Our Team
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Enrique de la Torre
Investment Strategy & Portfolio Management
Enrique was a founding member and Partner of the largest Spanish specialty financing platform. Deployed almost €4bn capital he was in charge of the investment committee, portfolio management and corporate development, including internationalization of the entity. Over 10 years of experience investing in private debt. Prior to that he was overseeing the investment team for another private debt fund.
Started his career in BNP European Investment Banking team, where he worked with Ignacio Lopez del Hierro for several years. He holds a B.A degree from Universidad San Pablo CEU (Spain)
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Jaime Becerril Oriol
Business Strategy and Investor Relations
Jaime has over 20 years experience in financial markets, having advised and worked together with some of the world’s largest institutional and private investors.
Started his career at PWC before moving to London to work as research analyst at Redburn and JP Morgan, covering European banks during the Great Financial Crisis and Sovereign Debt Crisis. Incidentally after these crises the Direct Lending industry was born in Europe. In 2014, he founded Ayax Capital to invest in private equity, venture capital and other projects across various sectors and geographies, joining Enrique and the team to help them grow the Stinger project.
Jaime holds a B.A. from Universidad Carlos III and WHU Otto-Beisheim Hochschule in Germany.
Jaime will oversee business strategy, investor relations and business development at Stinger.
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Felix Grüninger
Business Development, Sales & Operations
Felix has over 20 years of experience in the financial industry, including leading Banco Santander’s inflation trading desk and expanding its client base during the European debt crisis.
Early career roles included Private Banking at Berenberg Bank in Germany and Private Equity at Soros P.E. in London.
Felix holds an M.S. in Mathematics from Université de Paris Dauphine and worked at AXA on advanced mathematical models and big data analysis while pursuing an M.Sc. in Research in Finance.
Felix will work with Jaime on Business Development and head institutional sales for France, DACH and Middle East. He will also be in charge of everything ESG-related at Stinger.
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Ignacio Lopez del Hierro
Clients Sourcing & Debt Structuring
Ignacio has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector, acting as senior executive at a number of institutions. During the past 10 years he contributed to the development of the Private Debt business in Spain, executing deals for different private debt funds, and having developed the Private Debt business of Tikehau Capital in Spain (asset manager with more than €40bn AUM).
Prior to that, Ignacio worked in Investment Banking at Société Générale and BNP Paribas. Ignacio holds a B.A and law degree from ICADE (Spain) and is currently a professor of LBOs in a master’s program.