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Sarah N.A. Camougis, Partner, Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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Brenda Campbell, Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
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Diane Daych, Managing Director, Private Equity, Marwood Group
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April Evans, Partner and Chief Financial Officer, Monitor Clipper Partners
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Julie A. Gionfriddo, Vice President, Landmark Partners
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Susan A. Keller, Corporate Partner, Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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Sheryl Schwartz, Senior Managing Director, Perseus
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Hope Vaughn, Director, Corinthian Capital Group, LLC
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Sarah N.A. Camougis, Partner, Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
Sarah Camougis is a partner in the Private Equity & Venture Capital and Corporate practice groups of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP, a national law firm focusing principally on private equity, financial services and technology. Sarah advises private and public companies (during all phases of their business lifecyles), management teams as well as private equity and venture funds and other large institutional investors in a wide range of businesses in the United States, Canada and Europe. Sarah's transactional experience includes private equity financings (including early stage financings, later stage financings, leveraged buy-outs, etc.), mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, workouts, restructurings, employment and equity incentive arrangements and other general corporate matters. Because of her broad and deep experience representing both private equity investors and venture-backed companies, Sarah is able to guide her clients in all types of transactions though her skilled negotiation and creative solutions.
Sarah has been quoted in newspapers, including The Boston Globe and The Boston Business Journal and has authored articles in The Alternative Investor, The Private Equity Analyst Venture One and Women.s Business.
Sarah also dedicates her time to organizations focused on women. Sarah is an active participant on the Coaching Committee of the New England Springboard Enterprises Venture Forum and coaches female entrepreneurs presenting their business plans to private equity investors at the annual New England Springboard Enterprises conference. Sarah is a member of the Women.s Bar Association in Boston. As an active participant of the Women.s Networking Group of Edwards & Angell, Sarah has organized events to benefit charities, including Project Place of Boston- a not-for-profit organization that assists homeless and low-income individuals obtain employment and housing. Finally, Sarah is a co-founder of Women.s Association of Venture & Equity, Inc.
Sarah received her B.A. from the University of Virginia and her J.D. from Suffolk University. After law school, she completed a federal bankruptcy judicial clerkship with the Honorable Joan N. Feeney and later, Honorable Henry J. Boroff.
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Brenda Campbell, Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Brenda Campbell has 20 years of professional experience in public accounting and financial advisory services and 12 years as a dedicated specialist in merger & acquisition (M&A) advisory. Brenda serves as a Partner with Deloitte & Touche LLP in the M&A Transaction Services practice. She advises financial sponsors on due diligence, deal structuring, financial modeling and financial reporting aspects of transactions. She has assisted on numerous domestic and cross-border transactions for many of the Firms leading clients.
In addition to Brendas client service role, Brenda has been the Womens Initiative (WIN) leader for the National M&A Transaction Services Practice. Brenda spends significant time developing and leading programs focused on the recruitment, advancement and retention of high talented women in the M&A practice and throughout the Firm.
Brenda has worked for Deloitte in Boston, San Francisco and Sydney Australia.
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Diane Daych, Managing Director, Private Equity, Marwood Group
Diane Daych is a Managing Director, Private Equity, for the Marwood Group, where she co-heads its healthcare investment fund, Marwood Capital Health Investors. She has 25 years of investing, advisory and operating experience, with 18 years focused on the healthcare services industry. Prior to joining the Marwood Group in 2010, for a decade Ms. Daych worked as a principal and partner at CCP Equity Partners ("CCP") and its predecessor firm, Conning Capital Partners, where she invested in growth companies that offer specialized solutions for the financing, management and delivery of health care in industries such as managed care, disease and care management, outpatient services, information technology and healthcare-related ancillary and outsourcing services. Earlier in her career, Ms. Daych spent several years in the buyout industry, including working with GE Capitals Capital Markets Group.
In addition to WAVE, Ms. Daych currently sits on the board of directors of Prism Education Group and the Tuck School's MBA Advisory Board. She was previously on the board of directors of Cogent Healthcare, Relay Health, Zoologic and an observer for Evolution Benefits and Vantage Oncology. She is a past president of the Hartford Chapter of the Connecticut Venture Group and sat on its statewide board for several years. She received an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College and a BA in Economics from Lehigh University. |
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April Evans, Partner and Chief Financial Officer, Monitor Clipper Partners
April E. Evans is Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Monitor Clipper Partners, a $2 billion private equity firm. Previously, Ms. Evans was Partner and CFO of Advanced Technology Ventures, a $1.5 billion venture capital firm. Prior to that, Ms. Evans was a Founding Partner with the accounting firm Squillace & Evans. Ms. Evans has also held senior finance and operations positions with Falcon Partners Management, BBK, Harvard Student Agencies, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and in the Harvard Medical School teaching hospital system.
Ms. Evans, a certified public accountant, received her M.B.A. with honors from Simmons College, two masters degrees with honors from Boston University, and her B.A. cum laude from Duke University. Ms. Evans is currently a member of the Business Advisory Council for the Simmons College Graduate School of Management and a member of the Board of Directors for the Womens Association of Venture and Equity. She has also been active with the Kauffman Fellows Program of the Center for Venture Education, has served on the Advisory Committee to the Center for Women and Enterprise Venture Center and the Emerging CEOs Steering Committee of The Commonwealth Institute, been a director of the Private Equity CFO Association, and has been an Assistant Professor at the Simmons College Graduate School of Management. Ms. Evans is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.
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Julie A. Gionfriddo, Vice President, Landmark Partners
Ms. Gionfriddo is a Vice President in Landmarks private equity group. She is engaged in transaction origination, underwriting, and negotiation of private equity investments.
Since joining Landmark in 1997, Ms. Gionfriddo has had an active role in the evaluation and investment recommendations for each of Landmarks five most recent private equity secondary funds collectively capitalized at $5.2 billion spanning from 2000 to present. She is also actively involved in the firms marketing and fundraising efforts. Prior to joining the Landmark investment team, Ms. Gionfriddo worked in the firms portfolio management group.
Ms. Gionfriddo currently serves on fund Advisory Boards for Apple Tree Partners and Verdane Capital.
Ms. Gionfriddo received a BA and an MA in Economics from Trinity College.
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Susan A. Keller, Corporate Partner, Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
Susan Keller, is a corporate partner specializing in venture capital and representation of women entrepreneurs at Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP (www.EdwardsAngell.com), a national law firm focusing principally on private equity, financial services and technology. Ms. Keller's clients include large, established corporate clients; both privately held and publicly traded as well as, start ups in various sectors. She counsels entrepreneurs on how to properly structure a new entity, manages the daily corporate governance issues and advises senior management in their strategies and transactions. Ms. Keller routinely advises private equity funds on the structuring of their investments; the management of their portfolio companies and follow on investments. In addition to her private equity and corporate transactions practice, Ms. Keller has extensive expertise in the area of finance, including private equity financing, senior and subordinated financing from both the investor and lender side and the company and borrower side.
Ms. Keller spends a considerable amount of time counseling women business owners and women entrepreneurs. Her efforts resulted in receiving the 2009 Women in Business Award Mentor to Women Business Owners from the Providence Business News. In 2002, her efforts resulted in receiving the Women in Business Advocate of the Year Award for Rhode Island and New England from the U.S. Small Business Administration. Ms. Keller is also the chairperson of the Advisory Board for the Center for Women & Enterprise and teaches classes on corporate and venture capital law to their clients. Ms. Keller also lends her expertise to Springboard Venture Capital Forum as a coach for the presenting entrepreneurs and as a member of the business plan review committee.
Ms. Keller is the founder and chair of the Women's Networking Group at Edwards & Angell. Under Ms. Keller's guidance the organization is now one of the largest networking organizations in the Northeast. Ms. Keller is co-founder of the Women's Association of Venture & Equity, Inc. Ms. Keller is the Chapter Chair for the RI Chapter of the Women Presidents Organization, a national peer advisory group for second stage entrepreneurs.
Susan Keller received her J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where she was the Executive Director of the Adult Moot Court Competition. Ms. Keller's undergraduate degree is a B.S. degree in Economics from Miami University.
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Sheryl Schwartz, Senior Managing Director, Perseus
Sheryl Schwartz is a Senior Managing Director of Perseus and works on mezzanine debt investments, private equity investments, and investor relations. Prior to joining Perseus, Ms. Schwartz was head of TIAA-CREF's alternative investment team. She joined TIAA in 1988 and performed a variety of functions there, including three years investing in corporate private placements, two years trading secondary private placements, and four years investing in mortgage and asset-backed securities. Beginning in 1997, Ms. Schwartz was appointed to establish and develop TIAA's alternative investment portfolio. During the following 13 years, Ms. Schwartz built a diversified portfolio of approximately $13 billion of commitments in alternative investments, including investments in buyouts, venture capital, distressed and turnaround, mezzanine debt, energy and infrastructure, and timber. As head of TIAA's alternative investment team, Ms. Schwartz managed a team of 10 professionals and was responsible for all fund, direct private equity co-investment, and mezzanine debt opportunities sourced from TIAA's relationships with fund managers. Ms. Schwartz has over 22 years of experience investing in fixed income and alternative investments. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Women's Association of Venture & Equity, Inc. (WAVE), which is a nonprofit organization that is committed to the development and advancement of women in private equity and venture capital. She was also a long-time member of the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA).
Ms. Schwartz holds both a B.S. and an M.B.A. in Finance from New York University.
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Hope Vaughn, Director, Corinthian Capital Group, LLC
Hope Vaughn is a Director at Corinthian Capital, a small and middle market buyout firm currently investing a $315 million fund. Corinthian Capital invests in niche market leaders in manufacturing, distribution, business services, logistics, telecom and utility infrastructure, and oil field services companies. Corinthian focuses on new platform investments generating between $5 million to $30 million in EBITDA located primarily in North America. Ms. Vaughn has eleven years experience, including serving as a Vice President at Glenwood Capital. Previously, she was a Vice President at Rodman Renshaw, a full service investment bank. Prior to that, she co-founded Morning Street Capital a secondaries private equity firm focused. Currently, Ms. Vaughn serves on the Board of Directors of the Women's Association of Venture and Equity (WAVE).
Ms. Vaughn is a graduate of Berry College (B.S.), Columbia Business School (M.B.A.) and St. John's University Law School (J.D.), where she was an Editor for the New York International Law Review. |
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