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🎥 AGM Unscripted: Goldman Sachs' Kristin Olson - The Evolution of Alternatives: Bridging Private Markets and Wealth
<p>Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.</p><p>The Goldman Sachs Alternatives Summit “convened leaders across finance, geopolitics, technology, and culture” to discuss themes driving global markets.</p><p>2025’s Alternatives Summit was about “navigating a world in flux,” as the firm’s recap of its event noted.</p><p>The event aimed to help investors cut through the noise and put together the pieces of the puzzle in a dynamic and increasingly complex world.</p><p>Alt Goes Mainstream joined the event to have unscripted conversations with Goldman Sachs Alternatives leaders to cut through the noise by unpacking...
🎥 AGM Unscripted: Goldman Sachs' James Reynolds - From Mezzanine to Moats: Over a Quarter-Century of Goldman Sachs Private Credit
<p>Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.</p><p>The Goldman Sachs Alternatives Summit “convened leaders across finance, geopolitics, technology, and culture” to discuss themes driving global markets.</p><p>2025’s Alternatives Summit was about “navigating a world in flux,” as the firm’s recap of its event noted.</p><p>The event aimed to help investors cut through the noise and put together the pieces of the puzzle in a dynamic and increasingly complex world.</p><p>Alt Goes Mainstream joined the event to have unscripted conversations with Goldman Sachs Alternatives leaders to cut through the noise by unpacking...
🎥 AGM Unscripted: Goldman Sachs' Matt Gibson - Navigating the Future of Alternatives: Scale, Supply, and Geopolitics
<p>Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.</p><p>Today’s episode dives into the rapidly expanding world of secondaries with a senior leader at one of the pioneering firms in the secondaries space.</p><p>We sat down at Franklin Templeton’s New York office with Taylor Robinson, a Partner on the Secondary team at Lexington Partners, which has over $77B in total capitalization and is part of Franklin Templeton’s family of private markets funds and strategies.</p><p>Taylor, who joined the firm in 2008, is primarily focused on the origination, evaluation, and execution of secondary opport...
🎥 Lexington Partners' Taylor Robinson - secondaries in the spotlight
<p>Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.</p><p>Today’s episode dives into the rapidly expanding world of secondaries with a senior leader at one of the pioneering firms in the secondaries space.</p><p>We sat down at Franklin Templeton’s New York office with Taylor Robinson, a Partner on the Secondary team at Lexington Partners, which has over $77B in total capitalization and is part of Franklin Templeton’s family of private markets funds and strategies.</p><p>Taylor, who joined the firm in 2008, is primarily focused on the origination, evaluation, and execution of secondary opport...
🎥 Ultimus Fund Solutions' Gary Tenkman - building the core fund administration infrastructure to make private markets go mainstream
<p>Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.</p><p>Today’s episode features a pioneer who has been building the core infrastructure that is making private markets go mainstream.</p><p>We talk with Gary Tenkman, a 30-year veteran of the fund administration world who is the CEO of Ultimus Fund Solutions. Ultimus serves over 450 clients and 2,300 funds, representing $725B of assets under administration, all handled by a team of over 1,100 professionals. </p><p>Ultimus, which is backed by private equity firm, GTCR and, more recently, Stone Point, is able to help investment managers navigate a growing array of...
🎥 Goldman Sachs' Sara Naison-Tarajano - working with the apex of the wealth channel
<p>Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.</p><p>Today’s episode brings us to the apex of the wealth channel. We sat down in Goldman Sachs’ HQ at 200 West with Sara Naison-Tarajano, a Partner and Global Head of Private Wealth Management Capital Markets and Global Head of Goldman Sachs Apex Family Office Coverage. Sara is also responsible for the One Goldman Sachs Family Office initiative in the Americas.</p><p>Sara has been at Goldman Sachs for over 26 years, where she’s worked in a number of roles across the firm, equipping her with a multi-disciplinary background that i...
🎥 Stonepeak's Cyrus Gentry - bringing infrastructure investing to the wealth channel
<p>Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.</p><p>Today’s episode brings infrastructure investing to life — literally.</p><p>We sat down in and walked through one of Stonepeak’s data center assets with Managing Director and CEO of SP+ INFRA, Cyrus Gentry.</p><p>Cyrus has played an integral role in Stonepeak’s rapid ascent as a firm and the growth of its wealth solutions business, Stonepeak+, joining early in the firm’s history and helping the firm grow to approximately $80B in AUM.</p><p>Cyrus brings a private equity perspective to infrastructure investing. Prior to Stonepe...
🎥 Blue Owl's Sean Connor - a growth company in a growth industry that is investing in megatrends
<p>Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.</p><p>Today’s episode takes us inside the world of wealth from the perspective of one of the industry’s largest alternative asset managers that has made the wealth channel core to its firm’s DNA from the beginning.</p><p>We sat down with Sean Connor, Senior Managing Director and the President & CEO of Global Private Wealth at Blue Owl Capital, a firm with almost $300B in AUM. Sean highlighted a number of key insights for navigating and working with the wealth channel as he shared lessons learned from buildi...
🎥 Vista's David Breach - building a software investing powerhouse in the age of AI
<p>Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.</p><p>Today’s episode dives into the nuances of enterprise software and how to build a scaled specialist alternative asset manager.</p><p>We sat down in Vista’s NYC office with David Breach, Vista’s President and Chief Operating Officer.</p><p>David sits on Vista’s Executive Committee, the firm’s governing and decision-making body for matters affecting its overall management and strategic direction as well as the firm’s Private Equity Management and Vista’s Private Equity Funds’ Investment Committees. David is also the Co-CEO of VistaOne, Vista’s evergree...
🎥 ING's Anneka Treon and Johan Kloeze - lessons learned from building a private markets platform for private wealth clients in Europe
<p>Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.</p><p>Today’s episode was filmed at ING’s HQ in Amsterdam, right after ING held its Private Markets Day. The firm has been actively building out its private markets capabilities to serve its private wealth clients so it was a treat to interview two of the people responsible for running ING’s wealth management and private markets practice.</p><p>We sat down with Anneka Treon, ING’s Global Head of Private Banking, Wealth Management & Investments, and Johan Kloeze, Head of Private Banking & Wealth Management Netherlands, to discuss ING’s big ambi...
