Moonfare, the digital private equity manager, is pleased to announce the appointment of Heike Hövekamp as Chief Legal & Compliance Officer and member of the Executive Committee.
Heike joins Moonfare from Société Générale (SG), where she worked for the last two years as Head of Compliance, and was previously SG’s Head of Markets Compliance Advisory in the firm’s Frankfurt office. Prior to this she spent 12 years working for Commerzbank in various legal and compliance roles. She began her career as an associate at the law firmHengeler Mueller.
“Heike brings with her over 20 years of experience in legal and compliance in the financial services industry and will further strengthen Moonfare’s operational capability as we enter this next, important phase of expanding private markets opportunities to many more investors” said Steffen Pauls, Moonfare’s founder and Co-CEO.
Heike will report to Moonfare’s Co-CEO, Lorenz Jüngling, who added: “Moonfare is becoming arguably the leading trusted partner for opening up private markets globally and we are committed, as we progress on this journey, to having best-in-class legal and compliance functionality. Heike will provide us with that, and I welcome her to Moonfare and to our Executive Committee.”
About Moonfare
Moonfare offers eligible individual investors, family offices, and their advisers access to private market investment opportunities. With its digital onboarding process and asset management platform, Moonfare enables eligible investors to register and invest directly online. To date, Moonfare has offered more than 110 private-market funds from some of the best general partners worldwide, such as KKR, Carlyle and EQT, with an emphasis on private equity buyouts, venture, growth and real asset categories like infrastructure. Moonfare also offers its own proprietary funds including highly curated co-investments, as well as secondaries and direct deals. Moonfare’s investment team conducts ground-up due diligence on all funds. Fewer than 5% of available funds pass this process and make it onto the Moonfare platform. This focus on quality is one reason Moonfare has won the trust of over 4,500 clients who have invested more than €3 billion on its platform. Headquartered in Berlin, Moonfare operates in 22 countries across Europe, Asia and America, and has offices in New York, London, Zürich, Singapore, Paris, and Luxembourg. For further information, please visit www.moonfare.com and LinkedIn.
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- 2 Source: McKinsey "Private Markets Annual Review 2022"
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