Patrick Belville is the Deputy General Counsel – Strategy at Ansys, Inc. and previously served as Vice President, M&A, at Cardinal Health, Inc. with a combined 20 years of experience at Jones Day and Skadden Arps prior to that. His transactional experience includes domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital transactions, restructurings, recapitalizations, joint ventures and strategic alliances.

Elizabeth de Saint-Aignan, Managing Director, has 20 years of experience as a private equity investor in growing, high value technology companies. Prior to joining Sun Capital, Elizabeth was a founding partner of the growth equity group at Jump Capital. Elizabeth previously spent 7 years at TA Associates in the technology investing practice, leading investments in infrastructure and vertical market software companies. Elizabeth served as a senior investment professional with Nautic Partners and a consultant with Bain & Company. She began her private equity career as an Associate at Summit Partners. Elizabeth graduated with a degree in International Relations and Economics magna cum laude from Brown University and received her MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.

Storm Duncan is a senior financial and strategic advisor with extensive expertise in identifying, analyzing, negotiating and closing complex, transformative business partnerships, M&A, SPACs and capital raises. He advises leading technology and mobility/transportation companies including Google (YouTube, DoubleClick), Lyft, Careem/Uber, Microsoft, SAP, Hewlett-Packard, Yelp, Intuit and VeriSign, amongst others.

Storm is an internationally recognized expert in mobility and the future of transportation (Sold Careem to Uber, Executed Lyft IPO, sale of full stack Autonomous Vehicle platform to Apple) as well as M&A and SPACs.

He has managed businesses ranging in size from startups to businesses over $700 million of annual revenue and has founded 3 new businesses with over $500 million of annual revenue. He is the CEO/Co-founder of two technology companies, including a venture-backed start-up spun out of MIT.

René Yang Stewart joined Vista Equity Partners in 2007. Ms. Stewart is Co-Head of the Vista Endeavor Fund and sits on the Vista Endeavor Funds’ Investment Committee. Additionally, Ms. Stewart serves as a member of Vista’s Private Equity Management Committee, the firm’s governing and decision-making body for the overall management of Vista’s private equity platform. She currently sits on the boards of iN2L, Dispatch, Kazoo, RadarFirst, Tripleseat and Zapproved, and was actively involved in the firm’s investments in Accruent, AGDATA, Bullhorn, Lone Wolf and Mitratech.

Prior to joining Vista, Ms. Stewart worked at Yahoo! in the Corporate Finance Group, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, and business development opportunities for the company. Before her time at Yahoo!, Ms. Stewart worked at Lehman Brothers in the Global Technology Group.

Named one of the top “Women Leaders in Tech Law” by The Recorder for five consecutive years, Silicon Valley partner Allison Leopold Tilley advises technology companies, including on their formation, venture capital financings, multibillion-dollar M&As, public offerings, securities transactions and board governance.

Repeatedly recognized by Best Lawyers (published by BL Rankings LLC), Allison represents startups, emerging growth entities, venture capital firms, entrepreneurs and multinational public companies regarding a wide range of corporate matters. As counsel to both acquirers and target companies, she has closed billions of dollars in M&A deals for technology companies. Allison advises on private placements, public offerings, venture funds and joint ventures, and general corporate transactions. Allison served on Pillsbury’s managing board and is currently the Chair of the Nominating Committee.