Maureen Downey
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Multi-lingual, global executive - lived, worked and built businesses on three continents. Financial advisory, private equity investing (direct, secondary, primary, and co-investment) and business development/ product creation/ partnership alliance experience in developed and emerging economies.
Member of inaugural Global Co-investment and Emerging Market Investment Committees and a senior member of the global secondary investment team at Pantheon Ventures. Developed Latin America market. Identified and structured partnerships, met with 250 plus GPs and LPs, invested $250m, created bespoke products and raised $100m in new institutional capital. Co-led the launch of Pantheon’s inaugural $500m Global Emerging Markets Fund. Regular speaker at industry events. Chair of the EMPEA Latin American Council. Designed and led multiple education seminars on PE and ESG topics.
Vice President in Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs, & Co, working in London, Paris and San Francisco. Executed cross-border and domestic M&A and leveraged buy-out transactions, debt restructuring and consent solicitations assignments, capital market financings (equity to high yield) and anti-raid/ corporate governance advisory mandates across industries. Worked extensively with Global, US and Europe PE firms. Advised west coast healthcare companies. Associate at Merrill Lynch in New York in the Fixed Income Division.
Education: Claremont McKenna College, BA in PPE / Economics, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. The Wharton Graduate School of Business, MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management.
Boards: The Financial Economic Institute - CMC, LENDonate, and WLDN. Prior, The Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, CMC.
Specialities:
- Origination; negotiation; investment, partnership and project execution.
- Strategy development and go to market implementation.
- Communication, client relationship development and team leadership.