David de Villiers

Managing Director at Wilshire Private Markets

Speaker

David is an investment advisor with Wilshire, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and serves on Wilshire’s global Private Markets Investment Committee. As member of the Private Markets team he is responsible for advising on and managing predominantly European private market investments (private equity, venture capital and private credit) on behalf of institutional clients. He co-manages the European investment team with two other managing directors. Prior to joining Wilshire he worked at Shell Asset Management Company, where he was a private equity portfolio manager focused on the North American market. Before that he spent his early career as attorney/solicitor and legal counsel specializing in international corporate, M&A, private markets and (South African) human rights law. He is a CFA Charterholder and holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Cape Town. David is a citizen of The Netherlands and South Africa. In his spare time he volunteers as part-time board member of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and is a food and wine enthusiast. In an attempt to compensate for the latter, he is an avid open water swimmer and tries to catch the sunrise as often as possible from a lake, sea or ocean nearby.