The Society
The discipline is the brand.
Pareto Investments is an independent, student-led investment society, founded in Rotterdam in 2026 and designed from day one for pan-Benelux expansion. It is not a generalist club, and it is not an exclusive access network.
The society's identity rests on a single discipline: capped membership, published research, and three coverage teams that report their own performance against a public publishing standard.
Founding Posture
Capped membership
Thirty seats per chapter, per cohort. Selection is competitive.
Published research
Every member contributes to a quarterly published deliverable.
Three virtual mandates
€1M per coverage team, mirroring its published research.
Independence
No university affiliation in the founding phase.
Pan-Benelux design
Rotterdam is home. Eindhoven, Leuven, and Amsterdam follow.
Founding Board
Ata Rüştüoğlu
President
Sets the society's direction and carries the final call on everything that leaves it. Owns founder relations and the senior alumni and partner relationships.
Kaan Etemoglu
Chief of Staff
Runs the board and the membership day to day, clearing every report and initiative before it moves and stepping into any team that needs weight behind it. Keeps the standards and the process intact as boards turn over.
Igal Almaleh
Director of Finance & Research
Owns the technical standard across Asset Management, Private Equity and Venture Capital. Trains members on valuation and modelling, and signs off on the analysis behind every report.
Ozan Akin
Director of Projects & Operations
Turns plans into shipped work: website, publications, events and the visual identity behind them. Owns delivery on anything that isn't a coverage report.
Alejandro Noguera
Director of External Relations
Builds the sponsor pipeline and the alumni and corporate network. Manages partnerships from first contact to signed commitment.
Marketing Team
Laila
Marketing — Content
On-camera presence and content production.
Belen
Marketing — Design
Design and content, with an econometrics background.
Yağmur
Marketing — Strategy
Marketing strategy and the RSM STAR network.
Eindhoven Team
The Eindhoven chapter is being built by its own founding team ahead of a February 2027 launch — the second stop in Pareto's pan-Benelux design.
Five founders leading engineering and the platform build: Alexandros Kalligas, Asli Naz Tocan, Bilge Yuce, Can Yenen, and Sofia Zalakosta.
Why We Exist
The European student-fund landscape splits into two patterns. The first is the broad university club that organises pitch competitions without sustained output. The second is the exclusive access network that emphasises corporate visits without producing analytical work.
Pareto sits outside both patterns. The discipline is the brand.