ATLANTA – Representatives from prominent fund-of-funds will debate and discuss the current state of the venture capital industry at the Limited Partner Discussion panel at the 2009 Southeast Venture Conference.
Where are they allocating their money now and why? What’s the outlook for venture investing for the short and long term? Is the venture capital model broken? How is consolidation going to affect the industry? Is it possible to raise a fund in the current market?
Join us for this discussion, just one of eight panel topics at this year’s SEVC, set for March 11-12, 2009 at Atlanta’s Intercontinental Buckhead Hotel. (The Intercontinental Hotel room reservation deadline is February 8th, so book prior to guarantee the conference rate).
Limited Partner Discussion panelists include:
• Bart Shirley, CFA – Managing Director, Key Capital Corporation
Bart Shirley joined KCC in 2002 to manage the institution’s $900 million private equity fund-of-funds portfolio and has subsequently made investments into some of the top performing VC funds.
Prior to joining Key, Shirley helped start and co-manage the private equity activities for Nationwide Insurance, committing almost $600 million to high quality venture capital and LBO funds, and a select number of direct co-investments.
Before joining the private equity world, Bart worked in the municipal bond market as both an advisor and buy-side analyst.
• Catharine Burkett – Principal, Camden Partners
Catharine manages the Camden Private Capital Fund of Funds. With extensive experience as a limited partner, Catharine over the last 20 years has designed, built and managed private equity funds for corporate pensions, foundations, and two major university endowments.
Camden has holdings in such venture firms as Silicon Valley’s Bay Partners, Intersouth Partners, Inverness Capital Partners, Galen Partners and Sanderling Venture Partners.
• Michael Hacker – Investment Manager, AlpInvest Partners
One of the largest private equity investment managers globally, AlpInvest manages over $50 billion with an annual allocation in excess of $6 billion with over 100 core general partnership relationships worldwide. Hacker is a member of AlpInvest’s Secondary Investment team, focusing on crafting innovative liquidity and restructuring solutions.
His team creates portfolio solutions to illiquid assets, drawing on the entire AlpInvest Partners platform with its global scale and reach.
• Kristine Brandt – Principal, Invesco Private Capital
Kristine is involved in the quantitative and qualitative analysis of prospective partnership fund investments for New York based Invesco Private Capital, which has invested $4 billion in capital to more than 440 private equity partnerships. Kristine serves on several partnership advisory boards, including .406 Ventures, Catterton, Eureka, Lovell Minnick, One Liberty Ventures, Pfingsten, Salix Ventures, Spire Capital and Technology Crossover Ventures.
Other panel topics at this year’s conference include:
• State of the Market: The Venture Capital Report
• Changes in Washington: Investment Implications and Opportunities
• Upside in a Downturn: Finding Opportunities in the Current Economy
• Where’s the Exit? Liquidity Challenges in Today’s Market
• Turning Venture Capital Due Diligence to Your Firm’s Advantage
• CFO Roundtable Discussion
• Growing Tomorrow’s Southeast
In addition to panel sessions, the conference will feature 40 high-growth dynamic presenting companies from across the southeast and mid-atlantic regions. SEVC presenting companies are the leaders of today and tomorrow’s economy.
The sold-out 2007 and 2008 SEVC’s held in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and Tysons Corner, Virginia respectively featured over $80 billion in private equity investment capital represented.
The SEVC is the premier event for entrepreneurs to connect with investment capital in the southeast, which boasts the highest venture capital backed return of any region in the US.
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Southeast Venture Conference, February 29 – March 1, 2012 at the Ritz Carlton in Tysons Corner, VA – Where Smart Money Meets Smart People.
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