Team
Team members are the greatest strength of Siguler Guff
All Professionals

Michael Apfel

Fernando Arakaki

Pedro Luis Aranha

Megan Auwarter

Christopher Barbier

Jenna Beekman

Bradley Bennett

Marvin Bigalbal

Sara Bowdoin

Elena Brown

Tammy Budd

Ken Burns

Pedro Cafaro

Tami Cai

Mário Carolo

Chloe Carroll

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

Justin Eskind

Matthew Foley

AJ Guff

Luka Galvão

Alexis Gentry

Sarah Gheewala

John Ging

Klaudia Gjeta

Theresa Glorioso

Mitchell Goldfarb

Lucas Grant

Jordan Greenberg

Sean Greene

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

Tyler McEwan

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

Prabhas Panigrahi

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

Joseph Spagnola

Alicia Stevens

Ryan Stuckert

Marcos Tage

Jason Tan

Helen Tang

Stephanie Tazza

Jodee Telfer

Amish Thakkar

Matthew Thaler

Darcy Turner

Sophia Vargas

Daniel Vieira

Narihiko Watanabe

Matthew West

Eugene Williams

Jonathan Wilson

Matthew Yannocone

Clifford Yonce

Karen Yu

Valentyn Zadorin

Ally Zhang

Vivian Zhu

James Zumot

Josh Zweig

Will Siguler

Kevin Kester
Partner, Managing Partner of Small Business Investments and Co-Portfolio Manager of Small Buyout Funds

Kevin Kester is a Partner at Siguler Guff and the Firm’s Managing Partner of Small Business Investments and the Co-Portfolio Manager of the Small Buyout Opportunities Funds (“SBOF”). He has served on the Investment Committee since inception. Mr. Kester joined Siguler Guff in 2004 and founded the SBOF program - developing the strategy and leading the investment team since that time. Beginning with the launch of SBOF I in 2006, Mr. Kester has raised and led the investment of five Small Buyout Opportunities Funds and numerous separate accounts, totaling over $7 billion, into U.S. small and lower middle market businesses.
Previously, Mr. Kester spent eight years in the investment division of Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association (“Colorado PERA”). Mr. Kester held various positions at Colorado PERA, including Senior Portfolio Manager of Real Estate and Director of Alternative Investments where he had overall management responsibility for a $4.5 billion global portfolio of private equity, venture capital, distressed debt, mezzanine, energy and timber investments. During his tenure at Colorado PERA, Mr. Kester served as a founding member of the Board of the Institutional Limited Partners Association (“ILPA”).