Board of Directors

Steffen Meister

Partner, Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors

Steffen Meister is a Partner of the firm and Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Partners Group Holding AG, based in Zug. He is also Chairman of the Board's Strategy Committee and a member of its Client Oversight Committee. Steffen Meister has been with Partners Group since 2000 and served as Delegate of the Board from 2013 to 2018 and as Chief Executive Officer from 2005 to 2013. Steffen Meister is furthermore the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Crossiety AG, a social media platform for local communities in Switzerland, and a member of the Board of Directors of FAIRTIQ AG, a company providing advanced travel payment solutions for the public transport sector. Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked at Credit Suisse Financial Products and had assignments at Swiss Reinsurance Co. and the Department of Mathematics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He has 23 years of industry experience and holds a master's degree in mathematics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland.

Dr. Peter Wuffli

Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors

Dr. Peter Wuffli is the Vice Chairman and Lead Independent Director of the Board of Directors of Partners Group Holding AG. He is also a member of the Board's Strategy Committee, Risk & Audit Committee and Nomination & Compensation Committee. Previously, he served as the Chairman of the Board from 2014 to 2018. He chairs the philanthropic elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization that he established together with his wife in 2006. He is also Chairman of the Foundation and Supervisory Boards of the Lausanne business school IMD and Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Zurich Opera House. Since January 2016, he has been a member of the MAS International Advisory Panel in Singapore, an advisory panel for Singapore’s financial sector reforms and strategies. Dr. Peter Wuffli is furthermore a member of the Board of Trustees of PG Impact Investments Foundation. From 1984 to 1993 he worked for McKinsey & Company as a management consultant where he became a Partner and member of the Swiss office leadership team in 1990. In 1994 he joined the Swiss Bank Corporation (today UBS) as Chief Financial Officer. Following the merger of the Swiss Bank Corporation and the Union Bank of Switzerland in 1998, he continued to serve as Chief Financial Officer until 1999 when he became Chairman and CEO of UBS Global Asset Management. From 2001 he was President and from 2003 onwards Group CEO of UBS until his resignation in 2007. Dr. Peter Wuffli studied economics at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland, where he gained his PhD in 1984.

Dr. Charles Dallara

Partner, Member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Americas

Dr. Charles Dallara is a Partner of the firm and an independent member of the Board of Directors of Partners Group Holding AG. He is also the Chairman of the Americas and a member of the Board's Client Oversight Committee. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Scotia Bank and Scotia Holdings (US) Inc. and of the Middle East Investment Initiative and a director at large of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Prior to joining Partners Group, he was the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of International Finance. Previously, he was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan & Co. In addition, he held the following positions in the George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan administrations: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Policy Development and Senior Advisor for Policy to the Secretary of the Treasury, United States Executive Director of the IMF, and, concurrently, Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Economic Policy and US Alternate Executive Director at the IMF. He has 43 years of industry experience and holds a Master of Arts, a Master of Arts in Law & Diplomacy and a PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of South Carolina, USA.

Dr. Marcel Erni

Partner, Co-Founder and Member of the Board of Directors

Dr. Marcel Erni co-founded Partners Group in 1996. He is a Partner of the firm and an executive member of Partners Group Holding AG’s Board of Directors, based in Zug. Dr. Marcel Erni is also a member of the Board's Investment Oversight Committee and Strategy Committee. Previously, he served as the Chief Investment Officer of Partners Group until June 2017. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the firm’s current portfolio companies Global Blue, AMMEGA and GlobalLogic. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of PG3 AG, Switzerland, the family office of the founders of Partners Group. Prior to founding Partners Group, he worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. and McKinsey & Co. He has 27 years of industry experience and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Illinois and a PhD in finance and banking from the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland.

Michelle Felman

Member of the Board of Directors and Chairwoman of the Investment Oversight Committee

Michelle Felman is an independent member of the Board of Directors of Partners Group Holding AG and Chairwoman of the Board's Investment Oversight Committee. Michelle Felman is furthermore the Founder of JAM Holdings, an investment and advisory firm, and currently sits on the Executive Committee of the Zell Lurie Center at Wharton Business School, where she also served as a visiting professor. Since January 2017 Michelle Felman teaches at Columbia University. She is on the investment committee of the Turner-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund, an investment platform focused on social impact investing in education and holds board seats at Reonomy and Cumming. From 1997 to 2010, Michelle Felman was Executive Vice President (EVP), Acquisitions and Capital Markets, at Vornado Realty Trust. Before joining Vornado, she was Managing Director, Global Business Development, at GE Capital with responsibility for structuring and evaluating new markets and products globally (1994-1997). Prior to this, she spent three years in investment banking at Morgan Stanley. She has more than 28 years of experience in the real estate and investment business. She earned her undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and her MBA from Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Alfred Gantner

Partner, Co-Founder and Member of the Board of Directors

Alfred Gantner co-founded Partners Group in 1996. He is a Partner of the firm and an executive member of Partners Group Holding AG’s Board of Directors, based in Zug. Alfred Gantner is also a member of the Board's Investment Oversight Committee and Strategy Committee. Previously, Alfred Gantner served as Chief Executive Officer of Partners Group from 1996 to 2005 and subsequently as Executive Chairman from 2005 to 2014. He was also Chairman of Partners Group's Global Investment Committee from 2011 until June 2017. He is a member of the Boards of Directors of the firm’s portfolio companies Fermaca, United States Infrastructure Corporation and PCI Pharma Services. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of PG Impact Investments Foundation and member of the Board of Directors of PG3 AG, Switzerland, the family office of the founders of Partners Group. Prior to founding Partners Group, he worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. He has 27 years of industry experience and holds an MBA from the Brigham Young University Marriott School of Management in Utah, USA.

Grace del Rosario-Castaño

Member of the Board of Directors and Chairwoman of the Nomination and Compensation Committee

Grace del Rosario-Castaño is an independent member of the Board of Directors of Partners Group Holding AG. She is Chairwoman of the Board's Nomination & Compensation Committee and a member of its Investment Oversight Committee. She spent 22 years at Johnson & Johnson, joining in 1990 as Brand Manager and ending her tenure as Company Group Chairwoman, Asia-Pacific, in July 2014. In that role, Grace del Rosario-Castaño was responsible for all markets in the Asia-Pacific region. In her early years at Johnson & Johnson, she worked for the Consumer Products Worldwide division in the United States. Prior to joining Johnson and Johnson, Grace del Rosario-Castaño spent the formative years of her career with Unilever. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of the Philippines. She has also completed the Senior Management Programs at the Asian Institute of Management, Smith-Tuck Global Leadership For Women, at the Tuck School of Business in Hanover, New Hampshire and the Advanced Management Program at the University of California in Berkeley, USA.

Dr. Eric Strutz

Member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Risk and Audit Committee

Dr. Eric Strutz is an independent member of the Board of Directors of Partners Group Holding AG and Chairman of the Board's Risk & Audit Committee as well as member of the Board of Directors of the firm’s portfolio company Global Blue SA, Switzerland. He is furthermore a member of the Board of Directors of HSBC Bank plc. and Chairman of the Risk Committee and the Audit Committee of HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG. Dr. Eric Strutz was Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Managing Directors of Commerzbank AG until March 2012. Prior to joining Commerzbank AG, Dr. Eric Strutz was employed by the Boston Consulting Group from 1993, where he was Vice President, Director and Partner as from 2000. He studied at the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, and St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland, and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, as well as a Doctorate summa cum laude in business administration from the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland.

Patrick Ward

Member of the Board of Directors and Chairman UK and Middle East

Patrick Ward is an independent member of Partners Group Holding AG’s Board of Directors and Chairman UK and Middle East. He is also a member of the Board's Client Oversight Committee. Prior to joining Partners Group, he was Advisory Director and Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management International. Previously, he was Deputy Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs International and a member of the firm’s management committee, having previously Co-Headed the equities division globally. He has 39 years of industry experience and holds a master’s degree in management from Northwestern University, Illinois, USA, and an MBA from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Urs Wietlisbach

Partner, Co-Founder, Member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Client Oversight Committee

Urs Wietlisbach co-founded Partners Group in 1996. He is a Partner of the firm and an executive member of Partners Group Holding AG’s Board of Directors, based in Zug. Urs Wietlisbach is Chairman of the Board's Client Oversight Committee and a member of its Strategy Committee. He is a Board Observer of the Board of Directors of the firm’s current portfolio company KR Group, UK. He is also a Board member of PG Impact Investments AG and a member of the Board of Trustees of PG Impact Investments Foundation, a foundation that focuses on impact investing globally. In addition, he is a member of the Boards of Directors of Entrepreneur Partners AG, a Swiss asset manager, and PG3 AG, Switzerland, the family office of the founders of Partners Group, and a member of the Board of Trustees of HSG Foundation, the foundation of the University of St. Gallen. He is also an advisory Board member of Swiss Startup Factory AG, an independent organization that supports and finances startups. Prior to founding Partners Group, he worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. and Credit Suisse. He has 30 years of industry experience and holds a master's degree in business administration from the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland.