Olympia Group has appointed Sergio Heuer as President and Chief Executive Officer. Since 2010, Heuer has been a Partner at Graham Capital International in Europe and has been actively involved in the firm's European fundraising effort, resulting, among other things, in the successful launch of Graham's first UCITS fund. 

The current President and CEO, Laurent Dupeyron, will be leaving Olympia to pursue other opportunities. The supervisory board wishes to thank Laurent for his leadership of Olympia over the last three challenging years. The existing senior management of the firm, as well as the investment team, remain unchanged.

"We welcome the appointment of Sergio as President of Olympia Group,” said Pascal Maeter, Chairman of the Supervisory Board. “His operating background in a variety of industries, in addition to direct experience at some of the world's highest performing hedge funds, is a rare set of skills which we look forward to harnessing for all of Olympia's investors, clients, employees and stakeholders."

Heuer has in excess of 20 years of experience in private equity investments, mainly sponsored by the Tudor Investment Group, a leading global hedge fund. He ran companies in a variety of industries and geographies, managed teams across various performance centres and focused on clients on a global basis.

Heuer commented: "I look forward to working with the existing senior management, Guido Bolliger (CIO), Arnaud Beyssen (CFO), Marc Beheray in charge of Life Insurance and Olivier Lazar in charge of
Private Banking and leading Olympia over the next phase of its growth, focusing on providing market leading solutions to all of its clients across our offices in Paris, London, New York and Zurich. In addition, I believe that the strength of the Olympia team has been evident through its industry leading investment processes over the past 22 years and I look forward to expanding our product offering to meet the challenges experienced by our clients."

Olympia is a pioneer in the European fund of hedge funds business. The group has an international presence in Paris, London, New York, and Zurich. Olympia currently manages in excess of $2 billion in fund of hedge funds assets on behalf of institutions as well as private client and life insurance portfolios through IFAs. In addition to its flagship funds, Olympia Star Lux, Olympia offers investors a wide range of alternative multi-manager funds, both multi-strategy and thematic, as well as customized and sub-advisory portfolios.