Fund Shack Private Equity Podcast
Episodes
Private Equity Myths vs Reality: Jobs, Housing and 401(k)s | Will Dunham American Investment Council
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will Dunham, President and CEO of the American Investment Council, joins Fund Shack to unpack one of the most misunderstood debates in modern finance:...
Brookfield: The private markets giant that flies below the radar
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ross Butler speaks with David Nowak, President of Brookfield’s Private Equity Group. David leads Brookfield’s North American private equity busine...
Creative destruction and the making of the modern world, with Jack Weatherford
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropologist and best-selling author Jack Weatherford, whose Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World redefined how we view empire and innova...
Fintech, Agentic AI & the Future of Financial Services | Apis Partners: Uday Goyal & Matteo Stefanel | Episode #78
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ross Butler speaks with Matteo Stefanel and Udayan (“Uday”) Goyal, Co-Founders and Managing Partners of Apis Partners, one of the world’s leadin...
Inside Brookfield’s Operating Engine | Adrian Letts, Brookfield Private Equity | Fund Shack Ep. 77
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brookfield is renowned for running the companies it owns, not just financing them. In this episode, Ross Butler speaks with Adrian Letts, Managing Par...
HSBC Asset Management on Alternatives, with William Benjamin
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Private markets are no longer on the sidelines. With listed companies shrinking and private companies multiplying, alternatives are becoming a core co...
Venture Capital, National Security, and the Future of Technology | Alex van Someren
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex van Someren has spent his career at the frontier of technology, venture capital, and national security. From joining Acorn Computers as a teenage...
Private Equity Emerging Managers: What it takes to make it
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎧 Episode #74: Emerging Managers: What It Takes to Make ItGuests: Kim Pochon (Unigestion) & Joe Briggs (BCF )Series Launch: Fund Shack's Em...
Goldman Sachs & The Expanding Role of Private Markets in Wealth Portfolios
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎧 Episode #73: The Expanding Role of Private Markets in Wealth PortfoliosGuest: Kyle D. Kniffen, Goldman Sachs Asset ManagementIn this Fund Shack e...
Bitcoin: The Alternative You Can No Longer Ignore
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode #72: Bitcoin - The Alternative You Can No Longer IgnoreGuest: Matthew Hougan, Chief Investment Officer, Bitwise Asset ManagementBitcoin has ev...
The complexities of introducing private equity to HNWs
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode #71: The Realities of Private Wealth in Private MarketsGuest: Cyril Demaria-Bengochea, Julius BärWhat happens when private equity pivots from...
American corporate finance & the wealth of nations, with Donald H Chew
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald H. Chew, Jr., founding editor of the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, joins Ross Butler on Fund Shack to discuss the evolution of corporat...
Transformative financial services investment, with Corsair Capital's Raja Hadji-Touma
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Raja Hadji-Touma, Partner at Corsair Capital and Head of European Buyouts, discusses Corsair's focus on asset-light businesses in financial servic...
The man who private equity execs trust with their own capital
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Arjun Raghavan, CEO of Partners Capital is the man private equity executives trust with their money. And not just them. Partners Capital has evolved f...
The Dawn of Passives in private markets, with NewVest
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ross Butler speaks with Edward Talmor-Gera, Founder and CEO of NewVest, and Matthew Chapman, Director at NewVest. NewVest is a pioneering company prov...
The huge opportunity in minority private equity partnership investments, with David Whileman of Inflexion
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ross Butler speaks with David Whileman, Partner at Inflexion Private Equity, about the untapped potential of minority private equity investments. Davi...
The first listed private equity company still going strong, with Colm Walsh
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Fund Shack, Ross Butler speaks with Colm Walsh, Managing Director of ICG Enterprise Trust. ICG Enterprise Trust is a listed private...
How Federated Hermes Drives Value in Private Markets with Karen Sands, COO
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ross Butler talks to Karen Sands, COO of Federated Hermes’ private equity division, where she oversees $20 billion in private marke...
How Partners Group is cracking the DC pension scheme market
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How Partners Group is cracking the DC pension market in the UK, with Joanna Asfour Founded in mid-1990s, Partners Group launched its first vehicle ...
The state of private equity in 2024, with Jim Strang - what you need to know
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Strang, serial private equity NXD and chairman of Hg Capital Trust, discusses the complexities of the private equity landscape on the Fund Shack p...
Private equity fundraising masterclass, with Sunaina Sinha
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sunaina Sinha, Global Head of Private Capital Advisory at Raymond James, talks to Ross Butler about the challenges of raising private capital funds in...
US mid-market investing, with Patrick Turner of VSS Capital Partners
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ross Butler hosts Patrick Turner, Managing Director at VSS Capital Partners, a US-based lower mid-market private equity firm founded in 1981, origi...
How to hack venture capital, with Fatou Diagne
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fatou Diagne is co-founder of Bootstrap Europe, which acquired the German portfolio of Silicon Valley Bank in 2023. She provides a fascinating insight...
Corporate venture capital at Jaguar Land Rover, with Mike Smeed
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Smeed is managing director of InMotion Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of Jaguar Land Rover. In this episode of the Fund Shack podcast, he...
Renewables, infrastructure & regional growth equity: Bernard Fairman of Foresight Group
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Foresight Group was a pioneer in renewable energy investment back in the 1990s. Today, it's a diversified investment group listed in London. Its found...
Central Europe private equity: a surprisingly big opportunity. With Robert Knorr
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
MidEuropa pioneered private equity buyout investing in Central Europe, launching in 1999. Robert Knorr has been a partner since 2007. He was recently ...
Private equity secondaries uncovered: Etienne Deshormes
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fund Shack Podcast Featuring Etienne Deshormes of Elm Capital In this engaging episode of the Fund Shack podcast, 🎙️ Ross Butler interviews Etien...
Deal prospects: a global lawyer's perspective, with Chris Field of Dechert
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With a deal drought across the global private equity industry, we talk to Chris Field of global law firm Dechert about what's next for M&A and buyout ...
African private equity: a conversation with Stephane Bacquaert
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Private equity is a great way of investing in uncertain, high growth environments. Strange then, that the African private equity industry is so small....
Henry Freeman: Repackaging Private Equity
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Repackaging Private Equity—Why Retail Investors Are the Next Big Battleground Private equity has always been a game for the big players, until now. ...
Daniel Zwirn, Arena Investors: Avoiding moral hazard in private markets
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Moral Hazard in Alternatives - Daniel Zwirn on Fund Shack's Private Equity Podcast Daniel Zwirn discusses his unique approach to alternative investme...
Hans Lovrek on private equity's ancient precedent
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hans Lovrek stumbled on Medieval Florentine documents that showed structures were being used to align interests in ventures with high information asym...
Yaron Valler, Target Global - AI, VR, venture capital and separating hot air from substance
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yaron Valler is a founder of venture capital firm Target Global. He is a successful entrepreneur and investor, and was part of the team at Intel that ...
Prosecuting a mid-market healthcare strategy with Sanjay Panchal, Livingbridge
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prosecuting a mid-market healthcare strategy, with Livingbridge Sanjay Panchal is a partner at Livingbridge, a leading international growth capital ...
Marcus Maier-Krug, Arcmont Asset Management
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marcus Maier-Krug is partner and co-head of portfolio management at Arcmont. He has been working in private credit since before the global financial c...
Alejandro Alcalde Rasch, Advent International
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alejandro Alcalde Rasch is a senior director in Advent International‘s portfolio support group. He joined Advent in 2010 having been chief transform...
Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Harvard professor Josh Lerner explains the risks and requirements of public intervention in establishing a thriving venture capital and entrepreneuria...
Andros Payne, Humatica
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andros Payne talks to Ross Butler about the holy grail of private equity value creation: a systematic, quantitative approach to cultural and behaviour...
Reynir Indahl, Summa Equity
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Private equity podcast with Ross Butler and Reynir Indahl of Summa Equity on Impact investment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...
Warren Hibbert, Asante Capital Group
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Warren Hibbert of Asante Capital Group explains the log-jam in the private capital fundraising market on the Fund Shack podcast Learn more about your ...
Douglas Hansen-Luke, Future Planet Capital
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Douglas Hansen-Luke speaks to Ross Butler on the Fund Shack podcast. Topics: impact investing, university spin-outs, pension fund reforms. Learn more ...
Jonathan Blake, Herbert Smith Freehills
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Blake is head of international funds strategy at Herbert Smith Freehills. In the 1980s, Jonathan was responsible for devising the very first ...
Trevor Hope, Gresham House
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Trevor Hope is Chief Investment Officer of Gresham House Ventures, the growth capital arm of one of the UK’s oldest companies. In recent years, the ...
Macfarlanes: politics, funds & private markets
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The so-called perma-crisis of political and economic volatility witnessed in the UK, and beyond, has made the business of raising and investing long-t...
Laura Dillon, Waterland Private Equity
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Dillon leads Waterland Private Equity‘s Dublin office, which she established in 2020. Laura has had a varied career both in private equity and...
Paul Newsome, Unigestion
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Newsome is head of portfolio management at Unigestion, a Switzerland-based asset manager with a global private markets platform. Paul has been at...
David Larsen, Kroll
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David Larsen has been at the forefront of alternative assets valuation policy for several decades. He is managing director at Kroll, which was acquire...
Michael Lindauer, Allianz Capital Partners
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Lindauer is co-CIO of Allianz Capital Partners. He joined the institution in 2003 and has been an influential decision-maker with regards to b...
Jim Strang, private markets - the inside track
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Strang is chairman of HgCapital Trust, a senior adviser to CVC Capital Partners, independent director at the Business Growth Fund, a senior advise...
David Ewing, ECI Partners
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David Ewing is a managing partner at ECI Partners and one of the UK mid-markets best known investors. He speaks to Fund Shack's Ross Butler. Learn mor...
Mirja Lehmler-Brown, Hayfin
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe now: Apple Podcasts | Spotify Mirja Lehmler-Brown is the founding managing director of Hayfin Capital Management‘s Private Equity Solut...
#30 Tariq Fancy, a sceptical sustainable investor
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify In 2019, Tariq Fancy quit as BlackRock’s most senior sustainability investor. In 2021, he released an in-d...
#29 Luke Johnson, entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify In his 20s, Luke Johnson led the acquisition of Pizza Express and as chairman, helped it become the UK’s le...
#28 Fabian Chrobog, North Wall Capital on European special situations
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fabian Chrobog is founder of North Wall Capital, a Western European special situations investor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...
Alistair Lester, CEO of Aon M&A on protecting and enhancing returns
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alistair Lester is CEO of Aon’s M&A and transactions services business in EMEA. This is not the conversation you think. Aon has spent recent years b...
Dan Aylott, Cambridge Associates
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Aylott is Head of European Private Investments at Cambridge Associates. This is a Fund Shack ‘private chat’ about the large opportunity set in...
Cyril Demaria on Asset allocation and private markets
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cyril Demaria is a leading private equity thinker, fund investor, and affiliate professor at EDHEC. He is the author of numerous books on alternative ...
#24 Bob Long, Conversus, on making private equity accessible
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m speaking with Bob Long CEO of Conversus. Bob originally listed Conversus Capital in Europe in 2007, and it was the largest listed private ...
#23 Simon Witney on sustainability rules and corporate governance
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Witney on sustainability and corporate governance. In this episode, I’m speaking with Simon Witney, who’s probably the best known private e...
#22 Carl Bradshaw, Goodwin
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Carl Bradshaw is a partner in the law firm Goodwin’s private equity group. He has advised European, American and Asian private equity sponsors on cr...
#21 Patrick Sheehan on sustainable prosperity and venture capital
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Sheehan of ETF Partners talks to Fund Shack's Ross Butler about creating sustainable prosperity with venture capital. Learn more about your ad...
#20 Private equity demystified
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Demystifying private equity on Fund Shack, with Oxford Said's John Gilligan and the ICAEW Corporate Finance Faculty's David Petrie Learn more about yo...
#19 Hendrik Brandis, Earlybird Venture Capital
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Hendrik Brandis is co-founder and partner at Earlybird Venture Capital Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...
#18 Vania Schlogel, Atwater Capital
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vania Schlogel of Atwater Capital talks to Fund Shack's Ross Butler about bridging the world's of big buyouts and creative industries Learn more about...
#17 The Milton Friedman New York Times CSR Debate
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify World leading thinkers join Fund Shack’s 50th anniversary debate on Milton Friedman’s article The Socia...
#16 Avi Turetsky
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Avi Turetsky leads Landmark Partners’ Quantitative Research team, which just co-authored a new way to measure private equity performance, called the...
Wol Kolade, Livingbridge
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Wol Kolade is the managing partner of Livingbridge, a mid-market private equity firm with offices in the UK...
#14 Mark Tluszcz
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Mark Tluszcz is co-founder and CEO of Mangrove Capital Partners. He was the first investor in Skype and cur...
#13 Cyril Demaria
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this Fund Shack private equity podcast, we explore the intersection of private equity and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles. C...
#12 Mark Pinner, Interel
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Mark Pinner is a world-leading China expert. We discuss risk scenarios for corporate boards in the wake of ...
#6 Sarah Sandstrom, Campbell Lutyens
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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#5 Tim Flynn, Hayfin
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Tim Flynn is the co-founder and Chief Executive officer of Hayfin Capital Management. Learn more...
#4 Jim Strang, Hamilton Lane
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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#3 Simon Witney, Debevoise & Plimpton
14 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Fund Shack moderator Ross Butler speaks to Simon Witney, Debevoise & Plimpton about corporate governance, regulation and legal services for private eq...
#2 Sam Barton, Hydra Consulting
24 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Barton is a private equity focused public & media relations professional. I ask him about the media's perception of private equity, the best ways ...
#1 Noaki Ohta, Barings
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Private equity secondaries - a discussion with Naoki Ohta of Barings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices