March 14, 2012
Washington, D.C.
By invitation only

Business | Capital Markets | Finance | Public Policy

The Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets and the Georgetown Center for Financial Markets and Policy in the McDonough School of Business co-hosted the panel discussion "The Role of Private Equity in Capital Formation" as part of their joint Policy Briefing Series.

Limited to Georgetown University students, faculty and staff, this invitation-only panel discussion featured:

Bradley Belt (moderator), senior managing director of the Milken Institute, leading its Washington office. He is a co-founder of Palisades Capital Management LLC, a restructuring advisory and investment firm that focuses on pensions, insurance and financial services. Prior to establishing Palisades, he served as the executive director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., responsible for the operations and management of a $50 billion investment portfolio. He has held senior staff positions at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Senate, and has served on several corporate and nonprofit boards.

Sandeep Dahiya, associate professor at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business. Dahiya, who has been on the faculty since 1999, spent two years working in the corporate finance and strategy practice of McKinsey & Co., a leading strategy consulting firm. He worked with CEOs and CFOs of Fortune 500 firms in health care, financial services and chemical industries focusing on valuation, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and risk management issues. He has also consulted for leading law firms on corporate finance issues.

Joel Kurtzman, a senior fellow at the Milken Institute and board member of the Private Capital Research Institute, which focuses on the role of private equity and venture capital in the economy. Previously, he was global lead partner for thought leadership and innovation at PricewaterhouseCoopers, editor of the Harvard Business Review; a member of the editorial board of Harvard Business School Publishing; and business editor and columnist at The New York Times.

David Marchick, managing director and global head of external affairs at The Carlyle Group and a member of the firm's operating committee. Marchick leads the group that provides government affairs, public affairs, regulatory and strategic advice and support to Carlyle's buyout, growth, real estate and credit and debt funds. He serves on the board of directors of Sequa Corp., a diversified aerospace and industrial company.

For more information on this briefing, please contact Dianna Dunne, Director of Government Affairs, at ddunne@milkeninstitute.org.

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