Profiles of the Principals

Mark A. Bourgeois
Co-Head of Global Institutional Distribution and Head of Alternatives Distribution (New York)
Mark A. Bourgeois is a managing director, co-head of Lehman Brothers' Global Institutional Distribution and head of Alternatives Distribution. He is a member of the Fund of Funds Investment Committee and the Private Equity Management Committee. Mr. Bourgeois has been involved in representing general partners in the private equity community to institutional investors for nine years. He has reviewed on average over 400 general partners per year globally in an effort to find four to six of the top-quartile performing general partners with key aspects of differentiation. The funds have ranged in size from $150 million to over $15 billion, across all strategies of private equity and alternatives. Prior to his career in Wall Street, Mr. Bourgeois spent 16 years in the healthcare industry; he previously served as chief operating officer of the northeastern region for Warner-Lambert Corp., representing 13 states in all business aspects. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Phoenix and a B.A. from Tennessee Temple University.

Richard Anthony
European Head of Private Fund Marketing Group (London)
Richard Anthony is an executive director and European head of the Private Fund Marketing group. In this capacity, he is responsible for originating, developing and managing fundraising programs for private equity, venture capital, real estate and other European private funds. Mr. Anthony leverages significantly off Lehman Brothers' capital markets and investment management distribution effort to achieve capital goals. Mr. Anthony was previously an executive director in Lehman Brothers Fixed Income Division's Structured Solutions group responsible for the coverage of U.K. and Ireland. He developed and executed transactions across the full fixed income product range, as well as in the alternative asset management space. Prior to that, Mr. Anthony spent seven years in institutional fixed income derivative sales with Barclays Capital, Bear Stearns and J.P. Morgan. Mr. Anthony graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons) in management science from Loughborough University.

John Linger
Managing Director, Real Estate Private Equity (New York)
John Linger is a managing director of Lehman Brothers responsible for real estate capital raising. Prior to joining the Firm in 2007, Mr. Linger was a managing director with Cherokee Investment Partners LLC, a private equity real estate firm. During his tenure with Cherokee, he was directly responsible for raising a series of private funds totaling $2.3 billion of committed capital. Prior to joining Cherokee in 1997, Mr. Linger was a co-founder and partner of Atlantic-Pacific Capital, LLC, an investment banking firm focused on raising capital for alternative investment funds. Prior thereto, Mr. Linger was a principal of Benedetto Gartland & Greene, Inc., a New York-based investment banking firm. In addition, he was a senior associate in the Acquisition and Private Finance Group of Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. Mr. Linger has 10 years of real estate experience and holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.