Vista Equity Partners (a leading global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses) announced the appointment of Dan Parant as Managing Director and Global Head of Private Wealth Solutions. In this new position, Parant will report to Vista’s Global Head of Capital and Partner Solutions, Greg Myers, and will accelerate Vista’s efforts to expand access to investing in private technology companies for financial advisors and their clients globally.
Parant will utilize nearly 20 years of alternative investment distribution experience in the private wealth channel to deliver private market technology solutions tailored to the needs of individual investors across Vista’s equity and credit investment strategies.
Parant joins Vista from KKR, where as Co-Head of Americas Private Wealth, he launched the firm’s private wealth business over the last 12 years. And at KKR, Parant led a team of executives focused on delivering private market funds and semi-liquid evergreen solutions to financial advisors across Wirehouses, Private Banks, RIAs and Independent Broker Dealers in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. Before that, he was a vice president and head of alternative business development for intermediary distribution at Neuberger Berman and a member of the alternative business team at Lehman Brothers.
KEY QUOTES:
“There’s an outsized opportunity for today’s private wealth investor to tap into investment strategies in one of the largest and fastest growing sectors of an increasingly digital global economy – technology and enterprise software. The majority of technology and enterprise software companies – and therefore investment opportunities in the sector – are in the private markets, where individual investors have been historically under allocated. Dan’s experience and expertise will be crucial to our continued efforts to provide institutional quality solutions to the private wealth channel.”
- Greg Myers, Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Capital and Partner Solutions, Vista Equity Partners
“Vista is a preeminent firm in technology investing, renowned for its disciplined investment approach and focus on value creation to develop businesses with enduring market value. I’m excited to join Vista and lead continued efforts to provide pathways for the private wealth channel to capitalize on its differentiated investment strategies and leadership position in the technology sector.”
- Dan Parant
