Speaker

Lindsey King

Partner, Crestview Partners

Lindsey King joined Crestview in 2012. She is responsible for managing all investor and consultant relationships, fundraising and marketing and is a partner of the firm. Prior to joining Crestview, she was a member of Macquarie’s infrastructure and real assets team where she led relationships with a diverse group of institutional investors and consultants. She also worked in Citigroup’s investment strategy group, analyzing healthcare companies and advising clients on their investments. Lindsey served on the board of directors of NYDJ Apparel. Lindsey holds a B.S. with an emphasis in finance from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is a CFA charter holder and a member of the CFA Institute and New York Society of Securities Analysts.

Speaker

Lisa M. Lee (HBS ’00)

Managing Director, Business Development at Providence Equity Partners

Lisa Lee is a managing director based in Providence Equity’s New York office, where she focuses on business development activities. Prior to joining Providence in 2015, Ms. Lee was a managing director at CVC Capital Partners where she was responsible for managing the firm’s North American investor relations and fundraising activities. Before CVC, Ms. Lee worked at Merrill Lynch, first in the mergers & acquisitions group in New York and then in the private equity funds group in London where she was responsible for origination and distribution of alternate asset funds in Europe. Ms. Lee started her career with A.T. Kearney where she worked across North America and South Korea. Ms. Lee received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University.

Moderator

Hemali Dassani

Hemali Dassani (HBS ’99) is an experienced fundraiser and investor relations professional within the alternative investments space and is currently a placement agent and consultant to multiple Private Equity funds. Hemali was previously Director of Investor Relations and the Chief Compliance Officer for Argand Partners. Prior to Argand, she was Director of Investor Relations for Castle Harlan, a middle market private equity fund. Hemali was also a Managing Director with Old City Investment Partners, a multi-family office dedicated to finding high quality investments for the firm’s clientele of family office investors. Ms. Dassani has an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University. She was President of the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York and currently sits on the Board of the Club. Previously she sat on the Board of Governors for the Harvard Business School Real Estate Alumni Association and the Steering Committee for the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels Association.