Celestin Pepin – Invescap SA Associate
Celestin Pepin has served as a first lieutenant in the Swiss Armed Forces since 2017. During the COVID-19 pandemic he was deployed to set up a military hospital, and in 2019 he was deployed as a company executive officer as part of forest firefighting efforts in the Swiss Alps. He spent four weeks deployed as a trilingual (French, German, Italian) platoon leader of 56 soldiers for the benefit of a rescue and engineer company in 2018, and he also spent a total of 18 weeks deployed as the platoon leader of 30 trilingual signal and intelligence soldiers.
From 2022 to 2023, Mr Pepin was a junior associate at Invescap SA, a private market investment management firm in Geneva, Switzerland. In this capacity, he developed an institutional private credit strategy and successfully created and implemented fund amortisation and performance calculation instruments.
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In 2023, Mr Pepin was made a full associate of the firm and remains in this position today. During his time in this role, he led the design and implementation, over a two-year period, of a private credit investment solution that required extensive cross-border coordination. As part of this endeavour, he undertook top-down sector and macroeconomic analyses of suitable markets and conducted quantitative model portfolio simulations in R to manage risk and optimise investment outcomes.
As part of his work at Invescap, Mr Pepin’s other notable achievements include partnering with an investment bank in London to create an investment teaser to enhance the developed strategy’s market appeal, guided marketing and sales networks across Europe to expand the
Hobbies & Interests
Travel has always been an important part of Mr Pepin’s life; at the age of five he visited the US base in Antarctica on a ship carrying scientific personnel. This is a passion he continues to pursue, having visited over 100 countries to date and preferring to backpack whenever possible. He enjoys cooking, running, visiting the gym, learning languages and going to the theatre – his favourite musical is West Side Story. He also enjoys music (he has a wide taste, ranging from Prokofiev to King Crimson) and reading. Some of the books he rates most highly include Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman and The Castle by Franz Kafka.
Education
Mr Pepin is multilingual, holds both Swiss and Canadian citizenship and was awarded a BA degree in economics from the University of St. Gallen in 2022. He recently started volunteering with the Swiss Red Cross, helping children from war-torn countries who were granted asylum in Switzerland to complete their homework, adapt to the school system and learn French.
