Board of Directors

Teia Merring is an Investment Director in the Private Equity Funds and Co-Investment team at USS Investment Management (~£70bn under management), the corporate pension plan for universities in the United Kingdom. She is responsible for executing and managing private equity fund commitments and co-investments across all sectors and geographies and sits on various supervisory boards.Prior to joining USS in 2011, Teia was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in the Healthcare division. She holds a MSc in Applied Economics and Finance from Copenhagen Business School, and her university studies included a MBA term at IIM Ahmedabad, India.

Scott Ramsower leads the Private Equity Funds Team at the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS).  Through his role at TRS, Scott has oversight responsibilities for the group’s approximately $27 billion private equity fund investment portfolio.  In addition, he is a member of the Private Equity Investment Committee and Management Committee, through which he assists in the strategy and development of the overall private equity team and portfolio.  Scott also serves on the ILPA Board of Directors and is an ILPA Faculty Member, helping to educate fellow practitioners in the private equity industry. Prior to joining TRS in 2010, Scott was in the New York office of AlpInvest Partners, a leading private equity investor with over €35 billion in AUM.  At AlpInvest, Scott focused on evaluating new private equity fund commitments to various strategies around the globe.  Prior to AlpInvest, Scott was an associate in the equity research department of Morgan Stanley where he issued sellside research reports on North American mid-cap exploration and production energy stocks.  Previously, he also worked in the litigation consulting group at PricewaterhouseCoopers.  Scott received a BBA, Finance from Texas A&M University.  

Rune joined QIC in 2006 and is one of four senior investment professionals responsible for developing and implementing aglobal private equity investmentstrategy on behalf of QIC and its clients.
Since 2006, Rune has been responsible for the development of QIC's European buyout portfolio and its global distressed debt and turnaround portfolio.

Rune has over 15 years of experience in private equity, having led both primary and secondary fund investments as wellas co‐investments.

Prior tojoining QIC, Rune worked at Danske PrivateEquity and PwC Consulting.

Michael E. Aswad joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2007 and currently serves as the Managing Director of Private Investments.  Michael is responsible for managing RWJF’s global portfolio of private equity draw-down funds across the buyout, VC, real assets, and credit/distressed asset classes.  Prior to joining the Foundation, Michael founded a consulting firm providing corporate finance, strategic, investment, and operational advisory services. Previously, over an 18-year career, Michael was a senior investment banker with J.P. Morgan and Banc of America Securities in their respective Financial Institutions Groups 
 
Michael received a dual degree in Economics and Business from The University Chicago, and an M.B.A. from The University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business. 
 
 

Aaron Daley is an Assistant Senior Investment Officer with the Washington State Investment Board, where he assists in managing a private equity program with net asset value of over $40 billion. In addition to day-to-day portfolio management, Aaron has led internal projects on topics including co-investment, subscription lines of credit, portfolio company metrics, GP-led Secondaries and SPACs. Prior to joining the WSIB in 2017, Aaron worked with PERACS (now MJ Hudson Fund Performance Analytics) and Capital Group Private Markets. Aaron is actively involved with ILPA as a member of the Content and Summit Committees. Aaron has a B.S. in Accounting from Brigham Young University and an MBA from HEC Paris.

Sarah is the Head of Private Equity for Europe and Asia at Allstate Investments, covering primary fund commitments and co-investments alongside growth equity and buyout managers. Prior to joining Allstate Investments, Sarah was running the international private equity platform of a large American family office based out of Switzerland. Sarah is originally from a direct investing and investment banking background and has worked in private equity for more than 20 years. She is a Chartered Accountant.

Han Hu is a Private Equity and Mezzanine Senior Portfolio Manager at Aegon Asset Management, responsible for management of private equity and private credit partnership investments; the commitment of new capital to partnerships on a primary and secondary basis; and investing subordinated debt and private equity capital in companies on a direct basis. Prior to joining Aegon in 2019, he was a portfolio manager at Prosperity Life Insurance Group, a Reservoir Capital portfolio company, focused on private equity and credit investments. Prior to Prosperity, he was a vice president at Reservoir Capital focused on direct private equity and mezzanine investments and private equity seeding. Prior still, Han was an analyst at Silver Point Capital focused on distressed and special situation investments, and an associate at Morgan Stanley focused on structured credit.

Han graduated summa cum laude from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania with a BAS from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a BSE from the Wharton School. He received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar.

Greg is the Head of Fund Investments at APG, a Dutch asset manager, with €450 billion of AUM and approximately €40 billion in commitments to PE. APG makes annual commitments of €6-7 billion per year globally. Fund investments range from $100 to $1 billion and co-investments from $50 million to $250 million. Prior to joining APG, Greg was a Partner at WP Global Partners and previously held positions in private equity at GE Capital and First Chicago Capital Corporation. Greg received an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and earned a B.A. in political science and economics from Wabash College.

George is the Head of Private Equity at Vestcor with responsibility for fund investments, co-investments and directs in North America, Western Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. He has twenty-five years of experience in the private investment industry and was awarded the Canadian Venture Capital Association’s 2012 Venture Capital ‘Deal of the Year’ Award for his direct investment in Q1 Labs Inc. George holds the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors and is currently serving a second two-year term on the Board of Directors of the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA).

Adrian Ohmer joined the foundation in 2020. Previously, Adrian served as senior manager of private equity at UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust, where he was involved with managing investments for the largest purchaser of retiree healthcare in the United States and oversaw the Trust’s investments in diverse and emerging managers. 

He has also held positions with Invest Detroit Ventures and Goldman Sachs.

A native of Indianapolis, Indiana, Adrian earned a juris doctorate from The University of Michigan Law School and a bachelor’s of science in foreign service from Georgetown University. 

Adrian is the recipient of the 2021 Crain’s Detroit Notable LGBTQ in Business, the 2019 Rising Star Award from the National Association of Investment Companies (the largest trade organization for diverse-owned private equity & hedge funds) and the 2015 Up & Coming Investor of the Year Award from the Michigan Venture Capital Association.

Giovanni Orsi is Managing Director, Head of Relationships and Partnerships, Private Equity, at the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments). 

Prior to joining PSP Investments, Giovanni spent a decade at Coller Capital where he was responsible for origination and execution with a focus on Europe and Asia. He also held positions with Merrill Lynch, Reuters and the Italian Private Equity Association.

Giovanni holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSc in Economics and Business from Università Carlo Cattaneo – LIUC in Italy. He serves on the board of directors of Alix Partners and on the advisory board of several global private equity funds. Giovanni authored several publications on private equity and venture capital and is a member of the BVCA LP Committee and ILPA European Advisory Council.

Helena Threlfall is an Investment Director and member of the Investment Committee for Hasma Capital, a single-family office based in London. She has been there for thirteen years and oversees the Private

Equity, Real Estate and Natural Resources portfolio. Prior roles include multi-asset class analysis at Citi

Private Bank, a quantitative hedge fund manager at Barclays Global Investors and several years in

Financial Regulation at the FSA. She also sits on the Finance and Investment Committee at Lucy

Cavendish College, Cambridge as an external advisor and is a CFA Charterholder. Helena received a BA from the University of Leeds in Management Studies.

Margot Wirth is the Director of Private Equity at the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS). In this role, she oversees a private equity portfolio with over $40 billion of total investment exposure (NAV plus unfounded commitments). Since joining CalSTRS in 2001, she has been involved in making over $65 billion in private equity commitments (including over 500 fund investments totaling over $60 billion in commitments and over 100 co-investments approaching $5 billion in commitments).

Prior to joining CalSTRS, Ms. Wirth  was a  valuation consultant for Pricewaterhouse Coopers Valuation Services (and its predecessors) in New York and San Francisco. (This PwC practice later became the nucleus of the Duff&Phelps valuation practice). She was also previously a residential real estate developer in the Washington D.C. suburbs.

Ms. Wirth holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia.

Swee Hong Yap is a Portfolio Manager in the Private Equity team at Freemont Capital, an asset management company with group operations in Europe. Based in Singapore, Swee Hong’s responsibilities include executing and managing private equity fund commitments and co-investments and he sits on the advisory boards of various funds.

 

Prior to joining Freemont Capital, Swee Hong was an investment professional in the Private Capital division of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, having previously worked in the Private Equity team at Allstate Investments. Prior to this, he was an investment banker with Credit Suisse. Swee Hong holds a BSc in Actuarial Science from the London School of Economics and is a CFA charter holder.