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Partners Capital Unveils Promotions, Raft Of Appointments
The firm looks after more than $60 billion in AuM for client groups such as family offices.
This week, Partners Capital unveiled seven promotions to its leadership team, including two new partners and five managing directors.
The firm, whose CEO is Arjun Raghavan, oversees more than $60 billion of assets under management on behalf of endowments, foundations, family offices and high net worth individuals.
The new partners are Lenia Ascenso and Leslie Fitzgerald.
Ascenso joined the firm in 2021 to establish and lead the investment operations function; she has 25 years of senior investment operations experience at firms such as NEPC, JP Morgan, and Wellington. Ascenso is based in the firm’s Boston office.
Fitzgerald, who joined the firm in 2017 from Cambridge Associates, has worked in Partners Capital’s client CIO team overseeing several of private and institutional clients in North America. She is also based in Boston.
The new managing directors:
Sameer Bahl (Boston): Bahl joined Partners Capital in 2019; previously he worked at Fidelity Investments and the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Jonny Brooks (London): Brooks, who joined in 2020, provides strategic advice on global legal matters. He brings over a decade of experience from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Addleshaw Goddard LLP, and Nabarro LLP.
Lauren Kirby (New York): Kirby joined the firm in 2016. She is a client CIO for educational endowments, foundations, and private clients. She previously worked as an investment analyst at GCM Grosvenor.
Joe Mason (London): Mason, who joined in 2015, is a client CIO for major institutional and private clients in addition to being a thought leader on portfolio construction.
Amar Patel (London): Patel, who joined in 2014, is a client CIO
for institutional and family office clients in addition to being
a thought leader on portfolio construction and a portfolio
manager for Partners Capital’s flagship liquid multi-asset class
vehicle. His previous experience includes managing multi-asset
portfolios at Barclays Private Bank.
