The Fiftyfaces Podcast

Joey Mason is a Venture Partner in Life Sciences at Claret Capital Partners where he has been since September 2024. He has over 30 years’ experience in the sector, and has significant experience in most segments of the Life Sciences industry – medtech, pharma/ biotech, diagnostics, health IT and techbio. He has served on the boards of 20 private and public companies in Ireland, Europe and the USA....

In this bonus podcast we bring you a short conversation with long-term guest and supporter of Fiftyfaces - Jenny Segal, who has just published her sixth book On Motivation - The Blueprint for Success, which is being launched today - October 6, 2026. I n this conversation - our third with Jenny - you can find the rest of Jenny's podcasts on our webpage - fiftyfaceshub.com - she speaks about her "mo...

Anwiti Bahuguna, who is Co-Chief Investment Officer at Northerm Trust Asset Management, where she has spent over three years. She was previously Senior Portfolio Manager and Head of Multi-Asset Strategy for Columbia Threadneedle Investments, and has a PhD in economics from Northeastern University.  Our conversation starts with her study of labor economics inspired by her mother, who was also an ec...

Keith Williams is Managing Partner – Credit Strategies and Chief Investment Officer at Crestline Investors Inc. Crestline has a suite of strategies across direct lending, fund liquidity solutions, insurance and reinsurance. Keith was previously a director at Goldman Sachs and an Executive VP at McKinsey in their Recovery and Transformation unit.  Our conversation with Keith starts with the work et...

Robert Holley is Executive Director and Pensions Investment Manager at the $4 bn Baltimore City Fire and Police Employees' Retirement System. He has had a career that has spanned both the private and public sectors in financial services. Our conversation charts his journey from the private to the public sector and the investment beliefs that he has developed over time. At Baltimore F&P he has...

This bonus podcast captures some of the audio we recorded in London on September 4, when we were delighted to host Mark Steed, CIO of the $27 bn+ Arizona Public Safety Personnel Retirement System for a breakfast in London. Our agenda was ambitious, intending to cover three main areas: Football, AI and Decision-Making. We barely got through the first one. We started with the investment by the fund...

I’m joined today by Cary Krosinsky who appeared on the podcast in 2021. I have put his previous podcast is here .  I invited Cary back after 5 years which have been transformative for the field of sustainability with notable headwinds and tailwinds that have shifted the emphasis of the field. He has written a new book called Transition Momentum, and in advance of its official launch in Montreal at...

Ali Houshmand, leads the non-traded REIT initiatives for EQT real estate, where he manages the formation, strategy, and portfolio construction of EQRT - EQT’s first open-ended real estate vehicle in the non-traded REIT space. He previously spent close to a decade at the Texas Permanent School Fund, where he helped build that $50 billion endowment's real estate program.  We discuss his career journ...

After an extremely fast-paced summer we are delighted to be back for Series 4 of the Fiftyfaces Podcast for 2026. This series dips into dips into venture capital and private credit, does a double dip into real estate. We explore the challenges of allocator governance (for families and public funds alike) and end with a passionate discussion of how art can transform brands.  We startt with a conver...

Maggie Coleman is Chief Investment Officer Real Estate Equity, North America as well as Global Head of Client and Portfolio Solutions at Manulife Investment Management.  Prior to joining Manulife, she spent most of her career in real estate and capital markets.  Our conversation traces her journey in which she considered an academic life, spent time in her own firm, and cycled through various firm...

Professor Crawford Spence is a Professor of Accounting at King’s College London and an experienced researcher and educator across an array of business disciplines with specific expertise in financial service professions. He is a genuinely international scholar, having lived and taught on a number of continents and also happens to have been my PhD supervisor.  His most recent book is Inertia – Purp...

Brett Hickey  is founder and chief executive officer of Star Mountain Capital, a specialized private investment firm with approximately $5 billion in assets under management, focused exclusively on the US lower middle market. Since founding the firm in 2010 he has built Star Mountain into a differentiated investment platform spanning private equity, private credit and secondary solutions, with a f...

Kristina Hooper is  Chief Market Strategist at Man Group, a global alternative investment manager. In this role, she provides views and insights on the economy and markets and appears regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Yahoo Finance, and Reuters TV. Prior to joining Man Group in 2025 Christina served as the chief global market strategist at Invesco and previously worked at Allianz Global Investors. ...

Dr. Michael Viehs is a globally recognized expert on responsible investment, stewardship and long-term value creation with over 20 years of experience in practice and academic life. He has advised leading institutional investors on a combined asset base worth more than $4 trillion and currently blends a combination of academic and advisory roles.  Our discussion traces his career in which he has s...

This podcast is our final podcast released and produced by the Always a Pensions Angle podcast series by DG Publishing. While the recording was made earlier in the Spring, the governance concerns remain pertinent and in flux for the LGPS. Clair Alcock is a highly respected leader in UK public service pensions, with over 20 years of experience dedicated to making pension systems more transparent, f...

Matthew Kentridge, a strategy consultant with over 30 years experience, who is a trustee and advisor and also works as an executive coach. We were both at INSEAD together, and I have followed his career ever since – and am delighted now to bring some of his learnings to our audience.  Our conversation starts with his early consulting career and the experience that growing up in South Africa genera...

Sally Bridgeland, was one of the first 5 guests on this podcast back in 2020, and needs no introduction in London institutional investing circles.  Her original podcast is here :  since then there have been many exciting career updates to mention – including the fact that the chess and drama club that Sally talked about in 2020 have now made their way into their own book – entitled: Chess Club and...

Kirstie Sneyd is an organizational psychologist, executive coach and the author of “Returning Well”, a practical, evidence-based guide for working parents and their managers. We were both at INSEAD together, and I have followed her career ever since – and am delighted now to bring some of her learnings to our audience. Our conversation starts with Kirstie’s roots in consulting, and what drew her t...

James Mitchell was a director at Goldman Sachs, Barclays and Phoenix Group before developing a portfolio career including a strategic advisory role with Re-wired Earth as well as Empathy, a company committed to supporting families through bereavement. He holds a number of other advisory and director roles. Our conversation traces James's career through various roles and some of the realisations th...

We are delighted to bring you Series 3 of the 2026 Fiftyfaces Podcast. This set of 10 compelling conversations takes a slightly different tack to usual with a particular focus on some of the building blocks behind firms - such as strategy (as described by Matthew Kentridge), motivation (Kirstie Sneyd) and planning (Brett Hickey). We look at what happens when institutions such as public pension fun...

This podcast is released as part of a collaboration between Fiftyfaces Productions and the Always a Pensions Angle Podcast produced by DG Publishing.  Nick Dixon is Head of Pensions, Avon Pension Fund, which he has led since 2022.  Avon Pension Fund serves c.140,000 members in the public sector across Bristol, Bath and surrounding areas and is now a partner fund of Local Pensions Partnership.  Pre...

This podcast is the latest in our collaboration with the Always a Pensions Angle podcast produced by DG Publishing.  Peter Wallach is Director of Pensions at Merseyside Pension Fund, a position he took up in April 2007. He started his career in private banking, where he worked in the City for 12 years. In 1997 he joined Close Wealth Management as an investment manager, and in 2004 he joined Mersey...

Richard Law-Deeks is Chief Executive Officer of LGPS Central, which, following its current expansion, will be responsible for over 100 bn GBP in pooled local authority pension fund assets. Prior to joining LGPS Central in 2024 he was CEO of the Royal Mail Pensions Trustees Ltd. and prior to that held a series of financial roles, mostly within the local government sphere.  We start our discussion w...

Ami Galani is Co-founder and Managing Partner of Tipt Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in companies “reimagining sports, starting with her”. She is a board member of Beauty by Imagination BB, a PE backed beauty platform, a strategic advisor to Elysian Park Ventures, a venture capital firm backed by the ownership group of the LA Dodgers and holds a number of other board roles. She spent o...

Richard Tomlinson is Chief Investment Officer at Local Pensions Partnership Investments. He was previously head of portfolio advisory and partner at Albourne, where he spent over 6 years, and prior to that managed was Head of Multi Strategy and Absolute Return at Old Mutual Asset Managers. This podcast builds on the themes recently shared in the Always a Pensions Angle collaboration which featured...