Joyce Abernethy oversees the day-to day work of investment, corporate governance and securities litigation attorneys and she manages outside investment counsel.  Joyce provides advice across the portfolio on investment negotiations, existing investments, new investment strategies and structures, as well as on the Fund’s ESG Strategy and related policies. In addition to serving as CRF’s fiduciary counsel, she regularly advises on compliance and regulatory matters.  

Jon Jurva represents public pension plans, foundations, endowments, funds of funds, and other institutional investors in making venture capital, real estate, private equity, and hedge fund investments. In addition, Jon represents general partners in the formation and operation of a variety of private investment funds and funds of funds. During his work with general partners and limited partners, he has advised clients on numerous matters relating to the operation of private investment funds, including key person events, management transitions and other significant events.

Kimberly Mann is a Shareholder at Shulman Rogers, where she co-leads the investment funds practice. She represents institutional investors, corporations, family offices and high-net-worth individual investors in connection with investments in private investment funds, co-investments, direct investments and secondary transactions. She also represents fund sponsors, registered investment advisers and exempt reporting advisers, primarily in the middle market, on matters pertaining to fund formation and regulatory compliance.  

Lisa Melchior is the Founder and Managing Partner of Vertu Capital. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Vertu Capital is a private equity firm that invests in high potential global technology companies, with a focus on software and software enabled businesses. Vertu’s mission is to partner with management teams of market leading and scaling companies to accelerate and support the next stage in their growth journey. Vertu’s team brings decades of domain experience, best practices, actionable value creation strategies and a deep network to its portfolio investments. Vertu has offices in Toronto and Montreal.

Kerstin Dittmar is the founder and Managing Partner of L2 Point Management, a Latina-owned manager focused on structured equity solutions for late-stage growth companies. L2 Point targets investments intended to provide “growth-equity-like” returns at a portfolio level, with significantly lower volatility of outcomes, while addressing a risk reward gap left in between credit and equity funds. L2 Point has approximately $400 million in AUM and has completed over $300 million of transactions since launching in 2019. Ms. Dittmar previously led the structured equity strategy for TPG Sixth Street Partners, a $70+ billion AUM special situations platform. Prior to TSSP, Ms. Dittmar worked in the Americas Special Situations Group at Goldman Sachs.

Jennifer Keith is a Managing Partner with Ethos Real Estate and is responsible for investment strategy and execution. Jennifer’s career includes investment banking, private equity, distressed debt and public-private partnership experience. She also brings to Ethos a deep expertise in California public policy, land use, affordable housing and building political, community and financial stakeholder consensus.

Jennifer holds a Master of Real Estate Development from the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and German Literature from the University of Virginia. Jennifer is active in a number of leadership positions including Vice Chair of the ULI Public Private Partnership Council, Co-Chair of the LA Business Council Housing and Transportation Committee and member of the board of Coro Southern California and Mercy Housing California. Jennifer was also recently re-appointed by the California State Insurance Commissioner to serve as Vice Chair of the California Organized Investment Network (COIN) Advisory Board as an expert practitioner in the affordable housing space.

David Perez is a Co-founder and a Managing Partner of Avance Investment Management, LLC. Prior to founding Avance, Mr. Perez was the President and COO of Palladium Equity Partners. Prior to Palladium, Mr. Perez had several senior private equity roles, including Principal of General Atlantic Partners and Atlas Venture and Senior Associate of Chase Capital Partners. Mr. Perez started his career with James D. Wolfensohn and Co, focused on mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Perez earned his B.S. in Systems Engineering from Dresden University of Technology, a M. Eng. in Engineering Management from Cornell University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Perez is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Co-Chair of the Harvard University Cuba Studies Advisory Group, President of the Board of Trustees of Trinity School in New York City, and a longstanding board member and former President of the Board of Ballet Hispánico. He also served as Chairman of the Board of the NAIC. Mr. Perez lives in New York with his wife and three children.