Bio
John Toomey joined the Firm in 1997 as a member of the direct investment team. He is currently a member of the secondary investment team, where he focuses on U.S. and non-U.S. investments in traditional, synthetic, and structured secondary transactions. John completed HarbourVest's associate program in 1999 and went on to Harvard Business School; he rejoined HarbourVest after receiving his MBA. John played a key role in three of HarbourVest's largest secondary transactions to date: MidOcean Partners' purchase of Deutsche Bank's late stage private equity portfolio; Tresser, L.P., a structured secondary transaction completed with UBS AG; and American Capital Equity I, LLC, a synthetic secondary transaction involving a direct portfolio held by American Capital Ltd. He has also been active in the Firm's business development activities including the December 2007 initial public offering of HarbourVest Global Private Equity Limited ("HVPE"), a permanent capital vehicle listed on Euronext Amsterdam, where he served as Chief Financial Officer from its IPO through September 2008. John serves on the advisory boards of a number of private equity partnerships, including funds managed by Clearwater Capital Partners, Mizuho Investment Management (UK) Limited, and Wachovia Capital Partners. John's previous experience includes two years as an analyst at Smith Barney, Inc., where he served in the Advisory Group focusing on merger and acquisition transactions, as well as corporate restructurings. John received a BS (cum laude) in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard University in 1995 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 2001, where he was awarded the Loeb Fellowship for outstanding achievement in finance.
Career
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