About Us

Women in Secondaries (“WINS”) is a 501(c)6 organization dedicated to promoting, retaining and elevating women within the private equity secondaries market. We host events aimed to create networking opportunities and professional development for our members. WINS is open to women of all experience levels and across strategies including credit and real assets.

The effort began as unofficially in 2018 as our Founder, Christina, noticed an obvious gap in the market. Many of the women in secondaries she began to meet didn’t know each other. Christina planned and organized the first event that year. Word began to spread and interest in participating in future events grew. After hosting several more events, Christina and the rest of the board decided to formally launch a group in late 2019. Since then our membership has grown to over 200 individuals globally.

WINS recognizes the importance of relationships within the industry as well as sponsorship and advocacy by senior market leaders as a key factor for success. Through our events, we look to improve our members’ visibility in the market and help them continue to advance in their careers.

Our Mission

Our mission is to connect, support and elevate women in the secondaries market. WINS aims to promote the development of women market participants by providing informative programming and networking opportunities.

Our Board

 

Christina Bohm

  • Christina is the Founder and Chair of the WINS board. Christina is a managing director on the Fund Finance team at EverBank. Prior to joining EverBank, she spent more than a decade in fund finance at Nomura and in the secondary advisory space.

    She specializes in lending, hedging and other solutions for a wide variety of alternative asset investors and managers, with a strong focus on the secondaries market.

    Christina also serves on the board of two non-profit organizations, Fiver Children’s Foundation and Breaking the Chain through Education.

    Christina graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers Business School and is a CAIA Charterholder

Pamela Hanafi

  • Pamela is the Co-Founder and Board Member of WINS. She is a Principal at TPG, a global alternative asset firm with approximately $85 billion of AUM. At TPG, Pamela is a member of the TPG Strategic Solutions team, which focuses on providing secondary solutions capital to the private markets across North America and Europe. Prior to TPG, Pamela was a Director at Landmark Partners, where she worked on private equity secondary transactions. Prior to Landmark, she worked at Glouston Capital Partners.

    Pamela received an M.A. in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis International Business School and a B.A. in Applied Psychology from Emory University

 

Erica Seidel

  • Erica is a Co-Founder and Board Member of WINS. She is a member of the Blackstone Strategic Partners investment team, where she is currently a Principal with a focus on private equity secondary transactions. Erica focuses on sourcing, underwriting and executing transactions across the landscape of secondaries.

    Additionally, she is also a member of the Task Force for the Blackstone Women’s Initiative.

    Prior to joining Strategic Partners, Erica attended Harvard University and graduated with a B.A. cum laude in Neurobiology.

Amanda Ugarte

  • She is the Global Head of Secondary Advisory at Bank of America, based in New York. Amanda focuses on GP-led transactions including single asset SPVs, fund continuation vehicles, tender offerings and strip sales. Prior to joining Bank of America, she was the Head of U.S. Secondary Advisory at Lazard and previously a Managing Director in the Secondary Advisory team at PJT Partners. She also spent ten years at Morgan Stanley in the Investment Banking Division across the Healthcare, Technology and Management Groups.

    Mrs. Ugarte received a BA in Economics and Psychology summa cum laude from Wellesley College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

“WINS is a must join network for all women working in Secondaries. It’s a great space to trade notes professionally, interact socially and promote women’s empowerment!”

WINS MEMBER