40 Members

Selection Committee

Current SCPermanent Board
5 Members

Current SC

Jay (Rongjie) Wang

As the Chief Investment Officer at Primitiva Global, Jay runs the family-backed multi-asset portfolio, where she also pioneered the firm's LP Strategy in venture capital funds. She is also the President of Lady LP Alliance with the mission to bring forward female leadership in asset allocation. Jay's background uniquely combines engineering at the world's largest fintech platform, equity investing at top buy-side institutions, and general management as 3x executive in tech startups. Jay obtained her B.A and M.Sci in Physics from Cambridge University and M.B.A from INSEAD

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Primitiva Global

Jay (Rongjie) Wang

CEO & Chief Investment Officer

Mohammad Barkeshli

Mohammad Barkeshli is an investor at Hall Capital Partners, where he focuses on fund investments across private markets, oversees the firm's climate-related and impact investing efforts across asset classes, and is a member of the Investment Review Committee. Prior to rejoining Hall Capital in 2021, Mohammad was a private credit investor at Community Investment Management, an infrastructure private equity investor at Queensland Investment Corporation in London, and worked on sustainability-related investments at a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund. Mohammad was also a co-founder of an education-focused social enterprise in southern Tanzania, and has served on the boards of the Foundation for Sustainable Development as well as Global Glimpse. Currently, he is a board member at Ilmhona, a workforce re-training NGO based in Tajikistan, and an advisor to the Stanford GSB Impact Fund as well as Stanford Emergence, an initiative aimed at educating and supporting engineering students to tackle global systemic challenges. He holds a BA from New York University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Hall Capital Partners

Mohammad Barkeshli

Co-Head

Jason Demant

Jason Demant is the Head of Networks for Foundation Capital. Founded in 1995, Foundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture firm that has pioneered early-stage investing for 30 years. Throughout our history, we’ve garnered $6B assets under management and have been early backers of Netflix, Solana, LendingClub, Cerebras, and more.

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Foundation Capital

Jason Demant

Head of Networks

Isabelle Carey​​​​

Isabelle Carey is an investment associate at the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, a $7 billion charitable foundation working to improve the lives of individuals experiencing disadvantage throughout the world. As part of the nine-person investment team, her role is generalist in nature, with exposure to world-class asset managers in all asset classes. Isabelle helps screen and evaluate potential new investment opportunities across the globe, with an emphasis on private equity and venture capital, while helping to manage and monitor the current manager roster. Prior to joining the Foundation, Isabelle started her career in investment banking at Truist Securities (formerly SunTrust Robinson Humphrey). Isabelle graduated cum laude with a degree in Business Economics from UCLA, where she also helped the beach volleyball team to back-to-back NCAA championships.

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

Isabelle Carey​​​​

Associate, Investments

Beezer Clarkson

Beezer leads Sapphire Partners‘ investments in venture funds domestically and internationally. Beezer began her career in financial services over 20 years ago at Morgan Stanley in its global infrastructure group. In 2016, Beezer led the launch of OpenLP, an effort to help foster greater understanding in the entrepreneur-to-LP tech ecosystem. In 2014, she was named to the Forty Over 40 list of women to watch. Beezer earned an MBA from Harvard.

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Sapphire Ventures

Beezer Clarkson

Partner

35 Members

Permanent Board

Kyle Thorpe

Kyle Thorpe is a General Partner at Pattern Ventures, a specialist venture capital fund of funds exclusively focused on exceptional small funds sized $50m and below. Kyle has more than a decade's worth of experience as a direct investor across public and private market strategies. Collectively, the Pattern Ventures team has deployed over a billion dollars into emerging fund managers and alternative investments over the last two decades.

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Pattern Ventures

Kyle Thorpe

General Partner

Adrienne Rees

Adrienne is Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at The Equity Alliance. She comes to The Equity Alliance with 15 years of investment experience spanning venture capital, private equity, and M&A. In her role as CIO, Adrienne leads the firm’s fund and direct investment decisions, supporting The Equity Alliance mission of delivering superior returns while democratizing access to capital through building and supporting a robust portfolio of diverse fund managers and founders. Prior to joining The Equity Alliance, Adrienne was a Director at Walton Enterprises, where she developed curated investment strategies to achieve family member goals ranging from financial return and growth to social impact and ecosystem enablement.

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The Equity Alliance

Adrienne Rees

Managing Partner & CIO

Margot Kane

Margot Kane serves as Chief Investment Officer for Spring Point Partners LLC (SPP),a Philadelphia-based social impact organization that invests in the transformative leaders, networks, and solutions that power community change and advance justice. Her leadership helps the organization express its values and achieve impact through investment tools. Margot also currently serves on the investment committees of Calvert Impact Capital, Circulate Capital (Singapore),Maycomb Capital, and Builders Initiative Foundation. She is a member of the Environmental Advisory Finance Board to the U.S. EPA (EFAB).

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Spring Point Partners

Margot Kane

Chief Investment Officer

James Benedict

James Benedict brings 25+ years of experience in venture capital and private equity. He is a family office investor, human capital partner, and entrepreneur. James is a Co-Founder of both Left Tackle Capital and the BeDoWin Institute, accelerators for high potential venture capital fund managers. Both accelerators offer structured programming focused on building trust between wealth holders (family offices and high net-worth individuals) and high potential venture fund managers. The 50+ family offices who have participated in both accelerators have catalyzed the flow of capital (both directly and through referrals) into manager participants, with individual LP checks up to $10M.

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Left Tackle Capital

James Benedict

Partner & Co-Founder

Raida El Jisr

Recognizing a void in the market for personalized venture consulting services, Raida established Amkan Advisory, a boutique consultancy firm specializing in assisting family offices and high-net-worth individuals in identifying venture funds that align with their specific strategies. Given that first-time fund managers often possess the most aligned incentives with their investors, she understood the significant value they bring to the venture capital landscape. However, Raida also understood the reluctance of family offices to commit capital to relatively unproven managers. By curating a portfolio of carefully selected funds, she aims to mitigate the perceived risk associated with investing in first-time managers while still accessing the high-growth potential of emerging ventures. Amkan Ventures emerged to offer LPs access to emerging managers beyond their direct reach. Focusing on small Funds I and II led by ambitious managers with a conviction-driven approach, the firm prioritizes delivering returns and nurturing opportunities in the venture arena.

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Amkan Advisory

Raida El Jisr

Founding Partner

Frank Tanner

Frank leads venture investments at Morgan Creek Capital Management. He is responsible for sourcing, diligence, and deal and manager research across primaries, co-investments, directs, and secondaries. Frank also manages Morgan Creek's global diversified portfolios across private assets for both discretionary funds and clients. Morgan Creek's venture program invests in both established and emerging VC funds across sectors - primarily early-stage managers, typically micro-VCs. Frank graduated from The University of North Carolina with distinction, where he also played Men's Varsity Basketball.

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Morgan Creek Capital Management

Frank Tanner

Leads venture investments

Esther Tricoche

Esther is the Managing Director of Private Investments for MALIAM, a new multi-generational single family office focused on the future of human flourishing. Uniquely, she represents one of the only Latinas to lead a US-centric family office. Previously, Esther led VC fund investing for a Silicon Valley based family office whose portfolio spanned ~40 years. Prior to this, she focused on direct investing and portfolio support for early stage ventures in fintech, healthcare, and edtech. Esther started her career as a founding team member of Arnold Ventures and holds a degree in Cognitive Neuroscience.

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MALIAM

Esther Tricoche

Managing Director

Laura Callanan

Laura Callanan, Founding Partner, Upstart Co-Lab was senior deputy chair of the National Endowment for the Arts before launching Upstart Co-Lab in 2016. Previously Laura was a leader in McKinsey & Company’s Social Innovation Practice; executive director of the Prospect Hill Foundation; and an associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation where, in addition to responsibilities managing the $3 billion endowment, she co-led impact investing – including two investments in the creative economy with Smithsonian Folkways Records and netomat. Laura has been visiting fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; scholar in residence at UC-Berkeley/Haas School of Business, visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome, and recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship. She is a board member and immediate past chair of the GlobalGiving Foundation; a board member of Upriver Studios, a public benefit LLC; and a member of the Global Creative Economy Council supported by the British Council.

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Upstart Co-Lab

Laura Callanan

Founding Partner

Youngrok Kim

Youngrok Kim is a Partner at GREE LP Fund, a Fund of Funds operating in the US and Japan. Previously, he held the position of SVP at Recruit Strategic Partner, the strategic investment arm of Recruit Holdings, a major internet company in Japan. Youngrok began his career as an engineer at Goldman Sachs before transitioning to a VC career at ARCH Venture Partners in Chicago. He earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and received his degrees in Information Technology from Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo.

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GREE LP Fund

Youngrok Kim

Partner

Trish DiGirolomo

Trish is the Investments Manager for the Babson College Endowment. She has been at the Endowment, focused mainly on the private equity portfolio, since September of 2018. Prior to joining Babson College, she worked in corporate finance and operations for a venture-backed, advertising-technology company in Baltimore, MD. She began her career in public accounting. Trish holds a BS, an MBA from Babson College and a CPA.

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Babson College

Trish DiGirolomo

Investments Manager

Rhonda Shafei

Rhonda Shafei helps manage Prospect Advisors, the family office for the Hillhouse partnership. She leads sourcing and investing for Prospect in North America. Before joining Hillhouse, Rhonda was an associate at the Harvard Management Company. She joined HMC from Hall Capital Partners where she was a research analyst. Rhonda earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School and received her B.A. from Columbia University.

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Prospect Advisors

Rhonda Shafei

Director

Sophie Forest

As an investment officer at the Bush Foundation, Sophie Forest works alongside the finance team to ensure the Foundation's resources are thoughtfully and effectively managed. Sophie joined the Bush Foundation in 2023 and has a passion for impact investing — helping investors connect their mission and values to their investments. Sophie most recently served as assistant director of investments at Upstart Co-Lab, where she helped connect impact investing to the vibrant creative economy. Prior to that role, she was at Cambridge Associates on the Sustainable and Impact Investing team. She's also held roles at high-net-worth wealth management firms and with an impact-focused nonprofit. Sophie graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance from McGill University and has passed all three levels of the CFA® exams. Sophie is a Canadian who grew up and spent most of her adult life in New England. In her free time, she is busy exploring everything the Twin Cities has to offer, spending time with her dog and listening to podcasts.

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The Bush Foundation

Sophie Forest

Investment Officer

Jessie Jia Guo

Jessie joined the team in 2014 and focuses on all aspects of fund investment activities at Next Legacy, including identifying, evaluating, and managing fund investments for the Flagship Fund as well as co-spearheading the Emerging Leaders Fund. She is an engaged member of the exclusive Society of Kauffman Fellows, the premier leadership organization for the venture capital industry. She is also on the permanent board of Bridge Funding Global, a platform and community to support women and underserved emerging managers.

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Next Legacy Partners

Jessie Jia Guo

Partner

Lisa Edgar

Lisa Edgar is an Independent Advisor and Partner Emeritus at Top Tier Capital Partners. She was Co-Founder, Managing Director, and Member of the Investment Committee of TTCP focusing on both emerging and established primary fund commitments. Leveraging her 30 years of experience, Lisa is interested in supporting underrepresented individuals as they access the VC industry. Lisa is also a returning member of our Selection Committee.

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Top Tier Capital

Lisa Edgar

IA & Partner Emeritus

Ben Gallacher

Ben Gallacher is a Founding Partner at Blue Deer Capital Partners, an Exempt Market Dealer headquartered in Toronto that provides advisory services to mission-driven entrepreneurs. He is also co-founder and Executive Chairman at Voxel AI. Ben is the Venture Capital and Private Equity Advisor, at Cannonball Capital, a Canadian Family Office. He serves as a Director at Orthogonal and Panaxium and is a Board Observer at Butler Hospitality.

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Cannonball Capital

Ben Gallacher

Private Equity Advisor

Hunter Somerville

Mr. Somerville is a member of the private equity team, focusing on venture capital and growth equity investments. Prior to StepStone, Mr. Somerville was a general partner with Greenspring Associates, a venture capital and growth equity investment firm that merged with StepStone in 2021. Before that, he worked as an associate for Camden Private Capital. Mr. Somerville received his MBA at the Robert H. Smith School of Business with a concentration in finance and strategy. He completed his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in International relations and a minor in history.

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StepStone Group

Hunter Somerville

Partner

Meera Patel

Meera Patel is a Partner at Accolade. Before joining Accolade in 2022, Meera was a Director at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Prior to that, Meera was a Partner at Brown Advisory and Investment Manager at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. She holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Duke University.

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Accolade

Meera Patel

Partner

Josh Porter

Josh is the co-founder of FirstLook Partners, focused on investing in emerging venture managers and direct software investments. Prior to FirstLook, he managed the venture capital group at Reimagined Ventures, a large family office investment fund. He’s a 2x Chief Operating Officer at NoCap Live, a livestreaming video platform, and Northern Data, a publicly traded blockchain/HPC business. He began his career as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs and later at Point72. He holds a BS in Economics from The College of the Holy Cross and an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School.

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FirstLook Partners

Josh Porter

Co-Founder & General Partner

Christina Kramlich

Christina is a financial advisor and CFP® / CAP® professional with extensive institutional and personal finance experience at large firms and startups in client-facing, operational and business development roles. Prior to Chicory Wealth, she was Senior Director at SoFi (Social Finance, Inc.) in 2012. She helped the firm raise its initial loan funds, headed up the first investor relations efforts and created several business development alliances. Before SoFi, she worked at several startups and financial services firms, including Montgomery Securities, NextCard, and Moodlogic.

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Chicory Wealth

Christina Kramlich

Advisor

Amanda Hill

Amanda Hill focuses within the Walton Investment Team on execution and monitoring of direct and fund investments. Prior to Walton Enterprises, Amanda served as Manager within the Deals practice at Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Sydney, Australia, where she performed commercial and financial due diligence on companies on behalf of commercial and government clients. During her time in Sydney, Amanda was also a Guest Lecturer at Macquarie University, and a Senior Consultant to Scale Investors—an angel investor network focused on women entrepreneurs. Amanda earned a Bachelor of Science in Business from Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, with concentrations in Accounting, Operations Management, and International Business.

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Walton Enterprises

Amanda Hill

Investment Director

Lisa Cawley

Lisa Cawley is the Managing Director of Screendoor, a platform of leading early stage VC investors and institutional LP’s. She and her team believe there is tremendous opportunity in backing underrepresented emerging managers. Previously, Lisa worked with a private multi-billion-dollar global investment firm, and started her career at Ernst & Young, where she served on private equity, VC, and public CPG clients. From Loyola University Maryland, Lisa earned an MBA and an MSF, as well as a BBA in Accounting with a double minor in Information Systems and Spanish. Lisa is a CFA Charterholder and holds a CPA from the State of Maryland.

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Screendoor

Lisa Cawley

Managing Director

Susan Spears

Susan is an investment partner, where she supports the strategic management of the portfolio. Her primary responsibilities include sourcing and underwriting commitments into venture fund managers and reviewing co-investment opportunities alongside those fund managers. Susan is passionate about bridging the gap between investing and economic development and looks to support mission-driven investments that drive impact for women and underrepresented populations.

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UTIMCO

Susan Spears

Associate Director

Apurva Mehta

Apurva Mehta is Managing Partner of Summit Peak Investments, a firm he co-founded in 2018. Summit Peak focuses on early-stage investing backing Pre-Seed/Seed funds predominantly in the United States. In addition to investments in Funds, Summit Peak leverages their GP relationships and is active co-invest/direct investor at the early-growth stage. Prior to starting Summit Peak, Apurva managed Endowment/Foundation capital at the Juilliard School and Cook Children’s Health Care System from 2008 onwards and was responsible for spearheading the Venture Capital program while at Cook Children’s.

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Summit Peak Investments

Apurva Mehta

Managing Partner

Renata Aráuz-DeStefano

Renata is a member of the Investments Team at Pivotal Ventures. Renata has spent the past decade bridging the finance and social impact sectors, having held roles in microfinance, investment banking, social enterprises, and venture capital. Most recently, she served as a Project Manager for the New Capitalism Project, an initiative aimed at co-creating a field-level strategy to help guide philanthropic investment. Prior to that, she was an impact investor.

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Pivotal Ventures

Renata Aráuz-DeStefano

Investments

Sara Zulkosky

Prior to co-founding Recast, Sara served as a Venture Partner at Greenspring Associates, a venture capital platform with over $12B in assets under management. Prior to Greenspring, Sara was a Principal with CNF Investments, a private investment firm affiliated with Clark Enterprises, Inc. Before CNF, Sara participated in Foundation Capital’s Young Entrepreneurs Program, where she helped identify promising investment opportunities in the Washington, DC area.

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Recast Capital

Sara Zulkosky

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Erin Harkless Moore

Erin Moore is the Investments Director at Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company created by Melinda French Gates to advance social progress in the US. Erin heads the investment team and is responsible for identifying, investing and managing a diverse portfolio of funds and direct investments that drive breakthrough innovations and advance women’s power. Erin has over a decade of experience building and managing customized investment portfolios.

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Pivotal Ventures

Erin Harkless Moore

Investments Director

Nate Leung

Nate invests in early-stage venture capital funds on the Sapphire Partners team. He is passionate about partnering with established and emerging firms and supporting aspiring GPs. Before joining Sapphire Partners in 2019, Nate worked on the investment team at Industry Ventures focused on primary and secondary investments in venture capital funds, and direct co-investments in growth-stage companies. He was named to the VC Journal Rising Stars list in 2022.

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Sapphire Partners

Nate Leung

Partner

Kelli Fontaine

Kelli Fontaine joined Cendana as the Chief of Staff in 2018 and in 2020. Ms. Fontaine was promoted to Partner. She is on the investment team and leads the firm’s efforts around data, corporate relationships, and strategic initiatives. Ms. Fontaine joined from Trinity Capital Investment where she was the director for the Bay Area and deployed $75MM of loans to growth-stage companies in 2017. Prior to Trinity, she was on the operating side of fintech businesses.

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Cendana Capital

Kelli Fontaine

Partner

Courtney McCrea

Courtney McCrea enjoys over 30 years of venture capital and private equity investment experience including 12 years of fund investing and 18 years of direct principal investing. Courtney is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Recast Capital, an investment platform established to support emerging managers in venture capital. Recast Capital provides capital and resources for emerging manager venture funds, with a preference for diverse partnerships. Most recently, Courtney was a Managing Director of Weathergage Capital, a boutique fund of funds.

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Recast Capital

Courtney McCrea

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Michael Ashley Schulman

As CIO & founding partner Michael is responsible for Running Point’s global macro outlook, research, investment strategies, asset allocation, portfolio management, and impact and social assessments across public and private investments. Michael brings to his role over 20 years of institutional and high-net-worth portfolio management, research, trading, and wealth management experience. Michael has an MBA from MIT Sloan, a CFA designation, and a BA in Economics from UC Berkeley.

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Running Point Capital Advisors

Michael Ashley Schulman

Partner & Chief Investment Officer

Brittney Riley

Brittney Riley’s work focuses on driving capital to overlooked people and problems by making venture capital more equitable and effective. She has over a decade of experience focused on early-stage innovation, as an operator, investor, and LP. Brittney has been at Pivotal Ventures for the last four years, an investment and incubation company under Melinda French Gates. There, she invests in emerging venture funds and startups, aligned with advancing progress.

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Pivotal Ventures

Brittney Riley

EO of Melinda French Gates

Jamie Rhode

Jamie Rhode is Partner at Screendoor, an investment platform that supports new and developing managers raising early stage institutional venture funds and building enduring firms. Previously she spent 8.5 years at Verdis Investment Management, a single family office, focusing on emerging venture managers, private equity and hedge fund investment, sourcing and due diligence. She joined Verdis from Bloomberg, where she held roles in both equity research and credit analysis. There, she created, managed and leveraged an extensive library of statutory and financial and market data for buy and sell-side clients that use Bloomberg to make investment decisions.

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Screendoor

Jamie Rhode

Partner

Laura Thompson

Laura Thompson invests in technology-focused venture funds domestically and internationally. She is passionate about partnering with established and emerging firms to advance the thinking in the LP space. Laura is a frequent contributor to OpenLP in an effort to help increase transparency across the venture ecosystem, and was named a VC Rising Star by VC Journal in 2021. Laura earned a bachelor’s from Dartmouth, and an MBA from the Wharton School.

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Sapphire Partners

Laura Thompson

Partner

Charlotte Zhang

Charlotte Zhang joined Group Health Foundation in November of 2020 and serves as the Director of Investments, helping construct the Firm's investment program from scratch. Previously, she invested on behalf of two notable family offices based in San Francisco, ICONIQ Capital and Medley Partners. At ICONIQ Capital, she led investments that built out healthcare exposure in the portfolio. At Medley Partners, she underwrote investments in third-party managers.

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Inatai Foundation

Charlotte Zhang

Director

Alex Edelson

Alex is the Founder and General Partner at Slipstream Investors, a VC fund of funds that invests in pre-seed and seed funds, many of which are emerging managers, and in their breakout portfolio companies. Before starting Slipstream, Alex was the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel at QED Investors and Nigel Morris's Chief of Staff. He holds a BA and JD from the University of Michigan.

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Slipstream Investors

Alex Edelson

Founder and General Partner

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