LP/GP Panel: 2021 Outlook - What LPs are thinking about as we head into the new year?

2021 Outlook: What LPs are thinking about as we head into the new year? As dealmakers start thinking about 2021, learn what limited partners are spending their time on as they examine their existing relationships and what they expect out of GPs in the new COVID world.

SPEAKERS:

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Alex Abell is a Partner of RCP Advisors, a member of the Investment Committee, and is active as an Advisory Board member of various underlying funds. Alex is responsible for the identification and analysis of potential fund investments within RCP’s core strategy and serves as the portfolio manager for the Firm’s SBIC fund-of-funds.  In addition, Alex helps manage the Firm’s research efforts as well as its customized investment solutions and advisory services.  He has been involved in the private equity industry since 2001.  Prior to joining RCP, Alex founded Atlas Diligence, acquired by RCP,  where he developed a unique research and advisory platform focused on advanced analytics and systematic due diligence.  Prior to founding Atlas, Alex worked for BlackRock Private Equity Partners. At BlackRock PEP, he helped lead manager identification and due diligence on private capital fund opportunities as well as diligence on co-investment and secondary transactions. He previously worked at Quellos’s Private Capital Strategies Group, Hewlett Packard’s pension fund investment group, and Cagan McAfee Capital Partners.  Alex holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA, magna cum laude, in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.
 

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Whit Matthews is a Senior Investment Director focused on Aberdeen Standard Investment’s Private Equity strategies and a member of its US investment committee.   He is responsible for all aspects of the investment process including portfolio construction and the due diligence and ongoing monitoring of existing and prospective fund commitments, co-investments and secondaries.  Whit joined Aberdeen Standard Investments (SL Capital Partners) in 2009.  Previously, he was an Investment Analyst at the University of Pennsylvania endowment allocating to private equity, venture capital, and hedge fund opportunities. 

Whit has spent the bulk of  his career investing in the North American middle and lower-middle market.  He holds (and/or has held) numerous limited partner advisory board seats for various fund commitments and is a regular speaker at industry conferences and events.

Whit earned a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Villanova University School of Business, and holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation.  Whit also holds Series 7 and 63 licenses with FINRA.

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Bruce Ou is a Managing Partner of GroveStreet and a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. He is active in a number of our client relationships and leads fund and direct investments across all segments of private equity and venture capital in the US and China with both proven and emerging teams. He works closely with clients managing the development of new portfolios as well as the wind-down of mature portfolios.

Prior to joining GroveStreet, Bruce was with the Monitor Group, a leading strategy consulting firm, where he focused on M&A, due diligence, corporate finance and strategy engagements for both corporate and private equity clients in carve-outs, investment diligence, growth initiatives, balance sheet optimization and strategic turnarounds. His engagements spanned the US/Canada, China, London, and Israel.

BA, Economics and Asian Studies, Williams College (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude), MBA, The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (Tuck Scholar with High Distinction) and Native speaker and writer in Chinese. 

 

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Abilash Jaikumar is the Co-Founder & Managing Director at TresVista, a 650+ person firm that is the leading provider of high-end outsourced support for asset managers, investment banks, research firms, and corporates. Supported functions include investor relations, deal sourcing & execution, data analytics, valuation, research, financial modeling, portfolio management, marketing, design, fund administration, and bookkeeping. Collectively, TresVista works with over 1,000 clients, who collectively manage over $10 trillion in AUM, across geographies, asset classes, and economic cycles.

Prior to co-founding TresVista, Abilash has been a Private Equity investor and Investment banker, having completed over $20 billion in M&A and financing transactions. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Association of Corporate Growth, New York. He also serves on the board for Beyond Capital Fund, a charitable impact investment firm focusing on India and East African nations. Abilash graduated with honors from Georgetown University with a degree in Finance & Accounting, minoring in Philosophy & Economics.