Northleaf Announces Global Team Promotions, Including Three New Managing Directors

TORONTO, CANADA (January 8, 2025) – Northleaf Capital Partners (“Northleaf”), a global private markets investment firm, is pleased to announce its 2024 year-end promotions, including three new Managing Directors. The promotions recognize these individuals’ contributions to the growth of our global mid-market private equity, private credit, and infrastructure platform and our commitment to delivering superior long-term performance for our investors. Our expanding base of investors entrusted us with US$2.7 billion in capital commitments during 2024, bringing our total commitments raised to US$27 billion. Northleaf now has more than 275 team members across ten global offices and serves more than 300 institutional, family office and wealth management investors globally.

“The commitment and collaboration of our talented team form the foundation of Northleaf's continued growth and long-term success. As we celebrate the promotions that were earned in 2024, we are demonstrating our commitment to develop and train the next generation of leaders at Northleaf,” said Stuart Waugh, Managing Partner. “We extend our congratulations to all those who were promoted and thank the entire team for their consistent focus on our values, our investors, and each other.”

Northleaf is proud to announce the following promotions to Managing Director:

• Thibault Jarlegant – Infrastructure (London)
  Thibault joined Northleaf in 2023 and is focused on sourcing, due diligence, execution and asset management of Northleaf’s infrastructure investments in the UK and Europe.

• CJ Wei – Private Credit, Specialty Finance (New York)
  CJ joined Northleaf in 2019 and is focused on the origination, evaluation and monitoring of Northleaf’s asset-based specialty finance investments, including music royalties, healthcare receivables and litigation financing.

• Michelle Winters – Private Credit, Investor Relations (Toronto)
  Michelle joined Northleaf in 2019 and is focused on private credit fundraising initiatives and leading the private credit investor relations team.

In addition, Northleaf is proud to recognize and celebrate the following additional promotions across the firm:

Private Equity 

• Mitch Reeves – Director (New York)

• Jimmy Howe – Vice President (New York)

• Harish Sivarajah – Vice President (London)

• Nick Ouellette – Senior Associate, Portfolio Strategy & Analytics (Toronto)

• Tae Hyun Yoo – Senior Associate (London)

• Ryan Pave – Associate (New York)

• Liz Perrott – Associate (London)

• Anuja Weerasinghe – Associate (Toronto)

Private Credit

• Danielle Charney – Director, Investor Relations (Toronto)

• Jonathon Haigh – Director (London)

• Jeremy Brock – Vice President, Portfolio Strategy & Analytics (Toronto)

• Georgia Pooley – Vice President (London)

• Michael Gilmore – Senior Associate (New York)

• Hayley Hughes – Senior Associate, Investor Relations (Toronto)

• Samuel James – Senior Associate (New York)

• Jashan Miller – Senior Associate (London) 

• Thomas Staley – Senior Associate (Chicago)

• Patrick Trinh – Senior Associate (Chicago)

• Ryan VanDagens – Senior Associate (Chicago)

• Paulina Pogorzelska – Manager (Chicago)

Infrastructure 

• Dan Savage – Director (London)

• Joël Voillat – Vice President (London)

• Mark Brophy – Senior Associate (Toronto)

• Wendy Zhang – Senior Associate (Toronto)

Business Development

• Claudia Wong – Senior Analyst, CRM (Toronto)

• Kirstie Robinson – Sales Coordinator (London)

Strategic Distribution & Marketing 

• Rikki Gibson – Vice President, Marketing & Communications (Toronto)

• Lydia Palmer – Manager, Events (Toronto)

Corporate Office 

• Scott Stephens – Director, Business Solutions & Transformation (Montreal)

• Sophie Liu – Vice President, Tax (Toronto) 

• Geanina Peter – Vice President, Technology, Data & Digital Transformation (Toronto)

• Kevin Dakpo – Senior Analyst, Collateral & Liquidity (Toronto)

• Mariecris Manlansing – Intermediate Analyst, Finance (Toronto)

• Winnie Yau – Intermediate Analyst, Servicing & Reporting (Toronto)

Human Resources

• Jennifer Reynolds – HR Generalist (Toronto)

Investor Operations (Toronto)  

• Ly Mai – Vice President (Private Credit)

• Florence Lee – Senior Manager (Infrastructure) 

• Lavanya Muralidharan – Senior Manager (Private Equity)

• Jonathan Staseff – Senior Manager (Cash Management)

• Fengji Li – Manager (Private Credit)

• Manju Sharma – Senior Analyst (Private Equity) 

• Cheryl Shethna – Senior Analyst (Cash Management)

• Ajit Ugru – Senior Analyst (Cash Management)

• Sophie Pang – Intermediate Analyst (Private Equity)

• Anatoliy Savchenko – Intermediate Analyst (Private Credit)