Hemal Mirani leads the firm’s efforts in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. As Head of APAC, she is the lead executive responsible for our business in the region. Hemal also works closely with the firm’s regional leaders in the Americas and Europe and the Middle East (EMEA). Together, they ensure global alignment on key initiatives and the continued delivery of excellence across our business around the globe.

Hemal first joined HarbourVest in 1997 and spent 11 years developing relationships with leading Asian private equity managers. She also worked with our investors and consultants across the region to advance and optimize their private market investment programs. She then spent six years with CVC Capital Partners in Hong Kong, where she was head of investor relations in Asia and Chief Administrative Officer. She rejoined HarbourVest’s senior management team in Asia in 2015 to focus on investments and investor relations across the Asia Pacific region.

Hemal received a BA in Commerce from Sydenham College (Bombay) in 1989, an MA in International Studies with a Japanese language concentration from the Joseph H. Lauder Institute, and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School in 1997. The latter two were part of a joint degree program at the University of Pennsylvania. Hemal speaks fluent Japanese.

David Gross is the Co-Managing Partner of Bain Capital, a leading private investment firm with offices on four continents and approximately $185 billion in assets under management.  He also serves as Asia Managing Partner.  He joined the firm in 2000.

David is a founding member of Bain Capital’s Asia business, having launched and managed the Tokyo office in 2006. He was instrumental in the expansion of the Asia business in the region covering the firm’s activities across private equity, private credit, special situations, life sciences, and technology. David has led many of the most prominent transactions in the region over that period including Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory Corporation), Genpact (NYSE: G), Hero MotorCorp (NSE: HEROMOTOCO), Japan Wind Development, Macromill, Jupiter Shop Channel, Domino’s Pizza Japan, and Uniview Technologies. Prior to that, David was a key member of the team that formed the firm’s industrial and technology investment verticals, having worked on several transactions including UGS PLM Software, Innophos, US Internetworking, and MEI Conlux. 

David also led the creation of Bain Capital’s Macro function which provides macroeconomic insights and investment strategies to benefit the broader platform in investment theme development as well as portfolio and risk management. 

 Prior to Bain Capital, David was a consultant with Bain & Company from 1998 - 2000 and worked with NEC Corporation in Tokyo from 1992 - 1996.

 David earned an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar and a B.S. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

 David is active on numerous non-profit boards including the Berklee College of Music, Boston Children’s Hospital Trust Board, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences Board of Overseers, and the advisory boards of the Kelly Writer’s House and the Center for the Advanced Study of India, both at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a board member of Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio S.p.A.