The New Jersey Department of the Treasury’s Division of Investment has appointed Dana Johns as its new head of private equity with immediate effect. Johns was previously a member of the PE team at the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System.
Johns has more than 20 years of experience investing and managing multi-billion dollar global portfolios of institutional alternative investment assets.
She is board chair of the Private Equity Women Investor Network and a member of the Institutional Limited Partners Association Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Council, Academy for Institutional Investors Editorial Committee, AIF Women’s Leadership Steering Committee, and the SEO Alternative Investments Limited Partner Advisory Council.
Johns has both a BA in Comparative Literature from Indiana University Bloomington, and a BS in Computer Info Systems from Stevenson University. She graduated from Loyola University Maryland with a Master’s in Finance while working full time as an Associate at Camden Private Capital, a private equity fund of funds.
