OUR TEAM
ZEV CRYSTAL
Zev has been managing assets and trading for almost 40 years. In 1995 he established Investment and Portfolio Consultants (IPC) as a multi-family, multi discipline asset manager and investment advisor starting with an AUM of $500m. Over the course of the next 2 decades, the assets grew substantially to many billions with 15 families.
In 2017 he moved to become resident in the Bahamas and in 2021, the business vision evolved to expand the business internationally with the creation of the Gryphon Multi Asset platform in the Bahamas.
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Prior to IPC Zev held senior positions for many large international Investment Banks in London, New York and Toronto. SwissBank Corp, Société Générale, CIBC and Daiwa.
DAVID CRYSTAL
David has been managing assets, trading, and sales for almost 40 years. In 1995 he established Investment and Portfolio Consultants (IPC) as a multi-family, multi discipline asset manager and investment advisor with a fixed income emphasis. In 2021, the business vision evolved to expand the business internationally with the creation of the Gryphon Multi Asset platform in the Bahamas.
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Prior to IPC David held various positions for many large international Investment Banks in London and Toronto and worked in oil trading in China and Hong Kong.
LEN A. WATSON
Len has over 35 years of Trading and Portfolio Management experience. For the past 25 years Len has worked for IPC as a Portfolio Manager, managing and trading diversified and tailored global fixed income portfolios and strategies. Len has developed a proprietary suite of software used to track, compare and analyse global bond markets
Prior to IPC Len worked for a number of International Banks in senior trading roles, making markets in Warrants, Convertibles and Equities.
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Len was nominated 4 years running (2018-2021) as the Most Astute Investor in Asia G3 Bonds by the Asset.com.
RAFFAELLO NEMNI
Raffaello has 30 years experience in private banking as an advisor to UHNWIs and as senior executive. He started his career in a Family Office where he spent 10 years specialising in asset allocation, fixed income/currency trading and manager selection in alternative investments. From 2001 until 2007 he was one of the founding members of the UK team at UBS Wealth Management focusing on servicing UHNW & Family Offices. From 2008 - 2014, he set up and ran globally the UK Resident Non-Domiciled business at Credit Suisse. Since then, Raffaello held leadership roles at HSBC Group as a Managing Director in charge of UHNW, its largest business in the UK Private Banking division, and Deutsche Bank as MD - Head of UK Coverage team. Raffaello is a Chartered Fellow (FSCI) of CISI.
PANTELIS MARGARONIS
Pantelis has been a private banker for over 15 years after graduating with a Masters in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. He started his career at Goldman Sachs where he covered European Family Offices later transitioning to focus on the Greek and Benelux markets. In 2014 he moved to RBC London to cover the Greek market. In 2016 he was brought over to Credit Suisse London where he was responsible for UHNW clients in the Emerging Europe market area. This encompassed Greece, Russia and Israel. As a Director he was responsible for building out the London desk for some of the banks most important relationships.
JULIEN JEANNET
Julien has been actively involved in financial analysis, evaluation and transaction structuring for a wide variety of projects and investment portfolios for the past 15 years. These include being a key member of a multi-disciplined project finance advisor, a pan-European solar developer that arranged the first solar bond in 2010 for the largest PV project in Europe at the time, transactions spanning across the development cycle of infrastructure projects, fund raising and investments in companies in Sub-Saharan Africa including advising an off-grid utility in Chad, a solar C&I company in East Africa, a Paris-based investment boutique specialised in frontier markets and a London-based startup developing ESG solutions.
ADAM EISENBERG
Adam has 25 years of experience in financial services as an advisor to families and corporations. He started his career in investment banking working on complex cross border transactions. Adam served as the head of European manager selection at Guggenheim Investment Advisors. During six years at Barclays, he served as the head of UK Investment Advisory as well as the head of the Private Assets offering to high-net-worth clients. Prior to joining the Gryphon team, Adam was the Head of Investment Counselling for Citi Private Bank’s clients in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Adam earned his bachelor’s in public policy and economics at Duke University and his MBA at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He is based in London.