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Keirsten Lawton, CFA

Co-Head of US Private Equity Research

Keirsten Lawton is Co-Head of US Private Equity Research and a Partner at Cambridge Associates.

Keirsten co-leads the firm’s US Private Equity Research team, which performs due diligence on investment opportunities in private equity and distressed markets. Her responsibilities include identifying, diligencing, and monitoring investment firms and their portfolio companies. Additionally, Keirsten is responsible for analyzing market conditions, tracking the industry, and speaks on these topics at industry conferences. Keirsten and her team advise the firm’s investment directors on manager and fund selection within the North American private equity universe. Keirsten is a member of the Private Growth Research Committee and Credit Committee at CA.

Before joining Cambridge Associates in 2008, Keirsten was an investment banker with Lehman Brothers’ Technology Group in Menlo Park, California and Communications and Media Group in New York. Previously, she worked at Shott Capital Management, an investment management firm focused on emerging small capitalization technology and healthcare companies and private equity fund investing. She also was an analyst with the then $27 billion Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board. She began her career at Dartmouth College where she helped manage the endowment and was a member of the Council on Investor Responsibility.

Keirsten received her MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College. She is also a CFA® charterholder.