Anish Batlaw, Operating Partner – General Atlantic

Anish Batlaw is an operating partner at General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm. He joined the firm in 2015 to lead their human capital efforts in support of their global portfolio companies. His responsibilities include development of management teams, board of directors, and executive compensation. Over his 30 year career, he has also held roles at PepsiCo, Microsoft, Novartis Pharmaceuticals and TPG Capital. He has served on the boards of Avon, Alinta Holdings, HCP Global Holdings, and TPG Wholesale Private Limited.

In 2021, Anish was named one of the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business, an award given by the Asian American Business Development Center, the most prestigious forum highlighting the achievements of Asian American business professionals.

'Iolani Bullock, Associate Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – The Carlyle Group

‘Iolani L. Bullock is associate vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at The Carlyle Group. In her role she drives global DEI strategy with a data-driven focus on programming and initiatives. She began her career on Wall Street in human capital management. Most recently, she sat on the MBA admissions committee for Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business and served as the first, full-time employee to oversee diversity initiatives. In her spare time, she serves on the board of trustees for the Global Citizens Public Charter School, the first public charter school to offer dual Mandarin and Spanish language immersion in Washington, D.C.

Dan Campbell, Partner – JM Search

Daniel Campbell is a partner at JM Search who specializes in working with private equity firms and their portfolio companies. His background, which combines experience in recruiting, investing, and operational leadership, provides him with a sophisticated and complete understanding of the challenges, opportunities, and mindsets of private equity investors and their portfolio company leaders.

Prior to joining JM Search, Daniel served as a buy-side private equity professional, a management team member, and a director of multiple private equity sponsored companies. His roles included CEO of a licensed consumer products manufacturer, post-merger integration manager of a marketing services consolidation backed by GTCR, and private equity associate with Citicorp Venture Capital (CVC) – Latin America.

Rick DeRose, Co-Founder and Managing Partner – Acertitude

Rick DeRose is a purpose-driven entrepreneur and executive search leader on a mission to unleash human potential globally. As co-founder and managing partner of executive search firm Acertitude, he is charting a new course to take businesses to the next level by connecting them with brilliant people at work.

Rick personally advises some of the largest and most admired global private equity firms, middle market PE firms, portfolio companies, and corporate enterprises, solving significant leadership challenges related to value-creation, growth, restructuring, and digital transformation. Over his 25-year career, he has conducted over 500 executive searches for board members, CEOs, and C-level executives across the private equity, technology, healthcare, and professional services sectors.

Launched in 2015, Acertitude represents a new era in executive search, already a top 30 global search firm, and continues to expand rapidly in the private equity space. The success of Acertitude expands on Rick’s role as founder of search firm TEG, an Acertitude company. He holds an MBA, Finance from Drexel University and a B.S., Accounting from St. Joseph’s University.

When he’s not at work, Rick relishes family time with his wife and their two sons. Weekends are active, filled with running, training, and sports and their shared love of travel.

Anna Edwin, Global Head of Talent Development – TPG

Anna Edwin is the global head of talent development at TPG. In her role, Anna leads the strategy for performance management, talent management and diversity and inclusion.

Previously, Anna worked at BlackRock, where she served as the head of leadership development. In this role, she was responsible for all of BlackRock’s executive leadership programs. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2017, Anna spent ten years at Goldman Sachs in a variety of human resources roles, including serving as a business partner for the technology division and roles within the global leadership and diversity team and Goldman Sachs University. 

Gary Fielding, Private Equity Operating Advisor Human Capital – Francisco Partners Consulting

Garry Fielding is private equity operating advisor, human capital at Francisco Partners Consulting. Prior to joining Francisco Partners Consulting, Garry was vice president of global HR services and talent acquisition at Mitel Networks, where he was responsible for implementing Workday globally, building a new recruiting function, establishing company-wide human capital metrics, and leading a host of other operational improvements. Before that, he was an associate principal at a start-up Workday consulting firm where he developed consulting practitioners, led the payroll practice, and helped companies establish their global HR systems infrastructure. Garry has spent over 17 years developing his global HR expertise and has worked across a broad spectrum of industries for all types of companies including start-ups, mid-sized to large corporations, and consulting firms.

Jenna Fisher, Managing Director, Corporate Officers Practice – Russell Reynolds Associates

Jenna Fisher leads the Russell Reynolds Associate’s corporate officers sector globally and manages the Palo Alto office. She specializes in leading senior financial officer assignments and has successfully completed more than 300 searches serving clients across various sectors, including the technology, consumer, healthcare and retail industries. Jenna’s clients include Fortune 1000 corporations, middle-market private equity portfolio companies and highly visible, pre-public venture capital-backed enterprises. She focuses on recruiting CFOs, as well as treasurers, corporate controllers, FP&A professionals, internal audit executives and tax specialists. Jenna is also involved at the board level, recruiting financial experts to serve on Audit Committees and preparing organizations for CFO succession. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, though her work spans North America, Europe and Asia.

Before joining Russell Reynolds Associates, Jenna was a consultant with Bain & Company, where she advised private equity clients and senior management of Fortune 500 technology, consumer goods and retail companies on a variety of strategic issues. She started her career as an entrepreneur, founding and successfully selling a services company in Houston.

Keith Giarman, Managing Partner, Global Private Equity Practice – DHR International

Keith Giarman serves as managing partner of the Private Equity Practice for DHR International, based out of the San Francisco, CA, and New York, NY, offices. He is also a member of the firm’s North American Executive Committee driving overall strategy for the organization.

Keith led the launch and successful expansion of the Private Equity Practice over the past 10 years. Today, under his leadership, the practice manages approximately 100 board, C-level, and senior search assignments per year working with management teams and top-tier investors where the mantra is rapid and long-term enterprise value creation. Keith has also been instrumental in the build out of principal investing teams.

Prior to DHR, Keith built the CEO practice for one of the premiere boutique executive recruiting firms in Silicon Valley serving the venture capital community. In previous operating roles, he worked extensively with VC and PE investors, most recently as President and CEO of Clarus Systems (acquired by OpNet), where he raised more than $20 million to launch the company. Prior to his experience in Silicon Valley, Keith was Vice President of Sales, Service, and Marketing at Citizens Communications (NYSE: CZN), today a $3 billion full‐service communications carrier that was merged with Frontier (NASDAQ: FTR). He was one of five executives on the senior leadership team responsible for 800 employees, $1 billion in revenue, and $200 million in operating income.

Dennis Grady, Partner – Spire Search Partners

Dennis Grady is a partner at Spire Search Partners. He started his career with Thomson Reuters & UBS Investment Bank in data analytics, client connectivity, client relationship management and project management.

Dennis began recruiting in the financial services industry in 2004 with Core Financial before launching Spire in 2007. He spent two years with a top global retained search boutique executing “C” suite and Sr. executive-level searches prior to Spire Search Partners.

Scott Gregory, CEO – Hogan Assessments

As Hogan Assessments’ CEO, Scott Gregory brings years of expertise in executive selection, development, and succession to his leadership and vision for all aspects of Hogan’s domestic and global business. He was one of Hogan Assessments’ first employees and, following a 12-year stint as vice president of talent management and organizational development at Pentair, he returned to Hogan in 2013 to continue to help clients leverage the science of personality.

He is instrumental in providing expertise on executive selection, development, and succession to Hogan’s global, corporate clients and supports the work of Hogan’s global business alliances with distribution partners.

Dan Hawkins, Founder & President – Summit Leadership Partners

After a successful corporate career, Dan Hawkins founded Summit Leadership Partners to help growth-oriented companies and business leaders improve organization performance. Since forming Summit, he has advised numerous boards, investors, CEOs and senior leaders in a myriad of industries across the globe.

Dan brings 25+ years of proven success as a chief human resources officer, top talent and organization development executive, global HR vice president, and other senior leadership roles with high-performing global companies. Dan has deep expertise in leadership, strategy, assessment, executive, and organization development. He is practical, insightful, and focused on outcomes.

Dan’s corporate experiences include well-known companies such Asurion, Ingersoll Rand, MagneTek, and Hoechst Celanese. He has worked in the public and private arena, including private equity and venture capital. His industry experience includes life sciences, chemicals, technology, consumer products, retail, industrial, and financial services. Dan has significant global experience and has coached senior level leaders and organizations in most regions of the world. He has authored and presented numerous topics on leadership, organization change, strategy, leading in global contexts, and strategic talent management.

Richard Herman, Managing Partner and Global Private Equity Practice Leader – ZRG

Richard Herman brings a strong track record of successful senior level search engagements to the Private Equity Practice at ZRG. His focus is building world-class management teams and helping investors maximize returns by recruiting transformational senior leaders. He has worked across a variety of industries, including industrial manufacturing, food and ingredients, consumer goods, professional and consumer services, as well as healthcare and life sciences.

Richard focuses on supporting chief executive and chief financial officers to build best-in-class teams by recruiting for all senior-level finance positions. The core of his practice revolves around recruiting chief financial officers, chief accounting officers/corporate controllers, treasurers, internal audit leaders, tax management and other division finance executives.

Prior to joining ZRG, Richard led recruiting and portfolio talent management at American Capital, a premier middle-market private equity fund and alternative asset manager based in Bethesda, MD with over $24 billion in assets under management. In this role, he partnered with investment leaders and portfolio company executives to drive senior level hiring and talent management for American Capital’s varied portfolio companies.

Richard got his start in executive search at Christian & Timbers (now CTPartners) working with Venture Capital and Private Equity funds to recruit senior level talent. He began his career as a marketing associate at The Advisory Board Company, a strategic research firm focused on healthcare and hospital systems.

Susan Levine, Managing Director and Head of Talent – Bain Capital

Susan Levine joined Bain Capital Private Equity in 2006. She is a managing director and member of the North American private equity team. As head of talent, she leads the human capital agenda across the firm’s North America portfolio which includes ensuring its companies have strong leadership teams supporting their organization acceleration and high performance culture initiatives within their companies.

Prior to joining Bain Capital Private Equity, Susan worked at Bain & Company for eight years on the consulting side serving clients in the financial services, consumer products and industrials areas. Prior to leaving Bain & Company, she also served as director of North America marketing and client development. Previously, she worked in the global consulting practice of Barents Group, advising clients in M&A activity in emerging markets.

Danie Levy, Principal – Talent & Organization Performance – The Carlyle Group

At The Carlyle Group, Danie Levy is principal – portfolio company value creation – talent & organization performance and helps portfolio companies maximize organizational, operational, and leadership effectiveness.

Danie has spent her career partnering with executives to address their most pressing strategic challenges, leading global initiatives, and driving impact across organizations during times of major change. Prior to joining Carlyle, Danie was a project leader at Boston Consulting Group working primarily with private equity and consumer companies. Before BCG, Danie spent seven years at Goldman Sachs as a vice president in the firm’s executive office.

Hugh MacArthur, Head of Global Private Equity – Bain & Company

Hugh MacArthur is a director in the Boston office and head of Bain’s global private equity practice. He helped found the practice 15 years ago, and works with a variety of private equity funds and alternative asset managers, including traditional buyout firms, hedge funds, infrastructure and real estate funds, distressed debt funds, sovereign wealth funds, venture capital firms and banks.

Working with these investment firms, Hugh has led assignments on asset class strategy, geographic footprint, fund operations, organizational effectiveness, fund raising, investment deal generation, strategic due diligence and portfolio company improvement. He has advised funds in the US, Europe, India and Asia, and has worked on hundreds of deals in leveraged buyout, restructuring assignments and merger integration.

Hugh has authored frequently on private equity value creation, state of the industry, and other related topics in publications around the globe, including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Economic Times of India, China Daily, Forbes, and London Business School’s Business Strategy Review. He is also the author of the book Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use, published by Harvard Business Press in January of 2008.

Hugh is also the host of Bain & Company’s Dry Powder: The Private Equity Podcast, in which he interviews leading experts on the trends and opportunities that will redefine the private equity industry.

Alice Mann, Operating Partner – Blue Wolf Capital Partners

Dr. Alice Mann is an operating partner at Blue Wolf Capital Partners LLC. For over 20 years, Dr. Mann has advised senior executives to build high-performing leadership teams, develop winning talent strategies, and design organizations that achieve outstanding performance results. As the human capital leader, Dr. Mann drives Blue Wolf’s human capital due diligence and partners with portfolio company executives to develop their leadership talent and organizational capabilities to deliver on their value creation plans. Dr. Mann sits on Blue Wolf’s ESG committee and leads the DEI committee.

Prior to joining Blue Wolf in 2018, Dr. Mann was the founder and CEO of Mann Advisors from 2005 to 2018, where she assessed and redesigned scores of organizations and evaluated and developed executive leaders and their teams, from high growth start-ups to global Fortune 500 companies, across major industries and sectors.

From 2007 to 2018, Dr. Mann was a senior consulting affiliate of Kates Kesler, a preeminent organization design firm based in New York City, which was acquired by Accenture in 2020. Previously, Dr. Mann was a vice president at JPMorgan Chase Bank, where from 1999 to 2005 she led large-scale change and restructuring initiatives during several global bank mergers between Chase Bank, JP Morgan, Bank One and Hambrecht and Quist.

Steven Maxwell, SVP Portfolio Human Capital – Audax Group

Steve Maxwell is a senior vice president of portfolio human capital for Audax Private Equity, based in Boston. Prior to joining Audax in 2016, Steve worked in the executive search industry and was the talent partner at Kodiak Venture Partners. Prior to that, he was an operating executive at several technology companies.

John Nimesheim, Managing Director – Slayton Search Partners

John Nimesheim is the managing director of Slayton Search Partners and brings more than 17 years of experience in the retained executive search industry, all with Slayton. John primarily serves manufacturing and distribution clients across the consumer/retail, industrial and medical products industries. Throughout his search career, John has successfully recruited top talent across the entire executive suite including P&L leaders and heads of human resources, finance, strategy, supply chain, manufacturing, research & development, information technology, and sales and marketing for large and mid-cap public, private and private equity backed companies.

In addition to providing advice and counsel to his own clients on their critical executive hiring needs, John also manages the firm’s internal execution team, which includes administration, research and candidate development. With a keen eye on process, John and the candidate delivery team ensure that the quality of execution stands ahead of industry standards. With the goal of striving for flawless execution, the execution team has helped solidify Slayton Search Partners as one of the most respected “super boutiques” in the country.

Prior to joining Slayton, John served as a human resources manager for a mid-size manufacturing company in Chicago. Before that, he was a human resources representative for a large medical products and services company, and for a mid-size distribution company. While his human resources experience was generalist in nature, his primary focus was on the recruitment of mid- and senior-level executives.

Dayton Ogden, Head of Talent & Recruiting – Summit Partners

Dayton Ogden works with Summit Partners portfolio companies and investment teams to identify and recruit high-impact senior executives and board members.

Prior to Summit, Dayton ran the CTPartners practice serving venture capital and growth equity clients and their portfolio companies across executive, board and partner/principal investor searches. Previously, he was a cofounder of full-service technology recruiting boutique Fortis Partners and a senior associate at Spencer Stuart. Before that, he was one of the first salespeople at SoBe, a start-up in the nutraceutical beverage category that was acquired by Pepsi.

Scott Page, Founding Partner & Managing Director – Solomon Page

Nathan Schray, Director of Talent and Organizational Development – Clayton, Dubilier & Rice

Nathan Schray joined CD&R in 2019 and is responsible for internal talent and organizational development. He has worked in a similar capacity across the alternatives investment industry for more than ten years, including roles at Highland Capital and, most recently, Pantheon Ventures. Nathan started his career at KPMG, where he worked in banking and capital markets advisory, focused primarily on operational strategy.

Glenn Stevens, Partner Talent Management – Apollo Global Management

Glenn Stevens is a partner, talent management at Apollo Global Management focused on management team and board construction for Apollo’s portfolio companies. Previously he was the head of talent management at L Catterton, the largest consumer-focused private equity firm in the world.

He has over 20 years of experience in retained executive recruitment and has consulted with some of the world’s leading companies regarding their human capital management issues and strategic growth initiatives. Prior to joining L Catterton, Mr. Stevens was a partner of Odgers Berndtson’s US business leading the Alternative Investment Practice as well as a senior member of the Financial Officers Practice and the Sports Practice.

Prior to joining Odgers Berndtson he worked as a managing director at The Gerson Group spearheading the firm’s Alternative Investment recruitment practice. In 2006 he opened the firm’s London office and led the expansion of the European business. Previously he served as chief executive officer of Nobok Ltd., a global sports media company based in London and also worked for A.T. Kearney within the Financial Services Practice.

Andrew Thompson, CEO and Founder – Notch Partners

Andrew Thompson is managing partner and founder of Notch Partners. Prior to founding Notch Partners, Andy was managing director of Primedia Ventures, where he co-managed two private equity investment funds. Through investments in 17 private companies, the firm generated top-quartile returns. In that capacity, he served on several boards of directors, providing strategic oversight and helping to build top-caliber management teams for the portfolio companies. Previously, he was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. Andy has been a co-founder or early employee of three successful startup businesses. He was a member of the initial team at Andromedia, Inc., a private equity-backed software startup that sold to Macromedia, Inc. in a nine-figure transaction netting outsized returns for the private equity investment group, including UBS Capital, JK&B Capital, Draper International and Platinum Ventures.

His functional expertise spans strategic planning, private equity investment and sales/marketing. His executive relationships cover a broad range of industrial and business-to-business fields, including business process outsourcing, commercial banking, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, enterprise software and telecommunications.

Andy is a frequent speaker to senior executive audiences, addressing the topics of career transition and executive relationships with private equity buyout investors. He is on the board of trustees for New Jersey SEEDS, an academic and leadership program for high-achieving, low-income youth.

Jeff Warren, Managing Director, Private Equity Practice – Russell Reynolds Associates

Jeff Warren leads the global alternatives practice at Russell Reynolds Associates and is the area manager for the firm’s Los Angeles office. He conducts leadership and succession engagements across the C-suite, including the investment and financial officer functions, working with public companies, private equity firms and their portfolio companies. He is a member of the firm’s CEO/board services practice and has also led engagements for a variety of financial services firms including private equity, investment management, banking, consumer finance and real estate clients. Jeff advises clients within private equity and alternatives, working across the investment firm and portfolio company levels.

Prior to joining Russell Reynolds Associates in 1999, Jeff was director of business development for KSL Fairways, a wholly owned subsidiary of KSL Recreation Corporation and a private equity affiliate of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. In this role, he oversaw business development, acquisition and strategic planning activities. Previously, Jeff was in the financial institutions’ investment banking group at Merrill Lynch and, earlier, with Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company in leveraged finance and merchant banking.

Tom Wilson, Managing Director, Executive Search – Frederickson Partners

Tom Wilson is an internationally recognized thought leader in human resources (HR) management and retained executive search, with almost three decades of experience. At Frederickson Partners, he leads the executive search practice, and has worked closely with CEOs and boards of leading biotechnology, high-tech, and Fortune 500 companies to determine HR requirements and complete key HR leadership searches, including work with Alphabet, Doximity, Intel, Northwestern Mutual, StockX, Qualtrics, ServiceNow, Samsung, and CAA. Tom started his professional career in retained executive search with Sullivan & Company, now a part of Heidrick & Struggles. He then spent eight years with Bank of America in global talent acquisition and HR leadership positions, including leading all European talent acquisition out of London for four years.

When Tom was transferred to San Francisco, he was recruited by Valerie Frederickson to lead global talent acquisition and HR management for a technology strategy professional services firm, Trianz. Trianz is recognized by Forbes as one of the best management consulting firms in the world and by Gartner in their magic quadrant. He grew their global workforce and created Trianz University, among other achievements. Before joining Frederickson, Tom held senior executive roles in global talent acquisition and human resources for Standard Chartered Bank, headquartered in London, where he also focused on executive assessments, and with RBC Capital Markets in New York, Toronto, and London, where he led recruitment for this Top 10 investment bank.