Afaf Ibraheem Warren is a Managing Director at Haveli Investments. Based in Austin, she joined the firm in 2023. Afaf is a member of the investment team. In her role, she assists the firm in sourcing, due diligence, transaction execution, portfolio management, and value creation. Before joining Haveli, Afaf served as an investment professional at Hg Capital and at Siris Capital, where she focused on technology buyouts. She previously held roles at Vance Street Capital and Morgan Stanley. She earned her bachelor's degree from Harvard University and M.B.A. with Distinction from Harvard Business School. Afaf is married and has two young children who keep her busy.

Aneliya Crawford joined Sodali & Co in January 2026 as Chief Partnerships Officer & Shareholder Advisory Global Practice Lead. She is an accomplished executive with almost 20 years of experience as an M&A and governance advisor in the public and private markets. Aneliya is a recognized leader in shareholder activism, M&A, and corporate governance, with a distinctive blend of legal and banking expertise across premier global institutions.   

Most recently, Aneliya served as the Head of Corporate Shareholder Advisory, Americas at UBS.  Prior to that, she was Global Head of Activism and Defense at UBS, where she built out the investment bank’s activism defense practice around the globe and advised some of the world’s largest corporations.  She led a senior team of Managing Directors and Executive Directors, advising clients on complex M&A, activism, ESG, and capital markets transactions and driving strategic client engagements across borders.  

Prior to UBS, Aneliya was an equity partner in the M&A group of Schulte, Roth & Zabel (now MCDermott Will and Schulte), co-leading one of the premier shareholder activism groups in private law, and previously a partner at Olshan Frome Wolosky, representing clients in hundreds of activist proxy contests and hostile takeovers for some of the world's most prominent investors. Her career is marked by hands-on leadership, commercial acumen, and a collaborative approach.  

Aneliya earned dual degrees in business and political science in Bulgaria, completed her law degree in New York, and a post-graduate business degree in Cambridge, MA. Aneliya brings a proven track record of building and scaling advisory businesses, leading high-performing teams, and delivering integrated solutions to blue-chip clients globally. 

A partner in the Paul, Weiss San Francisco office, Austin is a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Groups. Austin focuses his practice on representing private equity firms in all aspects of their businesses, including domestic and cross-border leveraged and management buyouts, venture and growth capital investments, divestitures, other mergers and acquisitions, equity financings, restructurings and work outs, joint ventures and corporate governance matters. He has expertise in structuring, negotiating and managing the corporate, securities and tax aspects of complex transactions.

Brent Humphries joined AB in 2014 as a founding member and President of AB Private Credit Investors, where he has primary responsibility for overseeing all aspects of the business, including chairing the investment committee, fundraising, investor relations, investment originations, structuring and underwriting, as well as ongoing portfolio management and compliance. He previously held the same position with Barclays Private Credit Partners. Prior to joining Barclays, Humphries served as group head, generalist financial sponsor coverage for Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group, and later led its structured private equity initiative. Before that, he served as a partner and managing director of the Texas Growth Fund, a middle market private equity firm. Humphries previously worked in leveraged finance with NationsBank and J.P. Morgan, and as a financial analyst with Exxon. He holds a BBA in finance with an emphasis in accounting from the University of Oklahoma and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Location: Austin

Carl Press is a Partner on the Explore team at Thoma Bravo. Based in San Francisco, he joined the firm in 2015. Carl is responsible for founding and co-leading the firm’s Explore platform, which focuses on investing in high-growth, middle-market software and technology companies. GrowthCap named Carl to its list of Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors for 2021. Prior to Thoma Bravo, he was a technology investor at HighBar Partners, an Associate in the Special Situations Group at Oaktree Capital Management, and an Analyst at UBS Investment Bank. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees at SLS Preschool. Carl holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Palmer Scholar, and a BS, with honors, in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Chris Heasley represents clients in the development, acquisition, and divestiture of energy, infrastructure, and technology-related projects and assets. Chris brings extensive experience guiding energy providers, corporates, and private equity sponsors through a full spectrum of high-stakes strategic transactions, particularly in the upstream, midstream, downstream, and renewables sectors. He regularly advises clients on complex commercial matters involving: Mergers and acquisitions Joint ventures Tax equity financing DrillCo arrangements Farmout and participation agreements Transportation, supply, offtake, and gathering agreements A recognized thought leader, Chris writes and speaks regularly on developments in US and international energy markets, including for SuperReturn, the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law, the Energy Bar Association, the Houston Bar Association, and the Texas CLE. Before joining Latham, he co-led the real asset transactions practice of another global law firm.

Christopher (“Chris”) Manning is CEO and Managing Partner of Greenbelt Capital Partners. Chris founded Greenbelt Capital Partners in 2021, prior to which he was a Managing Partner at Trilantic North America. Chris joined Trilantic North America at its inception in 2009, where he was also Chairman of Trilantic Energy Partners North America. Chris remains a Senior Advisor to Trilantic North America and Chris currently serves as a member of the Investment Committees of Trilantic Capital Partners VI North America and Trilantic Energy Partners II North America, and was an investment committee member of all other predecessor Trilantic North America funds. Prior to the founding of Trilantic, Chris had various roles at Lehman Brothers including Partner in the merchant banking business, the Head of Lehman Brothers’ Investment Management Division in Asia-Pacific, including both the Asset Management and Private Equity businesses; and was also a member of the Global Investment Management Division Executive Committee and the Private Equity Division Operating Committee. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers in 1997, Chris was the Chief Financial Officer of The Wing Group, a developer of international power projects and before that was in the investment banking department of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Chris is or has been a director or Chairman of a number of portfolio companies.

Chris holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BBA from the University of Texas at Austin. Chris is the past Chairman of the University of Texas New York for McCombs Executive Committee and is a Board Member of the University of Pennsylvania’s Squash Committee. Chris also serves on the University of Texas McCombs School of Business Advisory Council, the Business School’s Foundation, as well as the University’s Development Board.

Christophe Browne is a Partner on the Secondary team primarily focused on the origination, evaluation, and execution of continuation vehicle transactions. Christophe joined Lexington in 2024 from ICG, where was a founding member of the strategic equity business serving as Managing Director and Head of North America. Prior to that, he was a founding partner at NewGlobe Capital Partners. Christophe graduated from Georgetown University with a BS in International Economics and from Columbia Business School with an MBA.

Dan is a Managing Director on H.I.G.’s GP Solutions team. He is based in the firm’s New York office and leads all aspects of the investment process, including sourcing, transaction structuring, deal execution, and portfolio monitoring.

Prior to joining H.I.G., Dan was a Managing Director, Partner, and Investment Committee member of Morgan Stanley’s Ashbridge secondaries team, where he focused on single-asset GP-led transactions. Dan has over 18 years of experience as an investor and leader in the private equity secondaries market.

Dan earned a B.S. in Finance from Penn State University.

Eric Schwartzman serves as head of Baker’s Private Equity Group in California. Based in San Francisco, he leverages decades of transactional experience and business judgment to help clients across industries buy, build and sell companies. His practice spans a range of industries, including technology and its many subsectors, as well as telecom, media and entertainment, financial services, healthcare, consumer, retail, energy, manufacturing, and industrials.

John K. Kelley helps investment managers navigate all aspects of their business and operations, with a particular emphasis on forming private investment funds and structuring and executing secondary transactions.

John draws on strategic know-how and keen business acumen to represent sponsors in private fund formation across a wide range of sectors and geographies. He also regularly advises on:

• Complex strategic minority and preferred equity investments
• Structuring firm ownership and operations
• Succession planning
• Spin-outs and executive transitions
• Incentive arrangements

John has extensive experience representing buyers, sellers and market intermediaries in the full spectrum of secondary transactions, including portfolio sales, direct secondaries, preferred equity financings, multi- and single-asset restructurings, tender offers, and synthetic transactions.

He also advises institutional investors on reviewing and negotiating portfolio investments and financings, including investments in private equity, credit, energy, natural resources, real estate, venture capital, and hedge funds as well as co-investments, funds of one, and separately managed accounts.

Mr. Campbell is a Senior Managing Director of Peak Rock. He is responsible for all aspects of the investment process including sourcing, structuring, financing, and supporting the execution of growth and operational initiatives. Mr. Campbell serves on the Board of Directors of numerous portfolio companies and has led investments across a wide range of industries including infrastructure services, chemicals, distribution, packaging, consumer packaged food, and industrials.

Previously, Mr. Campbell was with McKinsey & Company, a leading consulting firm, where he worked across a variety of industries on operational and organizational improvement initiatives. Prior to joining McKinsey, he was at Houlihan Lokey, where he was a member of the Financial Restructuring Group.

Mr. Campbell received a master’s degree in business administration, with distinction, from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in economics, magna cum laude, from Vanderbilt University.

Kristin Custar is a Partner and the Head of the Global Investor Capital Group of TJC. She is also a member of the Executive Committee. Kristin joined TJC in 2007. Kristin oversees all fundraising efforts, investor relations and general marketing activities. Prior to TJC, Kristin was the Director of Investor Relations at First Reserve Corporation. Prior to First Reserve, she spent two years working at GE Equity as a limited partner and four years at Arthur Andersen in the Transaction Advisory Group. Kristin currently serves on the board of directors of Spectrio. Kristin also serves on the Advisory Board for Girls Who Invest. Kristin received a B.S. degree in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Laura Stake is a partner in the Investment Funds Practice Group in the Austin office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Laura represents sponsors in connection with the formation of private investment funds within a broad range of strategies and industries, including energy, infrastructure, real estate, technology, ESG & impact, growth, and traditional buyout. Laura has handled fund formation matters ranging from first-time funds to funds raising over $15 billion. Laura’s practice also focuses on advising fund sponsors on a wide variety of related matters, including seed/minority investments, spin-outs, internal restructuring and governance, personnel matters, extraordinary events and regulatory compliance.

Mr. Shantz is the Managing Director of Credit and Hedge Funds for the $42 billion Employee Retirement System of Texas. He transformed its core-plus style fixed income portfolio into distinct Rates and Credit mandates and simultaneously developed its internal high yield management capacity. In 2022 he took the additional responsibility of leading the Hedge Fund team. Prior to ERS Mr. Shantz was a Managing Director and Investment Committee member for the Lockheed Martin Investment Management Company where he implemented a similar fixed income format utilizing liability driven investing and additionally created its internally managed hedge fund portfolio. Before Lockheed he was the senior fixed income portfolio manager at the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System. Mr. Shantz has additionally served on the investment committee for Sandia National Laboratories, The Long Center Investment Committee, is a former president of the Nashville Society of Financial Analyst, is a Chartered Financial Analyst since 1996, performed his Ph.D. studies in Finance at the University of Tennessee, and graduated with honors in Economics and Business Administration from Rhodes College.

R. Davis Noell

Senior Managing Director and Co-Head, North America

Providence Equity Partners

Davis Noell is a senior managing director based in our New York office. He co-leads the firm's private equity investment activities in North America, oversees investor relations and fund raising efforts, and is a member of the firm's investment, portfolio review and executive committees. Mr. Noell is currently the chairman of the board of DoubleVerify (NYSE: DV) and a director of A2MAC1, The Chernin Group, Mediawan, Smartly.io and THE·TEAM. He was previously a director of 365 Retail Markets, GLM, OEConnection, Stream Global Services, SunGard Data Systems and World Triathlon Corporation. Prior to joining Providence in 2003, Mr. Noell worked in Deutsche Bank's media investment banking group. He is a trustee of The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, GA and Gilman School in Baltimore, MD. Mr. Noell holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Stephen works with investment team members and other Partners to identify, analyze, and assess potential investment opportunities.

Stephen is a seasoned technology executive with in-depth experience with Fortune 100 and growth-stage organizations. He brings over 30 years of experience across SaaS applications, AI and analytics, and IoT services in industries including healthcare, manufacturing, and consumer goods. Currently he is the CMO for SparkCognition, where he has been instrumental in helping the AI solutions provider achieve unicorn status.

Previously Stephen served as General Manager of Honeywell’s $2.5 billion IoT and software business, leading the digital transformation of this century-old $40 billion manufacturer. Prior to joining Honeywell, Stephen was Group CMO of IBM Watson, where he was one of the principal business architects that delivered next-generation AI technology, driving over $5 billion of revenue in six years and 10,000 engagements. Other positions include President of Aberdeen Group (HHS), President & CEO of Azerity, which was acquired by Model N, Inc. (MODN), and CMO of Digital Market, which was acquired by Oracle (ORCL). Additionally, Stephen has served on various private and public boards, most recently the supercomputing company Cray Inc., which was sold to Hewlett Packard (HPE).

Edward J. Grefenstette serves as President/CIO of The Dietrich Foundation, a ~$1.5 billion foundation formed following the passing of Bill Dietrich II in 2011 that supports higher education institutions and other civic organizations in Pennsylvania.  Ed previously served as Treasurer/CIO of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Prior to CMU, he co-founded a PE fund, following a career in investment banking and law.  He earned his AB in Economics and JD from Georgetown University and an MBA from CMU.  He serves on several boards/investment committees, including CMU and UPMC.  He is a frequent speaker on topics related to PE/VC, particularly in the emerging markets. 

Greg is the Global Co-Head of Private Equity at APG Asset Management US Inc.

Prior to joining APG US, Mr. Jania was a Managing Director, Partner, and member of the investment committee at WP Global Partners, a 25-person, $2 billion private equity firm founded in 2005. WP Global’s clients include sovereign wealth funds, international insurance companies, endowments, and pension plans. WP Global invested in global buyout, debt, and venture funds and was also an active co-investor.

Prior to that, Mr. Jania was a Senior Vice President in the Investment Management Group of GE Commercial Finance, which managed a $2.5 billion private equity portfolio consisting of over 230 buyout, mezzanine, and venture funds and direct equity investments.  Prior to joining GE, he was Vice President at One Equity Partners, a subsidiary of Bank One that invested more than $1 billion in private equity funds during his tenure and managed a $2.2 billion private equity portfolio with over 125 fund investments. Mr. Jania started his career in credit analysis and debt underwriting at American National Bank, a subsidiary of Bank One in Chicago.

 Mr. Jania received an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago and earned a B.A. in political science and economics, magna cum laude, from Wabash College where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

Yangge Seaman is Head of Private Investments at the Children’s Health Foundation in Dallas, TX. In this role, she has built and scaled the foundation’s private investment program across buyouts, venture capital, and illiquid real assets. Beyond primary allocations, she is actively involved in co-investments and secondary transactions.

Prior to joining Children’s Health, Yangge held senior investment roles at ICMA-RC and Texas Children’s Hospital Foundation. She began her career in endowment and foundation investing at UNC Management Company. Yangge earned her B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and is a CFA® charterholder.