Nachu Chockalingam, CFA
Senior Credit Portfolio Manager, Federated Hermes Limited

Nachu joined in March 2018 as a portfolio manager within the Credit team. She is co-portfolio manager of the SDG Engagement High Yield Credit strategy and the Climate Change High Yield strategy, as well as the sustainable portfolio manager for our range of flexible credit strategies. She joined from Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, where she was a portfolio manager responsible for the plan’s active investments in emerging markets and European credit. Nachu started her career at JPMorgan in London as a sell-side analyst where she spent 13 years covering, firstly, European high yield and investment grade and then CEEMEA credit. Nachu graduated from the London School of Economics with a degree in Economics and is a CFA charterholder.

Anita Rana
Principal, Portfolio Management Group, Hamilton Lane

Anita is a Principal in the Portfolio Management Group, based in the firm’s London office, where she focuses on leading portfolio management and research efforts in EMEA. Prior to joining the firm in 2024, Anita was a Vice President at BlackRock where she held several roles specializing in multi-asset private markets portfolio management across closed-end and evergreen products, portfolio construction, research and analytics. She began her career as an analyst at BlackRock in 2014. Anita received a Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is also a CAIA charterholder.

Sara Strömgren Yousef
Business strategist, Tech and AI

Sara Strömgren Yousef is an investor and senior advisor at Wicked Angel, where she leads growth and business development work across portfolio companies. Sara also coaches founders and leadership teams on how to scale their businesses. With 24 years of board experience spanning organisations such as the Axel Johnson group, HSB Arlanda, and Norra Real, Sara brings extensive governance expertise to her advisory work.

Sara co-founded and led Emersion Management as CEO for many years, steering international expansion across Saudi Arabia, Dubai, the US, and Sweden. Prior to that, she served as Operations Manager at Enterspace AB, a Starbreeze company, where she launched an 8,000 sqm Virtual Reality park at Dubai Mall and a 1,200 sqm VR park in Stockholm, and led projects for NASA and ESA.

Sara holds a degree in IT Economics from Stockholm University, studied International Project Management at IHM Business School, and has also trained as a Psychological Needs expert. She is certified in AI fluency and the strategic use of large language models by Anthropic.