OUR Team

Meet Opportuna’s team of specialists in direct secondaries and late-stage primaries.

Alban Cousin

Founding Partner

Alban founded the Opportuna investment programme after 15 years of public market investing across all tech sub-sectors in London and Zurich.

Over the course of his career, it became clear to him that technology investing required a thematic lens applicable across company maturity stages, with public and private markets increasingly interconnected.

Alban previously managed global equity portfolios and launched a fund at small and large asset managers, and worked as a technology equity analyst in award winning teams on both the buy- and sell-side.

He graduated from ESSEC Business School in France.

Christopher Chuffart

Founding Partner

Chris brings ten years of experience investing in Private Markets, including as a GP at Prediction Capital, a European focused Fintech/Consumer Tech early stage investor.

He graduated from London Business School.

Robin Lauber

Founding Partner

Robin is a serial entrepreneur and investor, with experience building and backing companies across biotech, real estate, and private markets.

He founded his family office and private investment firm, alongside ventures including Korify Capital, a biotech investment firm, and GreySky Properties Holding AG.

Over the course of his career, Robin has developed a broad international network of investors, entrepreneurs, and operators, which he has leveraged to identify opportunities and support companies through growth.

He studied Business Administration at the University of Basel and Entrepreneurship at Cass Business School.

Thomas Engler

General Partner

Thomas is a serial entrepreneur and business builder with over 20 years of experience at the intersection of technology, transformation, and growth. He has built and scaled ventures across Luxembourg, Canada, and France — spanning mobility, fintech, AI-powered SaaS, and digital platforms — with three successful exits. Much of his work has been alongside family offices and private investment groups, where raising capital, entrepreneurship, and operational value creation intersect.

Before founding his own ventures, Thomas held a senior leadership role at one of Luxembourg's leading insurance and asset management groups, where he led marketing and e-business with full P&L responsibility, launched top-ranked digital platforms, and contributed to the Group's diversification into banking.

He completed an MBA at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, with a major in Investment Banking and a specialization in Integrative Thinking.

Gabriel Carvalho

Venture Partner

Gabriel works across private markets, public equities, and strategy, and has partnered with Opportuna on late-stage technology secondaries. He has also worked with Mobius Investments, an emerging-markets hedge fund in Dubai; Infinitas Capital, a Swiss family office in Basel; and Astrix, a life-sciences consulting firm serving major pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients.

His academic research focused on emerging markets. At Cornell, he joined the Emerging Markets research community under Professor Lourdes Casanova, working on capital flows, institutional investment, fintech, and digital-currency infrastructure. He represented Cornell as an EMNet Delegate at the OECD in Paris and contributed to The Digital Currency Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan), co-authoring work with Dr. Lourdes Casanova and Dr. Mark Mobius.

Gabriel was also a Visiting Contributor at INSEAD in Fontainebleau. He studied Information Science at Cornell University, with a concentration in Networks, Crowds, and Markets, where he was named a Hunter R. Rawlings III Presidential Research Scholar.

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