Platform & Operations
Team
Kevin Berardinelli
Kevin Berardinelli is the Head of Portfolio at Point72 Ventures, focused on helping portfolio companies solve problems, grow faster, and enjoy the journey. Kevin joined Point72 Ventures from Plaid, where he was the first dedicated growth hire. Prior...
Meena Cruz
Meena Cruz is an Executive Assistant on the Platform Team at Point72 Ventures. Prior to joining Point72 Ventures, Meena was an Executive Assistant at KKR for over ten years, supporting various Private Equity Investment Professionals. She also supported...
Alyssa DeFranco
Alyssa is the Community & Events Manager at Point72 Ventures. Prior to joining Point72 Ventures, Alyssa was the Operations & Events Manager for the Point72 Community Matters team and the Steve & Alexandra Cohen Foundation. Assume the...
Jess Fiegleman
Jess is the Head of Proprietary Research at Point72 Ventures. In her role, she is responsible for integrating the hedge funds’ research capabilities and establishing systems designed to elevate the private investing workflow. She is focused on arming Point72 Ventures’...
Sarah Fisher
Sarah is the Chief of Staff at Point72 Private Investments, where she helps drive strategic initiatives and serves as the connective tissue across the organization, working to ensure flawless execution and team alignment. Sarah joined Point72 Private Investments from Rokt,...
Deema Homsi
Deema is a Portfolio Growth Manager on the Platform team at Point72 Ventures, where she partners with Defense Tech portfolio companies to support initiatives related to business development, helping them grow and address key challenges. Prior to joining Point72 Ventures...
Chris Jackson
Chris Jackson is the Chief Operating Officer for Point72 Private Investments, the private investing business of Point72 Asset Management. He is focused on improving the group’s financial and operational infrastructure, which includes financial and strategic planning, valuations, reporting, and...
Faris Karaborni
Faris Karaborni is a Business Operations Manager on the Platform Team at Point72 Ventures, focusing on standardizing key pre-investment reporting, optimizing post-investment operational processes, and building cross-strategy framework across the team. Prior to joining Point72 Ventures, he was...
Luca Lit
Luca is a Data Engineer on the Platform Team at Point72 Private Investments. His responsibilities involve building and optimizing the infrastructure that powers our core suite of products. Prior to joining the team, Luca worked as a ML Infrastructure Engineer...
Cesar Lugo
Cesar Lugo is an IT Operations Engineer at Point72 where he provides expert, dedicated IT support to the Point72 Ventures team. In this role, he considers abstract technological applications to meet each unique need of the team – allowing...
Ann Matthews
Ann S. Matthews is the Associate General Counsel for Private Equity and Strategic Investments at Point72. In this role, she supports Point72 Ventures as well as other areas of the firm in connection with a wide variety of strategic transactions.
Kevin Parma
Kevin Parma is a Finance Manager on the Platform Team at Point72 Ventures, focusing on supporting the strategic and tactical business planning, operational infrastructure, capital planning and forecasting, reporting and coordination across the Point72 Private Investments platform. Prior to his...
Carolyn Partsch
Carolyn Partsch is an Executive Assistant on the Platform Team at Point72 Ventures. Prior to joining Point72 Ventures, Carolyn worked at U.S. Bank for over 10 years in various roles, most recently supporting the Leader in Retail Banking for...
David Schaffer
David Schaffer is the Deputy General Counsel for Private Equity and Strategic Investments at Point72. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing the structuring, negotiation, and documentation of investments and dispositions for the firm’s private investment platforms, including Point72...
Kevin Tarsa
Kevin is the Assistant General Counsel for Private Equity and Strategic Investments at Point72. In this role, he supports the structuring, negotiation and documentation of investments and dispositions for the firm’s private investment platforms, including Point72 Ventures. Prior to...
Lainy Thomas
Lainy Thomas is a Business Analyst on the Platform Team at Point72 Ventures, focused on elevating data insights, and increasing efficiency across the firm and its portfolio companies. Prior to joining Point72 Ventures, Lainy was at K1 Investment Management,...
Aarushi Wadhwa
Aarushi is a Technical Product Manager on the Platform Team at Point72 Ventures, focused on building intelligent AI products for investor lead sourcing and network operations. Prior to joining Point72 Ventures, Aarushi was a Product Manager and Machine Learning Engineer...
Grace Yim
Grace Yim is a marketer and operator passionate about building community-driven programs and scaling early-stage initiatives. Before joining Point72 Ventures, she led marketing activations and partnerships on the marketing teams at Red Bull and Roblox, creating large-scale experiential campaigns. Grace...
Leslie Zhang
Leslie supports the Portfolio Growth team at Point72 Ventures, where she works closely with portfolio companies to help them grow and tackle challenges from fundraising and hiring to business development. Leslie is a 2x former startup Chief of Staff, where...