PE Tech Report

Awards

Jason Elmer, Drawbridge

Drawbridge: Best Cyber Security Provider

The Private Equity (PE) space faces the same risk of cyber-attacks as other industries, and firms have spent the last several years investing and making progress to protect themselves against continuously evolving cyber threats.  While they may have buttressed their own defences, PE managers now recognise that their portfolio companies

Ben Harrison, Deal Cloud

DealCloud: Best Deal Origination Technology

Ben Harrison, Co-President of Financial Services at Intapp believes that DealCloud was chosen to win the Best Deal Origination Technology award because it is a single-source deal, relationship, and firm management platform that enables firms to power their deal-making process from strategy to origination to execution.  He says: “We offer

Jill Calton, UMB Fund Services

UMB Fund Services: Best Fund Administrator (GPs with assets under USD30bn)

For UMB Fund Services, the past 18 months have been a lesson in adaptability, flexibility and commitment. According to Jill Calton, EVP, Executive Director Alternative Investments for UMB Fund Services: “We quickly adapted to a new working style in March of 2020, and over the course of a weekend, transitioned our

AJ Patel

Setter Capital: Best Secondaries Platform

Setter Capital prides itself on being one of the world’s few independent secondary advisory firms, and during the gruelling pandemic year, the team rose to the challenge and doubled down on its core competencies. Setter increased both its execution team’s size and its research efforts to produce more insights for

Bryan Cohen, Validus Risk Management

Validus Risk Management: Best Risk Management Software Provider

According to Validus Risk Management, this year’s winner of best risk management service provider, the uncertainty and market volatility that resulted from Covid-19 over the past 12-18 months has highlighted the importance of a robust risk management framework. 

George Ralph, RFA

RFA: Best Cloud Services Provider

RFA has navigated the undoubted challenges of the last 12-18 months by helping clients to maintain work and deal flow.  “We have continued to work with clients to maintain and evolve our fully mobile working solutions – with clients mobility at the forefront alongside security, which requires a cloud-based network

Alexandra Mihailescu Cichon, RepRisk

RepRisk: Best ESG data provider

RepRisk’s analysis of ESG risks has a clear goal: to identify and assess issues that have financial, compliance, and reputational implications, so that financial institutions have the actionable intelligence they need to make the best financing, investment, and overall business decisions. “We use a unique outside-in approach to look at what

Jennifer Prosek, Prosek Partners

Prosek Partners: Best PR & Communications Agency

Prosek Partners’ key strategy to deal with the challenges of the last 18 months seems a curious one. Jennifer Prosek, Managing Partner at Prosek Partners, says: “In a word – overcommunication.” She explains further: “Whether it was working with clients or talking with our own teams on what seemed to

Keeping up with demand

Service providers have had a busy year as they move to meet demand from fund management clients for new technology and increased services. 

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