The HBS Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference 2021 | Harvard Business School | 6 February 2021 | The Harvard Business School , Online Event

One of Harvard Business School’s most anticipated student-run conferences, the one-day event last year has brought together 1,000+ venture capital and private equity professionals, academics, and students to engage in educational discourse and thought leadership around the most prominent issues in today’s alternative investing space.

2021 Speakers

KEYNOTE:

Matt Nord
Senior Partner and Co-Head of Private Equity, Apollo

Sarah Tavel\
General Partner, Benchmark

PANELISTS:

Jeff Zanarini
Managing Director & Head of Business Development for U.S. Private Equity, H.I.G. Capital

Anushka Sunder
Managing Director, Blackstone

Collin Roche
Managing Director & Head of Financial Services and Technology PE, GTCR

J. David Phillips
Senior Managing Director & Co-Head of North America PE, Providence Equity Partners

Brian Ruder
Partner, Permira

Hollie Haynes
Managing Partner, Luminate Capital

Rene Stewart
Managing Director, Vista Equity

Peter Christodoulo
Partner, Francisco Partners

Deven Parekh
Managing Director, Insight Partners

Robert Brown
Managing Director & Co-founder, Encore Consumer Capital

Ryan Cotton
Managing Director & Global Head of Consumer/Retail, Bain Capital

Jenny Baxter-Moser
Managing Director, TSG Consumer

Anita Balaji
Managing Director, The Carlyle Group

Melanie Whelan
Managing Director (ex-SoulCycle CEO), Summit Partners

Paige Daly
Partner, Harvest Partners

Sarah Kim
Partner, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice

John Kos
Principal, GTCR

Ethan Liebermann
Managing Director, TA Associates

TJ Carella
Managing Director, Warburg Pincus

Tom Verghese
Partner, TPG Growth & The Rise Fund

Victoria Ivashina
Professor, HBS

Matt Wilson
Co-Portfolio Manager, Oaktree Capital

David Greenberg
US. Co-Head, SVPGlobal

Thomas Casarella
Managing Director, Oaktree Capital

Craig Snyder
Partner & Portfolio Manager, Ares Capital Management

Dante Roscini
Professor, HBS

Giampiero Mazza
Managing Partner, CVC Capital Partners

Silvia Oteri
Partner, Permira

Benjamin Kunstler
Managing Director, Bain Capital

Nadim El Gabbani
Sr. Managing Director, Blackstone

Kyle Doherty
Managing Director, General Catalyst

Heather Smith Thorne
Partner, TPG Growth

Mike Farrell
Managing Director, Spectrum Equity

Darren Black
Managing Director, Summit Partners

Michael Granoff
CEO, Pomona Capital

Wilson Warren
Partner & President, Lexington Partners,

Vincent Gombault
Co-Founder & former Head of Fund of Funds, Ardian

Lisa Sun
Principal, Coller Capital

Tyler Zittergruen
Managing Director, Evercore (Private Capital Advisory)

Paul Carbone
President and Managing Partner, Pritzker Private Capital

Andrew Mulderry
Co-Chief Investment Officer, Willett Advisors LLC

Oliver Weisberg
Chief Executive Officer, Blue Pool Capital

Alexa Rachlin
Principal, Declaration Partners

Therése Lennehag
Head of Sustainability, EQT

Peter Spring
Managing Director, Bain Capital Double Impact Fund

Kyle Matter
Director, KKR Global Impact

Leela Ramnath
Director ESG, Warburg Pincus

Neeraj Agrawal
General Partner, Battery Ventures

Anant Puri
Investor, Bessemer

David Thacker
Partner, Greylock

Nicole Quinn
General Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Rebecca Kaden
General Partner, Union Square Ventures

Sandhya Venkatachalam
Partner, Khosla Ventures

Peter Boyce
General Catalyst, Proposed

Shayma Sharif
Principal, NFX Ventures

Ethan Kurzweil
Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners

Andy Dinh
Founder & CEO, TSM (Backed by Bessemer)

Eurie Kim
General Partner, Forerunner Ventures

Harpreet Singh Rai
Founder & CEO, Oura (Backed by Forerunner)

Lindsey Yeem
Principal, Starbridge Ventures

Ally Yost
Principal, The Engine

Sunil Nagaraj
Investor/Founder, Ubiquity Ventures

Peter Barrett
Professor, HBS

Wende Hutton
General Partner, Canaan Partners

Craig Sheperd
Sr. Managing Director, Blackstone Life Sciences

Kush Parmar
Managing Partner, 5AM Ventures

Stefan Vitorovic
Co-founder & Managing Director, Vida Ventures

Andrew Cooper
Founder & CEO, Leapfrog Investments

Cristina Shapiro
President, UNICEF Bridge Fund

Jenny Yip
Managing Partner, Adjuvant Capital

Jennifer Pryce
President & CEO, Calvert Impact Capital

Elizabeth Weil
Founder & Managing Director, Scribble Ventures

Yuval Avni
Managing General Partner, Crescendo Venture Partners

Sara Barek
Managing Partner & Founding Team Member, Oceans Ventures

Ann DeWitt
General Partner, The Engine

Lynne Chou O'Keefe
Founder & Managing Partner, Define Ventures

2021 Sponsors

PLATINUM:
• EY
• Kirkland & Ellis

SAPPHIRE:
• Covington
• Fried Frank
• ROI Rocket

GOLD:
• Dechert
• Boston Consulting Group
• Back Bay Communications

SILVER:
• First Republic Bank
• Alpha Sights
• RSM
• Ropes & Gray
• Choate
• Russel Research
• Preqin