community spotlights
The Kayo Community Spotlight serves to shape and strengthen the Kayo network through stories that explore career journeys, personal perspectives, and insights into diverse markets and industries.
If you know a woman with a unique career journey, personal perspective, or especially attuned insights who deserves a Community Spotlight, share your recommendation through the nomination form.
Community Spotlight: Callie Hamilton
When people hear “energy infrastructure investing,” they often picture billion dollar projects, complex capital structures, and highly technical financial modeling. And while those elements are certainly part of the job, Callie Hamilton describes her work in far more grounded terms: understanding businesses deeply, building long term partnerships, and approaching investing with intellectual curiosity.
Community Spotlight: Stephanie Henwood-Darts
At the helm of boutique fund administration firm Phoenix Fund Services headquartered in Texas is a triad of women, including Chief Operating...
Community Spotlight: Dawn Owens on When It’s Time to Take a New Hill
Dawn Owens laughs when she describes herself as change-averse. New wallpaper? She doesn't like it. Different flowers in the garden? Not her favorite...
Community Spotlight: Callie Blankenau, Unity Partners
The best business development professionals in private equity today are no longer just connectors. They are strategic thinkers, value creators,...
Community Spotlight: Madeline Harlan on Inside Relationship Banking in the Middle Market
When people think about commercial banking, they often picture spreadsheets, underwriting models, and complex financing structures. And while those...
Community Spotlight: Summer Craig on Growth, Grit, and the New Playbook for Value Creation
At Kayo, we are always inspired by women who are shaping the private equity ecosystem in new and meaningful ways. As part of our series spotlighting...
Community Spotlight: Jennifer Grett Marrinucci on Risk, Relationships, and Building Value Beyond the Transaction
At Kayo, we are always inspired by women who have built careers not by following a prescribed path, but by leaning into relationships, curiosity,...
Building Rooms Worth Being In: Michelle Van Hellemont on Networks, Purpose, and the Power of the Ask
Michelle Van Hellemont has spent over two decades in private equity not chasing deals, but building the kind of trust that makes deals possible. As...
Meet Priya Parrish: An Impact Investing Expert
Priya Parrish is Managing Partner at Impact Engine. She also is Professor of Strategy and Impact Investing at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business where she teaches, mentors, and supports MBA courses and programs about impact investing. We recently sat down with Priya to learn more about her career journey and how she got into Impact Investing.
Meet Heather Arbogast: A Renewable Energy Guru
Heather Arbogast serves as a strategic corporate advisor to utilities, energy companies, developers, power purchasers, sponsors, investors and other clients on a broad range of transactions and regulatory issues in the power, retail energy, solar, wind and battery storage sectors of the energy industry. We recently sat down with Heather to learn more about her career journey and how she got into the Renewable Energy sector.
Going “All Places” with Jessie Gabriel
Jessie Gabriel is the founder of All Places, a business and legal strategy firm that supports women asset managers and entrepreneurs. Jessie is a...
GETTING TO KNOW PRIVATE EQUITY’S TOP INSURANCE PROVIDERS
Championing your peers is one of the three pillars on which Kayo stands. We often hear stories from the Kayo Community of relationships built around...
FROM IMMIGRANTS TO REAL ESTATE EXECS: HOW TWO FRIENDS TRAILBLAZE TOGETHER
First generation immigrants Carolyn Inoa-Monje and Mae Klinger met as freshmen at Harvard and bonded on shared values such as family, education, and...
IN THIS BUSINESS, YOU NEED A FRIEND
More than a decade ago, two women in private equity met on a deal. The first, Christine Hommes, was a young and ambitious associate at the time who...
POWER SISTERS PART IV: CHANTELLE & KEMI ABDUL
Chantelle and Kemi Abdul are two sisters in a family of five children who grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. Both women have emerged as leaders in the power...