LEVEL20 - Key Persons
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- Chairman of Committee
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We are working to grow and connect our members across Italy, steadily building a community of female investment professionals who can network and build relationships with one another.
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- Chairman of Committee
- France Committee Chair
Our Irish chapter have made great strides toward growing their membership base while running both technical workshops and discussion-led panel events to increase awareness of, and encourage women to enter, the venture capital and wider private equity industry.
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- Chairman of Committee
- Its Chair
- Legal Counsel, Gimv
- Senior Leaders' Committee Chair
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- Member of Committee
- Research
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- Chairman of Committee
- the Netherlands Committee Chair
Imogen is a Partner and Head of Primaries in Pantheon's European Private Equity team and also a member of the European Investment Committee, ESG Committee and Allocation Committee.
Imogen previously headed up the Investment Structuring and Strategy division and also spent 9 years on Pantheon's secondary team. Prior to joining Pantheon in 2005, Imogen worked on small and mid-market private equity and mezzanine transactions for Anglo Irish Bank in Dublin. She holds a master's degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University.
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- Chairman of Committee
- International Chair
- Ireland Committee Chair
- Partner at Seroba
Jennifer McMahon, Partner at Seroba - a European Life Sciences venture capital firm that focuses on biotech and medtech - is also the International Chair of Level 20 Europe and the instigator of the Irish chapter. Here, she explains why there are more misconceptions than mountains to climb when it comes to life in venture capital and why opportunities often masquerade themselves as obstacles.
Level 20 Italy provides opportunities for its members to network and helps support women in the private equity industry with its mentoring initiative and programme of events.
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- Member of Committee
- Networking
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- Co - Chair
- Co - Chair / Investment Manager, LDC
Klara joined LDC in 2019 from the Lloyds Banking Group graduate scheme. She now works in LDC South's new business team with responsibility for originating, executing and managing portfolio investments.
Klara holds a First Class honours degree in Business & Finance from Queen Mary University of London and she is currently studying for CFA Level III.
Laali joined KKR in 2024. She previously spent three years at Charterhouse and over a year at Epiris, working on UK private equity investments across various sectors.
Laali holds a BA in Economics & Management from the University of Oxford.
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- Advisory Board
- Member of Committee
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A live lunch and learn with Michelle Romano - a Canadian tech entrepreneur, television personality, board director and venture capitalist - took place on 15 June 2022. Attendees heard stories Michelle's successes to date and gained valuable insight into how to make the most of their careers.
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- Spain Committee Vice Chair
- Vice Chair of Committee
Nina is a Principal on Hamilton Lane's global Fund Investment Team. She is based in London, where she focuses on fund investments across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Nina is a member of Hamilton Lane's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council and leads the global fund investment team's ESG taskforce.
Nina began her career at Hamilton Lane in 2013 and has previously worked for Hamilton Lane in Philadelphia and Munich, where she focused on North American and DACH market fund investments.
Nina received a BA in economics, with Honours, at Hamilton College, with a minor in Biology.
We are focused entirely on supporting the goal of increasing the percentage of women in senior leadership in European private equity
We empower those members who already work within the industry, encourage new female talent to join and provide leadership teams with insight and best-practice solutions to help them address current gender imbalances within the industry and their firms.
Pamela is an investment manager in Intermediate Capital Group's European midmarket investment team, based in London.
Pamela started her career as a corporate lawyer at Linklaters before joining the investment team at Epiris, a UK midmarket Private Equity house, and subsequently at WovenLight.
Pamela studied modern languages at Cambridge as an undergraduate before qualifying as a lawyer. She also has an MBA from INSEAD.
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- Founder of the Danish Committee
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- Chairman of Committee
- Spain Committee Chair
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- Co - Chair
- Chairman of the Committee
- Partner at Bregal
Valentina Pippolo, Partner at Bregal and Level 20 Italy Co-Chair talks us through some of the changes she has seen and the lessons learned from more than 17 years in the PE industry.