Current SC
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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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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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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James Benedict
Partner & Co-Founder
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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Kyle Thorpe
General Partner
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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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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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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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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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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