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Speakers & Topics
- Dave Waiser
Founder @ Accumulator
$729M+ in Submitted Founder EquityBeyond Secondaries: One Allocation Across 35+ Private Tech Leaders
Dave Waiser built 6 companies and raised over $1B, including Gett, a B2B mobility platform with $200M+ in revenue. Now building Accumulator: one allocation across category-leading private companies. - Brett Hickey
Founder & CEO @ Star Mountain Capital
$5B AUMLiquidity Solutions & Secondaries in the 4,000-Fund U.S. Lower Middle-Market
Brett Hickey is the Founder and CEO of Star Mountain Capital, a specialized U.S. lower middle-market private investment firm with approximately $5 billion in AUM. He focuses on providing debt and equity capital alongside secondary liquidity solutions, including NAV loans and LP interest purchases. Previously, Brett worked in investment banking at Citigroup. - Joe Schorge
Founder & Managing Partner @ Isomer Capital
€750M AUM, FoFThe European VC liquidity gap: where secondaries deals come from and how we underwrite them
Joe Schorge is the Founder and Managing Partner of Isomer Capital, a European technology venture capital firm. He focuses on accessing high-potential opportunities through LP investments, co-investments, and secondary purchases. Previously, Joe held senior roles at Pomona Capital and Cambridge Associates. - Dave McClure
Founder & Managing Partner @ Practical Venture CapitalVC Secondary 101: How to Value & Buy Bargain Unicorns and Funds at 20-50% Off
Dave McClure is the Founder and Managing Partner of Practical Venture Capital, a Silicon Valley VC secondary firm. He focuses on buying LP/GP interests in mature funds and direct secondary in later-stage tech companies. Previously, Dave co-founded 500 Startups and was a VC at Founders Fund. - Matt Russell
Managing Director (Head of Secondaries) @ VenCap International plc
$3B+ invested in 500 VC fundsDPI is the new IRR: why the distribution drought is permanently reshaping LP behavior
Matt is a Managing Director in the Investment Team and leads VenCap’s secondary strategy. He was previously a director at Northleaf Capital Partners where he was responsible for leading the diligence and execution of GP and LP-led secondary transactions as well as direct co-investments. Prior to that, he was a member of the secondaries team at Partners Group. Matt started his career at Cavendish Corporate Finance. He received his BA (Hons) in Business Finance from Durham University. Outside of work, Matt enjoys running, reading, and playing guitar. - Ken Sawyer
Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Saints CapitalThe dawning of the era of GP-led venture secondaries
Kenneth Sawyer is the Founder and Managing Director of Saints Capital, a leading direct secondary firm with over $1 billion of capital providing liquidity options to venture and private equity investors. He focuses on secondary investments in GP-led venture and growth funds. Previously, Kenneth served as Head of M&A for Prudential Volpe Technology Group and began his career at Morgan Stanley. - Michael Bego
Managing Partner & Founder @ Kline Hill PartnersPanel "LP-led secondaries in 2026 — who's selling, at what price, and why now"
Michael Bego is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kline Hill Partners, a private equity secondary fund with over $3.5 billion in AUM. He focuses on acquiring LP interests in buyout, growth, and venture funds, as well as investing in GP-led vehicles and direct secondaries. Previously, Michael was a Partner at Willowridge and a Consultant at McKinsey & Company. - Omolade Adebisi
Head of Secondaries @ Isomer CapitalPanel "Continuation Funds: Separating Conviction from Convenience"
Omolade Adebisi is the Head of Secondaries at Isomer Capital. A seasoned VC secondaries investor, her background includes serving as Director of Venture Capital Secondaries at a Middle Eastern Financial Company and as an Investment Professional at Coller Capital. She previously held investment banking roles at Mizuho and Citi, and holds an MSc in Finance from the London School of Economics (LSE). - Prab Rattan
Co-Founder & Head of Institutional Markets at Hiive | VC Secondaries @ HiiveThe SPV explosion in pre-IPO investing. Unpacking common misperceptions and tips for prudently accessing the market
Prab Rattan is Co-Founder & Head of Institutional Markets at Hiive, one of the largest pre-IPO marketplaces globally. With over a decade of experience in financial markets, he has advised on thousands of transactions representing billions of dollars in completed transaction volume. - Christopher Johnson
Principal @ Knightsbridge AdvisersPanel "Continuation Funds: Separating Conviction from Convenience"
Christopher Johnson is a Principal at Knightsbridge Advisers and a Kauffman Fellow. With over a decade of 360-degree experience across private market investment and advisory, he specializes in venture capital and private equity firm operations. Recognized as a Venture Capital Journal "Rising Star" (40 under 40), he previously served as Associate Director at IQ-EQ. - Mitch Clemente
Partner, Co-Head of Secondaries @ Pathway CapitalPanel "LP-led secondaries in 2026 — who's selling, at what price, and why now"
Mitch Clemente is a Partner and Co-Head of Secondaries at Pathway Capital Management. Prior to joining Pathway, he spent over seven years at Greenhill & Co., where he served as Vice President. He began his career as a Financial Analyst at Houlihan Lokey and holds a BS in Finance and International Business from the NYU Stern School of Business. - Kelly Deponte
Managing Director @ Kelly DePonte AdvisoryPanel "LP-led secondaries in 2026 — who's selling, at what price, and why now"
Kelly DePonte is the Managing Director of Kelly DePonte Advisory LLC and a Senior Advisor at Probitas Partners. He spent over 24 years at Probitas Partners, where he served as Managing Director and Head of Research. A seasoned private equity expert, he previously served as COO at Pacific Corporate Group, has edited multiple definitive industry books for PEI Media, and holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management. - Patrick Stroth
National Practice Leader @ The Liberty Company Insurance BrokersPanel "LP-led secondaries in 2026 — who's selling, at what price, and why now"
Patrick Stroth is National Practice Leader for M&A at The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers. With 10+ years of experience in transactional liability, he specializes in RWI, D&O Tail, and Secondaries insurance. Formerly, he was Founder of Rubicon M&A Insurance Services. - Terrence Giang
Managing Director @ Centicore CapitalPanel "Family Offices as strategic secondary buyers"
Terrence Giang is a secondary market investor managing his own family entity and Centicore VC in Tokyo. He has 20+ years of M&A and VC experience, previously serving as MD at Happiness Capital (Lee Kum Kee Group) and Managing Partner at Digital Garage. - Merisha Stevenson
Broadcaster, Presenter & Producer @ BBCPanel "Family Offices as strategic secondary buyers"
BBC broadcaster and executive facilitator with 20+ years of experience across live media, risk management, and corporate governance. Founder of Media Impact Lab, she specializes in high-stakes corporate communication and board-level dialogue. - Chad Belinsky
Strategic Advisor @ Vitae IntegroPanel "DPI in a Liquidity Drought: How Late-Stage VCs and LPs generate real cash returns via Secondaries"
Serial Bootstrap Entrepreneur, PE Platform Exit, Top 1% Vintage VC Investor led by SpaceX (2021), OpenAI & Anthropic (2023), Barbell philosophy: cashflow & leverageable assets <> Asymmetric VC & Impact, Venture Partner, Strategic Advisor, MFO VitaeIntegro.com, Cause AtypicalPath.org. - Yotis Tonnelier
Founder & Managing Partner @ YXS CapitalPanel "DPI in a Liquidity Drought: How Late-Stage VCs and LPs generate real cash returns via Secondaries"
Founder & MP at YXS Capital, 2x exited founder, 10+ years in VC. Former Head of Tech Investments for the Family Office of HRH Prince N.B.A. Al Saud. Specializes in Series A-D tech, backed 5 unicorns (Canva, Wise, Mercury). - Jared Carmel
Founder, Managing Partner & General Partner @ Manhattan Venture PartnersSecondary is Primary: How Liquidity Moved to the Front of the Market
Jared Carmel is a Founder and Managing Partner of Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP), a $2.9B venture secondary platform he co-founded in 2014 and built into a top-decile manager and one of the most active institutional secondary investors in the world. A pioneer of the institutional venture secondary market, Jared originated MVP’s Land and Expand™ strategy entering at Series C+ alongside leading VCs and scaling into the winners through secondaries and the “Secondary is Primary™” thesis that now anchors how the category is understood. Under his leadership, MVP has placed two funds on 2025 Bloomberg’s Top 10 list in their category and ranked among PitchBook’s Top 10 global secondary investors by transaction volume. - John Carbrey
Managing Partner @ FutureSightWhy secondary funds print paper gains, where the liquidity actually goes, and the only defensible way to play the market
John Carbrey is a two-time B2B SaaS founder with successful exits. He scaled one company to serve roughly 10% of U.S. schools and later grew the acquiring company’s education division from $40M to $70M in annual recurring revenue. Today, he leads FutureSight, an AI-focused B2B venture builder based in San Francisco and Toronto, while raising its next fund and refining its investment thesis around the future of AI software businesses. - Gustav von Sydow
Partner @ EQT Ventures & GrowthPanel "Continuation Funds: Separating Conviction from Convenience"
Gustav von Sydow is an investor at EQT, based in New York. A former founder/CEO, he now leads liquidity solutions and co-chairs the portfolio and exit reviews for the firm's venture funds. - Pedram Moussavi
Founder; Asset Management Counsel @ Moussavi Law PLLCPanel "Continuation Funds: Separating Conviction from Convenience"
Pedram Moussavi is the Founder of Moussavi Law PLLC, advising asset managers and institutional investors on complex secondaries. He has a deep focus on the legal and commercial terms that drive GP-led transactions, continuation vehicles, and liquidity solutions for private market participants. - Kristina Kulikova
Senior VP of LP Advisory @ Setter CapitalTrack Moderator
Kristina Kulikova is the Senior VP of LP Advisory at Setter Capital and host of the Women of Secondaries Podcast on SecondaryLink. With over 13 years of experience in Secondaries, she bring expertise across the full LP Advisory transaction cycle from sourcing, negotiating, executing and closing , spanning the full spectrum of alternative asset classes, assisting some of the largest institutional investors and secondary funds globally on both simple and complex transaction structures.
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