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Brian Gildea

Brian is a Managing Director, Evergreen Portfolio Solutions at Hamilton Lane, where he also sits on the Investment Committee and Evergreen Portfolio Committee, and serves on the boards of directors of Hamilton Lane’s U.S. registered funds and global evergreen funds. Brian has more than 25 years of private markets investment experience spanning asset classes and strategies and plays a senior leadership role in our global evergreen business. Brian joined Hamilton Lane in 2009 and has previously held senior leadership roles across investment and portfolio management activities, including Head of Evergreen Portfolios, Global Head of Investments, and, prior to that, Global Head of Co-Investments.   

Prior to joining Hamilton Lane, Brian was a General Partner at Bear Stearns Merchant Banking and, before that, at Freeman Spogli & Co. He began his career as a Financial Analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Salomon Brothers Inc. 

He received a B.S. in Business Administration from Georgetown University. Brian is an Executive Director on the Board of Financial Scholars, a non-profit organization focused on financial empowerment education.