Nicolas Andine - Principal, Alternative Investments
Nicolas has 11 years of experience in finance, 8 of which managing bank proprietary capital and clients' assets. Most recently, Nicolas founded in 2006 and ran Talaris Capital, a London-based long/short equity hedge fund with assets of $1bn and 9 investment professionnals.

Prior to founding Talaris, from 2002 to 2005 Nicolas was Managing Director at Deutsche Bank in London and Tokyo, managing a portfolio of c$500m, and was European Portfolio manager and co-founder of Gandhara Capital, a European and Asian multistrategy hedge fund.
 
Prior to this, Nicolas was a member of the Goldman Sachs Proprietary Strategy group from 2000 to 2002. From 1998 to 2000, Nicolas worked in Corporate Finance / Mergers and Acquisitions at Goldman Sachs.

Nicolas graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in 1996 and Ecole des Mines de Paris in 1998.