Mayo Center - Events - Private Equity Speaker Series

Past Events

Spring 2024

2024 Spring Speakers

10 April 2024: Pop-up session with Allan Vartelas (MBA '85) (Co-founder and Managing Partner, Nebrodi Partners)

28 March 2024: Industry Trends and Speaker Series wrap-up with John Loverro (MBA '00) (Partner, Lexington Partners)

21 March 2024: Pop-Up session with Peggy Roberts (MBA '01) (Managing Partner, The Riverside Company)

21 February 2024: Virtual Women in PE Panel led by Allie Laborde, (MBA '15) (Principal, The Stephens Group) with the following panelists: 

• Maureen Harrell (MBA '08) (Managing Director, Hudson Advisors L.P.)
• Aly Mackenzie (MBA '20) (Investor, Radar Partners)
• Kristen Gunther (MBA '09) (Investor, Revolution Growth)

24 January 2024: Search Funds/ETA with Emily Holdman (Managing Director, Permanent Equity) *in partnership with the ETA club

2023

2023 Fall Speakers

15 November 2023: John Fruehwirth (MBA '96) (Managing Partner, Rotunda Capital Partners)

9 November 2023: Mark Pacala (Operating Partner, Healthcare Private Equity). Mark is a tenured business professional with over 30 years of general management and private equity experience in healthcare and consumer services companies.

 

2023 Spring Conference: 23-24 March

Event Summary from The Darden Report
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Agenda Overview:

DPEC President's Opening Remarks, Sukari Brown (MBA '23)

Remarks Honoring Susan Chaplinsky and Her Impact, John Fruehwirth (MBA '96), Rotunda Capital Partners

Fireside Chat on Global Infrastructure Investing with Jose Maria Zertuche, BlackRock  (Moderated by Professor Elena Loutskina)

Panel on Investing Opportunities and Considerations in Healthcare with Church Moore, Kelso and Frank Winslow, Quad-C (Moderated by Taylor Cole, Harren Equity Partners)

Keynote Speaker (virtual), Jose E. Feliciano, Clearlake Capital (Moderated by John Loverro, Lexington Partners and Sukari Brown (MBA '23))

Panel on the Current State of Private Equity: "Exploring Investment Activity, Trends, and Challenges" with John Alouf, Virginia Retirement System and Caitlin Fitzmaurice, Selby Lane (Moderated by Schon Williams, Mercer Alternatives)

2022

Brief Synopsis of the 2022 Conference


Keynote Address

 

David Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Non-Executive Chairman, Carlyle

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Moderated by Robert S. Harris, C. Stewart Sheppard Professor of Business Administration, UVA Darden

 

 

 

ESG and Private Equity

Elizabeth Lewis, Managing Director and Deputy Head of ESG, Blackstone

 

 

 

Joseph Acevedo, Managing Director, BlackRock Alternative Investors, BlackRock

 

 

 

Jason Scott, Managing Director, Renewable Resource Group, Co-Chair, CREO Syndicate

 

 

 

Moderated by Matthew McBrady, Professor of Practice, UVA Darden

 

 

 

State of the Industry and Moderated Q&A

 

David Fann, Vice Chairman, Aksia

 

 

 

Moderated by John Loverro ('00), Partner, Lexington Partners

 

 

 

Perspectives: Founding and Building a Private Equity Firm

Erik Scott, Co-Founder and Partner, Avance

 

 

 

Moderated by John Fruehwirth ('96), Managing Partner, Rotunda Capital Partners