Current SC
Dee Sharma
Deepika (Dee) Sharma, CFA is the Head of Multi-Asset Custom Solutions at Northern Trust Asset Management, a leading provider of wealth and asset management solutions with over $1.3 trillion in AUM. Dee has almost two decades of experience in multi-asset investing, with expertise spanning portfolio management, manager selection, alternatives, and quantitative research. She has co-authored several publications featured in the Journal of Investing, ACM AI in Finance, and the Journal of Beta Investment Strategies. Most recently, she was the Global Head of Manager Selection at BlackRock, with a focus on selecting external strategies across public and private markets. She grew the team to manage $250 bn in multi-manager portfolios leveraging over150 managers for institutional Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO),model portfolios, and wealth mandates globally. Prior to joining BlackRock, she served as Portfolio Manager and Managing Director of Investments at Knight Capital Group (which later became Astor Investment Management),where she earned the Refinitiv Lipper Fund Award for outstanding performance in a global macro hedge fund she built and managed. Earlier in her career, Dee held trading and research roles at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Roubini Global Economics, Old Hill Partners (Private Credit),and Nomura. She began her career as an analyst on the Structured Credit desk at Lehman Brothers in London. Dee has previously served as the Chair of the Board of Directors at CFA Society New York. She has been recognized by the Bloomberg New Voices Program and the Milken Institute Young Leaders’ Circle. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for various industry groups including the AIMA Alternative Credit Council and Bretton Woods Committee. She is also a member of the Economic Club of New York. Dee holds a Masters in International Finance from Columbia University, where she was a teaching assistant for former Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida.
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Dee Sharma
Head of Multi-Asset Custom Solutions
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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Jessie Jia Guo
Partner
Sophie Forest
Sophie Forest is an Investment Officer at the Bush Foundation, where she helps steward the Foundation’s resources with a focus on impact. She previously worked at Upstart Co-Lab and Cambridge Associates on sustainable and impact investing, and has experience in high-net-worth wealth management and impact-focused nonprofits. A McGill University finance graduate who has passed all three CFA® exam levels, Sophie is originally from Canada and New England and now enjoys exploring the Twin Cities with her dog.
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Sophie Forest
Investment Officer
Charlotte Zhang
Charlotte Zhang is the Senior Portfolio Manager at Inatai Foundation, where she helped build the investment program from the ground up after joining in 2020. She previously invested for ICONIQ Capital and Medley Partners and brings over a decade of experience backing emerging managers and uncovering opportunities in overlooked markets. Named a CIO NextGen and Institutional Investor Rising Star in 2023, she also serves on the LP Advisory Council for PEWIN and on Milken Institute’s Young Leaders Circle and Rising Allocators groups.
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Charlotte Zhang
Senior Portfolio Manager
Eric Sippel
Eric Sippel currently runs his family office and is an active investor in and adviser to venture capital funds where he frequently serves on advisory boards and Investment Committees. He is a member of the RAISE GLOBAL selection and steering committees and often speaks to emerging venture manager groups. Previously, Eric was the COO of Eastbourne Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund firm where he was in charge of the firm’s venture practice, and a Partner at Shartsis, Friese & Ginsburg, where he was a nationally recognized hedge fund and venture capital lawyer. Eric has served on many nonprofit boards, including his most recent role as Chair of SF Bay Area Goodwill.
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Eric Sippel
Private Investor
Wes Panek
Wes Panek is Astera's Head of Fund Investing, focusing on backing fund managers in frontier technology and science. Previously, he was the first hire at Screendoor, a venture capital fund of funds, and has worked as a seed stage investor, grantmaker, and strategy consultant in the public and private sectors. He comes from a family of Maori immigrants and loves basketball and jazz music. Wes earned a BA in economics from Johns Hopkins University and is a Kauffman Fellow (Class 27).
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Wes Panek
Head of Fund Investing
Jeremy Heer
Jeremy Heer is Managing Director, Investment Research and Engagement at the University of Illinois Foundation. In his role he advances learning, research, and engagement activities within the Investment Office, leading and supporting the Foundation’s thesis-driven and outbound sourcing efforts. Jeremy has previously held investment management roles at the University of Chicago, Singer Partners, UBS, and Morgan Stanley, as well as other financial industry roles at Morgan Stanley and Cargill. Jeremy earned an MBA from New York University and a BS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a CFA and CAIA charter holder and an active volunteer for both of these communities.
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Jeremy Heer
Managing Director
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
Ben Gallacher
Ben has worked in venture capital for the past 7 years. First as an operator, co-founding an early-stage concussion diagnostics company called Voxel AI, and also as an investor, serving as Venture Capital and Private Equity Advisor at his family office where he has invested in venture funds and companies. Ben was drafted to the NHL in 2010 and played four years as a scholar-athlete in Division I NCAA hockey, before graduating from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He also holds an ICD.D designation.
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Ben Gallacher
Private Equity Advisor
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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