People – Firms

Jennifer James led the way when Thoma Bravo's Fund XVI became 2025's top PE fund close in North America. Also serving on the board of Private Equity Women Investor Network, she's dedicated to advancing representation via mentoring.

A partner with Bain Capital, Jennifer Davis says her work has 'enabled me to turn consumer and retail industry insight into more tangible investing and operating outcomes.' One big outcome came in February when Bain took retailer Bob’s Discount Furniture public after a 12-year hold.

Manna's Ellie Rubenstein says the female GP route is 'one of the hardest.' Nevertheless, in an industry where women are less than 20% of senior leadership, her firm is nearly two-thirds female. It has also become preeminent in the lower mid-market – growing to $800m in AUM.

For CVC's Cathrin Petty, it's important to 'feel secure about taking risk and learn constantly.' After studying science at Cambridge, she went on to embrace finance and eventually joined Schroders, where she was integral when Singapore's government allocated $100m for an analyst-managed fund.

Proposal would offer safe harbor to pension fiduciaries who ‘objectively, thoroughly and analytically’ weigh one or more of six factors against clients’ needs, risk appetites.

Aversano tells us about his dream job as a police officer, the importance of ‘grit’ to professional success, and why the golf course is his sanctuary.

Noisten is joining the firm at an important time to ‘help us build appropriate infrastructure before OceanSound reaches another major milestone in size and complexity,’ CEO Joe Benavides told Buyouts.

The manager, which has some $7bn in AUM, is now under the sole control of co-founder Adam Waglay.

Scott Harrison, who has a background in both investments and operations, was promoted to managing partner and COO, joining Tom Burger and Kevin Jackson in the firm’s top leadership.

Some 900 people are set to attend our NEXUS event in Orlando next week, among them nearly 300 LPs.