Vista Equity Partners, a global technology investor focused on enterprise software, has appointed Suzanne Donohoe as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Commercial Officer in a newly created combined role. Donohoe will report to Founder, Chairman and CEO Robert F. Smith and will oversee the firm’s global fundraising, capital markets, investor engagement, and marketing strategies across Vista’s full investment platform, while also helping shape and execute the firm’s strategic agenda.
Donohoe joins Vista from EQT, where she served as Chief Commercial Officer and Global Head of the External Platform, leading capital raising, fund formation, marketing, and corporate development. Prior to EQT, she spent more than a decade at KKR & Co. as a Partner, where she founded and led the Global Client & Partner Group and later served as Global Head of Strategic Growth. Earlier in her career, she spent nearly seventeen years at Goldman Sachs, including eight years as a Partner.
Her appointment is effective immediately. Donohoe will also serve on Vista’s Executive Committee, the firm’s governing and decision-making body for matters affecting overall management and strategic direction.
Vista said it manages a diversified portfolio of software companies providing mission-critical solutions to customers globally and reported more than $107 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2025.
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“Vista is playing to win in the agentic era of software, and we are making significant investments in our firm and across our portfolio to capitalize on the transformative value creation potential catalyzed by this new general-purpose technology. Suzanne is a highly experienced strategic leader and operator who has led critical growth, strategy and capital formation initiatives at some of the world’s largest alternative asset managers for three decades. Her breadth of experience, commitment to partnership and ability to translate vision into execution will make her an excellent addition to the Vista team.”
Robert F. Smith, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Vista Equity Partners
“Vista pioneered enterprise software investing through operational intelligence and has delivered consistent and compelling results for its clients for more than 25 years. Today, Vista is once again ambitiously positioning itself at the nexus of opportunity, capital and expertise as the adoption of modern and agentic AI accelerates across the enterprise. I am honored and energized to join Vista at such an exciting stage of its evolution.”
Suzanne Donohoe, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Commercial Officer, Vista Equity Partners
