The candidate is a Senior Investment Manager in the Private Equity Group at the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (“TRS”). She is responsible for the group’s large buyout portfolio and is the TRS relationship lead for global large private equity firms. She is a member of the Private Equity Investment Committee and Management Committees charged with the strategy and investment of TRS’s $18 billion portfolio of private equity fund commitments and principal investments. The candidate joined TRS in 2014 from the London office of Partner’s Group, where she led European private equity investments and served on the Investment Committee. Previously, she also worked on the investment teams at WhiteHorse Capital and Prudential Capital Group. She holds an MBA from London Business School and a Master’s degree in Accounting and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Southern Methodist University. She is also a CFA charterholder.