THANK YOU TO OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE
The members of the Advisory Committee help to inform program content, recruit additional speakers and promote the program to industry colleagues.
Daphne Sun joined Pemberton in July 2026 as an Executive Director in the UK Origination team, where she is responsible for originating and evaluating investment opportunities across the UK market.
Prior to joining Pemberton, she was an Executive Director in J.P. Morgan’s Leveraged Finance team, advising financial sponsors and corporates on a broad range of leveraged loan and high yield bond transactions. Earlier in her career, Daphne held leveraged finance origination roles at Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank across London and New York.
Daphne holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Emory University.
Marc joined Hayfin in 2022 and is a Portfolio Manager and Co-Head of Direct Lending in the Private Credit team, focusing on sourcing and analysing investment opportunities, and providing portfolio management across the private credit strategies.
Prior to joining Hayfin, Marc was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs based in Paris, leading its Credit Finance footprint expansion across Europe, having started his career as a banking and capital markets attorney at White & Case. Marc graduated from University of Oxford with a BA in Jurisprudence.
Sven Gralla is a dedicated private debt specialist with significant expertise in manager selection, LP advisory and portfolio construction. As a fund manager at LBBW Asset Management, he focuses on building fund-of-funds and delivering tailored advisory solutions to institutional investors, leveraging his strong track record in identifying and partnering with top-performing private debt managers.Previously, he played a key role in establishing a private debt fund-of-funds targeting the lower mid-market at Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe. He also brings a solid research foundation from his work at the Bundesverband Alternative Investments (BAI).
Sven is a founding member of the BAI NextGen Council, where he actively contributes to the development of emerging talent and innovation in the private markets industry. He also serves on the Advisory Boards of PDI Europe and PDI Germany, helping shape industry discourse.

