Ajay Ahuja

Ajay Ahuja joined Eaton Partners as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, with 20 years of professional experience in managing, accounting, finance, operations, and compliance functions for financial institutions and alternative asset managers. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, Ajay was the Chief Financial Officer for Sagard Capital, a private equity fund investing in publicly traded small-cap companies. Previously, he has had held financial leadership roles for Singer Partners (recently acquired by William Blair), a start-up global macro hedge fund, Vertical Capital, a structured product and distressed asset manager, and Five Mile Capital Partners, a fixed income hedge fund and private equity firm. In the past, Ajay has also worked within the finance teams at Morgan Stanley and Sempra Commodities (now part of JP Morgan) and began his career as a staff member with KPMG.

Ajay has an MBA in finance and management from Stern School of Business at New York University and has completed his B.B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) from Baruch College, CUNY with a major in accounting. Ajay is accredited as a Certified Public Accountant.

Chrystalle H. Anstett, CFA

Chrystalle has over ten years of financial services experience, nine of which have been spent marketing investment products.  At Eaton, Chrystalle is focused on project management and the firm’s origination efforts.  Previously, Chrystalle was Senior Investor Relations Associate at QFS Asset Management, a $1.4 billion systematic global macro hedge fund. Prior, she spent a number of years at Goldman Sachs Asset Management where she focused on institutional and high net worth business development, in addition to fixed income product management. She began her career at Lazard Asset Management in accounting and later joined the institutional marketing group.

Chrystalle has a B.S. in economics and international business from New York University Stern School of Business, where she was a Stern Scholar. She is a CFA Charterholder.

Loren A. Boston
Managing Director

Loren focuses on private equity fundraising at Eaton Partners. He has over thirty years of finance experience and over twelve years of institutional marketing experience. Prior to joining Eaton, Loren was Managing Director and Global Head of Origination for Merrill Lynch’s Private Equity Funds Group, where he was responsible for sourcing high quality leveraged buyout, venture capital and other private equity. Previous positions include Managing Director and Global Head of the Private Equity Fund Group at Citigroup Global Markets, Managing Director at Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown in New York, Head of Securities Sales for Bankers Trust (which later merged into Deutsche Bank) in Asia, Head of Fixed Income Sales for BZW Asia Limited (the investment banking arm of Barclays Bank plc), Director of Corporate Finance at Allied Signal Inc., and Vice President in Corporate Finance at Merrill Lynch & Co.

Loren received a B.B.A. in economics and finance from the University of Iowa, an M.A. in economics from Brown University and an MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where he was named an Averill Harriman Scholar.

Sarah Breiner, CFA

Sarah is a member of the project management team focused on the firm’s origination efforts and execution of the various alternative funds marketed by the firm. She has over ten years of experience in financial services, including five years marketing investment products. Most recently, she spent five years at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where she served as Vice President and Client Portfolio Manager. In this role, Sarah was responsible for raising assets from institutional, private wealth, and third party investors in the firm’s developed and emerging market equities and real estate strategies, totaling over $7.0 billion in assets under management. Prior to that, Sarah worked at JPMorgan Private Bank as Assistant Portfolio Manager where she focused on portfolio management of the firm’s private client accounts. She began her career as an Intern for the Thomas G. Labrecque Smart Start Program at JPMorgan Chase after receiving a full college scholarship.

Sarah has a B.S. in finance and accounting from New York University Stern School of Business, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude. She is a CFA Charterholder and holds Series 7 and 63 licenses.

Lourdez E. Castro

Lourdez provides marketing distribution support and has 13 years of experience in the financial services industry. Upon joining Eaton Partners, Lourdez initially supported IT and was the Benefits Administrator for the firm. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, Lourdez worked at National Reinsurance Co. in the human resources department.

Lourdez received her Associates Degree in liberal arts/communication from Norwalk Community College as well as her certification as a holistic health counselor from IIN in NY. Lourdez was involved with fundraising for Hope in Motion for the Bennett Cancer Center at Stamford Hospital and Team in Training for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

W. Michael Crawford
Partner

Michael leads the real estate fundraising team and focuses on several of the private equity and real asset strategies at Eaton Partners. He has over twenty-five years of experience in alternative investments. Before joining Eaton Partners, Michael was a principal in the Private Capital Markets Group at Robertson Stephens where his industry coverage included public real estate and healthcare companies, specifically raising private equity capital for public REITs and private investments in public equities (PIPES). Prior to Robertson, he worked as a VP, Institutional Equities at Paine Webber. He began his career at Cabot, Cabot & Forbes in Boston, where he was responsible for business development of the firm’s real estate consulting and asset management services.

Michael has a MBA in finance and real estate from Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a B.A in English from Brown University. He is on the Board of Overseers for the Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

Alexander R. Cucharale

Alex joins the firm as an analyst, providing support to project management, industry research and firm initiatives. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, Alex worked as a project manager for the New England Consulting Group.

Alex graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in philosophy, politics and economics.

Christie A. Czernik

Christie is a member of the project management team focused on the firm’s origination efforts and execution of the various alternative funds marketed by the firm.  She has over five years of experience in financial services, specifically in investor relations for hedge funds.  Previously, Christie was an Investor Relations Analyst at Owl Creek Asset Management, a $6 billion opportunistic event driven value hedge fund.  Prior, she spent a number of years at J. & W. Seligman & Co. where she assisted in marketing and investor relations efforts for a $2.5 billion portfolio of long/short equity hedge funds.  Christie began her career at News America Marketing.

Christie received an MBA with concentrations in finance and entrepreneurship from New York University Stern School of Business, and a B.S. in marketing from the University of Connecticut.  She holds Series 7 and 63 licenses.

Jeffrey S. Davis
Partner

Jeff’s focus is fund origination, screening, due diligence and packaging various alternative products for distribution and project management. He has seventeen years of financial services experience, eleven of which have been spent in the private equity industry. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, Jeff worked at Capital Dynamics, a Swiss-based private equity advisor. There, he focused on screening and recommending private equity strategies for institutional clientele. He also worked at GE Equity in new business, underwriting and asset management capacities with regard to GE’s direct venture capital investments. He began his career in 1994 with Bankers Trust in asset management, followed by three years in real estate investment banking at Deutsche Bank/Bankers Trust.

Jeff has a B.A. from Brandeis University and an MBA in finance from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Samantha M. Durant

Samantha joins Eaton Partners as a marketing associate based in Rowayton.  Prior to joining Eaton Partners, she worked for Yale New Haven Hospital providing technical support to the entire establishment.  Previously, Samantha assisted with overseeing operations for a cosmetic business.

Samantha received a Bachelor of business administration from the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising College based in Manhattan NY.

Steven D. Eaton

Steve focuses on distribution of various alternative funds. Steve has eleven years of experience in the financial services industry, working in both the buy-side and the sell-side of the market. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, Steve was a Director at C6 Capital, a Moscow-based investor of renewable energy projects, where he was in charge of business development. Previously, Steve worked for Montrose Food and Wine in Shanghai, China, Invesco Funds Group and Citigroup Diners Club. Steve has several years of experience living and working in emerging market countries, namely China, Russia and Ukraine.

Steve graduated from Bucknell University with a B.A. in economics, and earned a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University, where he focused on energy policy and business in emerging markets. He speaks proficient Mandarin and Russian.

Charles P. Eaton
Partner
Founder

Charlie founded Eaton Partners in 1983 and was a pioneer of the “placement agent” concept. Previously, Charlie was in research and institutional sales at Mitchell Hutchins, Morgan Stanley, and H.C. Wainwright & Company, where he was a partner at the time Wainwright was ranked the top institutional research firm in the country. Charlie began his career as an investment research officer at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company (predecessor to J. P. Morgan Investment Management).

Charlie graduated from Washington and Jefferson College and earned his MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He served as a First Lieutenant in the U. S. Army Armor branch. Charlie is a former trustee of Washington and Jefferson College. He has served in several leadership roles with the United Way of Darien, Connecticut, including Director, Vice President and Campaign Chair, and he is a former Director of A Better Chance of Darien.

Leanne E. Erickson

Leanne is responsible for general office management and facilities, oversees marketing distribution support personnel and also supports general corporate and regulatory matters. Leanne has 13 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, she was an assistant at the law firm of Brody Wilkinson where she coordinated and handled all legal matters that included mergers, corporate employment and pension plans. In addition to her legal background, Leanne previously worked at Walter C. King Associates, providing assistance in financial planning and corporate tax returns.

Leanne received her B.S. in office administration from New Hampshire College and volunteers as an EMT for her hometown.

C. Ulises Flores

Ulises joined Eaton Partners in October 2003 and currently heads the firm’s project management effort. His focus is fund origination, distribution, monitoring, client servicing and execution of the various alternative funds marketed by the firm. Ulises has 13 years of financial services and corporate experience, eight of which have been spent in the private equity industry. During his time at Eaton Partners, he has covered primarily real estate, real assets and hedge fund strategies. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, Ulises worked at the Guatemala unit of Tyco Healthcare, a US-based public conglomerate where he oversaw logistics and distribution efforts. He began his career at Grupo Alza in their production and operations units overseeing system implementations and production execution.

Ulises received his MBA in finance from Fordham University, where he graduated with honors and was a recipient of the Hitachi Scholarship for Academic Merit. He has a degree in industrial engineering from Universidad Rafael Landivar. He holds Mexican citizenship and is fluent in Spanish and English.

Shondel A. Gordon

Based in Rowayton, Shondel has nine years of Network Administration and Technical support experience. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, Shondel worked as a Technical Analyst Recruitsoft (On Demand CRM), Database Analyst and Implementation Manager for new clients at Taleo Corporation. Previously, he worked as a Technical Consultant at JP Morgan Chase. He started his career at EssTel Technologies as a Junior Network Administrator.

Shondel is a graduate of American Sentinel University A.S.B.A. in business administration, as well as Cisco Networking Academy and holds CCNA, MCITP, Network+ certifications.  He is also a member of the Association of Information Technology Professionals and Information Systems Security Association (ISSA).  He is a volunteer and assistant head coach for the Bridgeport jaguars boys soccer team.

Megan L. Holthaus

Megan joined Eaton Partners as a receptionist, providing administrative support to the office.  Prior to joining Eaton, Megan worked as a marketing associate for Pirical/Preston Marketing Group.  She started her career as a legal patent assistant where she provided support to a team of lawyers.

Megan graduated from The University of Connecticut where she received a B.A. in political science and criminal justice and was an active member on campus.  During her time at University of Connecticut, she spent six months abroad studying in Australia.

Sean D. Howard

Sean provides marketing distribution support.  She has over six years of experience in the communications industry.  Prior to joining Eaton Partners, Sean worked for Cablevision as part of their Government and Public Affairs group.  Previously, she has worked as a public relations professional for agencies such as Ruder Finn and Dan Klores Communications, assisting an array of media, sports, and travel industry clients.

Sean is a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where she received her B.S. in tv, radio, and film studies.  Sean has also dabbled in voice work – hosting podcasts, recording radio commercials, and even doing a short stint as a PA announcer for a local sports team.

Melissa J. Iorio

Melissa focuses on the distribution of private equity, real estate and real assets. Melissa has 10 years experience in the financial services industry.  Melissa joins Eaton from FirstMark Capital, a venture capital firm in New York City, as a Marketing and Investor Relations Associate.  Prior to that, Melissa was a Vice President of Marketing at Harbor Drive Asset Management where she assisted hedge funds and fund of funds in their capital raising efforts and developed strong relationships with various institutional investors. Melissa has also worked at HSBC on the Institutional Fixed Income Sales Desk and at Graham Capital Management on a multi-strategy trading floor.

Melissa graduated from Saint Michael’s College with a B. S. in business. She was a Division I downhill ski racer and member of the varsity lacrosse team.

Danielle V. Kamargiannakis

Danielle provides hedge fund marketing distribution support with two and a half years of experience working in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, Danielle worked for Consolidated Contractors Company in Athens, Greece as a plant procurement administrator. Previously, Danielle worked at Hobbs, Inc. as a project estimator and began her career at GVA Williams Commercial Real Estate as a commercial real estate broker and marketing associate.

Danielle is a graduate of The University of Connecticut where she received a B.A. in corporate and organizational studies.

Grace E. Kim

Grace focuses on Hedge Fund Distribution. Grace has 11 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, she was a Vice President in the Capital Introductions group at Morgan Stanley, where she assisted hedge funds in their capital raising efforts, developing relationships with various institutional investors. She began her career in 1999 with Merrill Lynch, where she spent seven years in investment banking and equity capital markets.

Grace graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in economics. She is a Director of the Goodwill Industries of New York and Northern New Jersey.

Thomas L. Knechtel

Tom focuses on Hedge Fund Distribution. Tom has eight years of institutional marketing experience. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, he was a Vice President at Channel Capital Group LLC, a joint venture between Guggenheim Partners and Capital Z Investments, raising institutional capital for alternative investment funds. Previously, Tom worked within Deutsche Bank’s Equity Prime Services division after beginning his career with Citigroup.

Tom received a B.A. in american civilization from Middlebury College and was a member of both the varsity football and lacrosse teams.

Thomas S. Kreitler
Partner

Tom leads the hedge fund fundraising team at Eaton Partners. He has over 28 years of institutional marketing and financial markets experience. Before joining Eaton in 2004, Tom spent two years at Fairview Partners, raising institutional assets for alternative investment funds. Prior to that, he spent 24 years in institutional fixed income sales most recently at J.P. Morgan where he was a Managing Director and Institutional Sales Manager for liquid debt and derivative products. At Morgan, Tom’s responsibilities included managing a group of fourteen sales professionals and maintaining an institutional client base consisting of insurance companies, banks and asset managers.

Tom holds a B.A. in economics from Colgate University and an MBA from Boston College with a finance concentration. He serves on a number of charitable boards including Habitat for Humanity of Greater Bridgeport and Operation Hope of Fairfield.

Jessica A. Krone

Jessica is the Human Resource Manager for the firm and provides distribution marketing support. She has over ten years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, Jessica was a marketing and sales representative with State Farm Insurance and Financial Services. She began her career at Farmers Insurance Group in sales and customer service.

Jessica holds a M.A. in English with emphasis in teaching from University of San Diego and a B.A. in communication with emphasis in marketing from California State University of San Marcos. She also serves as a member for the Society for Human Resources and teaches English to refugee students for Catholic Charities.

Sharon O. Kun

Based in Rowayton, Sharon joined Eaton Partners as a controller in September 2008.

Sharon has more than fifteen years of experience in the financial accounting services.  Prior to joining Eaton, Sharon was an AVP at Citi Private Equity Services in New York, where she provided accounting outsourcing services to private equity and broker dealer clients.  Previously, she was a Senior Associate at Bisys Private Equity, and Dalessio, Miller & Leben, LLP.

Sharon received a B.S. in Economics and Business & Management at Stony Brook University.

Joseph P. Scanlon, Jr.
Partner

Joseph joined Eaton Partners in 2011. Previously Joseph was a principal at CRT where he formed CRT’s asset management platform, Harbor Drive Asset Management. Joseph has over 33 years of experience in the asset management business, with the last 22 as a Member of the Board of Directors, Managing Director/Director of Marketing and Sales at Ark Asset Management Co, Inc. Prior to Ark Asset Management, Mr. Scanlon spent six years at Lehman Management Company as Senior Vice President. He began his career in the asset management sector in 1972 where he was Vice President, Director of Sales/Client Servicing in the Institutional Investment Division at Citibank.

Joseph received his B.S. degree and MBA degree in economics from St. Johns University.

Brittany Simonis

Brittany joined Eaton Partners providing support to the project management team with five years experience working in various avenues within the financial services industry.  Prior to joining Eaton Partners, Brittany worked for The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in both Greenwich and Stamford, Connecticut offices as a Compliance Analyst in Registrations and Licensing.  She began her career at Greenwich Capital providing executive support to the Commercial Real Estate team and later the Chief Compliance Officer.

Brittany graduated from the University of Oregon where she earned a B.S. in psychology, with a minor in business.  She also holds a certificate in Business Technologies from Norwalk Community College and is a Notary Public in the state of Connecticut.

Andrew M. Symons

Andrew joins Eaton Partners as a member of the project management team focused on the firm’s origination efforts and execution of the various alternative funds marketed by the firm.  Previously, he worked in Private Banking at Credit Suisse where he designed and implemented asset allocations for high net worth individuals and middle market institutions.  Andrew began his career in the advertising and marketing field, first for the media agency Initiative, and later in sales for U.S. News & World Report.

Andrew received his B.A. in public policy studies from Duke University and his MBA in finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University where he was recognized as a Stern Scholar.  Andrew is a CFA Level III candidate.

Daniel J. Vene
Partner

Dan focuses on raising institutional capital for private equity real estate funds focused on both debt and equity strategies. He has twelve years experience in investment management and financial operations. Before joining Eaton Partners, he was Principal and COO of Allegiance Capital Partners where he structured joint ventures between real estate operators and strategic capital sources. Previously he was a Senior Vice President in Thomson Financial’s Corporate Group. Dan was also the Founder and CEO of Earnings.com, a leading financial database and corporate events calendar acquired by Thomson Financial. He began his career as a high yield bond trader at ING Barings.

Dan holds a B.S. with concentration in finance from Cornell University.

Lucy Williams

Lucy is responsible for accounts payable/receivable, review and processing of travel/reimbursable expense reports and client billing. Lucy has over 12 years of management experience in the Finance, Sales and Marketing Industry. Prior to Eaton Partners, Lucy worked at Revonet, Inc. as the Director of Account Management, Sales and Operations. She also worked as a Project Manager and as a Manager in Sales Administration for companies such as Cronus Partners, LLC and Purdue Pharma, L.P.

Lucy is a graduate at Curry College where she received her B.A. in Business Management. She also studied abroad in Athens, Greece.

Jeffrey J. Eaton
Partner

Jeff leads the real assets fundraising team at Eaton Partners. He has 13 years of experience in the financial services industry. With Jeff’s background in energy, his primary focus at Eaton Partners has been on raising institutional capital for funds focused on energy and other real assets strategies, including infrastructure, agriculture, timber and other inflation-linked strategies. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, he was a Director at Constellation Energy Commodities Group in their natural gas structuring and trading division where he led principal transactions. Previously, Jeff worked for Montrose International Corporation, an import and distribution company located in Shanghai, China. He began his career as an institutional equity trader with Charles Schwab Capital Markets.

Jeff graduated Cum Laude from Duke University where he received a B.A. in both economics and history. While a student at Duke, Jeff studied at the University of New South Whales in Sydney, Australia. Jeff received his MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Alicia M. Drum

Alicia provides marketing distribution support and has a year and a half of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, Alicia was an Office Manager at Marcus Evans. Previously, Alicia helped run the Children’s Miracle Network program in La Mesa, CA.

Alicia graduated with honors from San Diego State University where she received a B.S. in criminal justice.

David M. Love, CFA
Partner

Leading Eaton Partners’s efforts in La Jolla, California, and Shanghai, China, Dave has been involved in the full spectrum of the investment management business for 42 years. During his ten years as an investment analyst and Senior Vice President with H. C. Wainwright & Co., Dave earned a national reputation and was twice named to a first team position on Institutional Investor’s All American Research Team. Prior positions include President of Kenmar Institutional Investment Management; President of Marathon Asset Management Co.; Senior Vice President for Atalanta/Sosnoff Capital Corporation; and Executive Vice President of RSF Investment Advisers.

Dave graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.B.A. degree with emphasis in economics and a MBA in finance. Dave was a competitive triathlete who completed twenty full Ironman triathlons and is a fundraiser for the Challenged Athletes Foundation. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the San Diego County Employees Retirement Association and a CFA Charterholder.

Christopher M. Maduri

Chris has 12 years of private equity and real estate experience of which 5 years included directly marketing private equity / real estate managers to domestic and international institutional investors. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, Chris was a Vice President at Triton Pacific Capital, where he provided strategic advisory and private equity placement services to top-tier private equity real estate and infrastructure managers. Previously, he worked for Heitman, where he was responsible for identifying potential investments domestically for a bevy of separate account clients and in-house investment funds.

Chris received a B.S. in accountancy from the University of Missouri and an MBA with an emphasis in Finance from the University of Missouri.  He is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Peter T. Martenson
Peter Martenson

Peter has eighteen years of diversified management and investment experience, which includes ten years of direct private equity funds investment experience. His focus is fund distribution, monitoring, client servicing and execution of the various alternative funds marketed by the firm. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, Peter was a Managing Director with Macquarie Funds Management, where he led a team of investment professionals structuring, fundraising and investing fund of funds and separate accounts into global PE opportunities. Previously, Peter was a Director with Pacific Corporate Group, where he advised large and small institutional investors on structuring and investing their private equity programs. Peter began his career as an Operations Officer in the United States Navy within the surface warfare community.

Peter received a B.S. in oceanography from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, an MBA from Yale University in New Haven, CT, and is a graduate of the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI.

Danielle M. Spears

Based in La Jolla, Danielle is a Marketing Associate and provides distribution support. Prior, she was an intern at UC San Diego’s Alumni Affairs Office, PROSPECT Journal of International Affairs, and DiscoverSD.com. These organizations helped Danielle to garner a professional interest in business development and fund raising, while actively engaging university alumni, notable scholars, and businesses in the San Diego area.

Danielle graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with a B.A. in Communication.

Julia M. Szlakowski

Julia is a Sales Associate on the distribution team, focusing on raising institutional capital for Private Equity, Real Estate and Real Asset funds.  Prior to transitioning into this role, Julia provided marketing and administrative support for Eaton Partners since 2010.  Most notably, she worked on the registrations for the Hong Kong and Shanghai offices, as well as facilitated the expansion of Eaton’s presence in Japan.  Julia joined Eaton from Paul, Plevin, Sullivan & Connaughton, an employment and labor law defense firm, where she assisted on an array of legal matters, including class actions, in both state and federal courts, and collaborated on extensive trial preparations.  Julia has ten years of professional experience primarily in the legal field.

Julia graduated from the University of California Davis where she received a B.A. in political science, a B.A. in fine art and an A.A. in philosophy. She holds Series 7 and 63 licenses.  Julia is an avid painter and sponsors “sisters” in war torn regions through WomenforWomen.org.

Jingjing Bai

Jingjing is based in Eaton Partners’ Hong Kong office and manages the firm’s distribution efforts in Asia. She joined Eaton Partners in 2007 and established Eaton Shanghai office. Jinging has 12 years of professional experience in private equity investment, cross border M&A, foreign direct investment and international marketing/distribution experience in the US, Japan and China. Previously, She is the Chief Representative of MediBIC (Tokyo Stock Exchange listed) for its venture capital investments in Greater China. Prior to that, she was Product Marketing Manager for Dell Corporation in Japan and previously established her own international import/export business.

Jingjing received a B.A. in Japanese literature and culture from Nanjing University and a Master of Arts in international relations – MBA Program from International University of Japan. She is a Chinese National fluent in English and Japanese.

Nancy Chaw

Nancy has over 20 years of administrative support experience with multi-national corporations.  Before joining Eaton Partners, Nancy was Administrative Assistant at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.  Previously, she was Office Manager at Urban Land Capital; Alexander Mann and Stephens Associates, where she provided overall business administration including accounting to financial markets expatriates.  Nancy also worked as the Business Administration Executive at Alliance Boots Group for five years, within the retail section on their Healthcare & Beauty unit.  Prior, she was involved in international trading businesses and foreign direct investments in China market.

Nancy received a B.A. (Hons) in business administration from the University of Greenwich.  She is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English.

Silvia Calvo Alcala

Silvia focuses on European distribution and has over ten  years of private equity experience. Prior to joining Eaton, Silvia worked at Jefferies Fund Placement Group (formerly Helix), CBRE Investors (Investor Relations) and Bear Stearns Private Funds Group (formerly Crane Capital) where she played a key role in European origination and distribution. Previously, she worked in Leveraged Finance at Citigroup. Silvia began her career in Audit at Arthur Andersen in Spain.

Silvia received an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business , where she was a Fulbright Scholar and has a B.S. in business and economics from Universidad de Valencia in Spain. She is fluent in French, German, Spanish, Italian and English and can speak basic Danish.

Stephanie J. Brendel-Lugani

Stephanie has 10 years of private placement experience. She focuses on European distribution of various alternative funds. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, Stephanie worked at Bear Stearns Private Funds Group (formerly Crane Capital) where she played a key role in project management and origination relating to the firm’s coverage of European General Partners. Previously, she worked as a senior analyst at MVision Private Equity Advisers in London, following her role as an international marketing and research analyst at Far Hills Group in New York. She began her career in Private Banking at JP Morgan Chase.

Stephanie received a B.A. with honors in literature and business administration from Franklin & Marshall College and a Masters in global politics from New York University. She is fluent in French, German and English.

Sharon M. Carneiro

Sharon provides marketing distribution support and has 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, she worked for Hammonds, an international law firm working for a partner in the corporate finance department assisting in his M&A deals and administration of the Hammonds Charitable Trust. Previously, she worked at Credit Suisse First Boston in their corporate finance department, assisting the private equity team and M&A team. Sharon also worked in the corporate finance departments at both Deutsche Bank and UBS. Sharon began her career in the management consultancy division of KPMG, providing administrative support to the software development department.

Sharon graduated from University of Bath with a BSc Honours in biology.

Franklyn D. Chang
Partner

Frank leads Eaton Partners’ European efforts with 16 years of institutional investment marketing experience and 21 years of professional experience. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, he was a Managing Director at Farrell Marsh & Co., where he focused on originating and distributing a wide variety of alternative investment funds including buyouts, venture capital, international, real estate, mezzanine, special situation and hedge funds/liquid strategies. Previously, he was part of Bank of America’s syndicated finance operations, where he focused on structuring and distributing leveraged loans for middle-market issuers.

Frank holds a B.S. in economics and finance from Manhattan College and an MBA from the University of Chicago with concentrations in finance and accounting.

Olav R. Konig

Based in London, Olav, a German national, focuses on fundraising in Europe. Prior, he was a Managing Director in the Business Development team at Capital Dynamics, a global alternatives asset manager. Previously, Olav worked at a London-based venture capital firm Sitka Partners. Prior, he worked for Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in London, as a member of the structured and principal finance team and as a lawyer in a variety of positions.

Olav read law at Bonn University and Freiburg University, holds a Master’s degree in Law and is a qualified German solicitor. He serves as the chairman of the board of the charity Research Against Blindness.

Kathryn Thomas

Kathryn joins Eaton Partners and provides marketing distribution and FSA regulatory support. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, she attended Law School at City University, London. Previously, she worked as a graduate intern for two senior partners at Bruckmann & Victory LLP, an insurance and reinsurance law firm in New York.

Kathryn graduated from University of Central Lancashire with an LLB (Honours) in law and is a qualified Barrister.

Charles S. Vernudachi

Based in London, Charles focuses on European distribution of Eaton Partners hedge fund and liquid strategies.  He has more than 10 years of institutional marketing experience. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, Charles worked at Key Asset Management (SEB Group) where he was responsible for the distribution of a variety of alternative funds to European investors. Previously, he was a partner and co-founder of Fairway Capital Partners (UK) LLP, a London based placement agent focused on hedge fund distribution. Prior to founding Fairway, Charles was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs where he spent more than 6 years in Fixed Income Sales. Charles began his career in Paris in 1998 with Natixis CIB as an analyst on their credit trading desk.

Charles is a CAIA holder and a Chapter Executive of the Paris Chapter.  Charles received a BSc in Economics & Finance from Paris-Dauphine University.

Georgina M. Wyatt

Georgina focuses on European distribution. She has 13 years of private equity experience, both on the buy-side and sell-side of the industry. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, Georgina worked at Jefferies Fund Placement – formerly Helix Associates Ltd – where she was responsible for the distribution and project management of a variety of private equity funds to both European and American investors. Previously, she was an associate at the global investment management firm, Altius Associates, responsible for the coverage of the US buy-out and venture capital market.

Georgina received a B.A. Hons degree in French studies from Nottingham University, with distinction in oral French.

Julian Kurz

Julian is based in Shanghai where he is a member of the project management team, focusing on the origination and execution of alternative funds in Asia. Previously, he was an investment banker at Puji Capital, where he worked on structuring and executing domestic and cross-border private placements in Mainland Chinese companies. Julian also has prior experience at hedge fund TT International and Citigroup.

Julian received his BA from the London School of Economics. He also studied at the University of Oxford and holds a Certificate in Mandarin Chinese from Peking University.

Chris Lerner

Chris is based in Shanghai where he focuses on the origination and execution of alternative funds in Asia. Chris has over 13 years of investment banking and direct investment experience with over $10 billion in completed transactions. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, Chris was a Managing Partner for Mercer Street Capital, an independent strategic advisory and investment firm specializing in ‘venture to growth’ capital and cross-border transactions between the U.S. and Asia. Chris started his career with Citigroup and its predecessor firm, Salomon Smith Barney. He was the firm’s first investment banking expatriate based in Mainland China and helped established the department’s Asia Pacific Financial Institutions Group. Later, Chris worked on the corporate buy-side in strategic planning and business development, including for The Timberland Company where he completed the first four acquisitions in that company’s history.

Chris earned a B.A. from Tufts University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He also earned a Certificate in Mandarin Chinese from the College of Foreign Languages in Beijing. Chris holds Series 7, 63, 79 and 24 licenses in the U.S.

Robin Tyrangiel

Robin is based in Shanghai where he focuses on the origination and execution of alternative funds in Asia. Robin has six years of investing and private equity experience with $900 million in completed transactions. Previously, Robin was an Associate at Capital Dynamics in New York, a global private equity asset manager. Robin started his career with Sterling InfoSystems, where he worked on M&A opportunities and joint ventures to build the firm’s international capabilities. 

Robin earned a BA from Brandeis University, where he also completed his  MA in international economics and finance. As part of his studies he also attended the London School of Economics and ESSEC Business School in Paris, France. Robin speaks English, German, Mandarin Chinese, French and Hebrew.

Min Xu

Min provides marketing distribution support and has nine years of human resource management and administration working experience. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, Min was Human Resource Supervisor for a Chinese wire and cable manufacturer. Previously, she was the assistant to the Managing Director and Project Coordinator in garments manufacturing in the Philippines.

Min received a B.A. in public relations from East China Normal University and a MBA in human resource management from Dong Hua University in Shanghai. She is fluent in both Mandarin and English.