Dawson Partners, a specialized investment manager focused on providing structured liquidity solutions to private equity portfolios, announced a number of promotions and partnership expansion.
Through the promotion of Marilia Bothamley (Finance & Fund Operations), Julian Mirsky (Strategic Management), Sebastien Siou (Asset Management), Joshua Booth (Capital Management) and Derek Miners (Portfolio Management), Dawson expanded the partnership from five to ten partners.
We are proud to welcome Marilia, Julian, Sebastien, Josh and Derek to the partnership. Each of our new partners has been instrumental to the growth of the Firm, embodies the Dawson culture and is a leader within our multi-faceted organization.
With new partner representation across all five pillars of the firm, the Dawson Senior Leadership Team embraces diversity in experience, skillset and thought leadership. We are confident that this approach to building Dawson will enable us to continue to operate nimbly and successfully as one team.
As market adoption of Dawson’s unique approach has grown, so has our team. We expect that our team will have grown to 100 over the coming weeks from 46 at the start of 2020.
We have built our team alongside the substantial market opportunity we have created, more than doubling our team during the pandemic. Our goal is to ensure we continue to scale successfully by focusing on our culture, diversity and quality.
The admission of our new partners represents a doubling in size of Dawson’s partnership. This is a significant milestone for Dawson as we continue to thoughtfully build the business in response to market adoption of our product.
Marilia joined Dawson in March 2017 and was promoted to Chief Financial Officer in February 2020. During her time at Dawson, she led the buildout of the firm’s operations department from the ground up.
Today, she leads a team of 28 Finance & Fund Operations professionals and is involved in all strategic finance and operations matters at the firm. She has built a best in class, client-oriented team of professionals focused on servicing the needs of our limited partners.
Julian joined Dawson in May 2017 and has made invaluable contributions to the firm. Julian began his Dawson journey as an investment professional on the deal team and has been responsible for the execution of several of Dawson’s largest transactions.
In 2020, Julian transitioned to Strategic Management where he is spearheading a number of important firm-level strategic initiatives. We expect he will continue to play a critical role in the growth and evolution of our organization.
Joining Dawson in July 2019, Sebastien made an immediate impact on our deal team. He has contributed significant experience in secondaries transactions, spanning traditional acquisitions of limited partner interests, fund recapitalizations, team spin-outs and structured transactions, while also leveraging his deep relationships within the industry.
Sebastien brings a passion and drive to secondaries investing and has established himself as a leader both in the market and to our Asset Management team.
Josh joined in October 2019, bringing significant expertise and deep relationships in the private equity market to the Capital Management function at Dawson. He has been instrumental, not only in leading our most recently closed fundraise, but also in shaping our fundraising and investor relations function as a whole.
Derek joined Dawson in December 2019, immediately leveraging a breadth of experience across private markets to establish the Portfolio Management pillar at Dawson. Since joining, Derek has successfully established the Portfolio Management function, executing across three core functional sub-pillars: Portfolio Construction, Fund Management and Liquidity Management.
Dawson also announced the promotion of Jamie Tucker and Nadeem Kheraj to Senior Principal, Asset Management and Xu Shi to Director, Investment Finance.
Jamie joined Dawson in April 2018 and has been an integral member of the deal team. Jamie has been involved in some of our largest and most complex transactions. He has also helped to shape future generations of secondaries talent through his development of an onboarding program for new joiners at Dawson.
Jamie’s impact on the market was recognized in 2020 through his selection as a Next Gen Leader by Secondaries Investor.
Nadeem joined Dawson in July 2019, pairing a deep knowledge of the secondary market with a strong investment acumen. He has played a leading role on a large number of transactions at Dawson while also contributing to strategic investment office initiatives.
He has also established himself as a leader on our deal team, coaching and mentoring junior talent.
Having joined Dawson in January 2018, Xu is one of the longest standing members of the Finance & Fund Operations team. Xu has been instrumental in building a strong team of operations professionals and introducing significant operational efficiencies through process improvements and leveraging technology.
He embodies the Dawson culture through his work ethic and collaborative approach to leadership.
We consider ourselves fortunate to be surrounded by a high-performing team that shares our core values of partnership, integrity and performance. We are very pleased with the promotions we have announced today and with the expansion of our partnership and team.
We remain committed to building our platform ahead of complexity to enable us to capture the market opportunity we have created. Our objective is simple; institutionalizing our firm to ensure that it is built to last and scales successfully.
