Nari Ansari

Nari focuses on growth investments in the software/SaaS and B2B tech sectors. Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2022, Nari was a General Partner at TCV focused on investments in the application software, industry-specific software, fintech & payments, healthcare IT, and tech-enabled services sectors. Nari’s previous led and co-led investments include Avalara (NYSE: AVLR), AxiomSL (sold to Thoma Bravo), EmbanetCompass (sold to Pearson), HireVue (sold to Carlyle Group), Kipu Health, Merkle (sold to Dentsu Aegis), Payoneer (NASD: PAYO), Perceptyx, Varsity Tutors/Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY), and Watermark. Previously, Nari worked at McKinsey & Company advising clients in the storage, semiconductor, and general technology industries. Nari graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. and M.S. in Management Science & Engineering.

Piper Brownlee

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2022, Piper was a recruitment specialist with Roark Capital. She began her career with Boston Consulting Group. Piper received degrees in Psychology and Business Administration, Operations and Supply Chain Management from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Vice Chairman of
Sixth Street

R. Martin Chavez

R. Martin Chavez, Ph.D., is Vice Chairman and Partner at Sixth Street.

Mr. Chavez currently serves on the fiduciary or advisory boards of Cambrian, Earli, Grupo Santander, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Recursion Pharma, Stanford Medicine, and the Stanford Center on Longevity. He also previously served as President of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University. He is among the most senior Latinos in finance, as well as among the most senior openly gay executives.

Prior to joining Sixth Street, Mr. Chavez served in a variety of senior roles at Goldman Sachs, including Chief Information Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and global co-head of the firm’s Securities Division. Mr. Chavez was also a partner and member of the Goldman Sachs Management Committee. Mr. Chavez was one of the first developers of SecDB, an early platform that transformed the trading business into a software business. He retired from the firm in 2019.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Chavez was the CEO and co-founder of Kiodex, and Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Quorum Software Systems.

He holds an A.B. magna cum laude in Biochemical Sciences and an S.M. in Computer Science from Harvard, and a Ph.D. in Medical Information Sciences from Stanford.

Evelyn Duan

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2021, Evelyn was an Investment Associate with SoftBank. Evelyn began her career as an Associate with Ernst & Young. Evelyn received a B.B.A. in Finance & Accounting and Mathematics from Emory University.

Lindsay Farnsworth

Prior to joining Sixth Street as its Director of Tax in 2017, Lindsay was a Tax Partner with KPMG LLP. Ms. Farnsworth earned a B.B.A in Accounting and a B.B.A. in Business Management from Evangel University.

Chris Hopkins

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2019, Chris worked as an Associate for Audax Group. He received a BE in Mechanical Engineering and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College.

Benjamin Johnston

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2018, Ben was a Vice President with Battery Ventures focused on venture capital & growth equity investments in the internet and software space. Previously, he was a Senior Equity Research Associate at Rutberg & Company and holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Chemistry from Duke University.

Alex Katz

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2018, Alex worked as an Associate at General Atlantic and Abry Partners. He started his career as an Investment Analyst in the Private Equity Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. He graduated summa cum laude from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs at Princeton University.

Bill Keenan

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2016, Bill was an Assistant Vice President with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Bill graduated summa cum laude from the University of New Hampshire with a B.S. in Economics.

CO-head of
sixth street growth

Michael McGinn

Mike is a Partner of Sixth Street and Co-Head of Sixth Street Growth. Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2018, Mike was a Managing Director in AmSSG at Goldman Sachs, which he joined in 2004. From 2013 through 2018, he was co-head of PCI, AmSSG’s preferred equity, growth capital business. Prior to co-heading PCI, Mike worked in AmSSG’s Multi-Strategy Investing Group and Specialty Lending Group. Before joining AmSSG in 2006, he worked in Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research Division. Mike received a B.B.A. in Finance and Business Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame in 2002.

Vishva Mehta

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2019, Vishva was an Associate at Harvest Partners in the Structured Capital Fund, a group dedicated to non-control, structured equity investments. Prior to Harvest Partners, Vishva worked in the investment banking division of Lincoln International where he focused on mergers and acquisitions, special situations, and capital raises across multiple sectors. He graduated with honors and distinction from the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Finance.

Lee Mooney

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2018, Lee was a Vice President at TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm where he focused on healthcare investments. Prior to TA Associates, Lee worked in the Global Healthcare Investment Banking group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He received an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and graduated magna cum laude from the Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in Finance.

Eric Rosenfeld

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2020, Eric worked in the Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley. He graduated from Northeastern University with an M.S. in Finance and a B.S. in Business Administration.

Sandra Rutova

Sandra is Deputy General Counsel at Sixth Street. Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2017, she was an Associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Ms. Rutova holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and an L.L.B. from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kamoy Smalling

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2018, Kam was an Associate in the Principal Investments group at C-III Capital Partners and previously worked as Head of New York Acquisitions for Titan Partners, a special situations real estate firm. She began her career as an analyst in the Leverage Finance group at Deutsche Bank. She received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in History and Science from Harvard College.

CO-head of
sixth street growth

Robert (Bo) Stanley

Mr. Stanley is a Partner of Sixth Street and Co-Head of Sixth Street Growth, which is the firm’s platform for providing customized, non-control private capital for growth-oriented companies.  Mr. Stanley focuses on originating transactions in the software, payment systems, data infrastructure and business services sectors.  Representative portfolio companies include AvidXchange, Kaseya, Lucidworks, PayScale and SmartDrive. Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2011, Mr. Stanley was with Wells Fargo Capital Finance, where he served in multiple roles providing specialized financing to companies throughout the U.S. and Canada. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the University of Maine.

Jeffrey Stone

Jeffrey Stone leads Sixth Street’s team focused on providing strategic growth advice to management teams and founders. Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2022, Mr. Stone led four sponsor-backed companies as CEO: Arrowstream, a leader in supply chain software solutions for multi-unit restaurants; Compeat, a provider of restaurant management software; MarketTools, a provider of software and services for market research and enterprise feedback management; and Tiburon, a leader in public safety and security software. Prior to those roles, he worked at Morgan Stanley and GE, and he began his career as an initial member of two IdeaLab Ventures companies, KornFerry Futurestep and Citysearch. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire.

Alyana Verjee

Prior to joining Sixth Street in 2020, Alyana worked on the Sponsor M&A Execution and Firmwide Strategy teams at Goldman Sachs. She graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University with a B.A. in Economics and Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies.

CEO of
Sixth Street

Alan Waxman

Alan Waxman is Co-Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Sixth Street.

Founded in 2009, Sixth Street manages $60 billion in assets with over 400 team members including more than 180 investment professionals around the world. Sixth Street uses its long-term flexible capital, data-enabled capabilities, and One Team culture to develop themes and offer solutions to companies across all stages of growth.

Prior to co-founding Sixth Street, Mr. Waxman was a Partner at Goldman Sachs and Chief Investment Officer of its largest proprietary investing business. Sixth Street continues an investment philosophy Mr. Waxman and Sixth Street’s founding partner group began developing over 20 years ago while building complementary businesses to invest Goldman’s capital in public and private markets across the capital structure in companies, assets, and idiosyncratic opportunities. At Goldman, Mr. Waxman founded and led private capital investing franchises in growth capital solutions, direct lending, and alternative energy infrastructure, among others, as well as in public markets multi-strategy investing. He began his career at Goldman Sachs in 1998.

Mr. Waxman is a Founding LP and Strategic Advisor to Concrete Rose, an early stage investment platform deploying financial and social capital to underrepresented founders of color. Mr. Waxman and other Sixth Street team members began advising Concrete Rose leadership on the firm’s formation in 2018 and Sixth Street is a Founding Strategic Partner.

Mr. Waxman holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and currently serves on the Board of Overseers for the University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences. He is a Board Member Emeritus for Tipping Point Community and serves on the Advisory Council for the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula, which are both focused on fighting poverty and inequality of opportunity in the San Francisco Bay Area.