The Team

At ACPI we have built a team of professionals with strong investment backgrounds and significant market expertise. We are committed to hiring high calibre investment professionals and encourage career development within the firm offering, where possible, the appropriate training and opportunities to develop skills and knowledge.

• Ivan Gavanski

  • Co-Head of Private Wealth Management

    Ivan joined ACPI as Co-Head of Private Wealth Management in November 2009. Prior to joining ACPI he was an Executive Director in the Private Wealth Management division of Goldman Sachs, heading up the Russian business. On his departure from Goldman Sachs in September 2009, Ivan was the largest revenue producer for Goldman Sachs in Eastern Europe. Previously he was a Fixed Income Manager and Management Consultant at GM Capital until 2005, and prior to that he was a Management Consultant at Barclays Capital. Ivan studied Investment Management at London Business School and International Law at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO).

• Dotan Lieberman

  • Executive Director

    Dotan joined ACPI as an Executive Director in September 2009. Prior to joining ACPI, he was a director in the Wealth Management Group at UBS International, in charge of the Israeli market. Previously, he was in charge of the Jersey office of Bank Leumi and before that he was a fixed income trader for Migdal Capital Markets in Israel. Dotan holds a Master of Science degree in Investment Management from Cass Business School.

• Gianluca Bencivenni

  • Executive Director

    Gianluca joined ACPI as an Executive Director in July 2009 from Goldman Sachs. Gianluca worked with Goldman Sachs for 7 years and in his previous role he was part of the Markets Solutions Group within the Private Wealth Management division advising large, sophisticated private clients and family offices, structuring bespoke derivatives solutions across all asset classes and working in direct contact with traders. Gianluca holds a masters degree in Management Engineering from the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy.

• Meeta Misra, CFA

  • Director, Global Distribution Team

     
    Meeta joined ACPI in 2009 as a Client Relations Associate. Today she is the primary contact and relationship manager for a group of ACPI’s institutional clients. She also manages multiple aspects of client service for the firm’s Private Wealth Management team. Meeta is a key ACPI product specialist and is active in business development efforts and new product initiatives.

    Prior to ACPI, Meeta worked with Capital International for three years, in London and Geneva, where she was responsible for advising and servicing their German and Austrian institutional client base. Prior to Capital International, she worked at London-based hedge fund Bailey Coates Asset Management. 

    Meeta graduated from the London School of Economics with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Economics and is a CFA Charterholder .

• Marco Pabst, CFA

  • Chief Investment Officer, Private Wealth Management

     
    Marco is the Chief Investment Officer of ACPI’s Wealth Management business. He is also involved in the management of equity products. His specialisation is in Pan-European equities. In addition, Marco also looks at special situation and private equity investments to be made by partners and clients.

    Marco started his career at Sal Oppenheim as a research analyst for mid-cap companies, before moving to UBS Warburg to cover European software and services companies. He then joined Wiener Privatbank as the Head of Asset Management. He has worked at ACPI since 2005.

    Marco received a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (Diplom-Kaufmann) from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, with a focus on finance. He has been a CFA Charterholder since 2002.