Women in Private Equity Forum North America 2023 | PEI Media Group Ltd. | 20 June 2023 | Convene, 101 Park Ave, New York, NY 10178, USA

Join this forum and participate in networking and learning opportunities across the alternative investment space. The forum will bring together institutional investors, fund managers and the surrounding industry, providing a platform for men and women of all levels to build a network within the asset class.

What can you expect at the Forum?

Unrivalled cross-asset class networking
• This is an event like no other within the asset class for networking. Throughout the unique event there are opportunities to take part in the discussion and make real lasting connections with industry participants. Join a seated working lunch, investor-only workshop, roundtable discussions, think-tanks, mentoring sessions, and many other networking sessions.

Hear the latest trends in private equity
• Several sessions will consider how private equity is performing compared to other asset classes for investors, the extent to which the democratization of private equity is taking place, the continued growth of the Secondaries market, how the increased emphasis on ESG is impacting investment strategy, fundraising in a hybrid world, and much more.

Gain crucial investor insights
• Get a view across the investor spectrum from foundations, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies and public and private pension funds. Understand what matters most to them, how private equity has compared to other asset classes in the past two years and how rising inflation and increased interest rates are impacting investment strategy.

2023 Speakers

Kemi-Christina Abdul
Managing Director, BlueHaven

Zaynah Ahmed
Vice President, Senior Infrastructure Debt Strategist, BlackRock

Nicole Adrien
Managing Director, Chief Product Officer and Global Head of Client Relations, Oaktree Capital Management

Huda Al Lawati
Founder, Aliph Capital

John Anderson
Global Head Corporate Finance & Infrastructure, Manulife

Emily Anderson
Managing Director and Head of Sponsor Coverage, Union Square Advisors

Jazmyne Archer
Assistant Director, Partner Relations, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity

Ashli Aslin
Senior Analyst Real Assets and Infrastructure, Albourne

Ruulke Bagijn
Head of Carlyle Global Investment Solutions and Chair of the Board, AlpInvest

Julia Bell
Chief Commercial Officer, Clean Capital

Mona Benisi
Executive Director, Head of Sustainability for Global Real Assets, Morgan Stanley Investment Management

Peter Benson
Senior Reporter, PERE News

Zak Bentley
Americas Editor, Infrastructure Investor

Jennie Benza
Private Markets, General Electric Pension

Sarah Bittner
Director, PGIM Private Capital

Caroline Bliss
Executive Director, LGT Capital Partners

Heidi Boyd
Senior Managing Director- Infrastructure, Blackstone

Tiernan Brady
Global Director of Inclusion, Clifford Chance

Jennifer Brown
Partner ＆ Global Head of Consultant Relations, Adams Street Partners

Amy Buckner Chowdhry
Founder & CEO, Answerlab

Valentina Burger-Jiménez
Vice President, Digital Bridge

Nicole Byrns
Formerly, CPPIB America

Lan Cai
Deputy Chief Investment Officer, The Pension Boards United Church of Christ

Liz Campbell
Managing Director, Co-Head of Primaries , Portfolio Advisors

Tanya Carmichael
Founder, Roxborough Advisory

Eunice Chapon
Director of Operations and Business Development, BrightEdge/American Cancer Society

Sweta Chanda
Managing Director, Head of Business Strategy, Monroe Capital

Christie Chen
Director of Investments, Oxford Properties Group

Elaine Chim
Managing Director, Global Head of Closed Products, Apex Group

Maila Chuong
Director, Head of Capital Markets, Senior Credit, Manulife Investment Management

Gila Cohen
Managing Director ＆ Head of Global Institutional Partnerships, Monroe Capital

Maggie Coleman
Managing Partner, Private Capital Advisory, Real Assets, Sera Global

Colleen Collins
Managing Director, Blue Owl Capital

Laura Craft
Global Strategy ＆ Investment ESG, Heitman

Janice Daly
Head of Sustainable Markets, Financial Services Advisory, Grant Thornton CFA

Nadia Damouni
Partner, Prosek Partners

Meggie Daoust
Senior Director, Capital Solutions, CDPQ

Sunita Das
Partner, AlixPartners

Stephanie Strid Davis
Co-Head of U.S. Private Wealth Solutions, Hamilton Lane

Anna Dayn
Managing Partner, New End

Merche Del Valle
Former Chief Talent and HR Officer

Leah Dillon
Chief Operating Officer, Alliance Global Advisors

Tzvete Doncheva
Investor Relations Lead, PropTech1 Ventures

Julie Donegan
Portfolio Manager, CalSTRS

Griffin Edwards
Principal, Apollo Global Management

Danielle Even
Principal, Real Estate Investments, GCM Grosvenor

Joan Fang
Principal, Ares Management

Marianna Fassinotti
Head of Private Credit, The D. E. Shaw Group

Heather Fernstrom Border
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Alliance Global Advisors

Leticia Ferreras Astorqui
Director, Allianz Global Investors

Lucy Fletcher
Managing Director, Global Head Portfolio Management, QuadReal

Mary Kathleen Flynn
Editor-in-Chief, PE Hub, PEI Group

Bonnie Frank
Managing Director and Head of Private Investment and Enterprise Risk, Public Sector Pension Investment Board

Debra Franzese
Partner, Seward ＆ Kissel

Michelle Gannot
Principal, Head of Investment, Exigent Capital

Kathryn Gernert
Managing Director, Emerging Manager Program ＆ Senior Portfolio Manager, Real Estate, Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation

Kirsten Hagen
Co-Founder & Partner, Brinley Partners

Caitlin Heffernan
Vice President, Macquarie Capital

Laura Held
Partner, Shamrock Capital

Hillary Higgins
Managing Director, Stonepeak

Helen Hopkins
Senior Responsible Investment Analyst , USS Investment Management

Kim Hourihan
CIO, CBRE Investment Management
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Michelle Jacobi
Managing Director, Gatewood Capital

Shamafa Khan
Managing Director | Marketing and Investor Relations, Crayhill Capital Management

Ingrid Kiefer
Partner and Chief Marketing Officer, Canyon Partners

Cara Killackey
Principal, Investor Relations, I Squared Capital

Kelly Labritz
Partner, Clifford Chance

Lynn LaChapelle
Managing Director, Capital Markets, JLL

Raelan Lambert
Global Alternatives Leader, Mercer

Mary Lang
Head of Americas Direct Logistics Strategies and Portfolio Manager, CBRE Investment Management

Kate Laurence
General Partner and CEO, Bloccelerate VC

Danielle Lemberg
Counsel, Seward ＆ Kissel

Kathryn Liao
Managing Principal, Private Equity Group, Allstate

Matthew Lipton
Co-Head of Infrastructure Investment Research, Partners Group

Colleen Longobardi
Managing Director, Audax Private Debt

Lindsay Luger
Co-founder and Partner, Energy Impact Partners

Laurie Mahon
Vice Chair, Global Investment Banking, CIBC Capital Markets

Karen Mahrous
Senior Vice President, Head of ESG, Clarion Partners

Genevieve Maltais-Boisvert
Managing Director, DigitalBridge

Isabelle Martin
Head of Strategic Partnerships, United States and Latin America, Ivanhoé Cambridge

Jenetta Mason
Managing Director, Kroll

Kristina Matthews
Managing Director, ONEX

Lane McDonald
Managing Director, Strategy ＆ Operations, OMERS

Pamela McKoin
Assistant Director of Real Estate, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity

Johnathan Medina
Global Head of DE&I, Macquarie Asset Management

Lacey Mehran
Managing Director, VSS Capital Partners

Sheryl Mejia
Managing Partner, Steward Asset Management

Sona Menon
Partner and Head of the North American Pension Practice, Cambridge Associates

Patricia Miller Zollar
Managing Director, Private Equity, Neuberger Berman

Sophia Mullen
President, Head of Co-Investment Research, EnTrust Global

Heather Mutterperl
Principal- Real Estate, Investcorp

Mina Nazemi
Head of Diversified Alternative Equity, Barings

Claire Ngo
Managing Director, Private Equity Fund Investments, Temsasek

Michelle Noyes
Managing Director, Head of Americas, Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA)

Isabel O'Brien
Reporter, Americas, Infrastructure Investor

Colleen O'Connor
Senior Vice President, Leasing, East Coast and U.K. Markets, BioMed Realty

Bill O'Conor
Managing Director, Americas, PEI Group

Kristin Olson
Global head of the Alternative Capital Markets Group, Goldman Sachs

Margaret Osmulski
Principal, Ares Management

Alexa Oyague
Vice President, US Private Capital, BlackRock

Caroline Page
Partner, HighVista Strategies

Danielle Pal
Senior Associate, Onex

Mansi Patel
Managing Director, MetLife Investments Management

Marta Perez
Head of Americas, Infrastructure Debt, Allianz Capital Partners

Chelsea Perino
Managing Director, Global Marketing and Communications, The Executive Centre

Lara Pollock
Associate, Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation

Jennifer Prosek
Founder and Managing Partner, Prosek Partners

Melannie Pyzik
Managing Director, Head of Investor Solutions, Argo Infrastructure Partners

Violeta Rabanal
Senior Director, Head of Corporate Development, Mitsubishi Power

Hallie Ransone
Portfolio Manager, Private Credit, Liberty Mutual Investments

Jackie Rantanen
Head of Product Solutions, Hamilton Lane

Abigail Rayner
Principal, Real Assets, HarbourVest

Keren Raz
Senior Responsible Investment Manager, APG Asset Management

Hillary Ripley
Senior Director, Igeno Infrastructure Partners

Ellie Rubenstein
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Manna Tree Partners

Catherine Saunders
Managing Director, Benefit Street Partners

Tim Savage
Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU Schack Institute of Real

Hannah Schofield
Managing Director, DC Advisory

Fran Seegull
President, U.S. Impact Investing Alliance

Shari Sentner
Founding Partner & CEO, Wilrich Energy

Snehal Shah
Reporter, New Private Markets, PEI Group

Jill Shaw
Managing Director, Cambridge Associates

Emily Shiau
Principal, Adams Street Partners

Jessica Springsteen
Partner, Clifford Chance

Alexandra Stanton
CEO and Founder, Empire Global Ventures

Corinne Still
Partner, Apollo Global Management

Joanne Taylor
Partner ＆ Managing Director, AlixPartners

Stephanie Thomes
Senior Insurance Investment Consultant, Mercer

Daphne Tong
Co-Head of Investments, WestCap

Patti Unti
Managing Director, Head of Commercial Real Estate Equity, Waterfall Asset Management

Marina Vannucci
Director of Private Equity, Swiss Re

Leslie Vargas
Senior Portfolio Manager, Resolution Life US

Bhavika Vyas
Managing Director, Stepstone

Julie Welinsky
Principal, Investcorp

Jessica Wichser
Managing Director, Co-Head Private Real Estate Asset Management, Partners Group

Lauren Winkler
Senior Director, ESG, The Green Cities Company

Dan Winters
Senior Director, GRESB

Julia Wittlin
Partner, RedBird Capital Partners

Aiyu Yuan Nicholson
Partner, StepStone Group

Iris Zhao-Fiorello
Head of Capital Formation and Investment Solutions, Castleforge

Cosima Zoller
Principal, Ares Management

Sara Zulkosky
Co-Founder ＆ Managing Partner, Recast Capital

2023 Sponsors

PRINCIPAL SPONSORS:
• Clifford Chance
• Maccquarie

LEAD SPONSORS:
• AlixPartners
• Ares

SPONSORS:
• Arclight
• Adams Street
• Audax Private Debt
• Grant Thornton
• Igneo
• Partners Group
• Seward & Kissel LLP
• Stonepeak