Experts

Philippe Gougenheim is a seasoned investment professional with 37 years management experience within prominent financial institutions such as JPMorgan, Lombard Odier, Société Générale, Millennium Partners, Unigestion, Man Investments, encompassing Investment Banking, Hedge Funds and Private Banking. His investment banking career was centred on interest rates and foreign exchange derivatives, whereas more recently his focus was, as Deputy Chief Investment Officer at Lombard Odier, and as an Executive Committee member at Banque Cramer, to manage the investment teams servicing Private Clients.

Philippe brings on board a wealth of knowledge about financial markets, fund investments and clients' needs. His proven skills of management and investment will foster Alpha Curve Investments to develop first class institutional structure and process for the benefit and security of investors.

Philippe is a Chartered Wealth Management Analyst and a graduate of the French Business School ESSEC.

M Pierre Ahlsell was a Managing Director at Banque Pictet and the Head of Fixed Income at the Pictet Investment Office for more than 10 years. At Pictet he founded theCredit Opportunities team and was responsible for managing total return credit strategies across global macro, fixed income, credit, high yield, distressed and private debt. He then founded and opened the European operations of Kennedy Lewis with his team (A $15bn private debt US investment manager). Prior to joining Pictet in 2012, Pierre was the Head of Investments at SAF & Co Financial Services, a multi-family office. Prior to that, he worked at Louis Dreyfus Trading as a proprietary trader and at Fortis Investments as a Senior Emerging Markets PortfolioManager. Pierre began his career in 1998 as an Emerging Markets Economist/Strategist at FP Consult.

The focus of Pierre will be on investment, committing that the strategy of AlphaCurve Investment will deliver differentiating returns to investors.

Pierre received a Masters degree in Econometrics from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas and a postgraduate degree in Business Strategy and Management from the University Paris IX Dauphine, where he graduated with honors. His training has been completed by the Fixed Income Summer Training of Salomon Smith Barney, the Harvard University Executive Program on Investment Decisions and Behavioral Finance and the INSEAD Leadership Management program.

Giancarlo Caldognetto held various positions in the capital markets divisions of top tier investment banks in Switzerland and abroad for the past 25 years. He worked as senior investment advisor of institutional clients and UHNWI across asset classes for Merrill Lynch, ABN AMRO and BNP Paribas. Giancarlo developed an intensive knowledge in fixed income, credit and investment expertise. Since 2019, he opened and is the Head of the Geneva Office for ISP Group. The experience of Giancarlo brings confidence for the long term development of Alpha Curve Investments among a trusted network of prime investors.

Giancarlo holds a Master in Business Management from the University of Geneva and has completed the Investment Management program at the London Business School. He attendedd the IMD Business School course on Innovation.