Current Members
Runa Alam - Development Partners International (DPI)
David Baylis - Norton Rose
Philip Bilden - HarbourVest Partners (Asia) Limited, Hong Kong
Michael Bleyzer - SigmaBleyzer
Christopher K.B. Brotchie - Baring Asia, Baring India, and Baring Vostok Private Equity Funds
Dirk Donath - Eton Park Capital Management
Yasser El Mallawany - EFG Hermes
Hisham El-Khazindar - Citadel Capital
Álvaro Gonçalves - Stratus Group
Archana Hingorani - IL&FS Investment Managers Limited
Jay Koh - Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Richard Laing (Chairman) - CDC Group plc
Josh Lerner - Harvard Business School
James McGuigan - Capital International Private Equity Funds ("CIPEF")
Prakash Mehta - Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP
Andrew M. Ostrognai - Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Dalip Pathak - Warburg Pincus
David M. Rubenstein - The Carlyle Group
Maninder Saluja - Quilvest Group
Robert Stefanowski - 3i Group
Robert Stillman - Milbridge Capital Management, L.L.C.
J. Scott Swensen - Conduit Capital Partners, LLC.
Paul E. Tierney, Jr. - TechnoServe, Inc.
Piau Voon Wang - Adams Street Partners
Shemara Wikramanayake - Macquarie Capital Funds
David Wilton - International Finance Corporation

Emeritus
Patricia M. Cloherty - Delta Private Equity Partners

Current Members

Runa Alam
CEO and Partner
Development Partners International (DPI)
Runa Alam has 25 years of investment banking, emerging market management and private equity experience and devoted her career to investing in emerging markets and helping to develop these economies. She is a co-founding partner and the CEO of Development Partners International LLP, a leading Pan-African Private Equity Fund Advisor. Prior to DPI, Ms. Alam was Chief Executive of Kingdom Zephyr Africa Management and a director of the AIG Infrastructure Fund, managed by Emerging Markets Partnership.

Ms. Alam has “on-the-ground” management experience in emerging markets having founded and managed both Peregrine Bangladesh and Union Capital Bangladesh in the 1990s. Ms. Alam started her career in New York working for investment banks including Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch, where she worked in mergers and acquisitions and corporate and tax-exempt finance.

She holds a BA in International and Developmental Economics from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University (1981) and an MBA from the Harvard Business School (1985) and was also a Harry S. Truman Congressional Scholar. She serves on the board of UBA bank, Eaton Venture LLP and Letshego Holdings Ltd and has previously served on the board of Celtel, all leading African companies.

David Baylis
International Head of Private Equity
Norton Rose
David Baylis is the international head of private equity at Norton Rose, an international law firm with over 190 partners and 1,100 lawyers worldwide. David studied at Downing College, University of Cambridge. He spent three years in the Dubai office of Allen & Overy where he acted for, among others, the Government of Dubai and was involved in establishing Emirates Airlines and the Dubai Duty Free and advising on numerous investments for the Government of Dubai. His clients include: Amadeus, AXA Private Equity, Bridgepoint Capital, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, European Acquisition Capital Limited, The Government of Dubai, STAR Capital and Royal London Private Equity. David is a member of the British Venture Capital Association’s legal & technical committee, and he is a regular speaker for the BVCA for its training courses. He also lectures at Loughborough Business School. David advises institutions and management on venture capital and private equity transactions and fund structures and also on specialist exit routes such as accelerated IPO's, securitizations and secondaries. 

Philip Bilden
Managing Director
HarbourVest Partners (Asia) Limited, Hong Kong
Philip Bilden joined HarbourVest in Boston in 1991 and relocated to Hong Kong in 1996 to establish the Firm's Asian subsidiary. He manages HarbourVest Partners (Asia) Limited which supports HarbourVest's investment and client service activities in the Asia Pacific region and other non-U.S. markets. Philip serves on the advisory boards of several international private equity partnerships, including funds managed by Archer Capital, Bain Capital Asia, Brait Capital Partners, Castle Harlan Australian Mezzanine Partners (CHAMP), CCMP Asia, CVC Asia, KKR Asia, MKS, Pacific Equity Partners, and TPG Asia. Philip previously evaluated private equity investments with Horizon Partners and Arthur Young & Company's Corporate Development Group. He received a BS in Foreign Service (magna cum laude) from Georgetown University in 1986 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1991. Philip serves on the Asia Pacific Advisory Board of Harvard Business School.

Michael Bleyzer
President and Chief Executive Officer
SigmaBleyzer
Michael Bleyzer is the founder of SigmaBleyzer and the developer of its business model, which blends the best of Western business acumen with extensive regional experience in former Soviet block countries. SigmaBleyzer actively serves its investors and the region, providing investment banking, research, and economic development consulting to companies and entire governments.

Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1951, Mr. Bleyzer was raised and educated in the Soviet Union, graduating from the Kharkov Institute of Radioelectronics with a Master of Science in digital electronics and quantum physics. Prior to forming SigmaBleyzer, Mr. Bleyzer extensively worked with Exxon Corporation, Exxon Chemical, and Ernst & Young Management Consulting Group in a variety of capacities: Baytown Refinery IT Manager, Oil Movements Coordinator, Monthly Production Planner; Baton Rouge Chemical Plant Controller, Business Analysis and Financial Services Manager; Pan-European and Asia-Pacific Polymers IT Manager, Worldwide Information Quality Manager; Worldwide Business Process Reengineering Manager focusing on company restructuring, change management and business transformation, and Senior Manager of the Petrochemical Industry Practice.

Christopher K.B. Brotchie
Senior Advisor / Investment Committee Member
Baring Asia, Baring India, and Baring Vostok Private Equity Funds
Mr. Brotchie is currently a Senior Advisor and Investment Committee Member of the Baring Asia, Baring India and Baring Vostok Private Equity Funds. He is also a Member of the Board of the Pacific Pension Institute. Mr. Brotchie has spent approximately half his career in industrial line management and half as a Private Equity investor. His industrial experience was mainly with SMEs in the manufacturing and industrial automation sectors where he served as CEO of both private and listed companies.

His Private Equity career started in 1986 when he joined Baring Private Equity Partners in Germany. After 18 years with the firm, he retired in March 2004 as Chief Executive Officer of the Baring Private Equity Partners Group and Member of the Management Council of the ING Group. Before being appointed as Group CEO in 2000, as a Senior Partner he was responsible for starting Baring Private Equity's businesses first in Germany (1986 to 1995) and then in Asia (1995 to 2000) based in Singapore.

Dirk Donath
Senior Managing Director and Partner
Eton Park Capital Management
Dirk Donath is Managing Director at Eton Park Capital Management, responsible for Eton Park’s private equity and illiquid investments in emerging markets. Eton Park is a global, multi-disciplinary investment fund that initiated activities in November 2004. With offices in New York, London and Hong Kong, the firm has a capital base of over US$ 6 billion.  

Prior to joining Eton Park, Dirk was a Founding Partner and Managing Director of Pegasus Capital. Pegasus is a principal investment firm focused on distressed private equity, turnarounds and restructurings in Latin America. Before founding Pegasus, Dirk was a Partner of McKinsey & Company based out of the Mercosur Office in Buenos Aires. Dirk was head of McKinsey’s Latin American Consumer Goods and Retail Practice and also a leader of the Latin American Corporate Finance and Strategy Practice. He originally joined McKinsey in 1988 and previously worked in the New York, London and Madrid offices.

Yasser El Mallawany
Chairman and CEO
EFG-Hermes Holding Company
Yasser El Mallawany is currently the Chairman and CEO of EFG-Hermes Holding, Chairman of EFG-Hermes Private Equity and the Vice Chairman of Commercial International Investment Company (CIIC). With a long and successful track record in the Egyptian financial services industry, Mr. El Mallawany led the consolidation of the investment banking sector in Egypt to create the most prominent regional investment bank in the Arab region -- EFG-Hermes.

Mr. El Mallawany holds a B.A in Accounting from Cairo University. He began his career in finance with Commercial International Bank (CIB) in Egypt, where he worked for 16 years, laying the foundations for his wide exposure to the business. He continues to play a proactive part in shaping the financial sector in Egypt. In addition to being a board member in numerous companies, he is the Chairman of ACE-CIIC Insurance Company Egypt SAE and the Chairman of Technology Incubator Company. Mr. El Mallawany is the Treasurer of the Board of Governors at the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt and member of the Policies High Committee of the National Democratic Party (NDP).

Hisham El-Khazindar
Managing Director and Co-Founder
Citadel Capital
Mr. Hisham El-Khazindar is Managing Director and Co-Founder of Citadel Capital, the leading private equity firm in the Middle East and North Africa. Established in 2004, Citadel Capital now controls investments worth more than US$ 8.3 billion in industries including mining, oil and gas, cement, transportation and food. Prior to co-founding Citadel Capital in 2004, Mr. El-Khazindar was Executive Director of Investment Banking at EFG-Hermes, where he advised on key transactions including the IPOs of Orascom Construction Industries, Ezz Steel and Orascom Telecom. In 1999, he was on secondment to Goldman Sachs in London, where he advised European firms on strategic options and M&A transactions. Mr. El-Khazindar sits on the boards of leading regional companies including ASEC Holding and El Sewedy Cables. He is the Chairman of the Capital Markets and Investment Committee at the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt and a board member of the Egyptian Capital Markets Association. He holds a BA in Economics from the American University in Cairo and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Álvaro Gonçalves
Founding Partner and CEO
Stratus Group
Founding partner and CEO of Stratus Group, Álvaro Gonçalves leads the firm’s Investment Committee and has extensive experience in the Brazilian investment environment. Formerly MD of Pactual Electra Capital Partners, a private equity fund jointly sponsored by Electra (UK) and Banco Pactual (Brasil), he previously led turnarounds and several acquisitions and divestitures in Brazil in corporate officer capacities (CEO/CFO). He served as Chairman of the Brazilian Private Equity Association from 2004 to 2006 and has held positions in boards of directors of Brazilian as well as multinational companies. Mr. Gonçalves has a BS in Industrial Engineering from FEI (São Paulo), a postgraduate degree from FGV (São Paulo) and an MBA from IMD-International (Switzerland).

Archana Hingorani
Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director
IL&FS Investment Managers Limited
Archana Hingorani has over 25 years experience in the financial services business, teaching and research. Her focus has been on private equity, project finance and financial structuring, with a specialization in infrastructure, manufacturing and real estate projects.  She has been with the IL&FS Group for 18 years, and has performed a multitude of roles – starting off as an economist and moving on to project finance, and asset management.  Dr. Hingorani’s focus over the last 15 years has been on private equity fund management.  She is one of the founding members of the IL&FS private equity business and has overseen investments with an aggregate capitalization value in excess of US$ 10 bn. In her present role as Chief Executive Officer, she leads an investment team of around 65 professionals.

Dr. Hingorani holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) with post-graduate qualifications in Management (MBA) as well as a Ph.D. in Corporate Finance from the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She is also a member of United Nations Environment Programme, Finance Initiative, CII National Committee on Infrastructure Finance and a member of the International Market Assessment of India.

Jay Koh
Head of Investment Funds, Chief Investment Strategist
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Jay Koh is the Head of Investment Funds and the Chief Investment Strategist for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a U.S. government agency that supports U.S. private investment into emerging markets to promote development and foreign policy objectives.  As Head of Investment Funds, Mr. Koh manages a multi-billion dollar program of financing support for private equity funds in emerging and transitional economies.  As Chief Investment Strategist, Mr. Koh drives strategic relationships and new product development for the agency.  Mr. Koh was previously appointed to the role of CFO at OPIC in 2010.

Prior to joining OPIC, Mr. Koh worked in a variety of roles in private equity and growth equity, investing in the United States and internationally. Most recently, he led private equity and illiquid investing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) as a Partner and the Head of EMEA Private Equity at R3 Capital, a global multi-strategy hedge fund; and was a Managing Director and the Head of EMEA Private Investment for the Global Principal Strategies Division of Lehman Brothers.

Previously, Mr. Koh focused on growth investing with a particular emphasis on telecommunications and security as a Principal at The Carlyle Group in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, where he worked for nine years. Mr. Koh also served as a law clerk to Justice David H. Souter on the United States Supreme Court and to Judge Michael Boudin on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Mr. Koh earned a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a Notes Editor on the Yale Law Journal. Mr. Koh also read a Masters in Management from Oxford University, focusing on international management. He received an A.B. in Economics magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College.

Richard Laing(Chairman)
Chief Executive
CDC Group plc
Richard Laing is Chief Executive of CDC based in London. CDC provides capital for investment in sustainable private sector businesses in the less developed countries. It has assets of approximately US$2 billion. He is responsible for the overall direction of the company and has specific portfolio responsibility for power investments, which constitutes roughly a third of CDC’s balance sheet.

Prior to CDC, Richard spent 15 years at De La Rue where he held a number of positions both in the UK and overseas, latterly as Group Finance Director. He was a non-executive director of Camelot plc. Prior to this he worked in agribusiness in developing countries and at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Richard is a director of Pacific Rim Palm Oil Pte Ltd, responsible for the management and operation of oil palm plantations built up by CDC in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

Josh Lerner
Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking
Harvard Business School
Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management Units. He graduated from Yale College with a Special Divisional Major that combined physics with the history of technology. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy, at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on Capitol Hill. He then obtained a Ph.D. from Harvard's Economics Department.

Much of his research focuses on the structure and role of private equity organizations. (This research is collected in two books, “The Venture Capital Cycle” (MIT Press, 1999 and 2004) and “The Money of Invention” (HBS Press, 2001). He is a Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research's Corporate Finance and Productivity Programs, and organizes the NBER Innovation Policy and the Economy Group and the Entrepreneurship Working Group.

James McGuigan
Managing Partner
Capital International Private Equity Funds ("CIPEF")
James E. McGuigan is a Capital International Private Equity Funds ("CIPEF")  Managing Partner.  He joined the CIPEF in April 2000 after spending over 16 years as a lawyer and later as an investment banker handling cross-border mergers & acquisitions and direct investment transactions. Prior to joining Capital, Mr. McGuigan was based in Tokyo as Managing Director for a unit of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.  Prior to Nomura, Mr. McGuigan was an investment banker on Asian related investments including work as a Managing Director of Peregrine Capital (USA), Inc. where he handled cross-border M&A and direct investment transactions in various Asian countries. Mr. McGuigan began his career in as counsel to the International Division of Getty Oil Co. Mr. McGuigan received a JD from the University of Oregon School of Law and a BS in finance from the University of Oregon. He is based in San Francisco.

Prakash Mehta
Partner
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP
Prakash Mehta practices in the area of international corporate transactions and is co-head of the firm's investment funds and private equity group.

Mr. Mehta evaluates, structures and negotiates private equity-style investments (minority and control), exit transactions (strategic sale, recapitalization, IPO) and other M&A transactions (joint ventures, stock and asset sales). He provides ongoing counseling on investor and portfolio company matters and serves as corporate counsel to public and private portfolio companies. Mr. Mehta also advises sponsors in the structuring, formation and operation of complex international private equity funds and institutional investors acquiring positions in private equity, buyout, mezzanine, distressed and pledge funds.

Andrew M. Ostrognai
Partner
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Mr. Ostrognai is a corporate partner of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and Chair of the firm’s private equity practice in Asia. He has extensive experience in forming all types of private equity funds, from large pan-Asian buy-out funds to smaller focused sector or country-specific funds.

Mr. Ostrognai has been recognized by Private Equity International as one of the 30 most influential lawyers in global private equity, and also has been ranked in the top tier by Chambers Asia for private equity fund formation. He has been recognized as a “leading lawyer” for fund formation in the International Financial Law Review 1000 and as a “leading individual” for investment funds and private equity in Hong Kong by the Asia Pacific Legal 500. He has also been listed in the International Who’s Who of Private Funds Lawyers published by Law Business Research, the Euromoney’s Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Private Equity Lawyers, and PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook. Mr. Ostrognai received his B.A. in 1986 from Yale University and his J.D. in 1989 from the University of Chicago Law School.

Dalip Pathak
Managing Director and Head of Europe
Warburg Pincus
Dalip Pathak is Managing Director and Head of Europe of Warburg Pincus, responsible for the firm's investment activities in Europe and India. He is also a member of the firm's Executive Management Group. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus in 1994, he was Chief of Mission of the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) in Thailand. Mr Pathak received his BA and MA in Economics from Delhi University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a director of FiberNet Communications. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania, and a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and Sciences. He is also a charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), London.

David M. Rubenstein
Co-Founder and Managing Director
The Carlyle Group
David M. Rubenstein is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, one of the world's largest private equity firms. Mr. Rubenstein co-founded the firm in 1987. Since then, Carlyle has grown into a firm managing more than $58.5 billion from 29 offices around the world.

Prior to forming The Carlyle Group, Mr. Rubenstein worked in a variety of disciplines. From 1973-75, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in New York with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. From 1975-76 he served as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments. From 1977-1981, during the Carter Administration, Mr. Rubenstein was Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. After his White House service and before co-founding Carlyle, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in Washington with Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge (now Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw Pittman).

Maninder Saluja
Co-Head, Emerging Markets Private Equity
Quilvest Group
Maninder Saluja co-manages the emerging markets private equity program at Quilvest, a global institution that primarily manages the investments for one large family group as well as third party investors. Mr. Saluja is involved in both the fund and direct private equity investment activities of the group.

Prior to joining Quilvest, Mr. Saluja worked at Alvarez & Marsal, a crisis management and restructuring firm, where he assisted various North & South American companies and their creditors with operational and financial turnaround situations. Mr. Saluja also worked in the New York and Hong Kong offices of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, where he worked on a variety of high yield, M&A, restructuring, public and private equity transactions in the United States, Western Europe, Russia, South America and Asia. In addition, Mr. Saluja worked as the Director of Finance and Strategic Planning for a US based regional communications provider.

Mr. Saluja received his MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BBA with a concentration in finance from the University of Michigan.

Robert Stefanowski
Managing Partner, North America & Asia
3i Group
Robert Stefanowski is Chairman and Managing Partner, 3i North America & 3i Asia. He joined 3i on September 15, 2008 as Chairman and Managing Partner, 3i North America and took on additional responsibility for Asia in April 2009.  Mr. Stefanowski is a member of 3i's Management Committee and is responsible for the development of 3i's investment strategy across North America and Asia. He is also the head of the 3i Financial Services Sector Team. Mr. Stefanowski has more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of Commercial, Retail, Private Banking and Private Equity.

Mr. Stefanowski came to 3i from General Electric where he was President and CEO of GE Corporate Finance Europe. As CEO, Mr. Stefanowski managed $45 billion in assets, over 2,500 employees and $600mm in annual net income. During his 14 year career at GE he held positions of increasing responsibility that included President and CEO of GE Media and Communications Finance as well as roles in M&A, Finance and Sales. Prior to GE, he spent five years in public accounting with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, was a Litigation consultant with Freeman & Mills and a Managing Director for a Fortune 500 services firm. 

Mr. Stefanowski is a graduate of Fairfield University, Cornell University's Johnson School of Management, and is a UPENN/Wharton Fellow. He also serves as an adjunct faculty to NYU Stern School of Business, the London Business School and Judge Business School in Cambridge. His first book "Making M&A Deals Happen" was published in February 2007. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Cardinal Sheehan Center in Bridgeport, Ct, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK. Mr. Stefanowski is an avid runner and recently completed the London and New York Marathons.

Robert Stillman
President
Milbridge Capital Management, L.L.C.
Mr. Stillman is President of Milbridge Capital Management, LLC. Milbridge provides advisory services to foreign governments, investors and lenders engaged in direct equity investments in the United States and global emerging markets. Mr. Stillman has extensive experience in managing private equity funds and has managed private equity funds in Asia, Europe and Latin America, primarily on behalf of national and multilateral development agencies. He is the Director of Sichuan Small Investment Fund, Chengdu, China.

He was Vice President for Investment Funds, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), Washington, DC, from September 1995 to April, 1998. While there, he initiated and led the Investment Funds Department, and expanded the program to 25 funds with $3 billion to invest, operating in most of the world's emerging markets.

J. Scott Swensen
Chairman
Conduit Capital Partners, LLC.
Conduit Capital Partners was formed in 2003 to continue the Latin Power business that Mr. Swensen had started ten years earlier at Scudder, Stevens & Clark. The Latin Power funds invest equity in privately owned electrical generating plants and pipelines in Central and South America and the Caribbean. Latin Power I was the first institutional-size private equity fund dedicated to Latin America, and the first private equity fund in the world dedicated to infrastructure investments.

Mr. Swensen began working with the energy industry in the 1970's while at The Chase Manhattan Bank (now JPMorgan Chase) and subsequently at Banque Paribas (now BNP Paribas). At Banque Paribas he was hired to start the bank's energy and project finance businesses and ultimately was responsible for five groups including energy and project finance in North and South America, commodity derivatives world wide and futures brokerage world wide. When Deutsche Bank AG acquired Scudder in April of 2002, Mr. Swensen was in charge of the $5 billion of assets invested in various alternative asset classes. After the acquisition, Mr. Swensen and the other members of the Latin Power team joined DB Capital Partners, the private equity arm of Deutsche Bank with £10 billion under management. Deutsche Bank subsequently decided not to sponsor new private equity funds so the Latin Power team formed Conduit, spun out and then raised Latin Power III. Latin Power I, II and III total $650 million in commitments.

Paul E. Tierney, Jr.
Chairman of the Board
TechnoServe, Inc.
Mr. Tierney is Chairman of the Board of Directors of TechnoServe, Inc. a not-for-profit corporation engaged in economic development in Africa and Latin America. Mr. Tierney is Co-Founding Member of Development Capital, LLC, a private investment vehicle formed in 1996, and the General Partner of Aperture Venture Partners, an entity formed in 2002 to invest in healthcare related securities. From 1978 to 1996, Mr. Tierney served as Managing Director of Gollust, Tierney & Oliver, an investment partnership. He also serves as a director of Altea Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company; Prosperity Voskhod Fund, a Russian investment company; TPG, a manufacturer of military defense equipment; Nina McLemore, a women's apparel company, and BRA, a Brazilian air transport company. Mr. Tierney is also an adjunct professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Business and Chairman of the Board of Advisors of SIPA, the foreign policy school of Columbia University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on a number of not-for-profit boards, including the Tierney Family Foundation.

Piau Voon Wang
Partner
Adams Street Partners
Mr. Piau Voon ("PV") Wang is responsible for sourcing, analyzing, and monitoring investments in private equity partnerships. His duties include preparing and executing due diligence plans, making reference checks, performing portfolio analyses, conducting on-site visits, and preparing investment recommendations on those private equity partnerships deemed attractive. Mr. Wang is focused primarily on Asia funds and European buyout funds. He is located in the Singapore office.

Prior to joining the Firm in 1999, Mr. Wang was a Manager in the Corporate Finance Division of Arthur Anderson LLP, where he provided advisory services to the South East Asia mergers and acquisitions and venture capital investment areas. In addition, Mr. Wang spent about three years as an Investment Manager at Nikko Capital Singapore, a direct investment firm. Prior to that, he was an Investment Officer with Indosuez Asset Management Singapore, where he managed mutual fund investments in the Asian equity markets.

Shemara Wikramanayake
Head of Macquarie Funds Group
Macquarie Capital Funds
Shemara Wikramanayake heads Macquarie Group’s asset management business.  She has been with Macquarie for 22 years. In that period she has worked in Macquarie’s investment banking, principal investments, infrastructure funds management and traditional funds management businesses.  After joining Macquarie in Australia, following a year as a corporate lawyer, she worked in New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia and the US.  This included establishment and management of Macquarie's infrastructure funds business in the US and Canada.

Ms. Wikramanayake holds degrees in Commerce (Accounting & Finance Major) and Law from the University of New South Wales and has completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

David Wilton
Chief Investment Officer
International Finance Corporation
David Wilton is Chief Investment Officer for IFC’s Private Equity and Investment Funds Department with responsibility for IFC’s investment program in emerging market funds globally, and a member of the Pension Finance Committee of the World Bank Group. He was acting CEO of the IFC Asset Management Company in its establishment phase. Mr. Wilton joined the Funds Department of IFC at its inception in 2000 and has been responsible for turning around the portfolio and developing the funds strategy. Please refer to the IFC website (presentations tab) for more information on IFC's experience in investing in Emerging Market Private Equity. Mr. Wilton previously worked in the World Bank Pension Fund where he was responsible for bringing the private equity and real estate portfolios back into internal management.

Emeritus

Patricia M. Cloherty
Chairman & CEO
Delta Private Equity Partners
Patricia M. Cloherty is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Delta Private Equity Partners, LLC, manager of the U.S. Russia Investment Fund and Delta Russia Fund, L.P., two venture capital funds. She is former Co-Chairman, President and General Partner of Apax Partners, Inc. (formerly Patricof & Co. Ventures, inc.), an international private venture capital company that she joined in 1970 and that has $10 billion under management.

She is a past President and Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association in the United States. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush appointed her to chair the Investment Advisory Council, charged with revamping the Small Business Investment Company program of the U.S. Small Business Administration. From 1977 to 1978, Ms. Cloherty was Deputy Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration, appointed by President Carter. In 1981, Ms. Cloherty also was the founding President of the Committee of 200, a prestigious organization of the country's leading women entrepreneurs and corporate executives.

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