Cecile Retaureau joined Standard Life as Head of Private Markets in August 2024 to lead Standard Life’s Private Markets team of 22+ investment professionals across Private Credit, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Mortgage Solutions, Private Equity and Venture Capital. Her team is responsible for the origination, structuring and execution of private investments, supporting Standard Life’s Retirement Solutions and Pensions & Savings businesses, prioritising assets which generate a positive social or environmental impact as part of its on-going investment strategy. Cecile has twenty years of front office experience and joins from UBS where she was Managing Director, Global Head of Cross-asset financing and Fixed income Solutions Origination & Distribution across both public and private markets. Prior to joining UBS, she has previously held senior Global Markets Structuring & Origination roles at BNP Paribas and Credit Agricole Investment Banks. She graduated with a Master of Science in Applied Maths from Ecole Polytechnique and a Master of Science in Management from HEC Paris.

Investment Research Manager and Head of Fixed Income Research

Olga is a member of the investment research team. In her role as the Head of Fixed Income Research she is responsible for client specific and thematic research at Barnett Waddingham.

Olga specialises in public fixed income asset classes. She conducts manager and fund research to identify the best matches for BW clients’ specific requirements.

She works with consultants to help differentiate the fixed income sub-asset classes, fund structures and manager investment strategies to better aid clients’ investment allocations.

Veronica is a Managing Director on the Private Credit team and has over 21 years of industry experience working with private capital managers. She is involved in all aspects of the investment process including sourcing, screening and evaluating private credit primary, secondary, co-investment and SMA investments. Veronica also works global investors, directing strategic portfolio construction, management, and providing customized investment decisions.

Prior to joining Aksia in 2022, Veronica provided specialist structuring, debt placement and restructuring advice to private equity funds, portfolio companies and corporate clients across Europe. Veronica joined Aksia from Talbot Leyborne Partners LLP, where she was a Managing Partner. Prior to that, she was a Managing Director at Capital Markets Initiative LLP and previously worked for several years in European Financial Sponsor Coverage and Leveraged Finance at both Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse, based in London.