John is a UK qualified lawyer who started his career in 1989 at the London law firm of Freshfields and then joined Union Bank of Switzerland (now UBS) in 1994 to form a specialist legal team dedicated to serving the bank’s various derivative and structuring desks. In 1998 he moved to a front office function to head up an effort to promote the use of equity derivative applications to corporate clients. Following the merger of UBS with SBC in 1999, he made the decision to leave the bank to set up a financial services group based around a bank in Vienna (Euram Bank AG) in which he ran its structuring and consultancy business. In 2006, he joined Prime Capital AG, a German asset management company that specialised in alternative investments for institutional investors. He became a senior member of the firm’s management board, headed its London branch and ran the Legal and Structuring team.

He was responsible for the development of a securitisation and platform business, as well as diversification of the firm's coverage to real assets, including commercial inventory, which ultimately begot an inventory management business for the firm. He led the management buy-out of that business to create Procura in late 2018 where his focus is upon business development, technical oversight, product marketing and execution.

Rajan Puri is a financial services professional with more than 25 years of experience as a qualified accountant, controller, derivatives market-maker and structurer of investment products and platforms. He started his career with Coopers & Lybrand in London in 1989 before joining Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) in 1994 within the European equity derivatives business and subsequently focused on trading UK single name and index derivatives.

He left the bank in 2000 with several colleagues (including John Staddon) to join a start-up financial services group based in London, Vienna and New York where he was responsible for structuring and risk-managing investment products linked to alternative asset classes for high net worth clients in Europe and the US. In late 2006 he joined Prime Capital AG, a German asset manager specialising in alternative investment products and platform solutions, primarily for European institutional investors.

He played a key role in developing the firm’s execution capabilities in the inventory management business before leaving in September 2018 with a number of colleagues to co-found Procura Inventory Management. Raj has a BA (Hons) from Oxford University, England.

Nick Sopkin is a senior finance executive with over 25 years of experience structuring, marketing and executing financial transactions focusing on credit, tax, legal and accounting issues.
His breadth of experiences includes structured loans, loans collateralized by equities, US commercial paper and German mortgage-backed securities. He developed and executed derivative trading platforms, structured investments, receivable purchase facilities and preferred and common stock issuances. Nick started his career in the late 1990’s at Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank, moving to Zurich Capital Markets in 2001.

In 2003 he joined Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (formerly Wasserstein Perella), where he ultimately became a Managing Director and ran Structured Capital Markets in North America. In 2015 Nick moved to MUFG as a Managing Director where he implemented solutions including structured credit, structured debt, receivable purchases, preferred stock investments and M&A financings. Nick joined Procura Inventory Management as part of the initial team in 2018. Nick has an MBA from the University of Oxford’s Said Business School, a JD from the University of San Francisco School of Law (cum laude, Law Review) and a BA from the University of California at Berkeley (magna cum laude).

Dr. Thomas Keller has more than 25 years of professional experience leading financial operations, including: Derivatives Trading; Treasury; Risk Management & Control; Financial Controlling; Regulatory Reporting; Credit; Structuring; Asset Management; and structured financings for Independent Power Producer (IPP) and Trade Companies.

Thomas began his career in various large banks as head of Interest Rate Derivatives, Group Treasurer responsible for ALM and refinancing, Head of Risk Control, Financial Controlling and Regulatory Reporting. He also established innovative Credit Treasury functions with a portfolio of over €150 billion. During the 2008 financial crisis he was hired by a bank to run non-core asset portfolios.

In 2010, Thomas joined Prime Capital AG as a management board member and CFO. He built off-balance solutions and transformed its platform asset management business. He initiated the set-up of IPP’s with innovative capital structures, which led to increases in private debt and real assets. He was instrumental in the initiation and development of the inventory management business. In 2018, subsequent to the management buyout of the inventory management business, he co-founded Procura. Thomas holds a diploma in industrial engineering (power engineering) from the University of Stuttgart and a doctoral degree in Finance Theory, i.e. Mathematics of Finance from the University of Dortmund.

Johannes is a German qualified lawyer with ten years of experience in the areas of corporate and structured finance, financial services and investment funds. Having started his career with Global Markets Division of Deutsche Bank in 2008, Johannes joined Simmons & Simmons LLP in 2013. As part of the firm’s Financial Markets Department, Johannes advised globally active investment funds & asset managers on all legal, tax and regulatory aspects related to the execution of their trading strategies (particularly in debt and credit, absolute and total return as well as event driven and derivative strategies). Following his secondment to BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited in late 2017, Johannes joined Prime Capital AG, a German asset management company specializing in alternative investments for institutional investors, where he was responsible for the corporate, tax and regulatory structuring of the firm’s alternative investment strategies. During this time, Johannes was involved in the development and execution of the firm’s first large scale inventory management transactions alongside other Procura colleagues.

Johannes has spent more than twenty years of his life living in Colombia, Mexico and Canada. Now living in Germany, Johannes is fluent in German, English and Spanish. In addition to his German law qualification, Johannes holds a Hons. B.A. from the University of Toronto.