Two Institutions. One Shade of Blue.
Our Team
Executive Board
Founder, UNC President
Benson Wang
UNC Vice President
Kiara Casmer
Chief Operating Officer
Beckett Kreter
Founder, Duke President
Derek Lippert
Duke Vice President
Sachin Shah
Executive Advisor
Van Adam-Thompson
Sector Directors
Hamza Islam
Sabrina Takemoto-Spraggins
Jean Pierre Leignadier
Cameron Figueroa
Patrick Li
Shaan Patel
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Mark Ghattas
Diya Bhatt
Operations Team
Varnica Basavaraj
Madhuriha Chinta
Lance Pascasio
Aiden Shipman
Brandon Li
Anton Mathew
Holden Manna
Shivani Vyas
Lead Faculty
Gregory Brown
Dr. Brown is the Van and Kay Weatherspoon Distinguished Professor of Finance at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the founder and research director of the Institute for Private Capital, faculty director of the Hodges Scholars Program and a member of the Private Equity Research Consortium (PERC) advisory board. He earned his Bachelor of Science at Duke University.
David Robinson
Dr. Robinson is the James and Gail Vander Weide Distinguished Professor of Finance at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He is the former Vice Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Private Capital, and is also a scientific advisor to the Swedish House of Finance in Stockholm. He earned his Bachelor of Arts at UNC-Chapel Hill.