Our Team
Averaging over 19 years investing together, the Partners of GroveStreet provide industry-leading depth and focus with a 35+ person team of seasoned professionals.
Frank G. Angella
Managing Partner
Frank Angella
Managing Partner
Joined GroveStreet: 2001
First year in Private Equity: 1989
Every day…I get to talk to really smart people about great companies across diverse markets – from new biotech platforms to decentralized computing to transformation of old-line industries – there is nothing like the bird’s eye view of investing globally in venture, growth and buyouts.
Frank is a Managing Partner of GroveStreet and a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. He is responsible for a number of our client relationships and leads fund and direct investments across all segments of private equity and venture capital in the US and Europe including healthcare venture capital. Frank is also a guest lecturer in the Harvard MBA class Venture Capital and Private Equity.
Prior to GroveStreet, Frank was a co-founder of Biocode Inc., a venture-backed biotech start-up where he helped raise $15 million in venture capital over three rounds of financing. During his six-year tenure at Biocode, Frank played a number of executive roles, including 18 months as Managing Director, Asia, based in Singapore and was a co-inventor on two patents. Previously, Frank was an Associate at Innotage Management, an early stage venture investment group, and was an Analyst in the healthcare group of Advent Venture Partners in London.
BA, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Virginia
MBA, Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar)
Catherine Crockett
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
Catherine Crockett
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
Joined GroveStreet: 1998
First year in Private Equity: 1984
A good day is…when a team GroveStreet backed as a new manager proves they are now one of the very best at what they do.
A great day is…when it’s clear GroveStreet delivered strong performance to a client despite turbulent markets.
Catherine co-founded GroveStreet, is a Managing Partner of the firm and a member of its Investment Committee. She is responsible for a number of our client relationships and leads fund and direct investments across all segments of buyouts and venture capital including proven as well as emerging teams in both the US and Europe. She has worked full cycle with both fund managers and clients to pro-actively manage the wind down of mature portfolios.
Prior to GroveStreet, Catherine built a successful 14-year career in the design and implementation of private equity investment programs where there was both a financial and business development objective. In total, she led the formation of private equity investment programs with nearly $400 million under management for major corporate and state pension fund investors.
BA, Business Admin & Government, University of Notre Dame
MPA, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
Bruce Ou
Managing Partner
Bruce Ou
Managing Partner
Joined GroveStreet: 2007
First year in Private Equity: 2004
What’s fun? Partnering with world-class teams and clients that are truly passionate about what they do.
Bruce is a Managing Partner of GroveStreet and a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. He is responsible for a number of our client relationships and leads fund and direct investments across all segments of private equity and venture capital.
Prior to joining GroveStreet, Bruce was with the Monitor Group, a leading strategy consulting firm, where he focused on M&A, due diligence, corporate finance and strategy engagements for both corporate and private equity clients in carve-outs, investment diligence, growth initiatives, balance sheet optimization and strategic turnarounds. His engagements spanned the US/Canada, China, London, and Israel.
BA, Economics and Asian Studies, Williams College (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude)
MBA, The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (Tuck Scholar with High Distinction)
Native speaker and writer in Chinese
Christopher Quinn, CPA
Managing Partner & Chief Financial Officer
Christopher Quinn, CPA
Managing Partner & Chief Financial Officer
Joined GroveStreet: 2015
First year in Private Equity: 2001
What’s fun? Using data analytics, technology and logic to solve complex problems.
Chris is a Managing Partner of GroveStreet and the firm’s Chief Financial Officer. His responsibilities include all aspects of client and firm operations including financial reporting, analysis, performance, budgeting, tax, and investment monitoring.
Prior to GroveStreet, Chris was the CFO at Regiment Capital Advisors, where he was responsible for the firm’s financial affairs, fund accounting and tax functions. Previously, Chris spent 8 years at Bain Capital most recently as Director of Tax, where he oversaw tax related matters across the firm’s public and private market businesses. Chris was also a Tax Manager at Highfields Capital and a Senior Tax Consultant at Deloitte.
BS, Business Administration (Accounting), Bryant University
MT (Taxation), University of Denver
John Merrill
Partner
John Merrill
Partner
Joined GroveStreet: 2022
First year in Private Equity: 2005
What’s fun? Understanding the distinctive aims of sophisticated investors and collaborating with them to design bespoke, innovative investment programs that address their needs and empower their work.
John is a Partner at GroveStreet and focuses on expanding and enhancing our partnerships with existing investors and expanding the firm’s footprint and reach in the marketplace. John helps lead GroveStreet’s market-facing initiatives focused on business innovation and thought leadership.
Prior to joining GroveStreet, John was the Co-Head of the Private Client Practice for the Americas at Cambridge Associates. Previously, he was a Managing Director at Makena Capital where he worked with clients building endowment-style portfolios, and before that he was a Managing Director and Investment Committee member at TIFF Investment Management, where he managed the firm’s Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) program. John started his investing career at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in New York. Prior to business school, John was with PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York and completed a 2-year commitment with Teach For America in Los Angeles.
BA, History, Hamilton College
MBA, The Yale School of Management
Mario Miranda
Partner
Mario Miranda
Partner
Joined GroveStreet: 2018
First year in Private Equity: 2011
What’s fun? Engaging in lively debates where someone changes my mind on an investment thesis, broadening my understanding even when I already have strong opinions and prior knowledge.
Mario is a Partner at GroveStreet and focuses on fund and direct investment activities across sectors, including fund due diligence and analysis. He is also actively involved in analyzing and managing client portfolios.
Prior to GroveStreet, Mario worked on Goldman Sachs’s Leveraged Finance team in New York where he focused on structuring and executing financings primarily for middle-market leveraged buyouts. Previously, he worked at Citigroup’s Financial Sponsors team where he advised private equity clients on identifying, structuring, and financing leveraged buyouts. Mario has also completed internships at UBS’s New York-based Latin America Team and at Rent The Runway, where he worked with the CFO on evaluating growth opportunities and operational improvements, and gained a first-hand understanding of what it takes to scale a VC-backed company in a rapidly evolving space.
BS, Finance, The Wharton School (Summa Cum Laude)
BA, International Studies, University of Pennsylvania (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa)
MBA, The Wharton School
Native Spanish speaker. Fluent in Portuguese.
Patrick Sherwood
Partner
Patrick Sherwood
Partner
Joined GroveStreet: 2022
First year in Private Equity: 2013
Patrick is a Partner at GroveStreet and focuses on fund and direct investment activities across sectors, including fund due diligence and analysis. He is also actively involved in analyzing and managing client portfolios.
Prior to GroveStreet, Patrick was Managing Director of Investments at The Wallace Foundation, where he worked on manager sourcing, due diligence, and monitoring across all asset classes, and contributed to setting the investment strategy, asset allocation, and portfolio construction of the Foundation’s portfolio. Previously, he worked for the Yale Investments Office, helping to manage the University’s endowment as a member of the Foreign Equity and Natural Resources asset class teams. Patrick began his career at MIO Partners, McKinsey & Co.’s internal asset management subsidiary, where he focused on hedge fund manager due diligence, market research and valuation, and proprietary trading strategies.
BA, Philosophy, Binghamton University (Cum Laude)
MBA, Yale School of Management
Alan Feld
Senior Advisor
Alan Feld
Senior Advisor
Alan Feld is the Founder and Managing Partner of Vintage Investment Partners, a manager of secondary funds and fund-of-funds focused on the Israeli market. Prior to founding Vintage in 2002, Alan was a Managing Partner at Israel Seed Partners and at Vertex Ventures. Prior to Vertex, Alan was the Managing Director of Evergreen Capital Markets/Robertson Stephens Israel. Before moving to Israel in 1994, Alan worked at Goodman’s (Toronto), one of Canada’s leading corporate law firms. In addition, Alan was Founding Chairman of StartUp Jerusalem, a non-profit of Israeli and Palestinian business people helping to foster job growth in Jerusalem and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Israel Democracy Institute.
BA, Commerce and Finance, University of Toronto
LLB, Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto)
MBA, York University (Toronto)
Josh Lerner
Senior Advisor
Josh Lerner
Senior Advisor
Josh is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management. He is an Advisor to GroveStreet with an emphasis on helping the firm and its clients identify, analyze and respond to key trends in the private equity industry. At Harvard, Dr. Lerner’s research focuses on the structure and the role of private equity organizations. He introduced an elective MBA course on private equity and venture capital that has consistently been one of the largest elective courses at HBS. He founded, raised funding for and organizes two groups at the National Bureau of Economic Research: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy. Josh recently led an international team of scholars in a study of the economic impact of private equity for the World Economic Forum. Prior to joining the faculty at HBS, he worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy, first at the Brookings Institution, then at a public-private task force in Chicago and finally on Capitol Hill.
BA, Yale University
Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University
Adam Blumenstein
Chief Compliance Officer & Vice President, Finance
Adam Blumenstein
Chief Compliance Officer & VP Finance
Joined GroveStreet: 2007
First year in Private Equity: 2000
Satisfaction is…working with a team providing best-in-class client service.
Adam is a Vice President of Finance at GroveStreet and the firm’s Chief Compliance Officer. He is responsible for the operations and treasury functions. As CCO, he is responsible for overseeing all aspects of GroveStreet’s status as a Registered Investment Adviser, including the firm’s policies, procedures, and code of ethics. Adam also spearheads investment monitoring to ensure compliance with all financial aspects of partnership agreements.
Prior to GroveStreet, Adam was a Vice President and Director in the Alternative Investments Administration group of State Street Corp. where he supervised a team providing financial reporting and related services for private equity, fund-of-funds, hedge and other alternative investment structures.
BA, Hotel Administration, University of New Hampshire
MBA, The University of Texas at Austin
Beth DeMello, CPA
Vice President, Finance
Beth DeMello, CPA
Vice President, Finance
Joined GroveStreet: 2003
First year in Private Equity: 2000
A good day is…when your vision for a more efficient process comes together using technology and reporting. You can surpass client reporting expectations.
Beth is a Vice President of Finance at GroveStreet and is responsible for the operations and treasury functions. Beth’s primary focus is the design and development of processes for tracking financial data, integration and leverage of systems, customized client reporting and GP operations.
Prior to GroveStreet, Beth was a Manager at PwC where she was a member of the Financial Services Group focusing on investment management clients. Her responsibilities included planning and managing financial audits for a broad range of private equity, fund-of-funds, venture capital and other investment management clients.
BA, Accounting, Babson College
Eric Garofano
Vice President
Eric Garofano
Vice President
Joined GroveStreet: 2012
First year in Private Equity: 2012
What motivates me? Finding better analytic solutions to ever-evolving financial and statistical modeling questions.
Eric is a Vice President at GroveStreet, and is responsible for working with the investment team to analyze trends in the private equity industry, build financial models and evaluate the performance of client programs as well as underlying funds. He frequently leverages his accounting and programming abilities in his work. Eric first joined GroveStreet as an Accountant on the Finance Team.
BA, Finance and Accounting, Boston College Carroll School of Management (Cum Laude)
Ted Johnson
Vice President
Ted Johnson
Vice President
Joined GroveStreet: 2011
First year in Private Equity: 2008
Most satisfying part of my job? Finding innovative ways to leverage technology, providing decision-makers more data, faster.
Ted is a Vice President at GroveStreet, and is responsible for leveraging GroveStreet’s systems for both internal operations and external client needs. He works closely with the Investment Team to undertake performance evaluation and client specific portfolio analyses.
Prior to joining GroveStreet, Ted was an Associate at PwC. His responsibilities included planning and performing financial statement audits and audits of internal controls for financial services clients, including banks, private equity funds and pooled funds.
BA, Business Administration and Economics, Principia College
MS, Accounting, The College of William & Mary
Austin Piscia, CPA
Vice President
Austin Piscia, CPA
Vice President
Joined GroveStreet: 2012
First year in Private Equity: 2010
Key to daily success…leveraging the power of information-sharing technology to work smarter.
Austin is a Vice President at GroveStreet, and is responsible for the tax compliance process for client programs and fund investments. He also assists with the financial and tax reporting of the firm’s management company.
Prior to GroveStreet, Austin was a Tax Senior at PwC, where he provided tax services to a variety of private and closely held businesses. His responsibilities included federal, state and international compliance for a diverse client base, including entities structured as partnerships, S-Corporations and C-Corporations.
BS, Corporate Finance and Accounting, Bentley University
MS, Taxation, Bentley University
Laura Regan, CPA
Vice President, Finance
Laura Regan, CPA
Vice President, Finance
Joined GroveStreet: 2015
First year in Private Equity: 2007
What’s fun? Working with different team members all utilizing their unique skills and working together towards common goals.
Laura is a Vice President of Finance at GroveStreet and is responsible for the operations and treasury functions. Laura’s primary focus is overseeing all aspects of the financial operations of the funds, supporting the investment team with investment monitoring and analysis, and managing the legal commitment process.
Prior to Grove Street, Laura was a Senior Accounting Manager at HarbourVest Partners where she supervised a team responsible for US and international buyout, venture, mezzanine, and distressed funds (both direct and fund-of-funds). Previously Laura was with KPMG, where she was most recently a Senior Audit Manager responsible for public and private financial services clients.
BS, Accounting, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amy Weddleton
Controller
Amy Weddleton
Controller
Joined GroveStreet: 2000
First year in Private Equity: 2000
What I love about my job? Being a sounding board to help people brainstorm team strategies and solutions.
Amy is the Controller at GroveStreet, and works with the CFO and VP to manage the firm’s management company.
Amy started her career at GroveStreet as an accountant where she performed numerous operations and treasury functions for the firm’s clients. She was promoted to Human Resources Manager where she was responsible for all aspects of human resources including strategic planning, benefits, payroll, employee relations, and organizational development.
BA, Social Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Monika Dempsey, CPA
Senior Finance Manager
Monika Dempsey, CPA
Senior Finance Manager
Joined GroveStreet: 2011
First year in Private Equity: 2009
What’s fun? Working as a team to solve complex problems and deliver actionable information to clients and partners.
Monika is a Senior Finance Manager at GroveStreet, and is responsible for the accounting, reporting and monitoring of client programs and investments. She is also involved in benchmarking, performance evaluation, and preparation of client specific analyses and presentations.
Prior to GroveStreet, Monika was an Associate at PwC. She performed financial statement audits for financial services clients, including private equity and real estate funds.
BS, Business Management (Accounting), Babson College
MS, Accounting, Babson College
Arthur Pappas
Senior Tax Manager
Arthur Pappas
Senior Tax Manager
Joined GroveStreet: 2009
First year in Private Equity: 2006
What’s fun? Explaining and helping our clients understand a particular tax provision that impacts their business.
Arthur is GroveStreet’s Senior Tax Manager, and is responsible for the tax compliance process for client programs and fund investments. He also assists with the planning, reporting, and implementation of tax structures for tax sensitive clients.
Prior to GroveStreet, Arthur was a Tax Senior with Ernst & Young, LLP and a Tax Associate with PwC. Arthur provided tax services to private equity and other investment management firms.
BS, Business Administration (Accounting), Bryant College
MS, Taxation, Bentley University
Purvi Popat, CPA
Senior Finance Manager
Purvi Popat, CPA
Senior Finance Manager
Joined GroveStreet: 2004
First year in Private Equity: 2001
What’s fun? Riding the roller coaster of dynamic deadlines with trusted teammates who share the joy.
Purvi is a Senior Finance Manager at GroveStreet, and is responsible for the firm’s treasury function including managing capital activity. She also plays a key role in monitoring and reporting GroveStreet GP operations.
Prior to GroveStreet, Purvi was a Senior Associate at KPMG where she was part of the Financial Services Group focusing on investment management and banking clients. Her responsibilities included planning and managing financial audits for private equity clients, mutual funds and banks.
BS, Accounting, Northeastern University
Fluent in Hindi and Gujarati
Marisa Ravida, CPA
Senior Finance Manager
Marisa Ravida, CPA
Senior Finance Manager
Joined GroveStreet: 2010
First year in Private Equity: 2008
A good day is…collaborating with the team to efficiently meet client needs with the utmost standards.
Marisa is a Senior Finance Manager at GroveStreet, and is responsible for the accounting, reporting and monitoring of client programs and investments. She is also involved in benchmarking, performance evaluation and preparation of client specific analyses and presentations.
Prior to GroveStreet, Marisa was a Senior Auditor at PwC. Her responsibilities included planning and performing financial statement audits for financial services clients, including private equity and hedge funds.
BS, Accounting, Suffolk University
MS, Accounting, Suffolk University
Taylor Brennan
Finance Manager
Ashley Hall-Pratt
Systems/Treasury Manager
Julie Perry, CPA
Finance Manager
Julie Perry, CPA
Finance Manager
Joined GroveStreet: 2015
First year in Private Equity: 2013
A good day is…encountering a new challenge and overcoming it as part of a unified global team, with our employees here in Boston & across the world with our outsourced partner in India.
Julie is a Finance Manager at GroveStreet, and is responsible for the accounting, reporting and monitoring of client programs and investments. She is also involved in benchmarking, performance evaluation and preparation of client specific analyses and presentations.
Prior to GroveStreet, Julie was a Senior Associate at PwC. She performed financial statement audits for financial services clients, including private equity and non-registered mutual funds.
BS, Corporate Finance and Accounting, Bentley University
MS, Accounting, Bentley University
Lisa Smith
Finance Manager
Mary Shellman
Finance Manager
Mary Shellman
Finance Manager
Joined GroveStreet: 2004
First year in Private Equity: 2004
What keeps me at GSA? Easy, the free cold brew coffee in the kitchen year round. Oh, and also working with an amazing, talented group of people who are always finding ways to innovate.
Mary is a Finance Manager at GroveStreet, and is responsible for the accounting, reporting and monitoring of client programs and investments. She also leverages GroveStreet’s systems to create customized reporting solutions for both internal operations and external client needs.
Prior to GroveStreet, Mary worked as an Account Supervisor at Investors Bank and Trust (IBT) in their fund accounting department. She was responsible for the monthly NAV reporting and served as the primary client contact for two hedge funds.
BA, Economics and Mathematics, Providence College
Brian Kelly
Senior Accountant
Elizabeth Kennelly, CPA
Senior Operations Accountant
Migdaliz Quijada
Senior Treasury Accountant
John Astone
Operations Accountant
Kiki Brantley
Funds Coordinator
Peter Hersey
Senior Accountant
Sarah Katz
Data Analyst
Alex MacDonald
Management Company Accountant
Chris Romero
Operations Accountant
Ben Dreyfus
Operations Accountant
Adrian Sobradelo
Treasury Accountant
Tyler Horton
Treasury Accountant
Haley Donahay
Tax Associate
Jason Conroy
Operations Accountant
Suzanne Chandler
Executive Assistant / Office Manager