Claudio Ghisu, Co-Head Infrastructure, is a Partner of YIELCO and Managing Director of YIELCO Investments Switzerland AG; he is also a member of the Investment and ESG Committee.
He has been working in the private markets sector since 2004 and, from 2015 to 2020, was responsible as Portfolio Manager Private Equity at UBS Asset Management for, among other things, the management of the newer fund of funds products as well as several institutional mandates. He also covered Asian investments. Previously, he was a partner at Diamond Asset Advisors AG, a specialized investment boutique. He started his private markets career in 2005 at Adveq Management AG (now Schroders Capital), where he held various roles.
At these organizations, he has been involved in more than 100 investments (primaries, secondaries and co-investments) with capital commitments of more than EUR 4.6bn as due diligence responsible or investment committee member. Investments were made across the entire strategy spectrum within private equity and infrastructure, but also in private debt strategies.
He holds an MBA from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester, New York (USA) and a Master’s degree from the University of Bern (Switzerland). He also holds a Swiss Federal Diploma in Finance and Accounting.
