María Sanz García (Past Speaker)

Maria Sanz Garcia is Partner and Co-Head Private Equity at YIELCO Investments AG. YIELCO Investments, established in 2011, is an innovative alternative Investments Boutique with focus on the asset classes Infrastructure, Private Debt and Private Equity, offering Multi Manager Portfolio products as well as Managed Account Solutions and Advisory Services. The Company currently manages approx. EUR 3bn capital commitments from institutional investors and family offices. It has six Multi Manager Portfolio Products in the three asset classes, four thereof currently in the market.

Before joining YIELCO, Maria was most recently a Partner and founding member of SwanCap Partners (2014-2018), where she assumed co-responsibility for the Private Equity investment program and business development. Prior to joining SwanCap Partners, Mrs. Sanz was a director of Unicredit´s Principal Investments division, where she helped build and oversee the bank´s Private Equity portfolio for over ten years. Mrs. Sanz began her career in 1997 as an Institutional Sales for FX and interest rate derivatives in the International Markets division of the HVB Group, where she worked for seven years, and assisted institutional investors and central banks in Europe, America and Africa out of the Munich and London offices. Mrs. Sanz has a double degree in International Management from the Universidade Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE) in Madrid and the ESB Business School in Reutlingen and is a CFA Charterholder.