The former Hamilton Lane professional joins the $1.3 trillion manager as it builds out the secondary investment capabilities of its Venture Growth Evergreen platform.
The ETF provider has hired Alessio de Longis to head its new Active Investments platform and Hyuk Soo Han to help lead its private equity secondaries efforts.
The Swiss firm's flagship semi-liquid strategy tracks the Morningstar PitchBook Unicorn 20 Index primarily through secondaries.
One of which, Hamilton Lane Private Secondary Fund, raised its investment capacity by $500 million and saw its NAV climb 1.6x QoQ to $409 million as of March.
The interval fund targets venture companies through primary and secondary investments, and currently holds stakes in Kalshi, SpaceX, Databricks, and Runway AI.
He brings almost a decade of experience at Partners Group, investing across private real estate, including secondaries.
The Morgan Stanley veteran will help scale the firm's business, which provides investors with access to its private markets strategies, including secondaries.
In this episode of the 'How I Invest' podcast, Host David Weisburd speaks with HarbourVest's Scott Voss on why continuation vehicles and evergreen structures are transforming private markets.
The firm welcomed talent from OpenView Venture Partners and L2 Point Capital to support all aspects of direct and secondary deals.
The firm welcomed Hisashi Tanaka as Head of Japan Private Wealth, within the Private Wealth Secondaries Solutions team.
