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Jeff Johnston
Managing Director, Wells Fargo Securities LLC
Jeff Johnston, CFA, is the Head of Subscription Finance and is a Managing Director in the Asset-Backed Finance and Securitization group in Wells Fargo Securities. Mr. Johnston manages the Subscription Finance team which provides lending facilities to private equity style funds and is responsible for the origination, structuring and monitoring of these facilities for the institutional clients of Wells Fargo. Previously, Mr. Johnston ran the Origination group within Subscription Finance and is responsible for creating the team within ABF in 2010. Mr. Johnston was previously an Officer and portfolio manager for Structured Asset Investors, LLC and Structured Credit Partners, LLC, a wholly owned registered investment advisor of Wells Fargo when he was responsible for the portfolio and workout of legacy structured products for the bank, including cash and synthetic ABS and CRE CDO’s, total return swaps and RMBS positions.
Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Mr. Johnston worked at Bank of America for seven years largely in their Global Structured Products group working on securitizations and financings for a variety of different asset classes.
Mr. Johnston is a CFA charterholder and received a BA from the University of South Florida in Physics, and is currently the Chairman of the Fund Finance Association, a global industry association for constituents in the fund finance space.
Jeff Johnston
Chairman
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Mike Mascia
Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Mike Mascia is Co-Chair of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft’s Finance Group and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He has a globally recognized fund finance practice, having represented lenders in subscription credit facilities to real estate and private equity funds sponsored by many of the world’s preeminent fund sponsors. He has been lead counsel on numerous hybrid facilities, and is one of the few attorneys in the United States with experience in both subscription credit facilities and CLO’s. Mike represents lenders on leverage facilities to secondary funds and other credits looking primarily to fund assets or NAV for repayment. Mike is the founder of the annual Global Fund Finance Symposium and he is a founding member and the Secretary of the Funds Finance Association.
Mike Mascia
Secretary
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Nick Mitra
Managing Director, Natixis
Nick Mitra manages the Capital Call business for Natixis for the Americas and is also the global coordinator for the Capital Call product ensuring compliance with exposure limits and adherence to consistent standards for Capital Call credit facilities. Prior to joining the Global Structured Credit & Solutions Group at Natixis, Nick worked in the Credit Group at Natixis covering Financial Institutions and Insurance Companies. He has also worked at Goldman Sachs and Accenture in different roles and was the CFO of an entrepreneurial start-up – UConnections.com – aimed at the education space. Nick started his career at Lehman Brothers as a trader’s assistant in the security lending/repo area. Nick has approximately 17 years of experience in the financial sector. Nick is also a co-founding member of the Fund Finance Association, an industry group dedicated to Fund Finance and related products, where he sits on the Board of the Association.
Nick holds an MBA in Finance from NYU and a BS in Finance from Lehigh University and is a CFA charter holder. He is also the First Vice Chairman of the Fund Finance Association.
Nick Mitra
First Vice Chairman
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Mary Touchstone
Partner and Head of Fund Finance Practice, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Mary Touchstone is a Partner and Head of the Fund Finance Practice at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Mary has helped to establish Simpson Thacher as a global leader in the representation of financial sponsors in fund financings. She is widely acknowledged as a leading lawyer in the subscription credit facility market and represents many of the world’s preeminent sponsors of private equity, real estate, energy, infrastructure, debt and other investment funds on the largest and most complex fund facilities.
Mary and her team regularly work on a wide variety of fund level financings, including secured and unsecured subscription (or capital call) facilities, with borrowing capacity for the fund as well as its parallel funds, alternative investment vehicles and portfolio companies; fund guarantees and other credit support of portfolio level financings; NAV-based facilities and hybrid variations provided as aftercare facilities for funds that are later in their life cycles with less uncalled capital and more portfolio asset value; credit facilities for managed account vehicles; employee co-investment loan programs; management lines to investment advisers for working capital purposes; and liquidity financings for registered funds.
Mary Touchstone
Vice Chairman
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Jeff Maier
Managing Director, First Republic Bank
Jeff T. Maier is a Managing Director at First Republic Bank’s Private Equity Finance business. Jeff has been working in private equity in various capacities since 2002 when he joined JPMorgan’s proprietary private equity group, JPMorgan Partners. Jeff continued with JPMorgan Chase & Co. after the JPMorgan Partners spin-out in 2005 and was instrumental in the build out and business development efforts of JPMorgan’s Private Equity Fund Services business; a leading provider of third party fund administration and banking services to private equity funds globally. In 2012 Jeff joined Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) to launch their Private Equity Services business in New York. During his tenure at SVB, Jeff was able to increase Client count at a CAGR of 50%+ and grow the New York Private Equity and Venture portfolio from ~$1B in loan commitments to over $6B in loan commitments. Jeff has extensive middle office, back office and business development expertise in private equity, including banking and lending to some of the leading private equity firms in the world. His team at First Republic Bank has banking relationships with over 1,500 Private Equity and Venture Capital firms globally.
Jeff holds a law degree from the University of Missouri and a B.S. from Illinois State University.
Jeff Maier
Vice Chairman
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Tina Meigh
Partner and Head of Fund Finance Practice, Maples Group
Tina is a partner in the Cayman Islands office of Maples Group and is head of the firm’s fund finance group there. She specialises in fund finance transactions and has extensive experience in all aspects of fund finance, banking, derivatives and securitisations. She represents hedge funds, private equity funds and large bank syndicates on lending transactions, bank products, deal structures and on all types of secured transactions. Tina advises a large number of international associations and financial institutions on derivatives and issues surrounding related collateral packages in the context of insolvency in the Cayman Islands. She also has significant experience of general corporate and commercial matters and the establishment of offshore investment funds.
Tina joined Maples Group in 2005 and was elected as a partner in 2012. She previously worked for Lovells LLP where she completed a secondment to Citibank. Tina has been recommended in Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal.
Tina Meigh
Vice Chairman
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Terry Hatton
Senior Vice President and Manager, Union Bank
Terry Hatton is a Senior Vice President in and Manager of the Fund Finance Group for Union Bank in New York. Union Bank’s fund client base includes real estate, mezzanine, infrastructure, energy, private equity and venture capital. The bank has built an established track record, providing fund sponsors with competitive lending products, inclusive of subscription and bridge capital call facilities; senior and asset based debt financing for general industries, as well as health care, environmental, and aerospace and defense. Union Bank also provides junior capital, mezzanine debt and non-control equity through our affiliate, UnionBanCal Equities, Inc. Terry has a bachelor’s degree from University of Western Ontario.
Terry Hatton
Treasurer
Steve Jacoby
Shaun de Jesus
Kiel Bowen
Vassiliyan Zanev
Anthony Scaramucci
Samantha Hutchinson
Anthony Pirraglia
Paul M. Roder
Mary Touchstone