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Sarah N.A. Camougis, Partner, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
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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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Susan A. Keller, Corporate Partner, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
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Gwyneth Ketterer, Chief Operating Officer and co-founding Partner, Irving Place Capital
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Tarra Mitchell, Founder & Managing Director, WAVE Equity Partners
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Jackie Reses, Partner, Apax Partners
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Sheryl Schwartz, Managing Director, TIAA-CREF
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Hope Vaughn, Director, Corinthian Capital Group, LLC
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Sarah N.A. Camougis, Partner, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
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 nearly 20 years of professional experience in public accounting and financial advisory services and more than 10 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 Firm’s leading clients.
In addition to Brenda’s client service role, Brenda is the Women’s 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 17 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 Capital’s Capital Markets Group.
In addition to WAVE, Ms. Daych currently sits on the boards of directors of Cogent Healthcare and Prism Education, and is an observer for Evolution Benefits. She was previously on the board of directors of Relay Health, Zoologic and an observer for 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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Susan A. Keller, Corporate Partner, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
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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Gwyneth Ketterer, Chief Operating Officer and co-founding Partner, Irving Place Capital
Gwyneth M. Ketterer is Chief Operating Officer and Co-founding Partner of Irving Place Capital (“IPC”), which formerly was Bear Stearns Merchant Banking (“BSMB”). Ms. Ketterer joined Bear Stearns as a Senior Managing Director in 1998 to develop its merchant banking business. Her operating oversight encompasses finance, marketing, deal sourcing, portfolio management, legal and tax, regulatory matters and compliacnce, investor reporting and relations, IT, recruiting and compensation. In addition to all of IPC’s operations, her responsibilities include management of its private equity portfolios, strategy, capital raising initiatives and new business development. Ms. Ketterer serves on the firm’s Investment Committee. She pioneered a portfolio-wide strategic services initiative and spearheaded the creation of Bear Growth Capital Partners and BSMB’s new Greater China joint venture. Ms. Ketterer also was a member of Bear Stearns’ President’s Advisory Council.
Prior to BSMB, Ms. Ketterer served as Senior Vice President of the Merchant Banking Division of Lehman Brothers Inc. and a member of Lehman Brothers’ Investment Screening Committee. While at Lehman Brothers, she also spent several years in Mergers & Acquisitions, both in New York and London, specializing in cross-border advisory and privatization transactions.
Ms. Ketterer is a Trustee of Chelsea Day School and a member of the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women. She also is an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School and created its course in the fundamentals of private equity. Ms. Ketterer holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, a BS Economics from the Wharton School and a BA from the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania.
Ms. Ketterer resides in New York City with her partner and two children
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Tarra Mitchell, Founder & Managing Director, WAVE Equity Partners
Ms. Mitchell directs WAVE Equity Partner’s (WAVE) strategic planning and management of the Partnership. She is responsible for building and managing the firm’s execution strategy & platform; securing equity, debt and project finance for portfolio companies; and negotiating terms of sale including public offerings. A key part of her efforts involve looking across the portfolio with an eye towards maximizing an efficient use of resources and insuring the timely liquidity of investments.
Ms. Mitchell’s has a history of creating scalable infrastructure platforms that enhance efficiency and improve returns. Prior to founding WAVE she worked with Landmark Partners (www.landmarkpartners.com), a $7.5 billion private equity firm founded in 1999, to streamline their operations. In addition to coordinating fundraisings of over $2 billion and sourcing numerous transactions she also initiated Landmark’s entry into Asia through a joint venture in Korea and developed new business relationships in Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong.
Prior to her career in private equity, she was a management consultant to large financial services clients including J.P. Morgan and The Hartford through her employment with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Wheelhouse and an equity analyst for Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt. Ms. Mitchell also served as account manager to global consumer products goods manufacturers for MMI an organization that provides analytical tools, services, and data to the industry.
Ms. Mitchell has an MBA in International Business from the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina and a BS concentrating in International Business from The Pennsylvania State University where she graduated summa cum laude. She also serves on the board of directors of the Women’s Association of Venture and Equity (www.women-wave.org), the only national organization dedicated to the development of women in the field of private equity and venture capital, and as an advisory board member of Netage Solutions (www.netagesolutions.com).
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Jackie Reses, Partner, Apax Partners
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Sheryl Schwartz, Managing Director, TIAA-CREF
Sheryl Schwartz is a Managing Director at TIAA-CREF in charge of building a diversified portfolio of Alternative Investments for TIAA. In addition, she is responsible for investing in all direct equity and mezzanine debt co-investment opportunities that arise from TIAA’s relationships with fund managers. Her current responsibilities, and TIAA entry into Alternative Investments, began in 1997. To date, the portfolio consists of an array of private equity and timber funds, including small and large capitalization domestic funds, emerging market funds, international funds, venture capital funds, distressed debt funds and LBO funds, private equity co-investments, mezzanine debt investments and timber investments.
Immediately prior to her involvement with Alternative Investments, Sheryl invested in domestic and international asset-backed securities. Asset classes in which she made investments included mutual fund fee securitizations, future receivables in emerging market countries, franchise loan receivables, variable annuity fee securitization, time share receivables, CBO's, CLO's, credit card company receivable "C" tranches, and private label credit card receivables.
Sheryl joined TIAA in 1988 and spent three years in corporate private placements, two years trading secondary private placements and four years in mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities prior to her current position.
Prior to joining TIAA, Sheryl worked at Irving Trust Company. She holds a BS in Finance (1985) and an MBA in Finance (1988) from New York University.
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Hope Vaughn, Director, Corinthian Capital Group, LLC
Hope Vaughn is currently a Director at Corinthian Capital, a middle-market private equity firm based in New York City focused on acquiring and investing in niche businesses with EBITDA between $5 million and $30 million, particularly in manufacturing, distribution, services and consumer products industries.
Prior to joining Corinthian Capital, Ms. Vaughn was a Vice President at Glenwood Capital, a turnaround and restructuring advisory firm assisting lower middle market businesses. Previously, she was a Vice President at Rodman Renshaw, a full service investment bank, where she worked on middle-market sell-side transactions, debt and equity financings. Prior to that, Ms. Vaughn co-founded Morning Street Capital a private equity firm focused on acquiring portfolios of growth equity, lower middle-market, and mezzanine investments.
Ms Vaughn is a graduate of Berry College (B.S.), where she received an athletic scholarship. Also, is a graduate of 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. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the Women’s Alliance of Venture and Equity (WAVE).
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