Michael Hacker
Managing Director - Partner and Global Head of Portfolio Finance
AlpInvest Partners
Michael Hacker, Partner, is Co-head of AlpInvest's Secondary & Portfolio Finance team where he leads the firm's Portfolio Finance efforts globally and is focused on providing a broad range of liquidity solutions to owners and managers of private investments from credit to equity. Michael is also Chairman of AlpInvest's global Investment Committee and represents AlpInvest on numerous Advisory Boards.
Over more than 20 years as both an investor and advisor, Michael has led over 75 transactions across secondaries and portfolio finance, representing more than $25 billion in total volume, including purchases of LP interest portfolios, various portfolio financings, fund recapitalizations, spinouts, continuation funds, and structured solutions.
Michael joined AlpInvest Partners in 2007 from UBS Investment Bank, where he was a founding member of the Private Funds Group responsible for providing Secondary Market advisory services. Previously, he was a member of the Leveraged Finance Group of CIBC World Markets. Michael received a BA in History, cum laude, from Williams College and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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Yann Robard
Managing Partner
Dawson
The Firm has over US$27 billion of assets under management and has deployed over US$33 billion across more than 320 transactions. Dawson has over 260 employees and offices in Toronto, London, New York, and Hong Kong.
Prior to Dawson, Yann spent a cumulative 13 years at CPP Investment Board (“CPPIB”). Yann joined CPPIB in 2001 at the inception of its private equity investment program. He was Managing Director, Head of Secondaries and Co-Investments in 2015 when he left CPPIB to establish Dawson.
