Vipon is responsible for the team that oversees global private equity, junior credit, secondaries, and private credit investments. ​He joined the firm in 2002 and has more than two decades of experience in private equity, four years in corporate and investment banking, and three years of operational experience. Vipon has served as a board director on several public and private companies in the United States and Canada, and he holds the Chartered Financial Analyst, Certified Management Accountant, and Certified Public Accountant designations. 

• Education: B.B.A., Wilfrid Laurier University 
• Joined the company: 2002
• Began career: 1991

Liam is responsible for leading the firm’s private equity investment activities in the Asia-Pacific region. He joined Manulife in 2006 and was based in Toronto until relocating to Hong Kong in 2016. Liam holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

• Education: B.Com., Finance, McGill University
• Joined the company: 2006
• Began career: 2006

Scott has overall responsibility for the firm’s North American junior credit, private equity funds, and equity co-investment programs. Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner at FinanStar Group, a boutique investment bank. Scott’s background also includes numerous merger-and-acquisition assignments and corporate finance transactions while serving in Wachovia’s capital markets group.

• Education: B.A., Economics, Williams College; M.B.A., Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business
• Joined the company: 2002
• Began career: 1988

Devon is a senior managing director, responsible for managing Manulife Investment Management’s senior credit business. He joined Manulife Investment Management PE&C in May 2016 and has 29 years of experience. Prior to joining Manulife, Devon spent 12 years at Madison Capital Funding, a middle market direct lending platform, where he served as a leader and member of the executive and investment committees and was responsible for strategic and capital market activities, including loan syndications, third-party asset management, and joint ventures for Madison Capital’s mezzanine and unitranche credit products. Prior to joining Madison Capital, Devon spent 9 years at Banc of America Securities, where he served as a senior structurer in the sponsor leveraged finance group and a loan syndications structurer supporting the middle market group and the media/telecommunications group.

• Education: B.A., Economics and Political Science, M.B.A., Indiana University
• Joined the company: 2016
• Began career: 1994

Mike is a senior managing director, responsible for managing Manulife Investment Management’s senior credit business. He joined Manulife Investment Management PE&C in January 2017 and has 29 years of experience. Prior to joining Manulife, Mike was head of the loan products group at BMO Global Asset Management, where he was primarily involved in credit selection, portfolio management, and fund raising, taking AUM from $0 to $1 billion across three separate middle market CLO vehicles. Prior to BMO, Mike spent nearly 20 years in key senior credit management roles at leading middle market debt providers, including Pangaea Asset Management (founder), GE Antares, Antares Capital, PPM America, and First National Bank of Chicago. He was an investment committee member at both BMO and Pangaea. 

• Education: B.A., Economics, Marquette University; M.B.A., Finance, DePaul University
• Joined the company: 2017

Jeff is responsible for sourcing, evaluating, negotiating, and monitoring secondary investments. Prior to joining the firm, he was an investment manager at Coller Capital for over four years, and before that, he worked as an associate at StepStone Group. He began his career working as an analyst at Ardian.

• Education: B.S., Economics, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
• Joined the company: 2020
• Began career: 2013

Peter is responsible for sourcing, evaluating, negotiating, and monitoring secondary investments. Prior to joining the firm, he was a senior associate at HarbourVest Partners, where he spent three years focusing on secondary private equity investment opportunities.  Prior to that, he was an investment banking analyst in the leveraged finance group at Wells Fargo and a senior investment associate at Cambridge Associates.

• Education: B.A., Economics and Mathematics, Colby College; M.B.A., The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania
• Joined the company: 2020
• Began career: 2011

Matt leads Manulife Investment Management’s junior credit business, which focuses on providing subordinated and second-lien debt and structured equity solutions to private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies. He joined Hancock Capital Management—now operating as Manulife Investment Management—in 2013. Previously, he was vice president at Pomona Capital, where he focused on private equity secondary and co-investment opportunities. Earlier in his career, Matt held investment positions at AlpInvest Partners and Prudential Capital Group.

• Education: B.S., Finance and Accounting, Boston College; M.B.A., Northwestern University (Kellogg)
• Joined the company: 2013
• Began career: 2003