Fundraising into 2024: a global phenomenon?
Fundraising into 2024: a global phenomenon?


Kelly is the Managing Director at this boutique private market advisory and consulting firm (kellydeponteadvisoryllc.com). He is a Senior Advisor at Probitas Partners, a global private market placement agent, where he was previously the Head of Research, and is a member of the Advisory Board at the Investment Management Due Diligence Association. He has an MBA in finance from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BA from Stanford University.

Uwe Fleischhauer, Co-Head Infrastructure, is a member of the Executive Board, Founding and Equity Partner at YIELCO Investments in Munich, Germany, and is also a member of the Investment Committee.
Since 1998 he has worked independently as a consultant in his consulting firm “Fleischhauer, Hoyer & Partner” (FHP), Private Equity Consultants, which was dedicated exclusively to the asset classes of private equity, infrastructure and private debt. Throughout this time, he has carried out consulting projects for numerous renowned institutional investors. From 2007 to 2010 he advised, among others, the Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK) in Munich on the global selection of private equity, mezzanine and infrastructure funds. His advisory services included asset allocation, investment strategy, identification of the fund universe, coordination of manager searches and RFP processes, due diligence, on-site visits up to a decision-ready investment recommendation (board submission) and monitoring of the investments. Before becoming self-employed, Uwe Fleischhauer worked for a total of 7 years as a consultant/project manager in international management consultancies (Mercer Management Consulting; Arthur D. Little).
In the above-mentioned organizations, he participated in more than 250 investments (primaries, secondaries and co-investments) with capital commitments of more than EUR 10bn as due diligence responsible or member of the investment committee. He invested in infrastructure across the entire strategy spectrum, but also in private debt and infrastructure equity strategies.
He holds a degree in business administration and a post-graduate diploma in “European Enterprise Management” after studies in England and Spain. He also holds the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing.

Britta Lindhorst is an independent Senior Advisor for Private Equity and ESG / Impact Investing. She has 37 years of investment experience, thereof 22 years in private equity. From 2012 until 2024 she was Head of European Investments and Global Head of ESG/Impact at HQ Capital and before that responsible for a €1.5 bn global private equity portfolio of Generali. She holds a master’s degree in economics from Cologne University.

Enrica is an investment director in Bowmark’s Fund Investment business, where she is responsible for sourcing, evaluating and managing private equity fund investments and co-investments in the US and Europe. Prior to Bowmark, Enrica worked at CDC Group, where she was responsible for evaluating and monitoring fund investments in the developing markets, focusing on Africa and Latin America. Previously she was a consultant at KPMG, where she worked on a variety of financial management assignments in the Consumer and Industrial sectors. She has a degree in business administration from The University of Turin.
To what extent is the challenging fundraising environment shared across geos and strategies? Are certain regions being disproportionately affected by the lack of exits and the denominator effect? Do perspectives change when you have boots on the ground in different markets? Is this the end of the one and done fundraise?