Luc Albinski is a director of Vantage Mezzanine and a member of the Fund's Investment Committee. His primary responsibility is the assessment， structuring， execution and post-transaction monitoring of mezzanine fund investments. Luc has played a key role in all five investments executed by the Fund to date for a total of almost R1 billion.
Luc has strategy consulting （Bain & Co.， Accenture）， business development （employee benefits） and private equity investing （International Finance Corporation， Brait） experience.
More recently， Luc established Standard Bank's Mid-Size Private Equity department which focussed on executing mezzanine transactions in the mid-market as an alternative to traditional private equity solutions. Luc headed up Standard Bank's Mezzanine Finance department where he co-led several noteworthy transactions. These included providing R800 million in funding for the buy-out of the South Africa subsidiary of Waco International and providing R1 billion in mezzanine funding for the De Beers empowerment transaction.
Luc has a Masters of Business Administration from the INSEAD business school in Fontainebleau， France.
