Lindsey McMurray founded Pollen Street in 2013 and is the Managing Partner as well as Chairman of the Investment Committee. Lindsey has been investing in private equity and credit for over 25 years. Lindsey has built Pollen Street into a fast growing, purpose led asset manager investing with the mega-trends across financial and business services, with a diversified AUM base across private equity and senior secured credit.

Before she founded Pollen Street, Lindsey led the team managing the £1.1bn Special Opportunities Fund within RBS and spent six years as a Partner at Cabot Square Capital, focusing on investments across Financial Services, real estate and other asset backed investments. Lindsey has a First-Class Honours degree in Accounting and Finance and studied for an MPhil in Finance from Strathclyde University.

Outside of work Lindsey is a keen runner having successfully completed the Marathon Des Sables in 2007 and 2011. She also supports several charities with a particular focus on mentoring children in state schools, supporting climate action initiatives through producing documentary films as well as supporting the speech and language charity, Auditory Verbal UK, that provided early years therapy to her daughter Grace.

Mara Stock joined capiton’s investment team beginning of 2013. Mara Stock studied Economics in Berlin and St. Gallen. Prior to joining capiton she worked for EY (Zurich). Several internships in the field of M&A advisory and strategy consulting provided her with first insights into the Private Equity industry.

MARK NICOLSON Head of Primary Investments at abrdn PROFILE Mark is based in Edinburgh and joined abrdn in 2007. He is responsible for making investments across the private equity spectrum (Primaries, Secondaries and Co-investments) as well as having overall responsibility for abrdn’s Primary Investment business. Mark is a member of abrdn’s Private Equity Operating Committee and Investment Committee. Mark is also a senior member of the management team of abrdn Private Equity Opportunities Trust plc (FTSE: APEO). He also sits on the Advisory Boards of a number of leading private equity funds.

Prior to the merger that created abrdn in 2017, Mark was a Partner and Head of Primary Investments at SL Capital Partners where he joined in 2007. Before this, Mark spent seven years working as a lead adviser in the corporate finance teams of EY and KPMG, focusing principally on buyouts. Mark is a Chartered Accountant and has BA (Joint Honours) degrees in Accounting and Economics from the University of Strathclyde. Mark is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

Managing Director and Co-Founder. Mr. Morgan is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of Centre Lane Partners. Mr. Morgan has over 25 years of experience. Prior to co-founding Centre Lane, he was the head of the Corporate Private Equity Group at D.B. Zwirn & Co. (“DBZ”), a multi-strategy private investment firm with over $5.0 billion of assets under management at its peak. Mr. Morgan joined DBZ from an affiliate of Moore Capital, a $15.0 billion hedge fund, where he was a Principal focused on special situations equity and debt investing in middle market private companies. Mr. Morgan also served as a Managing Director and member of the investment committee of Moore Capital’s Asian distressed debt joint-venture, Moore Strategic Value Partners. Mr. Morgan began his career at Goldman Sachs and was part of the Merchant Banking, Leveraged Finance, Corporate Finance, and Mergers and Acquisitions groups, based in the Frankfurt, London and New York offices at various points. Mr. Morgan holds a B.S. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.