Andrew Cleland-Bogle Partner, Head of Direct Lending Bridgepoint Credit

Andrew is a Partner within Bridgepoint Credit and joined the Firm in 2020 from EQT Credit.

Prior to joining EQT in 2014, he worked for DC Advisory in their European Restructuring and Debt Advisory Group, during which he spent three years based in Frankfurt office, where he advised a large number of stakeholders on special situations and healthy refinancing transactions across numerous jurisdictions. Prior to this, Andrew worked for Houlihan Lokey in their Financial Restructuring Group in London.

Andrew has a BA with honours in Economics and Politics from Newcastle University.

Kirsten Bode Co-Head Pan European Private Debt Muzinich & Co

Prior to joining Muzinich, Kirsten worked for six years as a Managing Director in the principal debt investing team at Macquarie, responsible for sourcing and executing transactions ranging from leveraged senior, unitranche and mezzanine debt to equity in the U.K., Germany and Benelux. Previously, she worked for Silver Point Capital, a U.S. based credit/distressed fund, in the private debt team in Europe. Kirsten started her career at Morgan Stanley in 1999, working in the generalist M&A and Leveraged Finance teams in Germany and London. Kirsten graduated from ESB Reutlingen and Middlesex University London with a B.A. Honors in European Business Administration.

Nicolas Nedelec Partner - Private Debt Eurazeo

Nicolas Nedelec is a Partner. He sources, analyzes and executes investments in Private Debt.

Prior to joining the Group in 2007, Nicolas worked at Natixis in the Structured Finance team.

Nicolas graduated from ESSEC (Paris / Singapore).

Martin Torell Co-CIO TURE INVEST

Prior to joining Ture Invest in 2015, Martin worked as Director at Nordea Leverage Finance in Stockholm and before that in various roles at SEB in Oslo for five years. Prior to SEB, Martin co-founded the M&A and debt advisor Astrup & Partners in Oslo which subsequently was acquired by SEB. Before moving to Norway, Martin worked at the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners and Goldman Sachs in London where he started his career in 2004. 

Martin holds a M.Sc. in Industrial Economics from The Faculty of Engineering, Lund University. 

He speaks Swedish, Norwegian, English and German. 

Joe Plank Director Ardian

Joe has over 11 years of experience in the European leveraged finance market. He began his career at RBS before joining the GE Capital team in 2012, focussing on the execution of mid-market leveraged finance transactions. Joe was part of the acquisition of the GE Capital platform by SMBC in 2015, and worked for a further 6 years within SMBC as a Director responsible for originating and executing a wide range of leveraged finance transactions in Western Europe. He is based in the London office.

David Orbay-Graves Senior Reporter Debtwire

David rejoined Debtwire earlier this year as a journalist on the European restructuring beat. Previously, David focused on special situations in Emerging Markets, having been a reporter and editor with Debtwire from 2014, before launching REDD Intelligence's coverage of the CEEMEA region as managing editor in 2020. He has an undergraduate degree in Medieval History from the University of St Andrews and a masters degree in Multimedia Journalism from Glasgow Caledonian.