Snowbridge Team
Snowbridge Partners
Mark's Bio
Mark has been advising general partners of private equity funds and leading sole-managed fund raisings for over 25 years. He has led over 60 successful assignments for managers in North America, Europe and Asia resulting in over $80 billion of capital commitments from institutional investors worldwide. Many of these assignments involved advising and raising capital for new teams and spinouts and repositioning/rebranding existing firms.
Prior to founding Snowbridge Advisors, Mark was a Managing Director in the Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Private Funds Group (and Credit Suisse post-merger). Mark joined UBS as Managing Director and Global Head of Financial Sponsor Advisory and Project Management. He was Managing Partner of Atlantic Pacific Capital and Managing Director of Deutsche Bank.
Mark earned his BS at the United States Military Academy at West Point, a Diploma from the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California and an MBA at the Darden School, University of Virginia. He served as a commissioned officer in the US Army Field Artillery for five years.
Rush's Bio
Rush has close to 20 years of financial and government leadership experience that span the upper echelons of foreign governments, financial institutions, and venture-backed platforms. Prior to his current role, he co-founded a real estate investment platform, Vecino Communities. Additionally, Rush served as Chief Operating Officer of The Easton Group, a fiduciary investor, manager, and developer of industrial and mixed-use real estate assets. Rush began his career in finance at the New York offices of Deutsche Bank Asset Management where he was a Vice President on the Alternative Investment platform. His responsibilities included capital raising, investment team member, product development, market expansion initiatives and internal corporate investments.
Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Rush held a variety of positions in the U.S. Government. He was an American diplomat with the U.S. Department of State serving in Washington, D.C. and Lisbon, Portugal; on the Legislative Affairs team at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); and, as a U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives staff member.
Rush received his BS from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and his MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Tom's Bio
Tom has over 25 years of experience in capital raises for private equity, venture and hedge funds. He has held a variety of positions focused on providing strategic advisory and capital raising services to alternative asset managers and financial service companies. Most recently, Tom was a Managing Partner at Founders Partners LLC, a New York-based financial advisory firm he helped to co-found. Prior to Founders, Tom was a Managing Director at Centenium Advisors and before that Direct Access Partners, where he was involved with capital raising activities for a wide variety of alternative investment fundmanagers.
Prior to his involvement with alternatives investments, Tom was a Managing Director at Citicorp
Securities with responsibility for aviation & aerospace clients as North American Aviation Region Head. Among his responsibilities he was involved with a variety of advisory assignments including various airline leveraged buyouts, public and private debt financings, and structured derivative transactions for clients of the bank.
Tom received his BA at Brown University and MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Scott's Bio
Scott has over 35 years of experience in the securities industry including the last 20 years in alternative investments. Prior to joining Snowbridge, Scott served as Managing Director for Darby Private Equity, the private equity arm of Franklin Templeton Investments. Prior to Darby, Scott was a Managing Director with the placement firms Knight Capital Partners and Mallory Capital.
Previously, Scott worked at Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners and State Street Global Advisors. Earlier in his career, he held investment positions at GE Capital in Stamford, Hong Kong and Tokyo before which he worked in the investment banking department of Smith Barney in New York City. He started his career at Merrill Lynch as a bond trader, where he managed a proprietary trading account.
Scott earned a BS in Finance from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and he received his MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia.
Kathleen's Bio
Kathleen has over 25 years of experience as an investment professional and is expert at executing, structuring and placing private alternative fund products and securities. She has advised on over $2.5 billion of transactions over the course of her career. Her investor relationships span insurance companies, family offices, endowments, foundations and asset managers.
Prior to joining Snowbridge, Kathleen was a Principal at Crito Capital where she originated, structured and placed private equity transactions and alternative fund products. Previously, she managed private placements at Rothschild North America and Credit Suisse First Boston. At Credit Suisse First Boston, she led a team of professionals dedicated to raising private equity capital for venture stage and emerging growth companies in a variety of sectors including life sciences, media, telecom, and technology services. Prior to Credit Suisse First Boston, Kathleen worked at both Prudential Insurance Company of America and GE Capital’s Equity Capital Group where she was responsible for a variety of investments, including control and growth transactions and mezzanine deals.
Kathleen earned at BS in Finance from Boston College’s Carroll School of Management, where she was in the Honors Program, and received her MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
Colleen's Bio
Colleen has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, principally focused on raising, investing and managing private equity funds. Colleen joined Snowbridge at inception and focuses on origination, client management and distribution. Prior to joining Snowbridge, Colleen was Managing Director, Head of Private Clients and Head of North America for DB Private Equity, the private equity fund of funds business of Deutsche Asset Management. From 2001 – 2013, she was responsible for product development, investment management, investor relations, business development and distribution of private equity funds via a platform tailored to the needs of Deutsche Bank’s global client base. Colleen led the Investment Committee for the private client fund commitments. Under Colleen’s leadership, AUM grew from $500 mm to over $4 bn. She represented DB on many limited partner advisory boards, including funds managed by The Carlyle Group and The Blackstone Group.
Prior to joining DB’s private equity business, Colleen served as a senior member of the management team overseeing Deutsche Bank’s investment banking and asset management activities in the LATAM region, and as a Principal with Bankers Trust Company (acquired by DB).
Colleen is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a BS in Commerce. She is a CPA (inactive).
Cynthia's Bio
Cynthia has over 20 years experience in investment banking. She was previously with UBS Investment Bank and Credit Suisse First Boston.
Cynthia earned an AAS from Kingsborough Community College.