Rikard Lundgren is a Luxembourg based Advisor and Independent Director. He is a member of ILA and its' Alternative Investment task force and of ALRiM. He was until 2016 the CIO and partner of IMQubator, an APG funded seed investor in start-up Alternative Investment funds. Over the past 15 years he was Chief Investment Officer for several multi-asset class institutional investment portfolios ranging from 250M€ to 20Bn€. He has more than 20 years of experience as Non-Executive Director and over 15 years of chairing boards. He has appeared as speaker at many industry conferences, has published articles in the Hedge Fund Journal and other industry publications. The first 15 years of his career were in Global Markets trading and sales of First Chicago, Bankers Trust, Swedbank and Deutsche Bank. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Stockholm School of Economics, is a graduate from the Swedish Army’s School of Languages and speaks six languages.