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Michael Bego

October 12, 2021

Michael Bego is the Managing Partner of Kline Hill Partners, which he established in 2015. He is responsible for overall firm and investment oversight. He has 29 years of overall business experience, including 20 years of investment experience. Prior to founding Kline Hill Partners, Mr. Bego was a partner at secondary firm Willowridge Partners since…

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Jared Barlow, CFA

October 12, 2021

Jared Barlow is a Partner and principal of Kline Hill and, along with Michael Bego, is responsible for overall firm and investment oversight. He joined the Firm in 2015 and has 21 years of business experience, including 15 years of investment experience. Before joining Kline Hill, Mr. Barlow ran Sweetwater Capital LLC, an investment boutique…

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Chris Bull, CFA

October 12, 2021

Chris Bull is a Managing Director on the investment team at Kline Hill. Prior to joining Kline Hill in July 2021, Mr. Bull was a Project Leader at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). While at BCG, he worked closely with senior executives across a wide range of industries to design and deploy strategic, organizational, and operational…

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Graham Douglas

October 12, 2021

Graham Douglas is a Managing Director on the investment team at Kline Hill. Prior to joining Kline Hill in 2017, Mr. Douglas was an Analyst at Modern Bank, N.A. in the Leveraged Finance Group where he played a key role in all stages of the underwriting process. He worked with middle market companies to provide…

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Roman Hürlimann

March 1, 2022

Roman Hürlimann is a Managing Director at Kline Hill. Prior to joining Kline Hill in December 2021, Mr. Hürlimann was a Member of Management at Partners Group where he was responsible for sourcing, due diligence, and execution of primary, secondary and co-investment opportunities since 2012. In his prior role, Mr Hürlimann was also responsible for…

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Elena Laleh

October 12, 2021

Elena Laleh is a Managing Director at Kline Hill Partners, focused on GP-led secondaries. Prior to joining Kline Hill, Elena spent seven years as a core member of the secondaries team at Partners Group, where she focused on both GP-led and LP secondaries, as well as co-investments and primary investments. She was a Founding Member…

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David Swanson, CFA

October 12, 2021

David Swanson is a Managing Director at Kline Hill, focused on GP-led secondaries. Prior to joining Kline Hill, he was a partner at Unigestion SA, where he was head of secondaries for North America and responsible for sourcing, due diligence, and execution of secondary transactions. He began his career in 2005 in the corporate finance/restructuring…

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Raudel Yanez

June 23, 2022

Raudel Yanez is a Managing Director at Kline Hill, focused on GP-led transactions in North America. Prior to joining Kline Hill in April 2022, Mr. Yanez was a Director at Spring Bridge Partners (now part of Ares), where he was one of the first members of the team and focused on middle-market secondaries. Before that,…

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James Bradshaw

October 12, 2021

James Bradshaw is a Vice President on the investment team at Kline Hill Partners. Prior to joining Kline Hill in 2019, James was a Manager within the M&A Transaction Services team at Deloitte UK, where he performed financial due diligence for mid-cap focused private equity clients and strategic investors across financial services, technology and manufacturing.…

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Kathryn Cholko

October 12, 2021

Kathryn Cholko is a Vice President on the investment team at Kline Hill. Prior to joining Kline Hill in 2018, she worked in the Audit and Assurance practice at Deloitte for three years. Ms. Cholko specialized in financial services, specifically within the Investment Management group, where she worked with multiple private equity firms across various…

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