Andrea Auerbach

Andrea Auerbach is the Global Head of Private Investments and a Partner at Cambridge Associates.

Andrea’s career with Cambridge Associates spans more than two decades. She leads a 50-person team sourcing and underwriting private equity, growth equity, distressed, and venture capital funds, as well as direct, co-investment, and secondary investment opportunities. She also heads the firm’s discretionary private investments practice.

As a long-time leader in our private investment business, she founded the co-investment and secondaries practices and is the chair of the co-investment and secondaries investment committees. She is also a member and former chair of the firm’s private investment ratings committee.

Andrea has co-authored a significant amount of in-depth private investment research and is also a faculty member at the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA), where she has taught classes for 15 years. As a frequent keynote speaker at industry events worldwide, she has received many industry accolades over the course of her career, including recently being named to Private Equity International’s Women in Private Equity: Class of 2024.

Andrea began her career at Prudential Insurance, where she worked in the private equity group and led early efforts to benchmark Prudential’s $5 billion buyout portfolio, and domestic and European private equity and venture capital fund investment portfolios, among other investment responsibilities.

Andrea serves as a Trustee of Smith College and is vice chair of its investment committee and is a Board member of the UCLA Investment Company. She recently joined the Board of the Global Private Capital Association.

She received her MBA from Harvard Business School and her BA in Economics from Smith College.