Kathy Wanner

Kathy Wanner is an Executive Partner with Shore Capital Partners, a lower middle-market private equity firm focused on partnering with companies that have between $1 to $10 million of EBITDA. Kathy focuses on supporting the firm’s strategic initiatives and supporting its funds and portfolio companies. She is a Senior Advisor and was a Founding Partner in 2020 of Fairway Capital Management, a private equity firm. Kathy was a founding partner in 2001 and dedicated 23 years to Adams Street Partners, LLC, a global private equity firm, as well as its predecessor firms, Brinson Partners Inc. and UBS Global Asset Management. From 1998 to 2015, Kathy played an active role on various private equity and venture capital advisory boards, completing numerous primary investments across multiple sectors while managing relationships with the firm’s venture, energy-focused, and special situation managers. From 2007 to 2015, she led the US Primary investment team at Adams Street Partners and was a member of the firm’s Global Primary Investment Committee. Kathy managed the US Primary investment team and oversaw deployment of client’s capital into US primary investments, annually totaling between $800 and $1 billion into 20+ funds. Prior to that, from 1993 to 1997, Kathy held several operational roles in finance, communications, and business development at the successor firms, where she focused on the revenue cycle, statistical analysis, and market research. Following her retirement from Adams Street Partners in 2015, Kathy served as an Operating Partner at Abundant Venture Partners from 2016 to April 2020. She began her career as an analyst at Morgan Stanley & Company in New York.

 

Outside the office, Kathy serves on the Private Equity Advisory Council (PEAC) at Kellogg and on the board and the Investment Committee for the Binghamton University Foundation. She serves on the board and is the audit committee chair for New Fortress Energy (NASDAQ: NFE). Kathy is a founding board member at DCALTA, a 501(c) non-profit organization created to educate the community on the benefits of including alternative investments within a defined contribution framework. In addition, she is a board member at CureSearch, a national non-profit foundation that accelerates the search for cures for children’s cancer.