Richard H Waryn

Bio

Mr Waryn has over 23 years of professional experience including 17 years in emerging markets private equity and has raised more than US$3 billion across 6 funds covering Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and the CIS Region. Previously, Mr Waryn was a Managing Director of Dubai Capital Group’s private equity activities in the CIS Region. Dubai Capital Group is part of the sovereign wealth structure of the Emirate of Dubai. Mr Waryn was also the co-founder of several successful emerging market fund managers including Troika Capital Partners (Moscow) targeting private equity investments in Russia and Centurion Capital (London) targeting private equity investments in Central Europe and Russia. At Emerging Markets Partnership (EMP), he helped launch the US$1.1 billion AIG Asian Infrastructure Fund in 1994, the world’s largest emerging market private equity fund at the time. At EMP he also worked on the US$1.6 billion AIG Asian Infrastructure Fund II and the €550 million Emerging Europe Fund. Earlier in his career Mr Waryn was an Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector part of the World Bank Group. Mr Waryn is the Chairman of the Uplift Equity Investment Committee and assists Uplift in sourcing, managing, and funding investment opportunities. He also serves as a Member of Supervisory Board at Escada AG and a Member of the International Advisory Board at Trafton International Group LLC. Mr Waryn was also an adjunct professor of International Finance at Johns Hopkins University and at the Georgetown University School of Management, both in Washington DC. He holds a Masters degree in Applied Finance and Economics from Harvard University and a BSc with honors from the University of Toronto.