David Ernest Simons

Mr. David E.
Simons is a Founder & Portfolio Manager at Silvercross Investment Management BV.
Prior to building SilverCross, he was a Managing Director at Kempen Capital Management UK in Edinburgh, where he stood at the helm of an investment team dedicated to European small cap equity management that under his leadership generated significant outperformance for its expanding pan-European institutional client base, which included several leading European pension funds.
Before that, he led the re-emergence of the equity sales department in New York for Kempen & Co USA. He started his career at Kempen Capital Management in Amsterdam, where he was co-portfolio manager of Orange Midcap Fund, which generated strong absolute returns and significant outperformance during his tenure.
Mr. Simons has a B.A. from Hogeschool Holland and an M.B.A. from Nyenrode University, which included a semester both at Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern and Stellenbosch University.