Her
responsibilities include oversight of due diligence, underwriting, manager selection and
investment management for the firm’s private capital Primary, Secondary, Co-Investment and
Distressed Capital programs. Prior to joining Commonfund Capital, Cari was at Tulane
University’s Investment Management Office where she was responsible for overseeing the
private equity and private real assets investments for the $1 billion endowment. Prior to Tulane,
she was at Credit Suisse Strategic Partners, Credit Suisse’s dedicated secondary private equity
fund with over $11 billion in commitments and interests in over 1,300 funds. Cari was a member
of the investment committee, co-managed the $750 million aged primary program, and closed
over 115 secondary transactions and co-investments for over $1.25 billion in total capital
obligation. She worked with the team for twelve years since its founding in 2000, having started
with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (which merged with Credit Suisse in 2000) as an Associate in
Investment Banking. Cari is presently a member of the advisory board of several private capital
limited partnerships. Cari is also a member of the Investment Committee of her alma mater, The
Hotchkiss School. She received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in both Economics and
Government and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

Boriana Karastoyanova, Senior Vice President, is a Principal of Neuberger Berman and a member of the Secondary Private EquityTeam. Prior to joining Neuberger Berman in 2019, Mrs. Karastoyanova was with Blackstone's Strategic Partners Fund Solutions where she focused on originating, evaluating, structuring and negotiating secondary private equity transactions, co-investments and primary commitments. She previously was with Strategic Partners while it was in the Asset Management division of Credit Suisse. From 2005 to 2008, she led Strategic Partners' European operations out of London. Mrs. Karastoyanova began her career in Investment Banking at Citigroup. She is a graduate of Middlebury College.

Sarah Schwarzschild is a Managing Director, Co-Head of Metropolitan Real Estate and Global Head of Secondaries. With more than 10 years of experience in real estate, she is responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities globally. Ms. Schwarzschild also manages Metropolitan’s Secondaries funds and separately managed accounts and co-manages the Metropolitan platform. 

Prior to joining Metropolitan, Ms. Schwarzschild led Partners Group’s real estate Secondary team in the United States., where she was responsible for acquisitions as well as the portfolio management of Partners Group’s dedicated real estate Secondary capital totaling more than $2 billion. In addition, she was involved in management and business development activities for the real estate Secondary practice globally. Prior to joining Partners Group, Ms. Schwarzschild was an Assistant Vice President in the acquisitions team in the Global Opportunity Funds group at RREEF. She began her career at Rothschild as an investment banking analyst in the M&A and Private Placement groups.

Ms. Schwarzschild received a BA summa cum laude from University of Pennsylvania and an MBA with honors from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University.