Joanna Kirby

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Biography

Ms. Joanna Kirby serves as Executive, Private Equity Fund Investing at Mount Capital. Ms. Kirby served as Managing Director at Ormonde. She has responsibility for overseeing client relationships, providing advice around private market investments and developing bespoke programmes. Prior to joining Ormonde in 2021, she was Managing Director at Time Partners, a specialist advisory firm focusing on private markets. At Time Partners, she developed and led the investment advisory practice, building customized private markets programmes for investors, primarily major families. Within private markets, Her main areas of expertise are in private equity, private credit, ESG and impact investing, across Europe, North America and Asia. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience in investment banking and private equity, she takes a portfolio construction approach to help clients achieve their investment objectives. She began her career within Equity Capital Markets at HSBC Investment Bank, then NM Rothschild, working on EMEA privatizations and corporate capital raisings. In 2002, she moved into private equity, joining Advent International, one of the leading global private equity managers. There she was a Director in the Fundraising & IR team, with particular responsibility for developing the European investor base. She received a BSc (Hons) in Economics and Politics from the University of Bristol.