Board of Directors

Dr. Peter Wuffli

Chairman of the Board of Directors

Dr. Peter Wuffli is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Partners Group Holding AG and holds mandates in various other organizations. 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. Peter Wuffli studied economics at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland, where he gained his PhD in 1984. 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. Charles Dallara

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

Charles Dallara is the Vice Chairman of Partners Group Holding AG’s Board of Directors and Chairman of the Americas, based in New York. He has 41 years of industry experience. 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 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, Member of the Board of Directors

Marcel Erni co-founded Partners Group in 1996. He is a member of the Global Investment Committee and Partners Group Holding AG’s Board of Directors, based in Zug. Previously, he served as the Chief Investment Officer of Partners Group. He has 25 years of industry experience. Prior to founding Partners Group, he worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. and McKinsey & Co. He 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. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Castle Private Equity AG, Switzerland, and Global Blue SA, Switzerland, a Partners Group portfolio company. He is also a Board member of PG3 AG, Switzerland, the family office of the founders of Partners Group.

Michelle Felman

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

Michelle Felman is a member of the Board of Directors of Partners Group Holding AG and Chairwoman of the Investment Oversight Committee. She has more than 25 years of experience in the real estate and investment business. Ms. 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. She holds a board position at Choice Properties, a REIT, and is on the investment committee of the Turner-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund, an investment platform focused on social impact investing in education. From 1997 to 2010, Ms. Felman was Executive Vice President (EVP), Acquisitions and Capital Markets, at Vornado Realty Trust. During her tenure as EVP at Vornado, she led growth initiatives that enabled the firm to become one of the largest commercial and retail real estate owners in the New York City and Washington DC markets. She continued to provide consulting services to the firm for two years after her retirement from her executive role. 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. Ms. Felman earned her undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California in 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 member of the Global Investment Committee and Partners Group Holding AG’s Board of Directors, based in Zug. Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer from 1996 to 2005, when he became Executive Chairman. In 2014, Gantner stepped down as Executive Chairman and took up his current role. Prior to founding Partners Group, he worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. He has 25 years of industry experience and holds an MBA from the Brigham Young University Marriott School of Management in Utah, USA. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Partners Group’s portfolio companies Fermaca Luxembourg s.à.r.l., VAT Group AG and PCI Pharma Services. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of PG Impact Investments Foundation and PG3 AG, Switzerland, the family office of the founders of Partners Group.

Steffen Meister

Partner, Delegate of the Board of Directors/President

Steffen Meister is a Partner of the firm and Delegate of the Board of Directors/President of Partners Group Holding AG, based in Zug. He has been with Partners Group since 2000, was the Chief Executive Officer from 2005 to 2013 and has 21 years of industry experience. 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 holds a master's degree in mathematics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland.

Grace del Rosario-Castaño

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

Grace del Rosario-Castaño is a member of the Board of Directors of Partners Group Holding AG and she is Chairwoman of the Nomination and Compensation Committee and a member of the Investment Oversight Committee of the Board of Directors. Ms. Castaño spent 22 years at Johnson & Johnson, joining in 1990 as Brand Manager and ending her tenure as Company Group Chairman, Asia-Pacific, in July 2014. In that role, Ms. Castaño was responsible for all markets in the Asia-Pacific region, covering 14 operating companies with revenue of over USD 3 billion. 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, Ms. 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 Risk and Audit Committee. He 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 PhD in business administration from the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland. He is a member of the Board of Directors of HSBC Bank plc. and a member of the Supervisory Board as well as Chairman of the Risk and Audit Committee of HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG.

Patrick Ward

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

Patrick Ward is a member of Partners Group Holding AG’s Board of Directors and Chairman UK and Middle East, based in London. He has 37 years of industry experience. 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 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 Markets Committee

Urs Wietlisbach co-founded Partners Group in 1996. He is a member of Partners Group Holding AG’s Board of Directors and Chairman of the Markets Committee, based in Zug. He has 28 years of industry experience. Prior to founding Partners Group, he worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. and Credit Suisse. He holds a master's degree in business administration from the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Princess Private Equity Holding Limited, a Partners Group investment holding. He is also a Board member of PG Impact Investments AG and of PG Impact Investments Foundation, a foundation that focuses on impact investing globally. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Entrepreneur Partners AG, a Swiss asset manager, and PG3 AG, Switzerland, the family office of the founders of Partners Group, as well as an advisory Board member of Swiss Startup Factory AG, an independent organization that supports and finances startups.