Andrea Auerbach is the global head of private investments and a partner at Cambridge Associates. Andrea’s career with CA spans more than two decades. She leads a 50-person team sourcing and underwriting private equity, growth equity, distressed, and venture capital funds, as well as direct, co-investment, and secondary investment opportunities. She also heads the firm’s discretionary private investments practice. As a long-time leader in the private investment business, she founded the co-investment and secondaries practices and is the chair of the co-investment and secondaries investment committees. She is also a member and former chair of the firm’s private investment ratings committee. Andrea has co-authored a significant amount of in-depth private investment research and is also a faculty member at the Institutional Limited Partner Association (ILPA) Institute, where she has taught classes for over a decade. As a frequent keynote speaker at industry events worldwide, she has also received many industry accolades over the course of her career. Outside of work, Andrea is a trustee of Smith College and a board member of the UCLA Investment Company. Andrea began her career at Prudential Insurance, where she worked in the private equity and leveraged buyout groups. She received her BA in economics from Smith College and her MBA from Harvard Business School.

Tony Davis is the cofounder and president of Linden Capital Partners. He has been involved in private equity and consulting since 1992. He currently serves on the board of Smile Doctors and is chairman of the board of Sage Dental. He previously served on the boards of directors for Advarra, Behavioral Centers of America, Drayer Physical Therapy Institute, Focused Health Solutions, ProPharma, Ranir, Spear Education, Virtus Pharmaceuticals and Young Innovations. Tony is a trustee of the Museum of Science and Industry and is a director on the Northwestern Medicine NMG Board of Directors. Tony was selected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary as a member of the Deputy Secretary’s Innovation and Investment Summit (DSIIS).

Tony holds a bachelor of arts with honors in economics from Northwestern University and an MBA with honors from Chicago Booth, where he was a Rosett Scholar and serves on the Polsky Center Private Equity Council and as a guest lecturer on private equity.

Adarsh Sarma is a managing director at Warburg Pincus. He joined Warburg Pincus in New York as a principal in 2005. He moved to London in 2016 and was previously co-head of Europe. He is currently a director of The AA, Norstella, Inspired Group, PTSG, Quantexa and a board advisor of Visma. Since joining Warburg Pincus, Adarsh has been involved in 24 platform investments, both growth and late-stage buyouts in the US and Europe, focused on technology and data, education, and business services sectors. Notable investments include Metavante/FIS, Incomm, Wall Street Systems, MLM, EFS/WEX, Stratford, Liaison International, NEOGOV, Avaloq, and Once For All. Adarsh was selected by Financial News and Private Equity News as one of the 50 Most Influential in European Private Equity from 2020-2022. He serves on the Board of Pratham USA, one of India’s largest not-for-profit organizations. He is also a member of the Chicago Booth Trustees and Polsky Private Equity Council at the University of Chicago and a member of the Dean’s Council at Weill Cornell Medicine, which is focused on advancing the goals of medical research, teaching, and patient care. Prior to Warburg Pincus, Adarsh worked at ChrysCapital, a leading Indian private equity fund, and prior to that Radiowave, a technology start-up whose Series A was   led by Warburg Pincus, Intel and Motorola and McCown De Leeuw, a private equity fund. He received a BA from Knox College, Phi Beta Kappa, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.