Pi Capital Christmas Drinks Reception co hosted with Moet Hennessey, featuring Krug, Cloudy Bay and Cheval des Andes with Guest Speaker Dr Phillipa Malmgren
Wednesday 9th December 6:30pm, Mayfair

Please join us for a glass of festive cheer in the Ballroom at the Headquarters of Moet Hennessey.  We invite you to come and sample some of the finest wines and champagnes from the luxury portfolio of LVMH Wines and Spirits. Guests will be invited to enjoy Krug Grande Cuvee - arguably the "godfather" of prestige cuvees, with its unique multi vintage blend. You will then be given the chance to be some of the first in the country to try the new Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2009 vintage, fresh from New Zealand. Finally, for all red wine lovers, there will be a presentation of the wonderful Cheval des Andes new vintage - 2003.

Our guest speaker for the evening is The Honourable Dr. Philippa Malmgren.  Phillippa is the President of the Canonbury Group, a financial services company based in London. Dr.Philippa Malmgren helps investors and business managers better understand how the global political and policy environment may influence prices in financial markets and the global economy. She serves as an interpreter who explains markets to policy makers and explains policy makers to the markets. Her clients include the investment committees of many of the world’s largest investment banks, fund managers and hedge funds as well as corporations. She regularly visits with leading policy-makers among the offices of heads of government, the boards of central banks and elected and appointed officials among the G7 countries in order to discern how the political and policy environment will influence prices in financial markets. Through Canonbury, she keeps asset managers, traders and investors informed about these policy risks to their portfolios

She served as an advisor on international economic issues to George W Bush during his Presidential campaign. Then she joined the White House and served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy on the National Economic Council. She was a member of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets and the President’s Working Group on Corporate Governance. While in the White House, she was responsible for all financial market issues for the President, which included corporate governance, bank regulation, Government Sponsored Enterprises, mortgages, deposit insurance, terrorism insurance issues, anti-money laundering, and international finance issues. She was liaison between the White House and all the financial regulators including the Federal Reserve and the SEC. She was assigned to the White House Office of Homeland Defense Working Group on Terrorism Risks to the Economy. Before joining the administration, she was President of Malmgren and Company, in London.

Prior to founding her company, she was the Deputy Head of Global Investment Strategy at UBS Warburg in London, England. She was the Chief Currency Strategist for Bankers Trust Company. She previously headed the Global Asset Management business for Bankers Trust in Asia, out of Hong Kong. Prior to her career in investment banking, she was a trade policy specialist with the Trade Policy Research Centre in London and the OECD in Paris.

She has a B.A. from Mount Vernon College and an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. The WEF in Davos (2000) named Philippa Malmgren a Global Leader for Tomorrow. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Royal Institute for International Affairs, the Institute for International Strategic Security, The National Association of Business Economists, and the British Institute of Directors. She served on the Board of Advisors to the Oxford Banking Forum, Mount Vernon College, the Aspen Institute in France and the World Economic Forum Environment Project. She has lectured for the MIT Sloan Fellows and at Oxford, West Point and Duke University Business School. She has been a frequent guest on CNN, CNBC, BBC and a regular speaker at investor and business conferences including Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business.  Phillipa was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in Davos.

If you would like to attend please RSVP to Kate Lewis

kl@picapital.co.uk

( 020 7529 5662