Kemi Christina Abdul brings over a decade of direct investment and portfolio management experience across various infrastructure sectors internationally. She is Managing Director and founder of BlueHaven LLC, a recently established boutique firm that collaborates with institutional investors on infrastructure and infrastructure related investments.

Prior to that, Kemi was part of the founding team of Mubadala Infrastructure Partners and was actively involved in sourcing, execution and portfolio management of investments and served on various boards. As an investment director, she led the fund’s entry into the Southeast Asia market.

Kemi started her infrastructure career as an analyst in the global energy investment banking group of Credit Suisse in New York where she worked on a number of complex transactions.

Kemi graduated Summa Cum Laude from George Washington University with a BBA in Accounting and Information Technology. She was awarded the 2005 Wall Street Journal Leadership Award. She seats on the boards of Mojec International Ltd, Georgetown Real Estate Company and the Almighty Compassion Home NGO.

BlueHaven is a recently established independent boutique firm that collaborates with institutional investors on proprietary, complex and sector-defining investments in infrastructure and infrastructure-related sectors. The firm seeks to leverage its diverse local and international network to bring focused sourcing and execution to infrastructure investments with an outsized emphasis on value-add.

Canan specializes in TMT and Digital Infrastructure investments. Before joining PMP, Canan spent the last 10 year with Mubadala Investment Company where most recently she was heading the new investments in ICT and Digital Infrastructure. Prior to that Canan was a consultant with McKinsey. Canan holds an MSc in Earthquake Engineering from Bogazici University and an MBA from INSEAD.

PMP Strategy is a boutique strategy consult.ancy firm with 150 consultants in 8 offices: Paris, London, Madrid, Brussels, Casablanca, Dubai, Montreal and Toronto with a strong sector focus to create a differentiated, highly insightful and impactful offering in TMT, Transport/Mobility/Tourism, Energy, Retail and Banking/Insurance sectors. In addition to all the traditional strategy management consulting subjects, PMP has strong practice in Innovation & Transformation, Digital, Big Data, Client Capital, Finance & Performance and Due Diligence.

Ashli Aslin joined Albourne in 2021 as a Senior Analyst on the Real Assets team. She has 19 years of experience working in institutional investments, both as an allocator and an investment consultant. Ashli is responsible for investment diligence on across real assets, focusing on infrastructure.

Prior to Albourne, Ashli was an Investment Officer with the South Carolina Retirement System working across different portfolio initiatives in credit, private equity, emerging markets, and traditional fixed income. Most recently was responsible for the build-out of the pension’s infrastructure program, where she led the sourcing, portfolio construction, and underwriting process for real assets mandates totaling over $2.0bn, including fund and co-investment opportunities. Ashli also worked as a Senior Analyst at NEPC, LLC, where she helped pension, endowment, and corporate clients with asset allocation and implementation decisions. Ashli holds a BA in economics from Vanderbilt University and a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina.

Andrea Auerbach is the Head of Global Private Investments and a Partner at Cambridge Associates.

Andrea’s career with CA spans more than two decades. She leads a 50-person team sourcing and underwriting private equity, growth equity, distressed, and venture capital funds, as well as direct, co-investment, and secondary investment opportunities. She also heads the firm’s discretionary private investments practice.

As a long-time leader in our private investment business, she founded the co-investment and secondaries practices and is the chair of the co-investment and secondaries investment committees. She is also a member and former chair of the firm’s private investment ratings committee.

Andrea has co-authored a significant amount of in-depth private investment research and is also a faculty member at the Institutional Limited Partner Association (ILPA) Institute, where she has taught classes for over a decade. As a frequent keynote speaker at industry events worldwide, she has also received many industry accolades over the course of her career. Outside of work, Andrea is a Trustee of Smith College and a Board member of the UCLA Investment Company.

Andrea began her career at Prudential Insurance, where she worked in the private equity and leveraged buyout groups.

She received her MBA from Harvard Business School and her BA in Economics from Smith College.

Liza Baron is a managing director in the Mintz Group’s Washington, DC office and specializes in integrity due diligence matters. She established and led the company’s Middle East and North Africa practice, managing FCPA compliance and internal investigations, international asset searches and litigation support matters. She regularly conducts fieldwork throughout the region and maintains a wide network of sources.

Liza has robust experience conducting intensive research projects and interviews across the Middle East. Previously, Liza represented a number of international NGOs in the region, including in Egypt, Oman and Yemen, and led implementation of youth empowerment, community economic strengthening and humanitarian programs.

Liza received an Erasmus Mundus scholarship to study political economy and development and earned a Master’s in Public Policy, jointly awarded by the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands, and Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals in Barcelona, Spain. Her thesis focused on integrating transparency in the extractive sectors of developing, resource-rich countries. Liza received her B.A. in Anthropology and Arabic from Washington University in St. Louis. She won a Fulbright scholarship in Morocco to examine the government’s use of compulsory religious education as a vehicle for political and social messaging.

Based in New York, Kenna Wyllie Baudin serves as Global Head of Private Capital. She focuses on senior-level executives at private capital funds (Corporate functions, partners/managing directors, principals, heads of IR/fundraising, etc.) and in PE-backed portfolio companies. Kenna also has a particular specialization in Chief Financial Officers and is active in the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Council and in its Consumer and Media, Entertainment & Sports practices.
Before joining Egon Zehnder, Kenna served as Head of Private Equity at J. Safra Asset Management. That was preceded by the role of Director of 3i Plc, an international investment firm. Earlier, Kenna was a Principal at Solera Capital. She began her career as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group.

Kenna earned a BS in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Married with two children, she believes in giving back to the community and has served as an alumni interviewer for Sponsors for Educational Opportunities, Penn Alumni Interviewer, and active member of the parents’ association of The Pingry School and the Delbarton Mothers Guild. Kenna currently serves as President of the Greater Essex County Chapter of Jack & Jill of America, Inc. Kenna is also a yoga enthusiast.

Alexandra is a Partner and serves as Rede’s Head of Americas and Co-Head of Rede’s Global Coverage team.

Her responsibilities include the overall development of Rede’s Americas business, oversight and management of Rede’s LP coverage activities across North and South America, and strategic oversight of Rede’s activities within Private Credit. Alexandra is also responsible for coverage of key North American LPs.

Alexandra has 16 years of experience in institutional LP relationship cultivation as well as GP origination across private equity, private credit and other alternative asset classes.
Prior to joining Rede to open the New York office in 2017, Alexandra spent the bulk of her career at Blackstone, working within the Park Hill Group, and before that at BlackRock, covering the firm’s tax-exempt institutional LPs across asset classes.

Alexandra graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in European History and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst.

Adriana Becerra Cid is the Sustainable Investing lead for Private Markets at LOIM, where she focuses on climate solutions and carbon markets supporting the high-conviction sustainable investing strategies LOIM Sustainable Private Credit Fund and LO Global Carbon Opportunity Fund. Adriana is a Sustainable Finance expert with a decade of experience, including Debt Capital Markets at Santander Bank where she structured the first Green bonds in Latin America, management consulting at McKinsey, and climate finance at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) where she co-authored the “State of Green Banks 2020” report. Adriana is a Subject Matter Expert and Course Leader for the Impact Investing course at Columbia EMBA. On the academic side, Adriana earned a M.S in Sustainability Management at Columbia University, a B.A. in Financial Management at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), and has passed the CFA level I.

Erin Beitz is involved in Rockhill’s residential property services activities. Ms. Beitz is based in Rockhill’s New York office. Prior to joining Rockhill in 2021, Ms. Beitz worked at Carmel Partners for nine years, where she focused on acquisition, disposition, and asset management efforts for its East Coast markets. During her tenure, she was involved in over $3.0 billion in transactions and oversaw a portfolio of just over 4,000 units. Prior to Carmel Partners, Ms. Beitz worked at Berkshire Group for eight years, where she focused on the acquisition of over $1.0 billion in multifamily assets and note positions. Ms. Beitz received a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a certificate in Real Estate Finance from Boston University. She is a member of the National Multi Housing Council (NMHC) and has been an active member of ULI New York, WLI and the New York chapter of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW).

Zak Bentley is Americas editor at Infrastructure Investor, based in New York. Zak joined Infrastructure Investor in London in 2016 from Centaur where he was a reporter at their Clean Energy Pipeline title. He now leads Infrastructure Investor’s coverage across the Americas region and has a detailed knowledge and experience of the financial and regulatory aspects of the global infrastructure market. He is also editor of Infrastructure Investor’s weekly newsletter The Pipeline. Zak has a degree in English and History from the University of Birmingham.

Ms. Benza serves as Investment Manager for the General Electric Pension focused on the private markets. She previously worked for Abbott Capital, where she was most recently a Principal and a member of the Investment Committee. Before joining Abbott, she was a Vice President with DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, an Associate with THL Partners, and a Mergers & Acquisitions Analyst with Merrill Lynch. Ms. Benza received a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from NYU Stern and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Ms. Kalina Berova has over 20 years of experience in the investment and risk management industry. Currently, Kalina works as a Managing Director in the Partnership Portfolio of BCI, responsible for investments across absolute return and private credit strategies. With more than $200 billion in assets under management, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) invests on behalf of BC’s public sector. Previously, Kalina was a visiting researcher at Bodhi Research Group, focusing on the diligence of newly launched alternative investment firms, best co-investment practices, alternative portfolio benchmarking, etc. Before that, Kalina was part of the External Relationships Team at the New York office of OMERS, where she gained investment experience across a broad range of traditional and niche hedge fund strategies, long-only funds, custom alternative investment solutions, and private equity funds & co-investments. Kalina began her career at the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in the Asset Mix and Risk Group, where she developed expertise in portfolio construction and risk management of alternative and traditional asset classes and investment strategies.

Senior Editor and writer practicing quality journalism with a demonstrated history of working in the publishing industry. Investigative reporter, with a specialty in investing and financial services. Playwright and novelist. Truth seeker. Media and communication professional skilled in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), News Writing, Breaking News, Business Journalism, and Editing.

A journalist who writes about venture capital-backed investments in climate tech, AI and robotics, biotech and life sciences and other sectors. Previously, he has written extensively about corporate governance, shareholder activism, human capital and other sustainable business practices, and the impact of regulation and public policy on business investment. He has also written about society, arts & culture.

Jane Bowes is a member of Threadmark’s European fund distribution team and Chair of the ESG Committee. Jane has almost two decades of capital raising experience and has worked on multiple infrastructure focused fundraises since joining Threadmark in 2014. As a founding member of Threadmark’s ESG committee, Jane also helps Threadmark’s clients implement and enhance their ESG strategies.

Jane established her career at Gryphon Investment Bank where she subsequently became Partner and had primary responsibility for investor syndication. She has also held senior investor relations positions at EMF Capital Partners and Hussar ＆ Co.

Threadmark

Threadmark is an independent global placement agent and since its inception has helped its clients raise over $40 billion for a broad range of credit, infrastructure, private equity, impact and real estate strategies, delivering successful fundraises for established and first time funds across multiple sectors, geographies and strategies. With a strong focus on value-add services, Threadmark also acts as an advisor to its clients, providing strategic advice before, during and after a fundraise. Threadmark is a UN PRI signatory.

As an entrepreneur, Six Sigma blackbelt, and technologist, Tynesia helps businesses achieve their true potential through social impact. She has been religiously leading and writing about enterprises that “do well and do good” for over a decade.
As President and CEO of CapEQ™ (formerly Reliance Methods), which she founded in 2011, she demonstrated how business and community goals can align towards mutual outcomes, helping Fortune 500 clients like the Carlyle Group, Marriott, and others change the way the world does business. In her previous role as Chief Impact Officer of Living Cities, Tynesia was responsible for ensuring $100M of investment produced outcomes that improved the lives of people across the country.

Tynesia has published articles featured in the Washington Post, Forbes and more, and her most recent book is The Social Impact Advantage: Win Customers and Talent By Harnessing Your Business For Good.

Tynesia leveraged effective cross-sector partnerships to help establish the Social Innovation Fund and the Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act. As founding Executive Director of Year Up National Capital Region (NCR) she raised $20M, was recognized by President Obama, and supported the organization to ensure thousands of low-income young adults are hired in careers with family-sustaining wages.

Tynesia has been a featured speaker at events ranging from South by Southwest to the White House Council for Community Solutions. Her work was highlighted in the New York Times bestseller A Year Up.

Tynesia received her MBA from Harvard Business School and has a dual degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Duke University. She and her college sweetheart, Keith, are committed to indoctrinating their children, Dylan and Sydney, with a love of Duke basketball and all things geeky and sci-fi.
CapEQ™ is an Impact Investment & Advisory Firm that helps investors and businesses achieve superior financial returns through social impact. Our team is uniquely positioned with a wealth of expertise, vision and experience, and is led by President and CEO Tynesia Boyea-Robinson. Tynesia has helped Fortune 500 clients like the Carlyle Group, Marriott, and others change the way they do business – and has been religiously leading, speaking and writing about enterprises that “do well and do good” for over a decade.

Geneviève Brassard has been working in the field of international real estate investments since 2005. She joined PSP Investments in 2007 as a professional in acquisition and asset management, and is currently involved in managing mixed-use development, industrial and office properties in Canada and the United States. Throughout her career, Geneviève has played an active role in a range of real estate investments across the United States, Canada, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe, spanning multiple real estate sectors.

Tori is a Partner at Morningside Capital and leads the Firm’s single asset secondary strategy. Prior to joining Morningside in January 2016, Tori worked in the Funds, Secondaries and Co-Investments team at CPPIB in Toronto and London. While at CPPIB, she gained extensive experience in private equity, investing $5.3 billion in the asset class including $1 billion in principal secondaries. Her experience spans North America, Europe and Asia in the mid, large and mega markets. Tori also served as a member of the Institutional Limited Partners Association’s Education Committee. In 2023, she was named as a Woman of Influence in Private Markets by Private Equity International. Tori serves on the Board of Urban Squash Toronto, a not-for-profit supporting at-risk youths, and the Finance Committee of the North York Harvest Food Bank. Prior to joining CPPIB, Tori worked at BMO Capital Markets in Investment and Corporate Banking. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Business and Administration degree from Wilfrid Laurier University.

Susan Burkhardt is a partner in the Funds & Investment Management practice at Clifford Chance. Her practice focuses on the formation of, and ongoing advice to, various types of private investment funds, accounts and structures across strategies, with a primary focus on credit and private equity. Susan has advised on the legal and commercial aspects of new fund product launches, including developing of terms, addressing marketability considerations, conducting cost-benefit analyses, and managing structuring issues, product documentation, and negotiations with leading institutional investors across the globe.

Susan previously worked as the Managing Director, Client & Product Solutions Group and Head of ew Product Structuring at Apollo Global Management. Before joining Apollo she was a Managing Director, Legal, at GSO Capital Partners, where spent six years of her career and focused on fund formation and Advisers Act Issues. She also served as the Chief Compliance Officer at GSO Capital Partners.

Nicole Byrns is an accomplished structured credit investor with 20+ year track record of private investing and financing experience at funds and financial institutions. Most recently, Ms Byrns was Managing Director at Canada’s largest pension plan, CPP Investments (CPPIB). She was a senior leader in CPPIB’s Capital Solutions Group where she focused on developing and growing the fund’s private structured credit platform. She managed $3.5bn credit portfolio that focused on asset-backed lending, specialty finance, renewables, CLOs and fintech sectors. She also led the division’s financing practices that oversaw a $47bn leverage portfolio. She was a member of the Real Assets Credit, Capital Solutions and Leveraged Finance Investment Committees.

Prior to CPP Investments, Ms. Byrns was at Deutsche Bank’s Global Credit Trading group where she developed innovative financing solutions for her clients in the fintech, aviation, mortgage and esoteric industries. Previously, she was at Garrison Investment Group and Citi where she was responsible for originating and executing asset-based financings and whole loan purchase programs.

Ms. Byrns is a distinguished writer, contributor, and conference speaker, known for her engagements at industry-leading events such as the Kayo Women’s Group and ABS East. She regularly publishes insightful articles for "Credit Check," a forum dedicated to discussing trends in the asset-based finance industry. A strong advocate for women's advancement in financial services, Ms. Byrns frequently contributes to "Balancing the Books," where she explores themes affecting women in private credit. Additionally, she has collaborated with the Structured Finance Association on various research publications and is an editorial board member for SFA’s Structured Finance Journal.

Ms Byrns received a BA from Wellesley College and an MA from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She also studied at L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) as a Rotary Scholar. She serves on the board of Jacob Riis Neighborhood Settlement.

Sebnem Caglayan is a Managing Director and Analytical Manager for the Nonbank Financial Institutions team that covers specialty finance companies, asset managers, and business development companies. Until recently, she had oversight of securities firms, exchanges & clearinghouses and private equity & hedge funds ratings as well. Prior to May 2018, she was the Lead Analyst for the asset manager ratings in North America for a portfolio that included alternative and traditional asset managers. Prior to joining S&P Global in October 2009, Sebnem was a Senior Manager at Ernst and Young’s Transaction Advisory practice from 2006 to 2009 and led financial due diligence projects on over 50 merger & acquisition transactions ranging from $200 million to $2 billion in a variety of industries including health care, manufacturing, oil and gas, financial institutions and consumer products. Sebnem was with KPMG’s Transaction Services group in a similar role as a Manager from 2004 to 2006 before joining Ernst and Young. She started her career in 1998 at Arthur Andersen in the audit division. Sebnem is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds an MBA in Finance from University of Rochester and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Middle East Technical University, based in Turkey. She is fluent in Turkish and advanced in Spanish.

Lili Cai is an Assistant Vice President of Private Equity at Swiss Re Group Asset Management. Lili is responsible for developing and executing the Private Equity mandate for Swiss Re in North America, focusing on primary fund investments, secondary and co-investment opportunities. Additionally, Lili leads the crafting and construction of Growth Equity and APAC portfolio. Prior to joining Swiss Re, Lili began her career working on public equities at Dorfman Value Investments. Lili received a M.Sc. in Finance with Distinction from Brandeis University. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Society New York.

Sijia advises private fund sponsors in connection with the formation and operation of investment funds in a variety of strategies and asset classes, including private equity funds, hedge funds, real estate funds, “hybrid” funds, debt funds and venture funds. She also advises fund managers on fund-related aspects of M&A transactions, including deal structuring, co-investment arrangements and alternative investment structures. Sijia has particular experience representing fund sponsors and investors in connection with a broad range of complex secondary transactions. Her experience includes continuation vehicle transactions, portfolio sales, tender offers, structured secondaries, synthetic secondaries, stapled secondaries and fund restructurings across various sectors. Sijia regularly advises fund sponsors on internal operations and firm management matters, including governance, compensation, succession planning and separation arrangements, as well as regulatory and compliance matters.

Wendy is the Founder and CEO of Piermont Bank, a fully chartered digital commercial bank, and the first multi-racial MDI (Minority Depository Institution) in the United States. The bank is the engine behind many successful fintechs as well as entrepreneur-led businesses in many leading industry sectors. With over 29 years of executive-level experience managing and leading Fortune 500 companies and startups, Wendy is a subject matter expert in fintech, international finance and banking.

Piermont Bank

Piermont Bank is a fully chartered digital commercial bank. It was the first multi-racial MDI (Minority Depository Institution) in the United States, and the only one with a female CEO, female Board Chair and fifty percent female Board of Directors. Today, Piermont Bank is one of only four multiracial MDIs in the U.S. The bank is the engine behind many successful fintechs as well as entrepreneur-led businesses in many leading industry sectors. Additionally, more than 50 percent of Piermont Bank's loans are extended to businesses located in low to mid-level income communities and women and minority-owned businesses. Under strong regulatory headwind, Piermont Bank is now one of the very few left still committed to pushing innovation in commercial banks and is leading and shaping the next generation of embedded banking.

Stephanie is the co-founder and General Partner of The Artemis Fund, a venture fund that leads seed rounds for female and diverse tech founders. Before Artemis, Stephanie was the Managing Director of the Houston Angel Network (HAN), one of the most active angel networks in the country. Before moving to Houston in 2015 to pursue her MBA from Rice University, Stephanie worked as a government relations associate at the Washington, DC lobbying firm Potomac Partners DC. She served clients in the transportation, infrastructure, and financial services industries to navigate federal policy and funding. She also served as an executive recruiter for Fortune 500, hedge funds, and investment firms. Stephanie has a bachelor of science in Political Science from Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL, and an MBA from the Rice University Graduate School of Business.

Evy Carroll is a Senior Associate on the Co-investment team at Mercer based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ms. Carroll joined Pavilion Alternatives Group in 2017, which was acquired by Mercer in 2018. Ms. Carroll has been in the financial services industry since 2014. Ms. Carroll is responsible for co-investment sourcing, screening, due diligence and monitoring. Ms. Carroll is also a rotating member of Mercer’s Private Markets Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) Investment Committee. Previously, Ms. Carroll was a Director at the Kayo Women’s Private Equity Conference. Prior to that, she was a Senior Analyst at Five Oaks Investment Corp. Evy Carroll holds a BA from Duke University.

Marta leads a team of global criteria and model specialists responsible for developing, approving and maintaining criteria and related models in the Financial Services sector.

Since joining S&P Global Ratings, Marta has held several analytical and leadership positions, including most recently Criteria Advisory Officer, Risk Review Officer, Lead Analytical Manager for Corporate & Government Ratings in Southern Latin America and Country Manager for S&P Operations in Argentina. Most recently, she lead the Methodologies team for Corporates and Infrastructure ratings.

Marta holds an MBA from Babson College where she graduated Summa Cum Laude, and a Bachelor Degree in Accounting from Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. She is a CFA Charterholder since 2001.

Ms. Sweta Chanda is a Managing Director, Head of Business Strategy of Monroe Capital. She is responsible for firmwide strategy, product and corporate development, and new initiatives to expand Monroe’s global footprint. Ms. Chanda has over 15 years of experience in asset management and has achieved business growth through strategic stewardship, new product development and sourcing of M&A opportunities. Prior to Monroe, Ms. Chanda was a Director at New York Life Investment Management (NYLIM) within the Strategy and M&A team responsible for heading alternative investment strategy, where she helped launch a European Opportunistic Credit Fund, European CLO platform, GP Stakes Fund, and a Social Impact Fund amongst other strategic business development and growth opportunities for NYLIM. Prior to NYLIM, she was a Vice President at Blackstone, where she led initiatives related to cross platform mandates, relationship management, and operations across the firm’s Hedge Fund Solutions platform. Prior to Blackstone, she was an Assistant Vice President at Lehman Brothers in the Business Process Alignment Group working on strategy and process alignment for the investment banking division, and a Client Relations Associate, Management Consultant at Starpoint Solutions. Ms. Chanda earned her B.S. in TXA Management and Foundations in Business Administration from The University of Texas at Austin.

Monroe Capital

Monroe Capital LLC (“Monroe”) is a premier boutique asset management firm specializing in private credit markets across various strategies, including direct lending, asset-based lending, specialty finance, opportunistic and structured credit, and equity. Since 2004, the firm has been successfully providing capital solutions to clients in the U.S. and Canada. Monroe prides itself on being a value-added and user-friendly partner to business owners, management, and both private equity and independent sponsors. Monroe’s platform offers a wide variety of investment products for both institutional and high net worth investors with a focus on generating high quality “alpha” returns irrespective of business or economic cycles. The firm is headquartered in Chicago and maintains offices in Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles, Naples, New York, San Francisco, and Seoul.

Monroe has been recognized by both its peers and investors with various awards including Creditflux as the 2021 Best U.S. Direct Lending Fund; Global M&A Network as the 2021 Mid-Markets Lender of the Year, U.S.A.; Private Debt Investor as the 2020 Lower Mid-Market Lender of the Year, 2020 Lender of the Year, and 2020 CLO Manager of the Year, Americas; and Pension Bridge as the 2020 Private Credit Strategy of the Year. For more information, please visit www.monroecap.com.

Rebecca Chia joined Atalaya Capital Management in 2020 and serves as the Head of Business Development and Investor Relations. She is responsible for overseeing the Firm’s investor partnerships. Prior to joining Atalaya, Rebecca was Head of Marketing at Third Point Management LLC, an event-driven hedge fund based in New York City, where she led the capital formation efforts. Prior to Third Point, Rebecca was the Head of Asia-Pacific Sales and Client Service at Davidson Kempner Capital Management, a global investment management firm focused on fundamental investing with a multi-strategy approach. She began her career as an investment banking analyst at Lehman Brothers focusing on the technology, media, and telecom sector.

Rebecca is an active member of the Association of Asian American Investment Managers (AAAIM) New York City Chapter and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA). She holds a BS in Economics and Journalism from Northwestern University and currently resides in New York City with her husband and three children.

Doug Chisholm is a Partner in Mintz Group’s New York office, and the head of its Transaction Diligence Practice. He has worked as a corporate investigator for more than 25 years, including 20 years with the Mintz Group. Doug specializes in providing enhanced diligence support to investment professionals making decisions around the globe. With a deep appreciation for both online sources and “off-line” public records, Doug uses his experience, including his interviewing skills, to thoroughly investigate investment targets, identify areas of concern for investors, and present them clearly and concisely. He also works regularly on litigation support matters and proxy contests. Doug’s recent work at the Mintz Group has included:

• assisting investors carefully consider investment opportunities in Russia by singling out potentially problematic relationships that were carved out of the deal
• identifying the participants in a corporate check fraud scheme
• conducting discreet interviews to prove contract fraud against a major corporation
• helping investors and executives vet prospective hires and deal partners

Doug received a B.A. in communications from Fordham University.

Ms. Cohen joins from Monroe Capital LLC, where she was the Global Head of Institutional Partnerships, responsible for fostering key partnerships and driving growth initiatives. Before her tenure at Monroe Capital, she held top leadership positions at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (USA) (“MUFG”), including Chief Investment Strategy Officer. At MUFG, Ms. Cohen was responsible for advising, directing, and governing the strategic alternatives investment portfolio, as well as playing a strategic role in the Firm's ESG and DEI initiatives.

Additionally, Ms. Cohen has held senior investment banking and trusted advisor roles at J.P. Morgan, UBS Investment Bank, and Credit Suisse First Boston, where she honed her abilities in corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and client relations.

In her role as chief investment officer for Manulife Investment Management Americas Real Estate, Maggie is responsible for developing and executing investment strategies, sourcing strategic platform opportunities alongside key operator/general partner relationships, managing portfolio risk and performance, and driving overall investment decisions and transaction volume across the firm’s North American business. She oversees performance on behalf of the firm’s clients, including structuring and execution of key ventures, capital formation, and integration of products. Prior to joining Manulife, Maggie was a founding member and managing partner of Sera Global, where she led the global private capital advisory business for real assets. Previously, Maggie served as senior managing director and head of international capital for JLL, where she led a team primarily focused on cross‐border deployment of capital across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific and was responsible for placing capital from offshore investors into JLL’s direct transactions, joint ventures, and recapitalizations.

She is currently a Global Trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), Board Member of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) and a member of the Real Estate Executive Council (REEC), the largest organization of African American executives in real estate.

Education: M.A., Political Economics, University of Chicago; B.A., Business and Economics, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University 

Joined the company: 2023
Began career: 1998

Kendra is a Partner on the Investment Team and is a member of the Firm’s Investment Committee. Prior to joining Cloverlay in 2015, Kendra spent 15 years at Veritable, L.P. (“Veritable”), a Registered Investment Advisor that manages over $14 billion on behalf of more than 200 ultra-high net worth families. While at Veritable, Kendra was a senior member of Research Department, where she ultimately served as the head of illiquid alternative investments. Kendra sourced and evaluated opportunistic investments in a variety of alternative asset classes including hedge funds, private real estate, private debt, private equity, structured products, NPLs, and other private real asset opportunities. Kendra holds a B.A. in Biological Basis of Behavior with magna cum laude honors from the University of Pennsylvania and is a CFA charter holder.

Fiona is a Partner responsible for Investor Relations and Fundraising. Her focus spans relationships with existing investors, driving LP co-investment opportunities and building new LP relationships globally to expand the Livingbridge investor base. She is a member of several committees including the Valuation, Risk, Responsible Investment and Supervisory Committees at Livingbridge.

Having started her career as a private equity investor at Barclays Bank, she has subsequently led the raising of seven institutional funds since joining Livingbridge in 2001.

Fiona completed an MA in Business Studies and Languages, studying at Edinburgh University and in Valladolid, Spain.

Meggie Daoust is a Senior Director on the Capital Solutions team. In this role, she is responsible for originating, structuring, executing and monitoring quasi-equity and opportunistic credit transactions, across various industries. She sits on the Equity Markets investment committee.

Ms. Daoust has occupied various roles of increasing responsibility at CDPQ. From 2015 to 2020, she held different positions in the Research team and specialized in the consumer sector, with a focus on global consumer discretionary companies. She also collaborated with teams across CDPQ’s asset classes seeking strategic exposure to the sector. Before joining CDPQ in 2013, she worked for some of the largest pension plan managers in Canada, including CPPIB and OMERS.

Ms. Daoust holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Concordia University, a Bachelor’s in Finance and Economics from HEC Montréal and is a CFA charterholder. She also holds a Sustainable Investment Professional certification from Concordia University.

Kavita is a Director at Raymond James, where she leads North American Project Management for the Firm’s Private Capital Advisory Clients.

Prior to joining Raymond James Cebile, Kavita served as Head of Investor Relations at PLUS Capital. Prior to PLUS, Kavita worked as a Vice President on the Investor Relations teams at The Gores Group and Lion Capital.

Earlier in her career, Kavita was employed by Helix Associates and MVision Private Equity Advisers in New York where she was involved in the private placement of private equity and venture capital funds. She started her career at Merrill Lynch as an investment banking analyst in the Global Industries Group.

Kavita received her BS from the University of Michigan.

Anna Dayn is a Managing Director and US head of New End, a family-office-anchored strategic advisory and capital formation firm in private markets. At New End, Anna partners and invests in high-growth companies, sponsors and investment platforms to provide business development and access to institutional capital.

Anna has over 20 years' experience in funding, designing and implementing private equity investment programs. Before New End, Anna established the North American platform of XTP, a leading cost analysis platform serving institutional investors. Anna previously served as the head of Private Equity at Cardano, a UK pension consultancy, where she oversaw a private equity program spanning $2bn of invested capital. Prior to that, Anna worked at Capital Dynamics and NM Rothschild.

Anna has served on the limited partner advisory boards of several private equity funds across North America and Europe, is a published author, media commentator, and a frequently featured speaker at investment industry conferences. She sits on the Executive Board of WAVE, the Women’s Association for Venture and Equity, and serves on the New York Steering Committee for PEWIN, the Private Equity Women’s Investor Network.
Anna received an MBA from the Wharton School and a BA in Economics from the College of Arts and Sciences, both at the University of Pennsylvania.

New End is a global institution that underwrites and invests principal capital in the opportunities originated by the team. Core activities extend to private equity, private debt, and real assets. New End partners and invests alongside asset managers, providing valuable support on strategic initiatives, including new step-out offerings and capital raising. New End has helped launch numerous first-time teams and supports emerging and established managers with capital formation and business development.

New End is headquartered in London with offices in New York, Montreal, Zurich, Paris, and Milan.

James F. Del Gaudio is Managing Director, Head of Private Markets, at the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Public School Employees’ Retirement System (PSERS), a defined benefit pension plan with total plan assets of ~$70 billion, located in Harrisburg. He joined PSERS in 2015 to manage its Private Credit and Private Equity/Special Situations portfolios and has supervised and/or led the underwriting and closing of ~$7.9 billion in commitments within these portfolios. In early-2023, James was elevated to Co-Head of Private Markets, responsible for overseeing PSERS’ Private Credit, Private Real Estate, and Private Infrastructure allocations. In early-2024, James was named Head of Private Markets, overseeing PSERS’ entire Private Markets allocation, with a target of 30% of total plan assets. Prior to joining PSERS, Mr. Del Gaudio served as a Senior Investment Officer at the Office of the New York City Comptroller/Bureau of Asset Management where he assisted in the oversight of the New York City Retirement Systems’ private equity portfolio from 2007 to 2015. In April 2019, James was selected for the inaugural 'Rising Stars’ list of Private Debt Investor magazine. Mr. Del Gaudio began his investment career at Wachovia Securities where he worked in wealth management and received his MBA from CUNY/Baruch College – Zicklin School of Business.

Kerry Dolan is the Founder and Managing Partner of Brinley and is the Chair of the Investment Committee. Prior to founding the firm in 2021, Kerry was a Managing Director on the Credit Investments team at the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (“PSP Investments”). She was one of the founding members of the private credit business at PSP Investments and had various responsibilities during her tenure there, including risk, underwriting, origination and portfolio management.

Prior to joining PSP Investments, Kerry held a number of senior positions in Leveraged Finance and Coverage at Goldman Sachs, Barclays Capital and Bank of America, where she managed all phases of financings, from origination to execution, documentation and closing. She has over 25 years of investing and leveraged finance experience.

Kerry is an Associate Board Member of the Melanoma Research Alliance and a Co-Chair of the Leveraged Finance Fights Melanoma event, an annual fundraising event that raises funds for melanoma research from the leveraged finance and private equity community. Kerry holds a Bachelor of Arts in Finance from Boston College and a Master of Business Administration from Cornell University, where she was a Park Leadership Fellow.

Julie Donegan became the Director of Real Estate in August 2023, and is responsible for directing an investment staff of over 25 people and overseeing a real estate portfolio totaling approximately $50 billion as of July 31, 2023. Ms. Donegan joined CalSTRS in December 2019 as a Portfolio Manager focused on residential assets which includes development, acquisitions, and Real Estate operating company ownership. Ms. Donegan’s work experience includes nearly ten years at Franklin Real Asset Advisors where she served as Senior Vice President and was a voting member of the Global Real Estate Investment Committee. She also served as a Senior Vice President with Eastdil Secured where she primarily focused on manager due diligence, private fund structuring, joint ventures, and structured finance transactions. Ms. Donegan began her career at CalPERS where she was an investment officer responsible for the $2 billion non-core real estate program. She holds a B.S. in Business Management. Ms. Donegan is a member of PREA (Pension Real Estate Association), Urban Land Institute (ULI), and Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) where she served on the National Board of Directors and has been a member of the Sacramento chapter for more than 20 years.

Kate is a Principal with Stonepeak in the Capital Markets group. Before joining Stonepeak, Kate was a Director at MUFG, where she focused on the energy and infrastructure sectors. Prior to MUFG, she worked in the project finance group at BNP Paribas.

Kate received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Cornell University.

Mary is the Chief Investment Officer of Misha Investments, a Single-Family Office. She is also an investor and Strategic Advisor at Star Mountain Capital and a board member of a Trucking company and Community Access. She is on the Executive Committee of WorkingNation. She has extensive experience in investing and capital markets. Ms D’Souza has 20+ years of private credit, equity, real-estate, fund investing, commercial and investing banking and C-level operational experience through various senior roles at GE Capital, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and Four M Investments. She is also an Executive Producer on documentaries such as “Always at the Carlyle”, “Alan Pakula” and “Bob Mackie.”

Eileen is a Managing Partner and Chief Client Success Officer at iCapital, where she oversees the Investor Relations, Fund Finance, and Client Operations teams and works to optimize the end-to-end client experience. She is also a member of the company’s Operating Committee. Previously, Eileen was iCapital’s Head of Fund Management & Research, responsible for the origination and development of new investment products, life cycle management of existing offerings, and new fund launches across all client relationships. She also spent two years as iCapital’s Head of Distribution, leading sales and relationship management supporting the RIA, broker-dealer, private banking, and family office communities. Before joining iCapital, Eileen was Head of Alternative Investments, North America, at Credit Suisse, where she built and oversaw the origination and distribution functions for private equity, hedge funds, managed futures, real estate, and other key alternative asset classes. Eileen began her career with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette where she was responsible for global marketing in the private client group. She is a graduate of the University of Delaware and holds FINRA Series 7 and 24 licenses.

Anne Duggan is a Managing Director and Client CIO at Partners Capital. She is responsible for working with both institutional and private clients. Prior to joining the firm in 2017, Anne was a Director at Fidelity Investments focused on corporate strategy, an Investment Associate at Credit Suisse making private equity investments on behalf of institutional clients and an Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley. She received a BA with honours in Business Economics from Brown University and an MBA with distinction from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Anne is also a Trustee for the Riverbend Park Trust.

Beth is Associate General Counsel on Polen Capital's Credit team. Beth originally joined DDJ Capital in 2006, which was subsequently acquired by Polen Capital in 2022. Prior to 2006, Beth was a Senior Associate in the Leveraged Finance Group at Goodwin Procter, LLP, and an Associate in the Corporate, Securities, and Finance Group of Pillsbury Winthrop, LLP. Beth has significant experience representing institutions in domestic and cross-border financing transactions, reorganizations, and mergers and acquisitions. Beth is a member of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of New York bar associations. Beth received a B.A. in Government and English from Cornell University and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law.

Ms. Essigs is the Head of Sustainability at AE Industrial and is primarily focused on developing AE Industrial’s sustainability strategy and assessing and monitoring portfolio investments for environmental, social, and governance risks and opportunities. Under her management, AE Industrial has developed and instituted a value creation scorecard for all control investments focused on the material issues of GHG emissions intensity, energy efficiency, data security, employee days lost due to injury and category one customer escapes. Ms. Essigs has spearheaded AE Industrial’s participation in the UN Principles of Responsible Investing (UNPRI), ESG Data Convergence Initiative (EDCI), the Initiative Climat International (iCI) and the ILPA Diversity in Action. She has developed several projects focused on inclusion during her time at AE Industrial including an official mentoring program, employee engagement surveys and an affinity group. Prior to joining AE Industrial in 2021, Ms. Essigs owned and managed a multi-family office based in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Lexi Fallon, Formerly Head of Special Situations with the Capital Solutions Group at CPPIB (Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board). Key focus is on solution-oriented capital investment, including sponsor and non-sponsor financings across all industries. Lexi has been an investment professional for two decades and previously worked at Goldman Sachs Special Situations, Satellite Asset Management, among other platforms. Graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. and completed a MBA at The Wharton School.

Alison Fenton-Willock joined KKR in 2021 and is a Director on the Public Affairs team, where she helps implement the firm’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) work across its investment portfolio, particularly in Private Equity, and with respect to workforce and board governance matters across asset classes. Prior to joining KKR, she was a senior vice president and global head of ESG at Blackstone where she led the firm’s overall approach to ESG across its businesses. Ms. Fenton-Willock spent her career in alternative investments in audit, compliance and legal roles before focusing on sustainability. She earned a J.D. from NYU School of Law where she was a Staff Editor of the NYU Journal of Law and Business, and a B.B.A. magna cum laude from Baruch College.

Kelsey Froehlich is a Partner in the Mintz Group’s London office and heads its Intellectual Property Investigations practice. She specializes in investigations related to intellectual property disputes, cross-border diligence and asset-tracing, and in complex litigation matters. A Certified Fraud Examiner, Kelsey conducts investigations on matters around the world for international law firms, executive search firms, corporations and not-for-profit institutions.

Kelsey’s recent work has included: investigating self-dealing by executives at large financial firms in Europe and the U.S.; performing background investigations on executives and potential business partners and litigation opponents; investigating allegations of negligence and fraud at a government security contractor; getting behind an infringing website run by shell companies in Eastern Europe; and uncovering efforts by a multi-national company to hide assets related to counterfeit products.

Prior to joining the Mintz Group, Kelsey worked as a research consultant for Deloitte & Touche and the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion in London, where she did econometric and qualitative research in infrastructure procurement, employment policy and economic development.

Kelsey has an M.P.A. in public and economic policy from the London School of Economics and a B.A. cum laude in political economy from the University of California, Berkeley.

Anne is a Partner and co-founder of Threadmark. She has 30 years’ experience of capital raising and financial markets, and has advised and raised capital for over 70 different fund managers in real estate, credit, infrastructure and private equity since 2002. Previously she worked with Robertson Stephens where she focused on equity private placements, and at Salomon Smith Barney (now Citigroup) focusing on debt private placements. Anne started her career at Morgan Stanley where she worked in fixed income derivatives and corporate finance.

Anne has a Masters in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Threadmark

Threadmark is a leading global advisory firm specialised in private markets. We advise clients across real estate, infrastructure, private equity, credit and sustainability, and to date have raised over $40 billion.

We were founded in 2009 and are fully independent, with five offices in the UK, Europe and the US

We provide innovative capital raising solutions for funds, joint ventures, seeded portfolios and single assets. We specialise in highly differentiated offerings that seek to provide investors with tailored solutions. We provide a range of strategic advisory services to complement our capital raising activities. We are experts in preparing managers for marketing. We have helped numerous groups raise their first institutional capital, and helped many others evolve and materially scale their businesses.

Leslie Wolff Golden is a Managing Director, Global Head of Capital Formation and Investor Relations at DigitalBridge Investment Management.

Prior to joining DigitalBridge, Ms. Golden was a Managing Director in the Investor Solutions Group of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets where she was primarily responsible for raising capital from and managing relationships with institutional investors and consultants. She worked closely with investment teams in North America, Europe, and Asia to ensure successful fundraising campaigns.

Prior to joining Macquarie, Ms. Golden was a Managing Director at Ridgewood Energy where she was the Head of Investor Relations and Marketing. Ms. Golden also was involved with principal investing and portfolio management. Ms. Golden started her career in investment banking with Lehman Brothers and subsequently worked at Bankers Trust and Bank of America (NationsBanc Montgomery).

Ms. Golden is a founding member of the Wharton Women in Private Equity/Venture Capital and sits on the Advisory Board of Wharton Private Equity/Venture Capital.

Ms. Golden received a Bachelor of Science and MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Rachel Goldstein is an Investment Principal at Partners Capital, a $52B AUM outsourced investment office acting for distinguished endowments and foundations, senior investment professionals and prominent families across the globe. Rachel works on the co-investment team in New York City where she evaluates private equity co-investment opportunities across sectors and geographies. In addition to her core role, Rachel serves as a leader in the firm’s diverse manager initiative where she works with the chief investment officer to set targets for the firm’s investment in diverse managers and helps provide insights for engagement with existing managers. Rachel also serves as a leader in the Partners Capital Women’s Leadership Network. Prior to her role at Partners Capital, Rachel worked in investment banking in the global natural resources group at Goldman Sachs in New York City. Rachel received a B.A. with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University, where she majored in Asian Studies and received a minor in Near Eastern Studies.

Priya is a member of the investment team, responsible for deal origination and analysis of new investment opportunities in addition to ongoing management of investments. She has portfolio management responsibilities for Morrison’s Value Add strategy.

Priya is a Director of Mint Renewables and Australian Registry Investments. Priya also leads the gender equity group on Morrison’s Inclusion & Diversity Forum. She is based in Wellington, New Zealand.

Prior to joining Morrison in 2014, Priya was a VP in the legal team at Partners Group based in in London, Singapore and Guernsey.

Jill Haberkern is a Partner in Mintz Group’s New York office, and one of the leaders of its Transaction Diligence Practice. Jill specializes in working with private equity firms, venture capital firms, pension funds, investment banks, and M&A counsel at any stage of a transaction, from conducting diligence on the original opportunity and management team to vetting new talent and navigating conflicts. She has led numerous investigations into current and potential business partners, third parties and customers, to help her clients assess possible sanctions exposure or reputational risk.

Jill joined the Mintz Group in 2012 and has conducted a wide variety of investigations, from exposing political corruption to uncovering sexual misconduct and tracing global assets.

Jill has a B.A. from Yale University and an M.F.A. in English from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Mintz Group is a corporate investigations firm that gathers information for investors, corporations and legal, financial and talent advisors who need actionable facts to assess risks, make critical decisions, and maximize opportunities. Since 1994, Mintz Group has been the partner of choice for due diligence before hires and transactions, background screening, and litigation support, due to its uniquely transparent and practical approach to fact gathering. Headquartered in New York City, Mintz Group has 12 offices around the globe and has successfully conducted investigations in more than 100 countries.

Catherine Hatch is an investment analyst for the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, a $80B sovereign endowment dedicated to delivering strong returns that support all current and future generations of Alaskans. Based in Juneau, Catherine joined the Private Equity team in 2020 and has since worked on everything from fund and co-investments in private equity, growth and venture capital to direct investments in biotech, continuation vehicles and secondary sales. Though her small team of five all pride themselves on being generalists, Catherine is particularly passionate about the consumer space, the European market and any investments that work to make the world a better and more equitable place. She holds a BA in European Culture from Smith College. When not diligencing the latest deal, you can find her in rubber boots at the beach with her husband, 2-year-old and two whippet pups.

Kara Helander is a Partner and Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer. She is based in Washington, DC.
Prior to joining Carlyle, she was a Managing Director at BlackRock where she led the firm's global inclusion and diversity, and philanthropy initiatives. Harvard Business School profiled those efforts she directed in the case study, 'BlackRock: Diversity as a Driver of Success'. More recently, Ms. Helander consulted with organizations to develop corporate social responsibility and diversity strategies. She founded the Science of Diversity and Inclusion (SODI), a coalition of top companies and behavioral scientists working to design and test new approaches to accelerate diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. Ms. Helander also led CSR at Barclay's Global Investors (BGI). Prior to BGI, she launched and led the Western Region for Catalyst in Silicon Valley.
She serves on the Board of Directors of Leading Educators.
Ms. Helander received her M.B.A. from The Wharton School and her B.A. from Vanderbilt University.

Jaime Hildreth is a Partner at WestCap and a member of its Investment Committee. Prior to her employment with WestCap, Jaime was Managing Director, Head of Strategy for Private Capital Markets at Ipreo. There, she supported the acquisition of iLEVEL, a Portfolio & Risk Management software that she founded with L.T., expanding the offering by launching a valuation workflow technology (iVAL) and a data analytics business for Limited Partners (Private Market Connect). She joined Ipreo from Blackstone where was a Senior Vice President of Private Equity Valuations, responsible for fair valuing and portfolio monitoring over $90B of assets within the Private Equity segment, including Core Private Equity, Tactical Opportunities, and Energy Partners. She joined Blackstone from a Portfolio Company, previously owned by General Electric. At GE, Jaime participated in its Corporate Audit Staff and Financial Management Program.

Leslie Wohlman Himmel is the Co-Managing Partner of Himmel + Meringoff Properties, which she founded with Stephen Meringoff in 1985. The firm specializes in creating long-term strategic value through owning, operating and redeveloping office and industrial properties concentrated in New York City.
Known for her expertise in opportunistic acquisitions and financing, Ms. Himmel has also made targeted investments in some of Arizona and Florida’s most sought-after submarkets.

Additionally, Ms. Himmel serves as a Board Member of the M&T Bank Directors Advisory Council, M&T New York City Mortgage Committee, and the mezzanine debt fund Lionheart Strategic Management.

Ms. Himmel earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and she received her MBA with High Honors from Harvard Business School.

Wandy is Head of Infrastructure Secondaries for Macquarie Asset Management (MAM). The infrastructure secondaries business provides capital and liquidity to limited partners and general partners in the private funds market.

Prior to joining the firm, Wandy was a Managing Director at Glenfarne Group, an infrastructure investment company, where she was a member of the Investment Committee and Senior Steering Committee. Wandy was a founding member of the Strategic Partners Funds at DLJ and Credit Suisse. She also invested in funds and co-investments at Pomona Capital and was the Founder and CEO of MeeGenius.

She has more than 20 years of experience encompassing secondaries, infrastructure, private equity, venture capital, and entrepreneurship.

Wandy earned A Master of Business Administration with honors from Columbia Business School, with a concentration in finance, and she graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in business economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Macquarie Group Limited (Macquarie) is a global financial services group providing clients with asset management, retail and business banking, wealth management, leasing and asset financing, market access, commodity trading, renewables development, specialist advice, access to capital and principal investment. Founded in 1969, Macquarie employs over 20,500 people in 34 markets. At 31 March 2023, Macquarie had assets under management of £471.7 billion.

Ali is the Managing Partner at Arna, a private capital and sustainability advisory group, primarily focused on direct investments and fund strategy. She combines her unique experiences as a former sustainability investor, Fortune 500 operator and investment advisor to provide growth and capital raising strategy to sustainability technology companies and private asset managers.

Previously at PJT Partners and Park Hill, Ali advised alternative asset managers on new fund formation and ESG strategies and led global strategy for climate capital raising. Ali also previously led Sustainability and ESG for TPG where she developed an integrated, value-centric ESG approach across the investment cycle. During her time, she led ESG-related business building with over 200 portfolio companies, many from pre-investment to successful exit.

Ali spent her early career as an operator, leading sustainability strategies and advising companies like Apple, McDonalds, Bank of America and The Gates Foundation. She has advised top executives at >10 multinational companies with a combined market cap of over $2.3 trillion to enhance exposure to ESG-linked growth and capital.

Danielle Hunt is the General Counsel of Tiger Infrastructure Partners. She is responsible for legal, regulatory and corporate governance matters, as well as execution of Tiger’s private equity investments.

Danielle joined Tiger in October 2022 from Allianz Global Investors. At AllianzGI, she served as Director and Associate General Counsel, Head of US Institutional Legal and Global Head of Alternative Transactions Legal. In these roles, Danielle was responsible for the US institutional asset management business, transaction execution across the global private markets platform, and corporate merger & acquisition activities.

Prior to joining AllianzGI, Danielle was a Senior Associate at Milbank LLP in the Project, Energy & Infrastructure Finance Group. Her practice involved advising financial institutions and sponsors on transactions involving energy and infrastructure projects across various industries in the US and Latin America.

Danielle holds a JD from Cornell Law School and a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.

Kathleen Hurt is a Senior Managing Investigator in Mintz Group’s New York office. She has conducted hundreds of pre-transaction diligence investigations across a broad range of sectors, including venture capital, private equity, real estate and finance, and has also provided litigation support in a variety of legal disputes, including financial fraud matters. Kathleen specializes in complex, cross-border disputes, and has also helped clients gather evidence and identify potential witnesses in a number of high-profile cases, including an effort to recover funds from a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme and civil litigation against the perpetrators of a mass shooting. She has also helped investors and executives vet prospective hires and deal partners across the investment spectrum, from early-stage startups to large institutional investors.

Janice Ince is a Managing Director in Pantheon’s Infrastructure Team. She is responsible for infrastructure and real assets investments covering primary, secondary and co-investments. Janice has 20 years experience in the infrastructure finance and investment sectors. Prior to joining Pantheon, Janice was an investment specialist at SteelRiver Infrastructure Partners and Babcock & Brown, focusing on direct investments in North American infrastructure. She started her career in the Power and Utilities banking group at Barclays. Janice holds a BA in Economics and Operations Research from Columbia College. She is based in San Francisco.

Pantheon is a global private markets investor offering a range of solutions covering primary fund investment, secondaries and co-investments across private equity, infrastructure and real assets, real estate and private debt. With a track record built over 40 years, we have established long-term relationships with more than 690 investors, including public and private pension plans, insurance companies, endowments and foundations. As of September 30th 2021, Pantheon had $81.2 billion assets under management and we currently have more than 395 employees located across our nine international offices, including more than 115 investment professionals. Pantheon is majority-owned by Affiliated Managers Group Inc. alongside senior members of the Pantheon team.

Michelle is a Managing Director and is responsible for leading Gatewood’s fundraising and marketing initiatives, as well as assisting in business development and transaction origination. Michelle has deep fundraising experience, with a particular focus on raising capital on behalf of specialized and emerging alternative investment managers. Prior to joining Gatewood, Michelle was a Vice President at Cebile Capital, a global placement agent and secondaries advisory firm, where she led North American fundraising efforts for lower mid-market and emerging managers. Prior to Cebile Capital, she worked at VCP Advisors, a boutique placement agent where she was instrumental in building and strengthening the firm’s North American distribution network, as well as managing and closing fundraises across multiple specialist private equity strategies. Before joining VCP, Michelle worked in leveraged finance at Jefferies in New York and Mizuho Bank in London, where she conducted credit analysis and underwrote financing commitments for leveraged buyout transactions across Europe and North America. Michelle graduated from the London School of Economics with a LLB in Laws and a MSc in Comparative Political Science.

Gatewood Capital Partners is an innovative private equity firm with a dedicated fund that seeks to make seed and sponsorship-level investments in highly qualified investment managers pursuing a wide range of private equity and other alternative investments strategies.

Sarah Jancot is Senior Investment Manager of Global Logistics Real Estate at NBIM, Norway’s oil fund. NBIM’s unlisted logistics portfolio consists of approximately 135 million square feet across 12 countries. As of Q3 2023, NBIM’s equity investment in private logistics real estate was valued at approximately $11 billion. Prior to joining the team in 2016, Sarah served in transactions roles in Europe, at NBIM and at BNP Paribas, with a primary focus on the office sector. Sarah holds a Master of science in Management from ESSEC Business School, France. Sarah serves on the RICS Americas World Regional Board.

Chris Janiec is Americas Editor at Agri Investor. Based in New York, Janiec coordinates coverage of private investment into global food and agriculture with colleagues in London. Previously, Janiec covered non-bank capital markets for PEI’s Private Debt Investor, taught international relations and US foreign policy at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing and worked as an analyst of petroleum and shipping markets in New York.

Angela leads Sustainability Integration for EQT's Private Capital business line. Her role is to drive sustainability value creation through the investment lifecycle by supporting ESG due diligence, elevating sustainability understanding at the management team and portfolio company level and working with the deal teams to drive adoption and measurable outcomes.

In her previous role, Angela was a member of Grant Thornton's ESG Leadership team where she played a key role in designing and standing up the advisory function which focused on ESG integration through implementation and sustainability strategy setting. Prior to Grant Thornton, Angela spent almost a decade at Accenture Strategy, supporting clients in realizing sustainability value through growth and efficiency levers. Her experience spans many industries including private equity, asset management, healthcare, software, technology, professional services, real estate, consumer goods and energy/infrastructure in both the UK and United States, as well as international bodies such as the World Economic Forum, World Bank and United Nations. Angela graduated from Columbia University, in the School of International Public Affairs for a Masters in Public Administration in New York City.

EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization focused on active ownership strategies. With a Nordic heritage and a global mindset, EQT has a track record of almost three decades of delivering consistent and attractive returns across multiple geographies, sectors and strategies. EQT has investment strategies covering all phases of a business’ development, from start-up to maturity. EQT today has EUR 113 billion in fee-generating assets under management, within two business segments – Private Capital and Real Assets.

With its roots in the Wallenberg family’s entrepreneurial mindset and philosophy of long-term ownership, EQT is guided by a set of strong values and a distinct corporate culture. EQT manages and advises funds and vehicles that invest across the world with the mission to future-proof companies, generate attractive returns and make a positive impact with everything EQT does.

The EQT AB Group comprises EQT AB (publ) and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, which include general partners and fund managers of EQT funds as well as entities advising EQT funds. EQT has offices in 24 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas and has close to 1,800 employees.

Marion is a Managing Director in the New York office of JLL Capital Markets, Americas. With over 17 years of experience, she has deep experience in both institutional and middle market arenas. Marion is known for her deal making, underwriting, presentation and communication skills, as well as for her abilities to develop and execute real estate strategies for clients.Having extraordinary experience across a broad range of capital markets services, she will provide insight and guidance to JLL clients negotiating a shifting market.

Prior to joining JLL, Marion was with a number of top commercial real estate firms, where she co-led teams of professionals providing investment sales and advisory services. During the course of her career, she has closed $9 billion in investment sales and capital market transactions. Marion was named as a New York City Power Woman by Bisnow and Woman of Influence by GlobeSt. She serves as a Board Member and volunteers for Phipps Neighborhoods.

Kanan Joshi joined DIF in 2021 and is based in New York. She is managing the New York office, is co-head for the firm in North America and Global Head of Digital Infrastructure. Kanan is recognised within the infrastructure industry as an expert in telecoms, including data centres and fibre. Prior to joining DIF, she worked at private investment firms Upper Bay and Digital Bridge, where she was part of the team leading data center investments. Prior experience also includes roles at JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank advising companies across North America, LATAM and Asia and execution of high-profile M&A and capital raising transactions. Kanan holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce from the University of Mumbai and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

DIF Capital Partners is an independent infrastructure fund manager, with more than EUR 15 billion of AUM. DIF was founded in 2005 and has built a leading position in managing mid-market investments, primarily in Europe, North America and Australia.

DIF follows two strategies: its traditional DIF funds, of which DIF VII is the latest fund in the series, invest in lower risk mid-sized infrastructure projects and companies in the energy transition (incl. renewables) and utilities sector, as well as PPPs and concessions. The firm’s CIF funds invest in small to mid-sized companies that will thrive in the new economy. These companies are typically active in the digital, energy transition and sustainable transportation sector.

With a team of over 210 professionals in 11 offices, DIF Capital Partners offers a unique market approach combining global presence with the benefits of strong local networks and investment capabilities. DIF is located in Amsterdam (Schiphol), Frankfurt, Helsinki, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, New York, Paris, Santiago, Sydney and Toronto.

For more information please visit www.dif.eu.

Michael Karran is a Managing Director in Mintz Group’s New York office who focuses on overseeing diligence for a variety of institutional investors. Michael joined the firm in 2007 and has managed and worked on hundreds of projects across the globe vetting management teams for PE firms, screening founding teams for VCs, and diligencing talent at his investor clients and their portfolio companies. Michael received a BA in Accounting from Queens College.

Ms. Khan is a Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations and Marketing at Crayhill Capital Management.

Prior to joining Crayhill, Ms. Khan was a member of the Global Business Development Group at Babson Capital Management (now Barings), where she held various positions, the last of which was on the Institutional Sales team where she was responsible for client relationships and capital raising for a suite of fixed income strategies. She also served as a product specialist for Babson’s alternative investments platform, developing and implementing marketing strategies for new fundraising initiatives. Prior to joining Babson, Ms. Khan was on the Global Capital Introductions team at UBS Securities and prior to that was also a part of the alternatives research team at UBS.

Ms. Khan received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research and a minor in Economics from Columbia University.

Vidyu Kishor is the Director of Renewables & Grid Solutions in the Power Division at Osaka Gas USA (OGUSA). She joined OGUSA in 2022 and is primarily responsible for overseeing investments across renewable energy assets, battery storage infrastructure, and new climate technologies. Prior to OGUSA, she was the Vice President on the Investments team at Soltage, a solar & storage development company where she led valuations of M&A opportunities and structuring/execution of investments into solar & storage markets across the US. She also worked with the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority to help expand NY state’s incentives in the energy efficiency sector. Prior to that, she was a practicing attorney in India. Vidyu holds an MPA from Columbia University and a B.A. LLB from the National University of Juridical Sciences, India

Osaka Gas USA Corporation (“OGUSA”), a subsidiary of Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. OGUSA one of the largest energy utility companies in Japan, focusing on its four core businesses of power generation, shale gas development, natural gas liquefaction at Freeport LNG, and future energy development/innovation. OGUSA strives to contribute to achieving a low-carbon/carbon-neutral society by developing renewables as well as natural gas-fired power plants.

Chris Lane is the Managing Director, Head of Institutional Relationship Management at Forge Global. With over 25 years of capital markets experience managing institutional relationships, Chris was instrumental in building and elevating the client franchises at BNP Paribas, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) and Goldman Sachs. In his prior role at BNP Paribas, Lane was responsible for driving business strategy and overseeing all aspects of existing and new relationships with priority institutional clients. He collaborated closely with senior leaders of top clients, cultivating firm-wide relationships, understanding critical needs, and ensuring robust resources were available across BNP. At BAML, he led a team focused on generating packaged alpha trades for multi-strategy clients. Over his eight years at Goldman Sachs, Lane was responsible for covering some of the largest hedge fund and asset management clients within the Equities division.

Virginia Lantz is a Vice President at Insight Sourcing and is a leader in the firm’s robust Private Equity practice, where she works with strategic private equity sponsors and portfolio companies to drive Procurement Value Creation®. Virginia supports Insight Sourcing’s broader Private Equity practice in executing pre-purchase due diligence, post-acquisition opportunity assessments, strategic sourcing execution, and divestiture cost containment initiatives.

Virginia also leads Insight Sourcing’s Information Technology (IT) Sourcing Center of Excellence, where she helps clients identify and execute opportunities to drive IT cost optimization.

Virginia graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with Highest Honors and has now been with the firm for over twelve years.

Insight Sourcing is the premier firm in North America exclusively focused on procurement optimization and strategic sourcing services. Insight Sourcing partners with over 60 Private Equity companies, including 10 of the top 25 funds in North America. In 2024, Insight Sourcing became part of Accenture.

Ms. Larsson is a managing director in the portfolio management team.

Prior to StepStone, Ms. Larsson was an assistant vice president on the credit economic risk capital team at Credit Suisse. Before that she was an assistant professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematics at NYU.

Ms. Larsson received her PhD in mathematics from McGill University and her MS from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).

Keirsten is a Partner at Cambridge Associates and the Co-Head of US Private Equity Research. She is involved with private credit and private equity research and investment activities across the firm. She also helped found the firm’s credit research group and continues as a member of the credit committee. Keirsten and her team advise the firm’s investment directors on manager and fund selection and are responsible for identifying, diligencing, and monitoring investment firms and their portfolio companies in this space.

Before joining Cambridge Associates in 2008, Kirsten was an investment banker with Lehman Brothers’ Technology Group in Menlo Park, California and Communications and Media Group in New York. Previously, she worked at Shott Capital Management, an investment management firm focused on emerging small capitalization technology and healthcare companies and private equity fund investing. She also was an analyst with the then $27 billion Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board. She began her career at Dartmouth College where she helped manage the endowment and was a member of the Council on Investor Responsibility.
Keirsten received her MBA from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA in economics from Dartmouth College. She is also a CFA Charterholder.

Mirja Lehmler-Brown Mirja joined Hayfin in 2018 and is a Managing Director and Head of the Private Equity Solutions investment team. She joined from Standard Life Aberdeen where since 2006 she was a Senior Investment Portfolio Manager and Investment Committee member of the European Private Equity business focusing on making primary, secondary and co-investments predominantly in the European Private Equity mid-market. Prior to Aberdeen Asset Management, Mirja was an Executive Director within the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs. Before Goldman Sachs, she worked as an analyst with Morgan Stanley. Mirja holds an MSc in Economics and Business from Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden and Hochschule St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Hayfin Capital Management (“Hayfin”) is the leading alternative asset management firm with c. €31 billion in assets under management. Hayfin focuses on delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns for its investors across its private debt, liquid credit and private equity solutions businesses.

Hayfin has a diverse international team of over 200 experienced industry professionals with offices globally, including headquarters in London and offices in Dubai, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris, Stockholm, San Diego, Singapore and Tokyo.

Further information can be found at hayfin.com.

In 2020, Abby joined HOOPP as the organization established its private infrastructure portfolio program. HOOPP is the 8th largest defined benefit pension plan in Canada with assets over C$110bn and serves over 450,000 members across in Ontario’s healthcare community.

Prior to joining HOOPP, Abby spent five years in investment banking at Credit Suisse holding positions in both Calgary and Toronto offices, where she focused on energy infrastructure and M&A transactions.

Abby attended Western University and obtained a dual degree (B.Sc in Geology and Honors Business Administration at the Ivey Business School). She is a CFA charterholder.

Cari Lodge is Head of Secondaries, a member of the CF Private Equity Investment Committee, Board of Directors, and Senior Executive Group. She oversees the origination, evaluation, structuring and negotiation of secondaries transactions as well as the portfolio construction, monitoring and fundraising of the firm’s secondary funds. Additionally, Cari contributes to the firm’s buyout, growth equity, venture capital, and real assets and sustainability strategies. Cari has over 23 years of secondaries experience and has closed over 425 secondary transactions for approximately $3.3 billion in total exposure. She began her career at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette (which merged with Credit Suisse in 2000) as an Associate in Investment Banking. She spent 12 years with Credit Suisse’s Secondary Team, Strategic Partners, since its founding in 2000, and served as a member of the Investment Committee. Prior to joining CF Private Equity, Cari was at Tulane University’s Investment Management Office where she was responsible for overseeing the private equity and private real assets investments for the endowment. She is presently a member of the advisory board of several private equity limited partnerships. Cari is also a member of the Investment Committee of her alma mater, The Hotchkiss School. In 2022, she was recognized by PEI as one of the top ten women of influence in private markets. Cari received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in both Economics and Government and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

CF Private Equity

CF Private Equity Secondaries is one of the top secondary private equity firms in the world. With a team of 14 investment professionals and ~$3 billion in AUM, CF Private Equity Secondaries provides a range of liquidity solutions for investors in both LP liquidity solutions and GP-led liquidity solutions. The dedicated secondary team was established in 2013 and has since completed over 370 transactions across more than 800 underlying fund interests managed by over 400 managers.

Rachel Loeb is the Chief Investment Officer of Benenson Capital Partners where she co-leads the company’s development, investment, asset management, and construction strategies and teams. She is a creative real estate leader with two decades of real estate and economic development experience and a proven track record in the private and public sectors. Before joining Benenson, Rachel led the NYC Economic Development Corporation as President and CEO. With annual revenues of $250MM, she ran a diverse 60MM+ square foot portfolio and managed a $10B+ capital budget. She launched the city’s post-pandemic economic recovery plan that led to historic investments in life sciences, off shore wind, and created the city’s business development unit which won the Amazon HQ2 competition and negotiated the retention of the JetBlue headquarters. Prior to joining NYCEDC, she was a real estate developer and created or acquired more than $1.5B of mixed-use assets and over 3,000 units of mixed-income housing across the Northeast. Throughout her career, she led a broad range of ground up developments, acquisitions, dispositions, and financings for real estate properties and worked for privately held companies as well as at AvalonBay, a public REIT. Her career began in Vietnam working on the country’s first master-planned community.

Andie Logan is a Director at FirstPoint and has over a decade of experience in the financial services industry. Ms. Logan is based in New York and specializes in fundraising across institutional investors and advising General Partners throughout their firm’s lifecycle. Prior to joining FirstPoint, Ms. Logan was a Senior Vice President at MVision Private Equity Advisors, where she provided capital raising and advisory services to alternative asset fund managers. Previously, Ms. Logan worked at Grain Management in Washington DC in capital raising and investor relations. She has also worked as an Investor Relations Consultant within the Global Private Equity segment at The Carlyle Group, and held similar investor relations roles at Tailwind Capital, Goldwater Asset Management and Core Capital. Ms. Logan holds a BA from Louisiana State University.

Laurene Bielski Mahon is an experienced board member and an accomplished business executive with over 40 years’ experience in the infrastructure arena as an investment banker, management consultant, transportation and construction executive and project developer. She retired as Vice Chair of CIBC's global investment banking business in May 2023. She was recently named as an Executive Advisor to Bechtel (NEC and Canada) and continues to be a member of the North American Advisory Board of Transurban Inc., one of the largest toll road operators in the world.

Ms. Mahon served as a member of the Board of Directors of IEA, a specialized infrastructure construction company in the renewables and rail space, from November 2020 until its sale in October 2022, and sat on its audit and compensation committees. She also spent five years as a Trustee for Public Media NJ, a not-for-profit public affairs company also known as NJPBS, which is a subsidiary of WNET.

Ms. Mahon joined CIBC in 2013 to establish its global infrastructure platform, growing it from a small P3 execution team to a well-regarded financing and advisory practice encompassing the US, UK, Latin American and Australian markets across a broad array of products including balance sheet debt, M+A, ECM, DCM, rates and foreign exchange. From 1999 until 2011, she ran her own independent advisory practice, serving project owners around the world. She previously served as managing director, North America/ Infrastructure, in the Global Project Finance and Advisory Group for Chase Securities Inc. and as a director of CS First Boston’s international infrastructure practice. She began her investment banking career began at Bear Stearns in municipal finance and held positions at Kidder Peabody, in both the municipal and Latin American groups. During a 2-year hiatus from investment banking, she was chief financial officer for Labov, Inc., a Mid-Atlantic developer of specialized waste to energy projects.

Ms. Mahon’s roster of projects and clients spans the globe. Two notable transactions include directing the consultant team advising the Panama Canal Authority on its Third Lane Locks expansion project, an assignment that involved all aspects of the Canal’s operation, finances, and management. Additionally, for two years she served as the principal advisor to the Government of Puerto Rico for the establishment and initial implementation of its P3 program, including highways, maritime, airport and lottery assets.

Early in her career, Ms. Mahon spent five years at New Jersey Transit Corporation, where she held several executive positions including deputy Chief Financial Officer. She negotiated and closed the first safe-harbor leasing transaction done in the US and went on to close more than $1.2 billion in tax-driven real estate and equipment lease transactions. Ms. Mahon began her career as a transportation planner at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where she was involved in various regional studies. She has also been a working journalist, at both The Boston Globe and the (Bergen) Record.

Ms. Mahon graduated from Boston University, summa cum laude, and received her MCP (Master’s in City Planning) from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She is a frequent speaker at industry events, delivering one of the first keynote addresses on climate change to the IFC/World Bank’s Climate Change conference in Hong Kong in September 2016. She participated in the White House Council of Economic Advisors roundtables on transportation finance three times during the Obama administration. She has twice chaired a two-day global event in London for 600 of the most senior women in private equity, infrastructure, and real estate, and will reprise that role this year as well in both New York and London.

Molly Mahoney is a Managing Director of Slate Asset Management and is focused on the firm’s capital raising efforts. She has also been instrumental in spearheading a number of diversity and inclusion initiatives within the firm, serving as co-head of Slate’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee and Chair of Slate’s EmpoWRE Event Series, which gives the women at Slate and across the real estate industry a platform to network, connect, and share ideas.

Molly has over 15 years of experience in capital raising and marketing alternative products and services to North American institutional investors. Prior to joining Slate in 2020, Molly served as Managing Director on the Funds Advisory team at JLL, where her primary responsibilities included distribution and sourcing of general partners. Her prior roles include key institutional investor coverage for alternative products and services at Bear Stearns, Houlihan Lokey, and Heller Advisory.

Molly graduated from the University of Pennsylvania magna cum laud.

Slate Asset Management is a global alternative investment platform focused on real estate. We focus on fundamentals with the objective of creating long-term value for our investors and partners. Slate’s platform has a range of investment strategies, including opportunistic, value add, core plus and debt investments. We are supported by exceptional people and flexible capital, which enable us to originate and execute on a wide range of compelling investment opportunities.

Léonie Maruani has joined Vauban Infrastructure Partners as the Senior Director focused on the firm’s expansion into North America, bringing 20+ years of experience across Europe and the Americas. Previously, she served as a Senior Advisor at the Rockefeller Foundation. Prior to that, she was the Managing Partner at New York-based Latitude Advisory, a firm she co-founded to provide infrastructure and energy advisory to public and private sector clients. Léonie spent 15+ years in Project Finance lending and financial advisory at Natixis and Scotiabank, where she originated, structured, and executed transactions for infrastructure assets in Europe, the U.S., and Latin America. She also co-headed and built the higher education and healthcare team at CIFG, a AAA rated bond insurer in the U.S. Public Finance capital markets. Léonie holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, studied at the Stanford GSB, and is a graduate of the Business School ESCP Europe. She also holds a Master’s in History from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Vauban Infrastructure Partners is a leading Infrastructure Asset Manager focused on European core infrastructure investments. Headquartered in Paris, Vauban employs over 65 professionals, the majority of whom have been working together for over a decade. Vauban is the fully-fledged affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers dedicated to sustainable infrastructure equity investments. Vauban targets predominantly European brownfield mid-market assets, and pursues a long-term, yield-driven strategy that matches the underlying nature of the assets & the long-term commitment to all stakeholders’ interests through a strong focus on creating sustainable value. Vauban has raised c.€7.2 billion across 6 funds in core infrastructure from over c.100 investors from 17 different countries, and has invested in over 70 assets in the mobility, energy transition, social infrastructure, and digital infrastructure sectors across 13 different geographies.

Kristina Matthews is a Partner, heading up Investor Relations and Fund Raising at Falcon Investment Advisors, a leading private credit provider focused on junior capital solutions. She joined the Falcon Team in May 2023 from Brightwood Capital Advisors where she was a Managing Director, Head of Investor Relations and ESG. While she led investor relations, Kristina primarily focused on business development and fundraising strategy along with oversight and implementation of the firm’s ESG policy. Her engagement commenced in February 2014 in a Consulting role which led to her joining Brightwood full time in May 2018. In 2012 she founded and was the Managing Partner of, Rising Tide Fund Advisors LLC, an entity providing consulting services to private credit and private equity firms. The prior 6 years she was a Managing Director at PineBridge Investments/AIG Investments and Head of Investor Relations for all Emerging Markets Private Equity. She was also part of the Central and Eastern European Private Equity Investment Team and was integrally involved in strategy, deal sourcing, and working with portfolio companies. She spent 6 years at Merrill Lynch as a Regional Sales Manager for Alternative Investments. She was a high-yield bond and distressed securities trader with BNP-Paribas, though most of her early career was as the Head of Sales for Currencies and Currency Derivatives. She holds an MBA in Economics and International Finance from New York University Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Business Administration from Northeastern University with a dual Major in Finance and International Business and a Minor in Economics.

Irene joined Partners Group in April 2023 as Global Co-Head of Business Development, Infrastructure, and is based in NY. She has 30+ years of finance experience and prior to Partners Group was the Global Head of the Infrastructure Private Capital Advisory business for Sera Global, Brookfield’s real assets advisory platform. Irene’s previous roles include Managing Director in the Investor Solutions Group at Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), Head of North America and Business Development at Hastings Funds Management and Global Product Specialist for Infrastructure & Energy at KKR. Irene also previously worked in investment banking at both Morgan Stanley and Citigroup in NY. Irene received a Master of Laws from the University of Chicago Law School, a JD (Magna cum Laude) from the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, and a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Econ/Math) (Summa cum Laude) from the University of Ottawa. Irene sits on the University of Chicago Alumni Board, the Board of the Philharmonia Foundation and is a non-executive director at Verdigris Inc.

As Managing Director, Strategy & Operations, Lane works with investment and management teams to assess new investments and define and execute value-creation priorities. Lane is based in New York and joined the OMERS Private Equity team in 2022. Prior to OMERS, Lane was the Global Head of Financials, Business Services and Education for the Industry Value Creation team at Partners Group and before that, helped build the Portfolio Strategy & Operations team for DLJ Merchant Banking Partners. She also has held various operations and strategy roles at Ropes & Gray, JetBlue Airways, American Express and Delta Air Lines after starting her career at Bain & Company.
She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she chairs the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and sits on the Chancellor's Philanthropic Council.

Katherine McElroy is a Managing Director in Fiera Private Debt’s Infrastructure Private Debt Group. Prior to joining the company in October 2020, Ms. McElroy was a founding member of the Clean Energy Infrastructure Credit strategy at Capital Dynamics, a leading clean energy investor, where she also served on the firm’s Responsible Investment Committee.

Prior to Capital Dynamics, Katherine McElroy was a Senior Vice President at General Electric Energy Financial Services (GE EFS), where she was an originator on the Debt team and was also responsible for opportunistic trading activity for the Debt portfolio. Prior to GE EFS, Ms. McElroy spent twelve years at The Royal Bank of Scotland/RBS Greenwich Capital where she held a variety of credit-focused roles across capital markets, loan portfolio management, and credit risk management.

Ms. McElroy holds a Bachelor of Science (magna cum laude) in Finance and International Business, from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

Meenal Mehta is a Managing Director at Blue Owl Capital. In her role, she oversees the day-to-day underwriting of diversified investments. Before joining Blue Owl, Meenal was a Managing Director at Antares Capital, a direct lender to middle market firms based in New York. Prior to that, she was a Vice President at GE Capital. Meenal began her career as a Manager at L&T Finance Limited, Mumbai India in the Treasury Group. Meenal received a BS in Commerce and Economics from Sydenham College, Mumbai University, a MS in Management Studies with a specialization in Finance from NMIMS, Mumbai University and an MBA from Goizueta Business School, Emory University.

Erin Miller joined Newmark in January of 2018 as Executive Managing Director and co-leader of the Multifamily Investment Sales team in the Philadelphia office. She brings 20 years of multifamily brokerage experience, representing owners and developers in the sale of multihousing investment opportunities in the greater Philadelphia metropolitan region, as well as the rest of Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware. Prior to Newmark, Miller was Senior Vice President with JLL, where she led the multihousing investment sales practice in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

Alina Mogilyanskaya is a Managing Director in the Mintz Group’s New York office, where she specializes in managing complex investigations for litigators and in-house counsel. Since joining the firm in 2016, Alina has overseen and investigated hundreds of matters involving issues of fraud, false advertising, defamation, workplace and sexual misconduct, and asset tracing and recovery, among others. She has gathered evidence in a wide range of high-profile disputes and is an expert in finding and interviewing witnesses. She also has significant experience in managing pre-hire and pre-transactional due-diligence investigations.

Alina leads the Mintz Group’s pro bono practice, managing public-interest investigations for law firms and nonprofits.

Prior to joining the Mintz Group, Alina was a newspaper reporter and editor in New York. She holds a B.A. from Harvard College.

Katie is a Managing Director on the Fund Investment & Managed Solutions team, focused on leading the Emerging & Diverse Investment programs. Prior to this role, Katie was a Senior Relationship Manager to several institutional clients, responsible for portfolio construction and strategic planning. Katie is currently a member of the Responsible Investment Committee and co-chairs the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Council.

Kirsten is a Partner at HighVista Strategies and co-leads the Venture Capital program. She joined HighVista in 2023 as part of its acquisition of the abrdn US private markets business. Kirsten is a member of the Venture Capital Investment Committee and is involved in all aspects of the investment process. She has worked on the HighVista Venture Capital funds for nearly two decades, at abrdn and previously as a Principal at FLAG Capital Management prior to its acquisition by abrdn in 2015. Prior to joining FLAG in 2005, Kirsten worked for IBM in a variety of analytical roles. Kirsten received a BS from Babson Colle.

Eric is responsible for treasury, investment management, and pension fund accounting. He serves as a Trustee on the Classified Employees Retirement Fund Board, Other Post-Employment Benefit (OPEB) Board, Defined Contribution Retirement Plan Board and is a member of the City’s Investment Advisory Committee. Eric is a Trustee on the Town of Fairfield Employee Retirement Board and Joint Retirement Investment Board. He served as the Treasurer for thirty-seven special purpose funding entities.
Prior to entering government finance, Eric held finance positions at Royal Bank of Scotland, IBM Global Financing, Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, Price Waterhouse and Soros Fund Management. Eric served as a member of the NYSSCPA Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee and Investment Management Committee.
Eric received his B.B.A. in Accounting from Adelphi University; Certificate in Investment Banking from New York University, M.B.A. in Finance from Sacred Heart University and is pursuing a Corporate Finance Certificate from Harvard University. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA).

Ms. Nicholson is a member of the private equity team, focusing on buyouts, special situations and co-investments.
Prior to joining StepStone in 2009, Ms. Nicholson was a credit analyst for Tudor Investment Corporation, an asset management firm, where she was responsible for performing credit, cash flow and liquidity analyses on emerging markets corporate debt. Before that Ms. Nicholson was a private equity analyst in Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking group.
Ms. Nicholson graduated magna cum laude with a BA from Georgetown University.

Michelle Noyes joined AIMA in 2012 as Chief Operating Officer of AIMA's New York office and became the Association’s Head of Americas in December 2017.

Prior to AIMA, Michelle was Head of International Sales and Investor Relations for BRZ Investimentos, one of the largest independent asset managers in Brazil. While in Sao Paulo, she also served as the Brazil representative for AIMA and established the AIMA Brazil network. Michelle began her career in hedge funds as General Manager for a global conference organizer, where she launched and managed a portfolio of successful asset management and investment events. Michelle holds a B.A. and M.A. from New York University and is a CAIA Charterholder.

Sarah O’Malley is a Managing Director and Investment Strategist for Energy Infrastructure Credit (EIC) at Nuveen. Her responsibilities include developing the investment strategies of the multi-billion-dollar credit investment business, strengthening institutional investor relationships, and leading the co-investment process.

Prior to joining Nuveen, Sarah co-founded the Energy Transition and Infrastructure private investment strategy at Liberty Mutual Investments (LMI) in 2020 investing across the capital stack in the decarbonization of the energy and infrastructure ecosystem. She started at LMI in 2018 as a portfolio manager of the private investments portfolio. Previously, Sarah was CIO for a single-family office investing primarily in alternative investments and energy. Concurrently, she was CFO of the family’s oil and gas exploration and production company, Sanguine Gas Exploration, LLC, and managed finance and strategy, banking, hedging of oil and gas production, business development, and investor relations for the family-owned operating company. Before these roles, Sarah spent three years at Goldman Sachs.
Sarah graduated with honors from Columbia Business School and earned her undergraduate degree in Environmental Science from UC Berkeley.

Responsible for shaping US commercial vision, executing, and controlling all of PEI's US focused activities to enable best possible growth rates for the group's relevant products and services. PEI Group's activities in the US comprise a portfolio of subscription-based information brands including PE Hub, Buyouts, Private Funds CFO, Venture Capital Journal and Regulatory Compliance Watch. PEI Group's wider global portfolio including PERE, Infrastructure Investor, Private Equity International, Secondaries Investor, Private Debt Investor. The portfolio includes brand-aligned professional membership services, meetings, events and conferences. Prior to joining PEI, O'Conor held the position of Managing Director for Informa Plc's Wealth Management industry vertical and previously was Managing Director of Penton Media, Dow Jones, and Thomson Reuters.

Leonarda Orani is Managing Director based in New York mainly focused on transportation and logistics. Leonarda is board member of portfolio companies such as Clermont and Unison.
In addition to investing activities, Leonarda is part of the infrastructure co-investment/syndication team.

Leonarda joined Ardian in 2013 and took part in the acquisition of several of the transportation assets in the Europe and in the Americas including Clermont, ASTM, Autovia Vespucio Norte, Ascendi and Autovia Padana.

Leonarda was a member of Ardian Millenial Comex.

Marie-Noël Ouellet is responsible for leading the global financing strategy in the infrastructure and energy sectors at CDPQ, which includes investment strategy, portfolio construction, negotiation and transaction structuring, as well as risk management. Under her leadership, the Infrastructure Financing team offers senior and junior debt financing to varied sectors, most notably in the transportation, renewable power and telecommunications sub-sectors. She is also a member of the Infrastructure sector Debt and Equity Investment Committees.

Ms. Ouellet has close to 20 years of financing experience. She joined CDPQ in 2006 as Senior Analyst, Corporate Debt, and led the execution of public and private company financing transactions in various industries. Since joining CDPQ, she has been appointed to various roles with increasing responsibility. Her experience includes working on some of Canada’s first public-private partnerships and renewable energy project financings. Prior to this, she worked for the Bank of Montreal as Relationship Manager.
Ms. Ouellet holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s in Finance from Université de Sherbrooke. She is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CGA).

Samantha Papir is a Senior Vice President at Turning Rock where she focuses on deal sourcing and technology-enabled origination efforts. Prior to joining Turning Rock, Ms. Papir spent over seven years at Vine Alternative Investments, a private investment firm focused on the media and entertainment industry, where she was responsible for deal sourcing, underwriting and execution of structured debt and equity investments. During her time at Vine, Ms. Papir executed over $1B in transaction value and created a new asset class division for the firm. At Turning Rock, Ms. Papir has built and maintained proprietary deal origination and professional networks across the alternative asset universe. Previously, Ms. Papir spent time at J.P. Morgan in the Prime Brokerage sales and financing group. Ms. Papir holds a BBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Jennifer Phillips is Chief Revenue & Growth Officer at Forge Global, a leading global private securities marketplace (NYSE: FRGE). She is responsible for driving revenue across all products and services including the secondaries trading business, while also overseeing Forge’s international expansion, most recently launching Forge Europe and serving as a Chair its Supervisory Board.

Prior to Forge, Jennifer was co-founder and President of SharesPost, a secondary markets fintech platform serving, overseeing its rapid expansion from infancy through to its acquisition by Forge. She was responsible for the trading desk, spearheaded growth initiatives and played an active role in the integration of Forge and SharesPost teams and technology platforms. Additional experience includes tenure at Silver Lake, Jefferies, and Merrill Lynch / Bank of America.

Jennifer holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Northeastern University and has served on the board of directors of the YMCA (Presidio) and Printz Dance Center in Marin County.

Anne is a Managing Director on the Private Equity and Junior Capital team at Churchill Asset Management, where she is actively involved in sourcing and executing investments in junior capital and equity co-investments, as well as investments in private equity funds. She is also a member of the Private Equity and Junior Capital team’s Investment Committee, overseeing six private equity and junior capital mandates, including LP commitments, equity co-investments, structured capital, secondaries and junior capital loans. Additionally, Anne serves as Co-Head of Churchill’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council, where she collaborates on initiatives that prioritize inclusion and authenticity.

Previously, Anne was a Senior Director on the Private Equity and Junior Capital team at Nuveen. Ms. Philpott joined TIAA in 2005 and began her career as an Associate in the Private Placements group. As part of the Private Placements team she acted as a lead originator and portfolio manager for a variety of domestic and international high grade corporate debt investments.

Anne holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and is a CFA charter holder and member of the CFA Institute.

Robin Potts is a Partner and Chief Investment Officer for CPRE. Ms. Potts has been with Canyon Partners since 2006, and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Canyon Partners’ real estate platforms and holds a seat on all Canyon Partners real estate investment committees. During her tenure at Canyon Partners, Ms. Potts has facilitated the acquisition, financing and development of over $17.5 billion of commercial real estate transactions across all asset classes including multifamily, condominium, office, retail, hospitality, industrial, senior housing, student housing, self-storage and mixed-use. Ms. Potts previously worked in the Financial Institutions Group of Credit Suisse in Los Angeles where she focused on equity, debt and M&A transactions in the mortgage real estate investment trust sector. Ms. Potts is a graduate of Harvard University, where she earned a B.A. degree in Economics.
Founded in 1991, Canyon Partners Real Estate LLC® ("Canyon") is the real estate direct investing arm of Canyon Partners, LLC, a global alternative asset manager with over $27 billion in assets under management. Over the last ten years, Canyon has invested approximately $5.6 billion of debt and equity capital across over 200 transactions capitalizing approximately $15.3 billion of real estate assets, focusing on debt, value add, and opportunistic strategies. With 29 years of experience, Canyon has established a broad menu of investment capabilities spanning property types, U.S. regions, and project stages (including development, transitional, and distressed/workouts). For more information visit: www.canyonpartners.com

Agata R. Praczuk is primarily responsible for the management of the Emerging Managers Program and Client portfolios.

Praczuk began her career in 2004 at BNP Paribas managing hedge fund client relationships. From 2005 to 2009 she worked as a hedge fund research analyst for the Millburn Ridgefield Corporation, a boutique alternative investment firm.
She received her BS from Northeastern University and her MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business. Praczuk is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst. She’s been recognized by Institutional Investor as a Hedge Fund Rising Star (2016) and received the Insurance Investor of the Year (2018) and PEWIN Limited Partner of the Year North America (2022) awards on behalf of MetLife.

Wendy is a Managing Director and Head Americas Real Estate Specialist at Nuveen. She is responsible for working with clients to solve their real estate investment needs while leading the distribution of Nuveen's real estate investment capabilities. Wendy works with institutional clients covering core, value-add and opportunistic equity and debt strategies across a range of investment vehicles and structures.

Prior to joining Nuveen, Wendy spent twelve years at Morgan Stanley Investment Management as an Executive Director in both Real Estate Investing and Sales. She has extensive experience across all areas of real estate investing including acquisitions, asset management, portfolio management, product development and distribution. At Morgan Stanley she also served on the Investment Committee of the Multicultural Innovation Lab, supporting startups led by women and minority entrepreneurs. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley she was a manager at KPMG Consulting, working with large global financial services and real estate clients.

Wendy graduated with a B.S.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, where she exchanged with ESCP in Spain, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is an active member of several real estate organizations and active supporter of women in real estate.

Kate Roscoe leads Manulife’s $5 billion global fund and co-investment program. This 20-year program includes more than 70 funds across 40 managers in North America, Europe, and Asia. Manulife is ranked by Infrastructure Investor as one of the largest infrastructure investors in the world, with a $55 billion global program that includes Infrastructure funds, co-investment, direct investing, and infrastructure debt.

Based in Toronto, Kate joined Manulife in 2006 and has over 15 years of experience in private equity investing across both infrastructure and corporate strategies. Kate holds an Honours Business Administration degree (with Distinction) from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and is a CFA Charterholder.

Manulife Investment Management’s infrastructure group has been investing in and managing core and core-plus assets across digital infrastructure, renewable energy, utilities, power, midstream and transportation assets for more than 30 years. Totalling $11.5B1 assets under management, our diversified portfolios seek to provide cash yield, low volatility, downside protection and realistic capital appreciation expectations to institutional investors with access to infrastructure assets that deliver essential services and value to our society, the economy, and the communities in which we operate.

Manulife Investment Management is the global brand for the global wealth and asset management segment of Manulife Financial Corporation. We draw on over a century of experience to provide leading private and public market capabilities across 19 geographies. Responsible stewardship is integral to our business and culture, and we seek to be a global leader in creating long-term, sustainable value for our stakeholders. For additional information, please visit manulifeim.com.

As at June 30, 2022

1. All assets under management (AUM) are calculated on a fair value basis in U.S. dollars (USD); Manulife IM PM (US) manages [$3B] of infrastructure equity assets on a discretionary basis as of June 30, 2022.

Samantha Rowan is the editor of PERE Credit, a PEI Media publication which sits alongside Real Estate Capital Europe and PERE. Prior to joining PEI, Sam was the editor of publications that included Real Estate Finance & Investment, Securitization News, and REIT Café at both Euromoney Institutional Investor and With Intelligence. A graduate of Barnard College, Sam is the president of the Columbia University Band Alumni Association, a registered 501c3, and a past volunteer coach of the Columbia University Cycling Club.

Mark Rudovic is a Principal and Head of Real Assets at Hodes Weill & Associates. Previously, Mr. Rudovic was a Senior Private Markets Investment Due Diligence Analyst at Albourne Partners. Within Albourne’s Private Markets group, Mr. Rudovic focused on manager due diligence in various sub-strategies within the Real Assets discipline on behalf of a range of institutional investors; and was the lead analyst on over 100 managers in various Infrastructure, Mining, Energy, Water and Intellectual Property (IP) strategies over the past six years. Prior to joining Albourne, Mr. Rudovic worked as an Equity Research Associate at Citigroup Global Markets, covering North American Electric Utilities, Water Utilities, and Global Alternative Energy equities.
Mr. Rudovic graduated from the Ithaca College School of Business, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and a concentration in Finance. Mr. Rudovic also holds a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (“CAIA”) designation. He is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences and lecturer at Cornell.

Michael Sabin is a Funds & Investment Management Partner and co-leads our U.S. Funds & Investment Management Group. Michael specializes in advising sponsors on the structuring and formation of private funds and accounts across all strategies, including buyout, real estate, energy, infrastructure and credit, as well as related strategic transactions and internal arrangements. He also advises sponsors and investors in connection with complex secondary transactions and fund restructurings.

Rabah Sadruddin is a Portfolio Manager within AIMCO’s Private Equity team responsible for private equity fund investing, secondaries and asset management across North America and Europe. Prior to joining AIMCO in 2012, Rabah worked at TD Securities within Equity Capital Markets and Investment Banking.

Rabah holds a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University and is a CFA Charterholder.

Madeleine (Maddi) Sampson is a Vice President on the Americas Investment team at QuadReal, where she is responsible for sourcing and evaluating equity investment opportunities across multiple asset classes and regions, in addition to monitoring existing investments within QuadReal’s US Portfolio. Prior to joining QuadReal in 2022, Maddi spent five years at Corebridge Financial (previously AIG Global Real Estate), underwriting and originating multifamily and industrial investments in the Southwest US. Maddi graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a Minor in Mathematical Finance.

Awarded Global Leader under 40 for championing $100B+ combined capital in DEI advocacy through She-VC. Former Federal Reserve Bank Manager- managed US Treasury’s assets for the US Military/ Navy, including managing big banks like JPM, PNC, G, G&D, and VISA. Founder of a consulting firm and grew company to $50M AUM. Founder of tech startup CareerCarma, built at Harvard i-lab when Gayatri was a Harvard graduate student. Started career as a data architect at HP, IBM, and later at Goldman Sachs in the financial tech division. Was a Venture Partner at Nexgen Ventures acquired by Brown Advisory and worked at a large Boston-based VC firm as a scout. Former GP of a TMT fund (acquired). Physics Honors, Math minor. Economics and Finance Major at Harvard. Board of Directors of Harvard Kennedy School Alumni NEA.

Advaita Capital is a 100% POC-women-owned growth equity (Boston-based) investing in decarbonization technology and mainstream deep tech that is advancing the human race (generative AI, neural implants, etc). We also invest in large sustainable infrastructure projects and senior venture debts. We are in Mercer, Albourne, Meketa and Aksia's platform.

Catherine Saunders is a managing director with Benefit Street Partners and is based in our New York office. Prior to joining BSP in 2015, Ms. Saunders was an associate at Citigroup in New York, where she worked in the real estate finance group, focused on corporate lending. During her time at Citigroup, Ms. Saunders also worked in the equity capital markets group. Ms. Saunders received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Georgetown University.

Timothy H. Savage is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate, where he is the Faculty Director of the CREFC Center for Real Estate Finance and the Faculty Co-Director of the NYU SPS Applied Analytics Lab. He is the former Senior Managing Economist and Principal Data Scientist of CBRE Econometric Advisors (the former Torto Wheaton Research Group). Tim is an economist with nearly 25 years of experience at international consulting firms such as Charles River Associates and Navigant Consulting. His focus is the use of machine learning to evaluate business strategy, in particular the uses of Bayesian analysis and Monte Carlo simulation. He speaks frequently to institutional investors in commercial real estate on macroeconomics, monetary and fiscal policy, and the potential impacts of big data and technological disruption. His research has been twice discussed in the Economist, and he has addressed the National League of Cities on uses of big data in policymaking and the National Association of Realtors on macroeconomics and monetary policy. His comments have appeared in The Commercial Observer, The New York Post, GlobeSt, PERE Magazine, Pix 11, PropModo, the Wall Street Journal and Vox Media. He is a Former Distinguished Fellow of the NAIOP Research Foundation, a member of the Counselors of Real Estate (CRE) and a mentor at the Real Estate Research Institute (RERI). Tim holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with concentrations in microeconomics and econometrics.

Ms. Schiff is a highly experienced entrepreneurial thinker and industry recognized C-Suite operations and investment executive. She has consistently identified emerging trends and created business models around investing before an oversupply of capital drives down investment returns. She has successfully founded/co-founded five firms since 1996 in various sectors of the real estate and private equity business. In addition, Ms. Schiff has been honored with various awards across the real estate industry by multiple organizations and publications including the Los Angeles Business Journal, Commercial Observer, Connect Media, Globe Street, Commercial Property News and Bisnow and was named the Women’s Council Executive of the Year by The San Fernando Business Journal in 2021. She has appeared on Bloomberg TV and has spoken at various industry events both as a keynote and a panelist and is an advocate for encouraging more women leaders and participants in the real estate investment industry. She most recently served as the Co-Founder, Managing Partner and Member of Executive and Investment Committees of Mosaic Real Estate Investors, LLC, and its affiliate company MREC Management, LLC along with its co-mingled fund vehicles, Mosaic Real Estate Credit, LLC (and its parallel funds). The funds were sold to a mortgage REIT in March 2022. She holds a Bachelors of Science from USC, MBA from UCLA, and a Masters in the Studies of Law from USC.

Sheryl is Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Alti Financial, a ’40 Act platform focused on democratizing private equity.

Sheryl Schwartz is a seasoned executive, institutional investor, and board member who has built and led teams and new asset classes for major institutional investors.
Over the course of her career as a lead investor she has developed financial acumen across asset classes, with deep sector expertise in alternatives, private equity and fixed income.

She currently serves as an Independent boards member of GAIA Reit and Cartesian Growth II, a NASDAQ listed company, where she is a member of both the Audit and Compensation Committees, and serves on the WAVE board. She is also a Professor of Finance and Private Equity at Fordham Gabelli School of Business

Sheryl has been a portfolio manager and consultant for institutional investors and has built several private equity fund, co-investment, mezzanine debt and timber portfolios from scratch, including a $13B portfolio at TIAA and $3+B portfolios at Caspian. She has successfully navigated portfolios and teams through economic cycles in her senior leadership roles at TIAA, a subsidiary of Natixis (Caspian) and currently at Alti.

She has expertise in small and mid-market funds and co-investments, emerging managers and ESG and has navigated internal and external audits, regulatory exams and SEC approvals.
In addition, she has managed and led cross -functional teams, projects and new products that required the support and confidence of clients and departments including: risk, accounting, legal, tax, middle office, distribution, sales, marketing, compliance, tax, audit and regulators.

Sheryl is a champion of diversity and inclusion as evidenced by the diversity of her investment teams, her leadership on the Board of WAVE, her longstanding membership in PEWIN and her role as an Adjunct Professor of Finance and Private Equity.
Amongst her many accolades, Sheryl has been recognized by Merger and Acquisitions Magazine “Most Influential Women in the Mid-Market M&A” in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 and The Wall Street Journal’s “Six of Private Equity’s Most Influential Gatekeepers” in 2017
Her Education was a BS and MBA from New York University School of Business

Sarah Schwarzschild is Chief Operating Officer of Mavik Capital Management, responsible for strategy and operations of the firm, and sits on its Investment Committee.

Prior to Mavik, Sarah was the Co-Head of BGO Strategic Capital Partners, a global multi-manager platform currently owned by BentallGreenOak and formerly part of The Carlyle Group. Sarah was instrumental in building the secondaries business and scaling the global platform to more than $3 billion. Prior to joining Carlyle, Sarah led Partners Group’s real estate secondary team in the US and was an Assistant Vice President in the Global Opportunity Funds group at RREEF.

Sarah received a BA (summa cum laude) from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA with honors from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Sarah sits on the MBA Council for the Tuck School of Business and is Secretary of the Board of Trustees for The Mianus River Gorge, a land preservation not-for-profit.

Mrs. Segura-Baez joined ArcLight in 2022. Prior to joining ArcLight, she was with Capital Dynamics, where she was responsible for strategic investor and consultant relationship management and capital raising in North America. Previously, she held senior positions with Campbell Lutyens, Pantheon, and Ardian. She has also been extensively involved in promoting both diversity and ESG initiatives. Mrs. Segura holds a B.S. in International Law from the University of Santo Domingo, an M.A. in International Relations & Politics from the University Catolica de Santo Domingo and a Finance Certification from New York University.

ArcLight Capital Partners

ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC was founded in 2001 and is a leading middle-market sustainable infrastructure investor with a long-term, successful track record across 7 investment funds. Since inception, ArcLight has invested approximately $27 billion in 123 transactions, including over $16 billion of equity into the power, renewables, strategic gas and transformative infrastructure sectors. Based in Boston, the firm’s investment team employs a value-added, operationally intensive investment approach that benefits from its dedicated in-house technical, operational, and commercial specialists and partners, as well as the firm’s approximately 1,800-person asset management operational partnership. More information about ArcLight can be found at www.arclight.com.

Rudina Seseri is Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, leading the firm’s investments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled enterprise software as a service (SaaS), cloud, Information Technology (IT) software, and vertical markets. Rudina has led investments and/or served on the Board of Directors of Reprise, Verusen, ChaosSearch, Basetwo, Inrupt, FeatureByte, Plannuh (acquired by Planful), Zylotech (acquired by Terminus), Celtra (acquired by STG), CrowdTwist (acquired by Oracle), and Navigant Consulting (acquired by Veritas), among others.

Rudina has 19 years of investing and operational experience in high-growth companies in AI and Frontier Technology, IT software, cloud, and enterprise SaaS. Before venture capital, Rudina was a Senior Manager in the Corporate Development Group at Microsoft Corporation where she led a number of successful transactions and investments.

Rudina was appointed as an Executive Fellow within the faculty and staff at Harvard Business School (HBS). Her appointment followed four consecutive years of being chosen by the Dean of HBS to serve as the Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the Business School. Furthermore, Rudina was honored as a member of the inaugural group of Rock Venture Capital Partners at HBS and was appointed to the Board of Directors of the New England Venture Capital Association. Rudina serves on the board of directors of M&T Bank and MSC Industrial Supply and on the Governor of Massachusetts’ Artificial Intelligence Strategic Task Force.

Rudina has received the 2024 Pinnacle Award for Achievement in Entrepreneurship from the Boston Chamber of Commerce, has been distinguished as a 2024 top woman early-stage investor on Business Insider’s Seed 40 list, and as a 2024 Tech Power Player 50 by the Boston Globe. She has earned recognition on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 100 Women Entrepreneurs List and as a Boston Business Journal Power 50: Newsmaker. Additionally, Business Insider named Rudina a Top VC investing in AI and Machine Learning as well as one of the most Important VCs in Boston. Venture Capital Journal named Rudina a 2023 Women of Influence, Startup Boston named her its 2022 Investor of the Year, and Boston Business Journal included her as a 40-under-40 honoree for her professional accomplishments and community involvement.

She graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College with a BA in Economics and International Relations and holds an MBA from HBS. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Epsilon honor societies.

Glasswing Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to investing in the next generation of AI and frontier technology startups that enable the rise of the intelligent enterprise. For more information about the firm please visit: www.glasswing.vc

Stephanie P. Smith, Managing Director, is Global Chief Operating Officer of Equity Private Markets for BlackRock. As Chief Operating Officer, she is responsible for the daily oversight and business operations for private markets equity investing at BlackRock, which encompasses direct private equity (including venture and growth equity strategies), real estate as well as secondaries. She provides dedicated leadership across human capital, technology, and operational functions while partnering with senior leaders to develop strategies and execute solutions across various client priorities, product types, and investments to support the ongoing growth of deployment, distribution, and to deepen client partnerships. Stephanie is a member of the C-20 Committee, Global Human Capital Committee, and other business committees including Investment & Trading Policy Oversight Committee, Americas Product Development Committee, and Valuation Oversight Committee.

Stephanie joined BlackRock in August 2021 following 21 years at Goldman Sachs, where she began her career on the Principal Strategies and Investment desk. During her time at Goldman Sachs, Stephanie held several leadership positions across many of their core businesses focused on business development, transformation, and operational oversight. Stephanie was named Managing Director in 2010 and Partner in 2018. Stephanie earned a Bachelor of Business Administration ("BBA") in International Marketing and Finance from Baruch College, City University of New York.

Stephanie serves on several civic, educational, and community-centric boards dedicated to equipping diverse communities with equitable access to information and support that will furthers their advancement; boards of note include: the Baruch College Fund (BCF), Brick Education Foundation, Trinity Hall School and as founder and Chair of Crown Heights Youth Initiative.

Stephanie strives to remain true to her ethos, “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." - Pablo Picasso.

Tara Mei Smith is the ESG Integration Officer for the Bureau of Asset Management, Office of NYC Comptroller. The Office of NYC Comptroller serves as a trustee, dedicated investment advisor, and custodian for New York City’s five retirement funds, totaling about 250 billion AUM. In her role, Tara Mei works to integrate considerations of material environmental, social, and governance risks and opportunities across asset classes to drive sustainable long-term, risk-adjusted returns for the benefit of the pension funds’ 700,000+ beneficiaries. Tara Mei has over a decade of sustainability experience, spanning finance, supply chain management, and environmental stewardship. She holds a degree in Chemistry from Brown University, an MBA in Finance and Sustainable Business and Innovation from NYU Stern, where she was a Forte Fellow and Vice Dean Faculty Scholar, and the SASB FSA, GRI, and CFA Certificate in ESG Investing credentials.

Tracy serves as the CEO and is a Managing Partner of Corbin Capital Partners, a New York-based independent alternative asset management firm that specializes in multi-strategy and opportunistic credit investing. Corbin has experience creating and managing differentiated commingled and bespoke portfolios for investors globally. With over 30 years of industry experience, Tracy is responsible for management of the firm and is a member of Corbin’s Multi-Strategy Investment Committee, Credit Investment Committee, and Operating Committee. Prior to joining Corbin in April 2004, Tracy was Managing Director and Head of the Global Multi-Manager Strategies group at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Managing Director at BARRA/RogersCasey Strategic Consulting Group (“BSCG”), a consultant at Wilshire Associates, Inc. and a financial analyst at SEI Corporation. Tracy graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Economics. She received her M.I.M. from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) and was awarded the CFA charter in 1992.

Lisa Sun is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Secondaries and Liquidity Solutions (SLS) team within BlackRock Equity Private Markets (EPM). She is a member of the SLS Investment Committee and is responsible for all aspects of the SLS business including investment strategy, deal sourcing, structuring and execution, portfolio construction, risk management and business development/capital formation.

Prior to joining BlackRock, Lisa was an Investment Principal at Coller Capital, a global private capital secondaries firm, where she was responsible for origination, diligence and execution of secondary deals across a variety of structures including LP portfolios, GP-led continuation vehicles, single asset transactions, co-investments, fund preferred equity and corporate/captive team spinouts.

Prior to Coller Capital, Lisa worked at TPG Capital in Hong Kong covering Asia buyout and growth equity, and at Goldman Sachs in New York in the natural resources investment banking team.

Lisa graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School, and has a dual degree Bachelor of Science from the Wharton School and Bachelor of Arts from the College of Arts & Sciences as part of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business from the University of Pennsylvania.

Katherine (Katie) Treuer is a Principal at Generate Capital. She is responsible for originating, structuring, and executing renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure transactions within the Generate Credit business unit. Katie brings more than 11 years of experience in infrastructure & energy project finance. Prior to Generate, Katie was a Vice President in the Project, Infrastructure, and Principal Finance Group at Goldman Sachs within the Investment Banking Division. While at Goldman Sachs, Katie executed over $50 billion in debt financings across the renewable and conventional power generation, infrastructure, and broader natural resources sector for clients in the United States and Latin America. Katie has a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Elisabeth (Liz) Troni is the Fund Manager of one of CBRE Investment Management's global indirect funds. Based in New York, Liz is responsible for the performance and strategy of the fund, working in close collaboration with the CIO of Global Real Estate, CIO of Global Indirect Real Estate, Deputy Fund Managers, CFO of the fund and Region Investment Heads. Liz joined CBRE Investment Management in 2019 as a Global Portfolio Strategist. Prior to joining CBRE Investment Management, Liz was the Head of EMEA Research and Insight for Cushman & Wakefield, leading a team of 80+ staff and serving on the firm's EMEA executive leadership team. Over her 20+ year career, she has also served as a Global Portfolio Strategist for Aberdeen Asset Management and UBS Global Asset Management, advising on global real estate portfolio strategy and serving as a voting member of both firm’s Indirect Real Estate investment committees. Liz earned a Bachelor of Arts degree (Honors) in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University. She is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the Investment Property Forum. She holds dual citizenship of the U.S. and U.K. and is proficient in Italian and Spanish.

Patti Unti is a Managing Director at Waterfall Asset Management and Head of the firm’s Commercial Real Estate Equity Strategy. Patti has over 25 years of commercial real estate experience across numerous disciplines including equity and debt acquisitions, asset management, structured finance and investment banking. She started her career at Heller Financial, then at Capmark Investments, followed by co-founding an RIA, before joining Waterfall in 2011. Beyond her investment management responsibilities, Patti is a founding member of Waterfall’s DEI committee and actively mentors junior colleagues with a focus on supporting women in early stages of their career.

Leslie is a Senior Portfolio Manager at Resolution Life US in New York. Leslie manages investments and executes the investment strategy across the asset class spectrum with a focus on private assets and alternatives and leverages relationships with third-party investment managers. Prior to joining Resolution Life, Leslie was a Vice President in Private Debt at Swiss Re where she focused on the strategy, management, and outsourcing of investment mandates covering commercial real estate loans and direct lending. Before joining Swiss Re, Leslie was a team leader in Equity Capital Markets at Bloomberg LP. At Bloomberg, she also held various data analyst roles and authored articles in Bloomberg Markets magazine and Bloomberg Brief newsletters. In addition, she appeared on Bloomberg TV and Radio. Leslie earned a BS cum laude in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the University of Richmond and is a CFA charterholder.

Resolution Life US is part of a global life insurance group that focuses on the acquisition and management of portfolios of life insurance policies. We protect 1.1 million life insurance customers in the United States. We’re dedicated to being the leading provider to life and annuity customers in the United States by delivering a data-driven, artificial-intelligence (AI) enabled and people-focused service.

Ms. Vermie is the portfolio manager of Allstate’s $2.4 billion impact portfolio with a dual objective of attractive risk-adjusted returns and measurable impact, comprised of fund and direct investments in climate, inclusive diversity & equity, and low income housing tax credits.

Ms. Vermie has led, underwrote, and/or invested over $1.1 billion across private equity and real assets fund and direct investments since impact portfolio origin in 2021, including $270M in climate investments. Ms. Vermie is chair of Allstate Investment’s Responsible Investing Committee and member of Allstate Investment’s Operating Committee. Prior to current role, Ms. Vermie was responsible for acquisition for properties in Allstate’s real estate equity portfolio. This included sourcing new joint venture and development partner relationships. Ms. Vermie has a MBA from Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management and a Masters and Bachelors in Accountancy from University of Notre Dame.

Amy Wang leads BlueEarth’s private credit strategy and sits on the firm’s Executive Committee. Prior to joining Blue Earth Capital she worked at Deutsche Bank’s Sustainable Investments group where she led the group’s clean energy and South/Southeast Asian financial services social enterprise investing activities. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Amy worked at Grassroots Business Fund, Centinela Capital Partners and Citigroup Corporate Investment Bank. She holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in International Affairs from the Lauder Institute from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Blue Earth Capital AG is an independent global impact investment firm, headquartered in Baar, Switzerland with operations in New York, London and Singapore. It manages investment strategies for professional investors who are seeking investment solutions that offer market-rate returns, while also helping to address pressing social or environmental challenges. Initiated in 2015 by Urs Wietlisbach and backed by the Ursimone Wietlisbach Foundation, Blue Earth Capital AG has been incubated and built-up with the support of Partners Group, leveraging its experience as a leading global private markets firm.

Helena Wang is a Principal in the Capital Solutions Group at CPP Investments based in the New York Office. She leads the software/technology vertical and has a broad investment mandate including 1L, 2L, unitranche, HY and pref/holdco.

Helena has been with CPP Investments for over 8 years. Prior to her current role, Helena was in investment banking at BMO Capital Markets in Toronto.

Helena holds Bachelors of Mathematics and Bachelors of Business Administrations degrees from University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University respectively, she is also a CFA charterholder

Eleanor Warnick is a Senior Managing Investigator in the Mintz Group’s London office, where she specializes in integrity due diligence, cross-border asset tracing, litigation support and fraud detection. She has eight years’ experience in investigations, including five years in corporate intelligence and three as a journalist. During this time, she has advised a broad range of clients such as PE firms, hedge funds, financial institutions, law firms, government bodies and multilateral institutions. Recent casework includes: unearthing procurement fraud at a political organization; exposing a C-suite executive that had lied about their degree and covered up the reasons why they were fired from their previous role; and pinpointing the actors behind an extortion attempt at a logistics company in Guatemala. She holds a BA in Spanish and Portuguese from Oxford University, is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator (CCI).

Ms. Wayne is a Managing Director and serves as Head of Procurement at Hunter Point Capital.

Ms. Wayne has worked in procurement for over 15 years. Prior to joining HPC, Ms. Wayne was the Director of Portfolio Procurement at SK Capital Partners, a global private investment firm, where she built a leverage procurement program that drove significant savings for SK’s portfolio companies. Prior to that, Ms. Wayne was Vice President at Blackstone where she supported over 200+ portfolio companies in driving cost reduction through procurement optimization. Ms. Wayne has also held procurement leadership positions at J.Crew Group and Citibank and began her career at GEP, a leading procurement consulting firm.

Ms. Wayne earned her B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania where she graduated summa cum laude and received her M.B.A. from New York University.

Hunter Point Capital ("HPC") is an independent investment firm seeking to provide innovative capital solutions to middle-market alternative asset managers across private equity, credit, real estate, and infrastructure in North America, Europe, and Asia. HPC is dedicated to pursuing long-term strategic partnerships with proven asset managers who are poised to build enduring franchises and define the next generation of leading investment firms across the globe. HPC’s inaugural investment fund focuses on GP stakes investing. It recently launched its new strategy of GP Financing providing NAV loans and preferred equity financing to GPs.

Barbara has over 25 years of infrastructure investment, private equity as well as project finance experience gained at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, PolyTechnos Venture and, since 2003 with B Capital Partners. Beforehand, she worked for the Private Sector Development Group of the World Bank.

Barbara is a Member of the Board at B Capital Partners AG as well as Bekk og Strom AS (hydro power in Norway). She is also on the Investment Committees of both, the Impact Fund and the Real Assets Fund of Palisade (Australia). Further, Barbara is a Member of the Asset Selection Committee of RealPort, a regulatory alternative investment brokerage platform (Germany). From 2017 till July 2021, she served as Non-Executive Director of the London Pension Fund Authorities (LPFA). Further, Barbara was key in setting up the infrastructure investment platform for Swiss pension funds (IST3) and its Investment Committee, of which she also was part for several years.

She is a prolific author and has written four books on infrastructure investments, the latest one being "Infrastructure as an Asset Class. Second Edition" (2016).

Barbara wrote her Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University and University of St. Gallen. She holds an MSc in Business & Operations Research from Warwick University and a post-graduate degree in International Relations from Mannheim University.

Elizabeth Weindruch is a member of Barings’ Diversified Alternative Equity team and is responsible for originating and underwriting funds and co-investments in North America and Latin America. Prior to joining the firm in 2015, she was with the Wells Fargo Investment Institute where she led the strategy, due diligence, implementation and support efforts for private equity and private real estate products across the alternative investments platform. She also held various private equity roles at Citi Private Bank, Brooke Private Equity Associates and Investor Group Services. Elizabeth holds a B.A. in Political Science from Davidson College.

Alexandra Wilde is a partner in Clifford Chance's Corporate Group. Her practice focuses on complex domestic and cross-border transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Alex's experience includes private equity investments, acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, and general corporate matters. She has broad experience in energy transition and traditional energy matters, such as solar, wind, carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS), battery storage, waste to energy, renewable energy, biofuels, specialty chemicals and traditional upstream/midstream/downstream oil and gas.

Mr. Winters furthers GRESB’s international scope and impact by engaging institutional investors throughout the Americas, establishing industry partnerships for ESG data, and expanding GRESB coverage among REITs, private equity firms and multinational lenders.

GRESB is an industry-driven organization committed to assessing the sustainability performance of real asset portfolios around the globe. Institutional investors use the GRESB Benchmark to engage with private equity fund managers and listed companies, aiming to improve the sustainability performance of their investment portfolios and the global real asset sector at large.

He previously served the U.S. Green Building Council as Senior Fellow for Business Strategy and Finance. Additional professional experience includes tenures at Russell Real Estate and CBRE, and participation in several start-up technology companies.

He earned his Masters in Real Estate Finance and Development from Harvard, MBA from Southern Methodist University, and is an alumni of the University of Wisconsin real estate program. Mr. Winters is a former lecturer at Colvin School of Real Estate at University of Maryland, and current Counselor of Real Estate.

Julia Wittlin is a Partner of the Firm and leads the Firm’s Miami office as well as its Venture and Emerging Growth investment vertical. In her current role, Julia oversees the Firm’s efforts in venture and emerging growth where RedBird backs disruptive technologies and business models in RedBird’s core areas of expertise.

Prior to joining RedBird, Julia spent 15 years at BlackRock. Most recently, Julia was a Managing Director and a senior portfolio manager within BlackRock Alternative Investors, where she developed and led the team’s growth equity investment efforts and deployed over $500 million. Julia’s investments include leading companies such as Hashicorp, Rivian, Epic Games, Attentive, and Databricks.

Julia is passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion and was a member of the UN PRI Private Equity working group where she focused on advancing diversity efforts within the industry. Additionally, Julia is a steering committee member of the southeast chapter of WAVE, the Women’s Association of Venture and Equity. Julia was featured on Wall Street Journal Pro Private Equity’s Women to Watch List in 2023.

Julia holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester and a Certificate in Mathematical Modeling. She is a CFA, CAIA, and FRM designation holder.

As Global Head of Private Markets & Thought Leadership, Ruth Yang is responsible for developing and expanding S&P Global Ratings’ coverage of private credit alongside the franchise’s market engagement in both public and private markets through thought leadership outreach. She serves as the Chair of the cross-divisional S&P Global Private Debt Research Lab.

Previously, she led the company’s Credit Research & Insights research team, overseeing the creation and publication of macro-credit and thematic research, risk assessments, rating transition analyses, and credit market forecasts while governing the Credit Conditions Committee (CCC) process. Ruth has more than 25 years of experience in the leveraged finance markets—including with Fitch Solutions as Managing Director for Leveraged Finance Intelligence, where she was responsible for developing their leveraged finance offerings; and with Leveraged Commentary & Data, where she managed leveraged finance content and operations globally for more than 15 years.

Ruth received an A.B. with honors from Harvard University.

Sue Yang-Krochmal is an Investment Director with the Next Generation (“Next Gen”) Infrastructure team at Antin Infrastructure Partners, a Paris, London, and NYC-based infrastructure private equity firm with €31 billion of AUM and with a track record of backing entrepreneurial teams and taking a forward-thinking approach to infrastructure. The Next Gen team is focused on making active equity investments into companies driving the energy transition as well as improving sustainability and circularity, more efficient transportation, greater digital connectivity, and agricultural and resource efficiencies.

Previously, Sue was on the investment team at Orion Infrastructure Capital and Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, and was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company’s Middle East Office. Sue holds a BA from Columbia College where she majored in Middle Eastern Studies and a MBA from Harvard Business School.

Mahsa Zeinali is a Senior Vice President of Capital Partnering at Reverence Capital Partners, a $10B Middle-Market Financial Services Private Equity Buyout fund. Prior to Reverence, she was Head of Investor Relations at 3L Capital, a growth equity firm that invests in tech-enabled consumer and enterprise businesses. Prior to 3L, Ms. Zeinali was a Managing Partner at Sunset Capital Partners where she led private placement mandates. Previously, she served six years as Managing Partner and CEO at Rosen Capital Advisors, an options volatility arbitrage hedge fund. Ms. Zeinali started her career as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions group of Houlihan Lokey and the Sage Group, LLC. Ms. Zeinali graduated from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario with an Honors BA.

Maja Zerjal Fink is a partner in Clifford Chance's Global Financial Markets Group. Her practice focuses on all aspects of corporate reorganizations, distressed situations and bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings in the United States and across the globe.

Maja's experience includes advising private equity sponsors, debtors, foreign debtors and representatives, lenders, official creditor committees, creditors, and equity holders in bankruptcy proceedings and in-court and out-of-court restructurings.

Maja has delivered guest lectures at Harvard Law School, University of Michigan Law School, and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and writes extensively on restructuring topics, including in Bloomberg Law and Debtwire. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of International Corporate Rescue, a corporate restructuring and insolvency journal, and serves as the co-secretary and board member of the International Insolvency Institute’s Model Laws@Work Thought Leadership Project.

Dr. Tingting Zhang serves as the Founder and CEO of the TerraCotta Group, where she is responsible for overseeing the company’s investment activities and managing portfolio risk. She manages the Credit Committee at TerraCotta and leads the research and methodology agenda at the TerraCotta Lab, the company’s research division. Dr. Zhang founded TerraCotta in 2004 with the objective of applying academic insights, objectivity, and analytical rigor to commercial real estate lending in order to address real-world challenges.

Prior to starting TerraCotta, Dr. Zhang held a senior researcher position at Eurasia Group, a think tank that pioneered the use of quantitative methods in social and political studies. In 2021, she was recognized as one of sixty global honorees in Private Equity International’s (PEI) special report on Women of Influence in Private Markets, which covered various sectors such as private equity, private debt, real estate, venture capital, infrastructure, and cross strategies. In 2022 and again in 2023, Dr. Zhang was listed in the LA 500, a compilation of the most influential individuals according to Los Angeles Business Journal.

Dr. Zhang earned her Master’s degree in Quantitative Methods and a PhD in International Political Economy from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Summer Zhao is Investment Director at Lafayette College, where she works closely with the CIO to oversee the college’s endowment pool and other separately invested assets. With over ten years of experience in asset allocation and manager selection, Summer has expertise in both traditional and alternative asset classes.

Prior to joining Lafayette College in 2016, Summer served on the investment team at Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies. She also gained valuable experience in trading from her time at HSBC and in quantitative research at Natixis. She holds a Master’s degree in Financial Engineering from Cornell University, as well as an Engineer’s degree from Télécom Paris, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Fudan University.