Investment Committee

With more than 35 years experience in the banking and financial industry Frederic Rosset has the responsibility for managing Peak Partners SA (formerly Harcourt Partners SA). Mr. Rosset previously worked in the Corporate Banking division of UBS and later with Swiss Bank Corporation in Geneva and New York. Thereafter he gained extensive international commodity, trade and structured finance experience in his positions as a Vice President with SBC, Credit Lyonnais and Paribas in Switzerland and Australia. In 1998 he joined an international company specializing in hedge funds were he reorganized the logistics and supervised all the agency business. In 2000, Mr. Rosset creates Harcourt Partners, a joint venture with Harcourt Investment Consulting AG. In 2006, he switched the company name to Peak Partners SA. Frederic holds a BS degree in economy from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Salima Boutelitene holds a Doctorate in Business Administration from University of Geneva.
She has been working at university of Geneva as Research and Professor’s assistant in Information System Management, finance and Management during more than seven years. Moreover, she has settled a program for people in employment.
After seven years spent at University of Geneva she has decided to join HSBC Private Bank in Geneva as Investment Advisor for the MENA’s region where she was in charge of promoting private equities for UHNWI.
Dr. Salima Boutelitene has joined QNB Banque Privée (Suisse) in 2009 with the bank establishment in Geneva. She worked as Private Banking Director for the MENA’s region where she has been in charge of developing the Qatari's and GCC markets. She has spent couple of years in Dubai working as head of business development for different markets' industries.
Salima is very well committed to her market and has an extensive knowledge on the GCC's culture and market. She speaks Arabic, English, French and Spanish.

Thierry joined Peak Partners in February 2007. Prior joining Peak Partners, he was Vice President at Banque SCS Alliance, head of the fund department. He was the portfolio manager of the in house fund of hedge funds. Between 1996 and 2000, Thierry held several senior operational and accounting positions in various family offices managing fund of hedge funds or using hedge funds as their main investment tools. Prior to this, from 1990 to 1996 he was an Assistant V.P. at Capital International, supervising operations and accounting of several mutual funds specialized in emerging markets. Thierry started his banking carrier in 1987 as a fund accountant for Swiss registered mutual fund at Lloyds Bank, Geneva.

Mr. Jhangiani was the Chief Alternative Investment Officer at Ferrier Lullin and Cie SA, the oldest private bank in Geneva. In this capacity he was responsible for supervising a team of hedge fund and private equity due diligence analysts who provided tailor made hedge fund and alternative investment structured product solutions. Prior to joining Ferrier Lullin and Cie in June 2001, Mr. Jhangiani was responsible for supervising a corporate finance team that made direct private equity investments at Credit Bancorp SA. Before that, Mr. Jhangiani was a hedge fund analyst at Union Bancaire Privee in Geneva. Mr. Jhangiani has been a hedge fund allocator since 1995 when he first started advising family offices in Geneva on the merits of alternative investing. Mr. Jhangiani has a Bachelors degree in Economics from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, plus a Masters degree with a concentration in International Economics from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He also has doctoral credits in economics and is regularly invited to be a member of the jury for graduate students’ academic papers.