LP-GP Breakfast: Continuation Funds

Dana Haimoff is a senior Portfolio Manager in the London office. She is responsible for sourcing, due diligence and monitoring private equity primary venture capital, growth and buyout funds, secondary and co-investment opportunities on behalf of the PEG’s comingled and client separate account funds. Currently, she serves on numerous private equity LP advisory committees.  Dana is the co-Founder of Level20, a not-for-profit organisation set up to encourage women to succeed in the private equity industry. She is a member of the British Venture Capital Association’s Limited Partner Committee. Dana is a director on the board of JPMorgan Asset Management International Ltd and JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Ltd and is responsible for the firm’s SMCR’s EMEA Alternatives.

Evelyn oversees CPP Investments’ private equity secondaries effort in Europe and is responsible for leading and managing our secondary investments globally.

Prior to joining CPP Investments in 2021, Evelyn was a senior member of Partners Group’s private equity secondaries team where she completed investments across the spectrum of secondaries markets. Prior to that, she started her finance career at HSBC’s investment banking division followed by Blackstone.

Evelyn holds a BA (Hons) in engineering from the University of Cambridge.

Simon is a member of Pantheon’s Global Secondaries Investment Team where he focuses on the analysis, evaluation and completion of secondary investment opportunities. He previously worked in the Private Equity Funds team at the EBRD. Prior to that he worked in M&A and Structured Transactions and Equity Risk at Standard Bank. Simon holds an MEng in Electrical Engineering from Durham University and an MSc in Finance and Investment from Bristol University and is also a CFA Charterholder.

Tom joined Oakley in 2021 and his responsibilities include developing global LP relationships and fundraising.

Prior to joining Oakley, Tom worked at Houlihan Lokey where he was a senior member of the Private Funds Group, leading investor coverage in regions across Europe and Asia. Prior to Houlihan Lokey, Tom spent six years at Coller Capital, where he was a Principal within the Fundraising and Investor Relations team. Tom started his career at Ernst & Young LLP, latterly in the Transaction Services team, performing sell-side and buy-side financial diligence for sponsor-led transactions.

Tom qualified as a Chartered Accountant at EY, and holds a BA Hons in Industrial Economics from the University of Nottingham.