Catherine Haumesser

Managing Director, Investment at Armen

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Catherine has over 20 years of experience in the investment industry, starting as a buy-side research analyst and portfolio manager in Frankfurt in 2001. In 2005, she joined SVG Capital, a private equity firm in London with €3.5bn AUM, where she led numerous fund investments and was responsible for the European portfolio. She was also involved in setting up the firm's Asian operations and contributed to building the team in Singapore. In 2013, she became a member of the investment committee of Aberdeen SVG, overseeing €4.7bn of private equity assets. Catherine was part of the SVG Capital team that spun off from Aberdeen Asset Management in 2015 and founded Larchpoint, a single-family office, in 2017, where she was a partner overseeing the European activity and a member of the investment committee. She holds an MA in Management from HEC, Paris, and is a CFA charterholder.