Brandon Nixon has led Lytx since 2008, drawing upon an entrepreneurial background leading high-growth communications and technology businesses. He joined the company from ViaSat, where he was senior vice president responsible for the company’s commercial businesses.

Mr. Dankberg co-founded ViaSat Inc. in 1986 and has led the company's rapid growth. He has held the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since inception. Under his leadership, ViaSat has consistently been one of America’s fastest growing technology companies, and has been listed on NASDAQ since 1996.
Mr. Dankberg began his career with the Collins Radio Division of Rockwell International, and at Linkabit Corp in San Diego, where he held positions in engineering, technical management and business segment management.
He earned B.S. EE and M.S. EE degrees from Rice University and is a member of the Rice University Electrical and Computer Engineering Hall of Fame.

Thomas Darcy has four decades of experience in finance and accounting, and was a co-founder and director of Tocagen Inc. (Tocagen), a cancer-selective gene therapy company, for over twelve years until its merger with Forte Biosciences, Inc. in 2020.

Prior to co-founding Tocagen, Mr. Darcy served for over five years as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a NYSE Fortune 500 science and technology company. Mr. Darcy also served as a director and chairman of the audit committee of McAfee, Inc., a NYSE company, for over three years until its sale to Intel Corporation in February of 2011, and currently serves as a director and chair of the audit committee of Viracta Therapeutics, Inc., a public clinical stage precision oncology company.

Previously he was a partner in the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he served as the managing partner of both the West and Southwest Region Audit and Business Advisory Service Technology practices, as well as the managing partner of the San Diego office. Mr. Darcy is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) in the state of California. 

Ziv Ehrenfeld is a Managing Director in PSP’s Private Equity team in New York, heading strategy and active management. Ziv joined PSP Investments USA in August 2015 to develop Private Debt as a new asset class. His primary focus included business development, tax planning, building the team and overseeing operations, as well as leading commitments in over $5 billion of direct and fund investments. Ziv also served as a member of the firm’s global investment committee. Prior to joining PSP Investments USA, Ziv was a Director in Leveraged Finance at Barclays. Ziv started his career practicing law at the law firm of Fischer Behar Chen Well Orion & Co. He holds an LL.B. Bachelor of Laws and a BA in Economics from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from Wharton.

Wayne Hewett currently serves as a board member of United Parcel Service Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., and The Home Depot Inc., and is chairman of Cambrex Corp. He is an experienced global chief executive officer and board director skilled in board governance, operations management, international business, emerging markets, operational excellence, supply chain, sourcing, team building, strategy, merger integration, leadership, and Six Sigma.

Hewett has a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering from Stanford University.

Arif Lakhani is a Vice President with GIC’s Direct Investments Group within the firm’s Private Equity division. Before joining GIC in 2019, Arif was an Investment Director at SoftBank Investment Advisers. Prior to that, Arif spent nine years at Silver Lake, most recently as a Director with Silver Lake Kraftwerk, where he focused on growth equity and private equity investments across the technology sector. He also previously worked at Morgan Stanley in the Global Technology Group within the firm’s Investment Banking Division. Arif graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.

Ryan focuses on investment opportunities in the Technology sector. He has worked on a number of transactions including Genesys, Informatica, Metalogix and Synamedia. He is currently a Non-Executive Director at Genesys and Informatica.

Prior to pursuing his MBA, Ryan worked in Permira’s Menlo Park office for three years. Before that, he worked at Bank of America in the Healthcare Investment Banking Group.

Peter Lipson focuses on global direct co-investments as well as primary and secondary investments in Latin America. Peter serves as the Chair of the Firm’s Credit Investment Committee. He joined HarbourVest in 1997 as an associate focused on direct investments in operating companies and rejoined the Firm’s direct investment team in 2001 after receiving his MBA. Peter was instrumental in establishing HarbourVest’s presence in Bogotá including building relationships with institutional investors and general partners in the region. He currently splits his time between Boston and Bogotá. Peter serves as a director of Finanzcheck, Mimeo.com, and Towne Park.

Before joining HarbourVest, he worked as a financial analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Salomon Brothers.

Peter received a BA in Economics from the University of California, San Diego in 1993, an MS in Information Systems from the University of Virginia in 1995, and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 2001.

John focuses on investment opportunities in the Industrials sector. He has worked on a number of transactions including Cielo and DiversiTech.

Prior to joining Permira, John worked for Irving Place Capital, a mid-market private equity firm based in New York, for four years. Before that, he spent more than two years with Thoma Cressey in Chicago. He also spent time at GSO Capital Partners and Morgan Stanley in New York.

Barry O’Sullivan is EVP and general manager at Genesys, the leading customer experience software company. A technology industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience, he was previously a member of the Genesys board and is a senior adviser with Permira LLC. Barry was CEO and Founder of Altocloud, a cloud-based artificial intelligence company which was acquired by Genesys in 2018.

Earlier in his career, Barry was senior vice president for Unified Communications at Cisco Systems. 

Barry holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in computer science from the National University of Ireland as well as an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Alberto focuses on investment opportunities across the Financial Services and Technology sectors. He has worked on a number of transactions including Arcaplanet. He worked in Permira’s Milan office before relocating to Menlo Park in 2018.

Prior to joining Permira, Alberto worked for three years at Avio Aero (General Electric), a GE Aviation business which designs, manufactures and maintains components and systems for civil and military aviation. Before that, he worked for three years in the M&A team at Rothschild.

Brian is Head of the Menlo Park office and Co-Head of the Technology team. He serves on the Investment Committee and the Executive Committee. He has worked on a number of transactions including Ancestry, Genesys, Informatica, LegalZoom, Magento, Metalogix, Minted, Renaissance Learning and TeamViewer.

Prior to joining Permira in 2008, Brian was Partner at Francisco Partners where he covered investments in the Software and Services sector. He has also worked for Hellman & Friedman and in corporate finance for Morgan Stanley.

Judy heads the CPP Investments San Francisco Office and oversees the Bay Area growth strategy.

Prior to joining CPP Investments in 2020, Judy led McKinsey & Company’s practice serving startups and their investors. She also spent 10 years as a CEO or Senior Executive in various startups in gaming, digital health and big data. She started her career at McKinsey focused on education and technology.

Judy holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School and a BA in Economics from University of California, Berkeley.

Judy is co-Chair of the Board of UC Berkeley’s College of Letters & Science.