Team
Team members are the greatest strength of Siguler Guff
All Professionals
Michael Apfel
Fernando Arakaki
Pedro Luis Aranha
Megan Auwarter
Jeb Banks
Christopher Barbier
Jenna Beekman
Sarah Bellis
Bradley Bennett
Matthew Bernstein
Marvin Bigalbal
Sara Bowdoin
Elena Brown
Tammy Budd
Ken Burns
Pedro Cafaro
Tami Cai
Mário Carolo
Shelly Chen
Cesar Collier
Meghan Conaty
James Conticello
Taylor Coundouris
Clara Custodio
Meghan Danaher
Bibhusha Dangol
Ana Elisa de Cunto
C.J. Denmark
Mark Denomme
Adam Domanico
Matthew Downes
Brenna Embry
Justin Eskind
Jim Fink
Matthew Foley
AJ Guff
Sarah Gheewala
John Ging
Klaudia Gjeta
Theresa Glorioso
Mitchell Goldfarb
Lucas Grant
Jordan Greenberg
Sean Greene
Peyton Grenley
Drew Guff
Timothy Hagerty
Donald Harris Jr
Bailey Hawthorne
James Hilton
Laura House
Susan Huang
Alexander Huo
Jun Isoda
Aviral Jain
Lea Johnson
Sandip Kakar
Kevin Kester
Shaun Khubchandani
Fiona Kolterman
Kyungoh Kook
Scott Krattenmaker
Jarrad Krulick
Ilomai Kurrik
Megan Laakso
Michelle Layne
Edward Lederle
Gee Lee
Sandra Lee
Sharon Liang
Robert Ligouri
Brian Ludemann
Sean R. Macdonald
Faith Maiello
Michael Malinics
Michael Martynowicz
Michelle Matthews
Jose Mayoral
Edward McQuiston
Trey Meyer
Rhoda Minderhoud
Langdon Mitchell
Katherine Moraski
Alexa Morris
Jason Mundt
Meghan Murphy
Melissa Natale
Jaqueline Olson
Timothy Ong
Marie Ong
Kentaro Otani
Bailey Palumbo
Prabhas Panigrahi
Elizabeth Panzera
Marcelo Phillips
Joshua Posner
Luisa Reis
Eric Rustad
Daniella Sagalovsky
John Scheurer
Lauren Schmidt
Sumil Sethi
Yiting Shan
Heemin Shin
Nadeem Siddiqui
George W. Siguler
Roman Simonov
Nicole Stauffer
Alicia Stevens
Marcos Tage
Jason Tan
Helen Tang
Stephanie Tazza
Jodee Telfer
Nikhil Velivela
Daniel Vieira
Narihiko Watanabe
Nathan Wawrowski
Matthew West
Eugene Williams
Jonathan Wilson
Matthew Yannocone
Clifford Yonce
Karen Yu
Valentyn Zadorin
Ally Zhang
Vivian Zhu
James Zumot
Ally Zhang
Managing Director, Head of China
Ally Zhang is a Managing Director at Siguler Guff and head of the Firm's Shanghai office. She is a member of the Investment Committees for the BRIC/GEM Opportunities Funds and oversees the Firm's investment activities in the Greater China region. Ms. Zhang brings a valuable combination of skills to the Firm, including direct investment experience and extensive insights of key growth industries in China and throughout Asia. She also has established deep relationships with fund managers, entrepreneurs, industry experts, local intermediaries and government officials within China's investment community.
Prior to joining Siguler Guff in 2012, Ms. Zhang was a Managing Partner at Shanghai JH Investment Management Co., where she focused on investing in public equities in high-growth sectors in the Chinese markets such as consumer, pharmaceutical, technology, media and telecommunications. Previously, she was a Senior Director and Head of M&A for the Asia-Pacific region at Anheuser-Busch InBev where she led acquisition and divestiture transactions in China and throughout Asia. Notably, Ms. Zhang was involved in the acquisition of Sedrin Beer, one of the largest brewery acquisitions in China and led the divestiture of Oriental Breweries in South Korea during the financial crisis in 2009. Ms. Zhang began her career in corporate M&A at Heineken-APB China as a Business Development Manager in the firm's Shanghai office. Before Heineken-APB, she was a Management Consultant at Monitor Group in Beijing, where she focused primarily on the fast-moving consumer goods and the pharmaceutical sectors.