Naveen Ailawadi

Founded in 2015, Silversmith Capital Partners is a Boston-based growth equity firm with over $5 billion in capital under management. Silversmith seeks to partner with founders and entrepreneurs building enduring technology and healthcare businesses. The firm brings deep domain expertise, strategic perspective, and a long-term partnership approach to help management teams accelerate growth. The firm has served as the first institutional partner to some of the most dynamic and successful companies in its core verticals, including Appfire, Apryse, DistroKid, Iodine Software, and LifeStance Health.

Founded in 2015, Silversmith Capital Partners is a Boston-based growth equity firm with over $5 billion in capital under management. Silversmith seeks to partner with founders and entrepreneurs building enduring technology and healthcare businesses. The firm brings deep domain expertise, strategic perspective, and a long-term partnership approach to help management teams accelerate growth. The firm has served as the first institutional partner to some of the most dynamic and successful companies in its core verticals, including Appfire, Apryse, DistroKid, Iodine Software, and LifeStance Health.

Aldrich Capital Partners (“ACP”) is a middle-market private equity firm investing in promising enterprises in the United States. Aldrich Capital Partners primarily focuses on investments in technology sectors such as healthcare IT, internet, software and financial services technologies.  ACP was formed by experienced investors and operators who are successful entrepreneurs in their own right. The firm was started with the philosophy of “being the entrepreneurs behind the entrepreneur”, ….helping private, entrepreneur-run companies attain their growth objectives by tapping into the resources, knowledgebase and network of relationships of the ACP organization, a team that has been responsible for over $1 Billion in technology investments over the past decade.  Companies in which the ACP Principals have invested have successfully completed Initial Public Offerings (“IPO”) and have had numerous investments be successfully acquired by large corporations. We have a successful track record of working with owner-operators and entrepreneurs to build companies for the long-run and then help them realize their liquidity objectives when they are ready.  ACPs principals are investors and operators who bring their experience to bear from the strategic investment level down through active support of portfolio companies at the operational and business planning level. ACPs leadership and advisors bring many decades of experience executing transactions in sectors such as business services, software & cloud-services, FinTech, healthcare IT and internet.  ACP is headquartered in the Washington D.C. metro area, with additional offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and a research center in Hyderabad, India.

The Georgetown University Student Investment Fund (GUSIF) was founded in 1997 by undergraduates in the McDonough School of Business. GUSIF currently manages over $1,600,000 on behalf of the Endowment and Alumni Association GUSIFs purpose is two-fold: (I) fulfill its fiduciary responsibility by achieving above market-returns and (II) educate its membership through training and real-world experience. GUSIF develops some of the top undergraduate talent who have gone on to work in a wide variety of fields from investment banking to consulting firms at firms, which include Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and McKinsey.

Established in 1994 and incorporated in 1996, Georgetown Collegiate Investors LLC is the nation’s largest completely undergraduate-run and undergraduate-owned equity investment fund. Each Georgetown University student who invests becomes a full partner in our firm and participates in everything from the creation of GCI’s investment strategy to the election of our board members, with numerous opportunities to make stock pitches or run for board positions. From the CEO to first-time analysts, every partner is a Georgetown undergraduate student with money invested in our operations. With 400+ invested partners and 60+ active analysts, not only do we remain committed to successfully managing over $120,000 in solely student-contributed assets, but we also remain deeply dedicated to leveraging our success to educate our members from the ground up.