PARTNERCONNECT 2012

Grow Your Network | Boost Your Returns

Information is power in private equity. Developing a strong network paves the way to opportunity. This is why you need to attend PartnerConnect 2012 at the historic Park Avenue Armory in New York.

The editors of Buyouts, VCJ and peHUB.com have developed a networking event unlike any you've experienced. Senior executives from every part of the private equity/venture capital value chain will fill the 55,000-square-foot facility on April 3-5 for a conference with unparalleled networking, idea generation and deal-making opportunities. Over three days elite speakers will fill 5 pavilions to discuss:

• LPs and Fundraising
• Middle Market Deals & Financing
• Venture and Growth Equity
• High Growth Technology
• Private Real Estate
• Energy & Infrastructure

Hundreds of general partners from private equity and venture capital firms
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Hundreds of institutional investors, bankers, lenders, advisors, and entrepreneurs
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Hundreds of keynoters, panelists and featured speakers
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Countless Networking Opportunities

Features of the event include:

• ExecConnect - 1:1 meetings between GPs, LPs and Deal Intermediaries, now enhanced to allow participants to control their own schedules online
• DealConnect - Meet 40+ PE/VC firms over food and cocktails on our Day 2 reception
• More than 25 individual receptions to ensure you connect with the right people

For the 500+ of you who came to Buyouts New York in 2011, we invite you to join us for an even more valuable opportunity to develop your network. For the thousands of you who have attended our other conferences like Buyouts Chicago, Buyouts Texas or Venture Alpha in the past, PartnerConnect 2012 is the flagship event to build your next New York trip around.

The Current Speaker List Includes:

Justin Abelow, Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey
Christian Albert, Managing Partner, Bowside Capital
Colin G. Ambrose, Chief Investment Officer, UJA-Federation of New York
Jerome Antenen, CFA, Managing Director, Carleon Capital Partners LLC
Lawrence Aragon, Editor In Chief, Venture Capital Journal
George Arnold, Managing Principal, Knightsbridge Advisers
Maggie Arvedlund, Managing Director, Fortress Partners Fund
Quint Barker, Managing Principal, New York Life Capital Partners
Claudia A. Baron, Partner, PPM America Capital Partners
Red Barrett, President & Chief Executive Officer, Permal Capital Management
Luisa Beltran, Senior Private Equity Writer, peHUB.com
Jay Bernstein, Partner, KPS Funds
Kenneth F. Bernstein, President and Chief Executive Officer, Acadia
Karl Bienkampen, CFA, CIO, Wilshire Private Markets
Nicholas Bienstock, Co-Managing Partner, Savanna Investment Management
Steve Bills, Senior Editor, Buyouts Magazine
Adam Blumenthal, Managing Partner, Blue Wolf Capital Partners
Mark Boslet, Senior Editor, Venture Capital Journal
Kristine Brandt, Director, Invesco Private Capital
Rod Brooks, Professor Emeritus, MIT; Founder, iRobot; Founder and CEO, Heartland Robotics
Tripp Brower, Partner, Capstone Partners
Mike Brown Jr., Founder & Partner, AOL Ventures
Scott D. Brown, CFA, Managing Director, CBRE Global Multi Manager
Robert Buderi, Founder and Editor in Chief, Xconomy
Jeffrey J. Bussgang, General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
Phil Canfield, Principal, GTCR
Edward M. Casal, Chief Investment Officer, Global Real Estate Multi-Manager Group, Aviva Investors
Gregory W. Cashman, Senior Managing Director, Golub Capital
Narayan Chowdhury, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Franklin Park
Andrew Christensen, CFA, Director of Private Markets, Carleton College
Joe Chung, Managing Director and Co-Founder, Redstar Ventures
John S. Clark, Managing Director, Performance Equity Management
Steven Costabile, CFA, Managing Director, Global Head of Private Funds Group, PineBridge Investments
Patrick M. Cunningham, Managing Director, Macquarie Infrastructure & Real Assets
Duran S. Curis, CFA, Partner and Founder, Ocean Avenue Capital Partners
Thomas P. Danis, Jr., Managing Principal, RCP Advisors
Ronald M. Dickerman, President and Founder, Madison International Realty
Chris Douvos, Managing Director, Venture Investment Associates
Timothy C. Draper, Co-Founder, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Maxime Durivage CFA, MBA, Investment Manager, Régime de rentes du Mouvement Desjardins
Jamie Ebersole, Senior Investment Director, SL Capital Partners
Alex Eidlin, Managing Director, Institutional Real Estate, Inc.
Grier Eliasek, President and COO, Prospect Capital Corporation
Michael Elio, Managing Director, LP Capital Advisors
Bruce R. Evans, Managing Director, Summit Partners
Kirk Falconer, Director of Research, Private Equity, Thomson Reuters
David I. Fann, President and CEO, TorreyCove Capital Partners
Daniel E. Feder, Senior Investment Manager, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Covariance Capital Management
Peter Fenton, General Partner, Benchmark Capital
Craig Ferguson, Managing Director, Manulife Capital
Spencer Fleischer, President, Friedman, Fleischer & Lowe
Tony Florence, Partner, NEA
Diana Frazier, Founding Partner, FLAG Capital Management
B. Graeme Frazier, IV, President, Private Capital Research LLC
Brian Gallagher, Partner, Twin Bridge Capital Partners
Felicity Gates, Global Co-Head & Partner, Citi Infrastructure Investors
Bruce Gibney, Partner, Founders Fund
Joanna Glasner, Senior Editor, peHUB.com
David Glickman, Managing Director, Pension Consulting Alliance
Jason Goldberg, Founder and CEO, Fab.com
Alastair Goldfisher, Acting Editor In Chief, Venture Capital Journal
Bennett J. Goodman, Senior Managing Director, The Blackstone Group, Founder of GSO Capital Partners
Jeffrey M. Goodrich, Co-Founder, High Road Capital Partners
Sally Gordon, Managing Director, BlackRock
Michael D. Granoff, Chief Executive Officer, Pomona Capital
Thaddeus Gray, Chief Investment Officer, Abbott Capital Management
Dayna Grayson, Principal, North Bridge Venture Partners
Alexander Greene, Managing Partner, Brookfield Asset Management
Leslie E. Greis, Founder, Perennial Capital Advisors
Sanjay Gupta, Vice President, Adveq
Glenn A. Gurtcheff, Managing Director, Harris Williams
Joan C. Heidorn, CFA, Director, Spur Capital Partners
Leo A. Helmers, CFA, Managing Director, Carlyle Mezzanine Partners
Darren Herman, Chief Digital Media Officer, Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal + Partners
Kenneth A. Hersh, Co-Founder and CEO, NGP Energy Capital Management
Terri Herubin, Principal, Portfolio Manager, Townsend Group
Scott Higbee, Partner, Partners Group (USA) Inc.
Eric Hippeau, Partner, Lerer Ventures
Erik Hirsch, CIO, Hamilton Lane
David R. Hodes, Managing Partner, Hodes Weill & Associates
Robert (Mac) Hofeditz, Partner, Probitas Partners
Holly Holtz, Senior Director, Private Equity, High Yield and Distressed Investments, TIAA-CREF
Craig Jarchow, Managing Director, Pine Brook Partners
Ilaina Jonas, Correspondent, Thomson Reuters
David Jones, Jr., Chairman and Managing Director, Chrysalis Ventures
Jay Jordan, Chairman and Managing Principal, The Jordan Company
Ronald Kahn, Managing Director, Lincoln International LLC
Sonny Kalsi, Founder and Partner, GreenOak Real Estate Advisors
Kevin Kester, Managing Director, Siguler Guff
Michael Kim, Managing Partner, Cendana Capital
Steven B. Klinsky, Managing Director, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, New Mountain Capital
Stewart A. Kohl, Co-CEO, The Riverside Company
Alan Kosan, Managing Director, Rogerscasey
Paul S. Kramer, CPA, Partner, Alternative Investments, Strategic Investment Group
Henry Kravis, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, KKR
Scott Kupor, Partner and COO, Andreessen Horowitz
Andrew Kwee, Managing Director, LGT Capital Partners (USA) Inc.
David Landau, Vice President - Alternative Investments, YMCA Retirement Fund
Janna Laudato, CFA, Managing Director, Hauser Capital Markets
Chris Lawrence, Managing Director, Auda Alternative Investments
Richard F. Lawson, Jr., Co-Founder & Managing Director, Huntsman Gay Global Capital
Marc Leder, Co-CEO, Sun Capital Partners
Warren Lee, General Partner, Canaan Partners
Ken Lehman, Managing Director, Kendall Investments
Eduard Lemle, Vice President, Swiss Re
Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School
Christopher J. Leslie, Senior Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer, Macquarie Infrastructure Partners Inc.
Paul S. Levy, Founder & Managing Partner, JLL Partners
Peter Lewis, Senior Consultant, Towers Watson
Marc Lipschultz, Global Head of Energy and Infrastructure, KKR
David Lobel, Founder & Managing Partner, Sentinel Capital Partners
Linda Lynch, Managing Director, Fisher Lynch
Tom Lynch, Managing Director, Cliffwater LLC
Louis Marinaccio, Managing Director, North Castle Partners
Jonathan Marino, Editor, peHUB.com
James Mawson, Founder and Editor, Global Corporate Venturing
James McCandless, Managing Director, Head of Global Real Estate, Farmland, UBS AgriVest LLC
Richard (Rick) Miller, Partner, Managing Director, Regiment Capital Advisors, Inc.
David B. Miller, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, EnCap Investments
Todd Milligan, Director, Private Advisors
Stuart Milstein, Senior Vice President, Beacon Capital Partners
Kate Mitchell, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners
Greg Mondre, Managing Partner, Silver Lake
Ralph Money, Managing Director, Commonfund
Jeffery F. Moy, Head of Private Equity, Rockefeller Financial
Terrence Mullen, Managing Partner, Arsenal Capital Partners
Brian P. Murphy, Managing Director, Portfolio Advisors
Stephen Murray, President and Chief Executive Officer, CCMP Capital
Jonathan Nelson, CEO, Providence Equity
Dr. Olaf Neubert, Managing Partner, Hedges Capital Inc.
Michael D. Nugent, Co-Founder, BISON, Inc.
Crevan O’Grady, Partner—Growth Capital, 3i
W. Dexter Paine III, Founding Partner, Paine + Partners
C. Jason Payne, Managing Partner, Mainsail Partners
Jeff Pentland, Managing Director, Northleaf Capital Partners
Jeff Pippin, CIO, Pepperdine University
Edwin Poston, General Partner, Co-Founder, TrueBridge Capital Partners
Geoffrey Prentice, Partner, Atomico
Siobhan Quinn, Chief Product Officer, Foursquare
Christian Raaby Brønden, Vice President, ATP Private Equity Partners
Jesse Reyes, Managing Director, Reyes Analytics
Roland Reynolds, Managing Director, Industry Ventures
Steve Robinson, Managing Director, GE Antares Capital
Brian Rodde, Principal, Makena Capital
David Rogers, Founder, Caledon Capital Management
Gregory Roth, Senior Editor, Buyouts Magazine
Gregory Roumeliotis, Private Equity Correspondent, Reuters
Jane Rowe, Senior Vice President, Teachers' Private Capital
Elliot Royce, Managing Partner, AlpInvest Partners
Federico Schiffrin, Senior Vice President and Investment Director, Private Equity, Unigestion
Randy Schwimmer, Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
Patrick Severson, Managing Director, Warburg Pincus
Kunal Shah, Principal, Meketa Investment Group
Sanjiv K. Shah, Managing Director, BAML Capital Access Funds
Joel Shapiro, Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Timbervest, LLC
Sunil Sharma, Global Practice Lead, Venture Capital and Private Equity, Canada's Venture Capital and Private Equity Association
Kate Sidebottom Simpson, Director, Parish Capital Advisors, LLP
Wayne D. Smith, CFA, Senior Vice President, Pathway Capital Management
Joshua Sobeck, Partner, 747 Capital
Stephen J. Socolof, Managing Partner, New Venture Partners
Adam D. Sokoloff, Managing Director, Global Head of Financial Sponsors Group, Jefferies & Company
Chris Solomon, Director of Capital Markets, Welsh Carson
Glenn Solomon, Partner, GGV Capital
Peter B. Spasov, Partner, Marlin Equity Partners
Matthew L. Sperling, Managing Director, Head of North American Equity Advisory, Rothschild
Russell Steenberg, Managing Director, BlackRock
Robert M. Stern, Managing Partner, Castle Hill Investors, LLC
Reed Sturtevant, Managing Director, Project 11
Christopher S. Sugden, Managing Partner, Edison Ventures
Joji Takeuchi, CEO and Cofounder, Brightrust PE Japan
Carsten Thoma, Co-Founder, President & COO, Hybris Software
David Toll, Editor in Charge, Buyouts Magazine
Suzanne Troy Cole, Partner, Troy Investment Associates, Inc.
David C. Turner, Managing Director, Head of Private Equity, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Hendrik Vroege, Partner, EBF & Associates
Christopher J. Walker, Principal, HarbourVest Partners, LLC
Gus Weber, Entrepreneur in Residence, Polaris Venture Partners
Timothy P. Wegener, Managing Director – Private Investments, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
Mark Weisdorf, Managing Director, CEO, J.P. Morgan Asset Management Infrastructure Investments Group
Andy Weissman, Partner, Union Square Ventures
Brian K. Welker, Investment Director, Allianz Capital Partners, Inc.
Patrick Weston, Managing Partner, Azalea Capital
Gordon J. Whiting, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, Angelo, Gordon
Howard Widra, CEO, MidCap Financial
Kelly M. Williams, Global Head, Customized Fund Investment Group, Credit Suisse
William G. Winterer, Partner, Capital Markets, Parthenon Capital Partners
Kenneth Wisdom, Managing Director, Portfolio Advisors
Chris Yang, Managing Partner, Grove Street Advisors
Jay A. Yoder, CFA, Partner, Head Of Real Assets, Altius Associates
David York, Managing Director, Top Tier Capital Partners
Mark W. Yusko, CEO & Chief Investment Officer, Morgan Creek Capital Management
Eric Zoller, Co-Founder and Partner, Sixpoint Partners

Day 1: Tuesday, April 3

2:00 p.m.	Registration Opens
3:00 p.m.	Opening Remarks
3:15 p.m.	Featured Speakers:
	Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School; Paul Levy, JLL Partners;
	Jane Rowe, Teachers' Private Capital; Peter Fenton, Benchmark Capital
3:45 p.m.	Opening Dealmaker Keynote: Henry Kravis, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, KKR
4:15 p.m.	Topic-focused Receptions
5:15 p.m.	PartnerConnect Kickoff Reception
6:45 p.m.	Day 1 Concludes

Day 2: Wednesday, April 4

7:00 a.m.	Registration Opens
7:00 a.m.	BREAKFAST: Breakfast is served buffet style in the Ice Breaker Lounge
8:30 a.m.	Welcoming Remarks
8:45 a.m.	Industry Perspectives Keynote 1: Mark W. Yusko, Morgan Creek Capital Management
9:20 a.m.	Newsmaker 1: Steven B. Klinsky, New Mountain Capital
9:40 a.m.	Newsmaker 2: Greg Mondre, Silver Lake
10:00 a.m.	COFFEE BREAK
10:10 a.m.	ExecConnect Meetings begin
10:30 a.m.	Breakout Session 1: Tracks A, B, C, D
11:00 a.m.	Breakout Session 2: Tracks A, B, C, D
11:30 a.m.	Breakout Session 3: Tracks A, B, C, D
12:00 p.m.	LUNCH
12:45 p.m.	Breakout Session 4: Tracks A, B, C, D
1:15 p.m.	Breakout Session 5: Tracks A, B, C, D
1:45 p.m.	Breakout Session 6: Tracks A, B, C, D
2:30 p.m.	Dealmaker Keynote: Jonathan Nelson, Providence Equity
3:00 p.m.	Deal Financing Keynote: Bennett Goodman, Senior Managing Director,
	The Blackstone Group, Founder of GSO Capital Partners
3:30 p.m.	Venture Keynote
4:00 p.m.	DEALCONNECT COCKTAILS AND PE SHOWCASE
6:00 p.m.	Day 2 Concludes

Day 3: Thursday, April 5

7:00 a.m.	Registration Opens
7:00 a.m.	BREAKFAST: Breakfast is served buffet style in the Ice Breaker Lounge
7:00 a.m.	LP-ONLY BREAKFAST
8:30 a.m.	Welcoming Remarks
8:45 a.m.	LP Keynote 2: Erik Hirsch, Hamilton Lane
9:20 a.m.	Featured Speakers:
	Marc Leder, Sun Capital Partners; Jay Jordan, The Jordan Company;
	Stephen Murray, CCMP Capital
10:00 a.m.	COFFEE BREAK
10:10 a.m.	ExecConnect Meetings begin
10:30 a.m.	Breakout Session 7: Tracks A, B, C, D
11:00 a.m.	Breakout Session 8: Tracks A, B, C, D
11:30 a.m.	Breakout Session 9: Tracks A, B, C, D
12:00 p.m.	LUNCH
12:45 p.m.	Buyouts Deals of the Year Awards
1:00 p.m.	LP Keynote 3: Kelly M. Williams, Credit Suisse Customized Fund Investment Group
1:30 p.m.	Industry Perspectives Keynote 2: Timothy C. Draper, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
2:15 p.m.	Breakout Session 10: Tracks A, B, C, D
2:45 p.m.	Breakout Session 11: Tracks A, B, C, D
3:15 p.m.	Breakout Session 12: Tracks A, B, C, D
3:45 p.m.	Conference Concludes

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ExecConnect

At any conference there are hundreds of people you ought to meet - but how to find them? Our ExecConnect* meeting program actively arranges hundreds of one-on-one private meetings between lenders, bankers, LPs and GPs. These 20-minute meetings are pre-scheduled by conference directors amongst groups who select each other, ensuring you meet with executives who best match your investment goals.

* Due to limited schedules, we cannot guarantee ExecConnect meetings to all registrants. For those seeking to maximize the number of private meetings at the conference, please inquire about the benefits of a GP Premium sponsorship by contacting Kevin McCaffrey at kevin.mccaffrey@thomsonreuters.com

DealConnect

Network with PE & VC firms during the DealConnect PE/VC Showcase.

Attendees will have the chance to meet more than 50 private equity/venture capital firms over food and cocktails, as these firms man their own tables to make introductions and discuss their investment strategies.

VConnect

A private networking reception for VCs and CEOs/ Founders of startups from the top accelerators across the country such as TechStars. Get an early intro to entrepreneurs hand-picked to enroll in these demanding programs.

For more information on VConnect please contact Mark Cecil at 617-856-1871 or by email at mark.cecil@thomsonreuters.com.