Patterns Private Capital
VI/ People

The partners.

The founders of Patterns Private Capital, alongside the regional principals who lead the partner firms.

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PPC partners

The partners below carry firm-level responsibility from the start. Each leads a region or function and stays with mandates through deployment.

Portrait of Aleksander Meidell-Hagewick, Co-Founder & CEO
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Aleksander Meidell-Hagewick

Co-Founder & CEO
Switzerland
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Co-Founder and CEO of Patterns Private Capital. Leads firm strategy, investment thesis development, and institutional research.

Prior work spans institutional capital strategy in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, with mandates on cross-border vehicle structuring and the conditions that govern long-duration capital. Counterparties have included sovereign and quasi-sovereign principals, institutional platforms structuring flagship vehicles, and corporate principals weighing balance-sheet actions under uncertain rate paths.

Writing for Patterns Private Capital concentrates on liquidity, reserve currency dynamics, and the conditions under which capital flows reverse.

Portrait of Robbie Crabtree, Co-Founder & CCO · Managing Partner, Patterns Private Capital North America
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Robbie Crabtree

Co-Founder & CCO · Managing Partner, Patterns Private Capital North America
United States
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Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Patterns Private Capital, and Managing Partner of Patterns Private Capital North America. Leads North American capital architecture and strategic capital partnerships, and holds firmwide commercial responsibility.

Prior work covers institutional capital formation across the United States and Canada, with mandates on investment thesis development, anchor capital sequencing, and institutional diligence support. Across prior platforms, has led the structuring and raise of more than USD 1 billion of institutional capital in North America, and has stayed with platforms through deployment as a strategic partner.

Holds that institutional readiness is won on the evidence layer, and that capital relationships stand or fall on what is shown, not what is introduced.

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George Rafael Castillo

Investment Manager
London
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Investment Manager at Patterns Private Capital. Works across origination, funder partnerships, and applied AI mandates spanning the UK, EU, US, and APAC.

Focuses on the institutional capital interface for growth-stage operators, sequencing aligned capital into platforms ready for the next phase of scale. Prior work covers commercial and AI leadership at Compass Capital Advisors.

Carries day-to-day responsibility for opportunity intake, counterparty diligence, and the structuring work that turns introductions into mandates.

Regional partners

The principals below lead the partner firms that co-own Patterns’ regional entities: Claymont (co-owner of Patterns Private Capital Asia) and Equivator (co-owner of Patterns Private Capital Middle East). Several also sit inside Claymont Equivator Infrastructure, the operating JV between Claymont and Equivator. Their management is Patterns’ regional management; they sit alongside the Patterns Private Capital partners on joint mandates and carry the firm-facing relationship in their region.

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Patterns Asia · Claymont

Fabian Wong

Managing Partner, Patterns Asia
Singapore
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Managing Partner of Patterns Asia and Founder of the Claymont Group. A senior infrastructure and AI-platform strategist working across Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East.

Previously managing partner at Deloitte and EY, earlier at Softbank. Holds Claymont's strategic partnerships, including the Accenture collaboration across Asia Pacific, and is a principal of Claymont Equivator Infrastructure, the operating JV between Claymont and Equivator.

Writing and engagements concentrate on cross-border capital flow, the political-economy conditions that govern it, and the architecture under which capital travels intact.

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Claymont · Claymont Equivator

Florian Loloum

Chairman, Claymont · Chairman, Patterns Asia
Asia
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Chairman of Claymont and Chairman of the Executive Board of Claymont Equivator Infrastructure. Across his prior platforms, he has structured and raised over USD 3.5 billion of AI and digital infrastructure capital across multiple jurisdictions.

Convenes the Dapple Network, a joint venture of senior leaders formerly from N-Scale Europe and the U.S. Department of Energy. Carries the board-level and capital markets relationships across Claymont's Middle East, European, and Asian platforms.

Portrait of Faisal Ali Al Sanie, Chairman, Equivator · Board Member, Patterns Private Capital Middle East
Equivator · Claymont Equivator

Faisal Ali Al Sanie

Chairman, Equivator · Board Member, Patterns Private Capital Middle East
Middle East
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Chairman and Founder of Equivator, the GCC-based investment and operating platform, and Chairman at Equivator within Claymont Equivator Infrastructure. An entrepreneur and angel investor across technology and fintech with extensive experience in asset management and private equity.

Carries the principal-side relationship with sovereign and quasi-sovereign allocators across the Gulf, anchoring long-duration mandates and structured investments under KSA (CMA) and ADGM regulations.

Portrait of Enes Şehzade, CEO, Equivator · Managing Partner, Patterns Private Capital Middle East
Equivator · Claymont Equivator

Enes Şehzade

CEO, Equivator · Managing Partner, Patterns Private Capital Middle East
Middle East
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Chief Executive Officer of Equivator and CEO of Claymont Equivator GCC. Executes investments across digital infrastructure and industrial platforms in the Gulf, and leads Claymont Equivator's GCC execution.

Carries the regulatory and sovereign-stakeholder work under KSA (CMA) and ADGM that turns mandates into operating assets.

Alliance principals

The principals below lead the counterparty firms inside Patterns Private Capital’s named alliances. They sit alongside the PPC partners on those mandates and carry the alliance-side relationship.

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HKCE · Hydra

Kai Golden

Managing Director, Hydra Capital
United States
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Managing Director at Hydra Capital, the capital-formation arm of the Hydra platform. Leads institutional structuring for HKCE alongside the Patterns Private Capital underwriting team.

Carries the sovereign, institutional, and family office relationships that anchor the HKCE capital stack, and structures the vehicles under which those allocators access the GPU rental asset class.

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HKCE · Hydra

Logan Dopp

Managing Director, Special Projects & Capital Formation, Hydra Host
United States
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Managing Director at Hydra Host, responsible for special projects and capital formation across the Hydra platform. Executes complex, cross-jurisdictional deployments where financing, procurement, and monetisation have to move in the same sequence.

Inside HKCE, holds the operating-side execution against the capital stack that Patterns Private Capital and Hydra Capital structure jointly.

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HKCE · Hydra

Joel Huffman

GCC Regional Director, Hydra Host
Riyadh
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GCC Regional Director at Hydra Host, based in Riyadh. Carries the sovereign, quasi-sovereign, and enterprise counterparty relationships across the Gulf for HKCE and the wider Hydra platform.

Coordinates directly with the Claymont Equivator platform on projects where GCC demand, GCC capital, and Hydra's GPU stack meet in a single mandate.

Strategic advisors

Senior operators and investors who advise the firm on specific mandates, regional relationships, and platform design. They sit outside the partnership but stay close to the work.

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Sam Haskel

Strategic Advisor
New York
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Strategic Advisor to Patterns Private Capital. Investor and operator focused on simplifying financial complexity, optimising operations, and executing strategy across growth-stage platforms.

Currently in business development at Halcyon, with prior work spanning project finance, capital markets, and operating roles across the energy and technology stack.

Advises the firm on US capital relationships, platform-level commercial design, and the operating cadence that sits behind institutional execution.

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Dick van Druten

Strategic Advisor
Netherlands
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Strategic Advisor to Patterns Private Capital. Senior operator and investor with a long track record across capital markets, structured investments, and cross-border platform design in Europe.

Advises the firm on European institutional relationships, governance architecture, and the counterparty conditions that govern long-duration mandates.