Webinar: Understanding Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Hedge Funds: A Prospect Research Perspective

  • 10/25/2022
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Zoom
  • 275

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Understanding Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Hedge Funds: A Prospect Research Perspective 

High finance professionals are among the most highly compensated in the world. Indeed, many transformative philanthropic gifts trace their origins to the career success of a high finance prospect. For all of the top-line prominence, however, high finance remains a complicated and largely opaque industry. Understanding what finance professionals actually do on a daily basis or how the industry works over time can be a challenge. Yet this is exactly the kind of information that is needed if prospect development professionals wish to successfully identify, cultivate, and solicit finance pros. This presentation will provide an overview of the three core alternative investment managers in high finance: venture capital, private equity, and hedge funds. We will discuss the similarities and differences between the three, how they are structured as businesses, how compensation works among these firms, and more. The focus of the presentation will be on providing prospect development professionals with the information that they need to effectively fundraise among venture capital, private equity, and hedge fund prospects.


This session will be recorded. 


When: October 25th, at 2pm EST

Cost: FREE for Apra PA members; $10 if you have a professional development budget; FREE if you do not have a professional development budget 

Questions: lauren.woodring@philamuseum.org

Speakers:

Mike Boyle is a Senior Research Analyst at Princeton University, where he has been conducting prospect research and managing special projects since 2016.  Prior to joining Princeton, he earned a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the City University of New York. Mike grew up in Pennsylvania but now lives in New Jersey.  

Samir Chapra has been a Senior Research Analyst at Princeton University since 2016. He began his prospect research career at Cambridge University's US foundation, Cambridge in America, and then spent two years as a research analyst at the William J. Clinton Foundation. Samir earned a BA in history from Georgetown University and graduate degrees in nonprofit administration and business from Concordia University in Montreal. 



Apra Pennsylvania is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and is a state chapter of Apra, an international membership organization that "serves and educates fund-raising professionals interested in advancement research and promotes the profession of advancement research."

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