Dana C. Pawlicki

Dana C. Pawlicki is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Stonington Capital Advisors. Mr. Pawlicki has nearly twenty years of experience working with alternative investment funds and has sourced and managed institutional investor relationships for a diverse group of private equity strategies.

At Stonington, Mr. Pawlicki has raised capital from institutional investors for funds and direct investments in the United States and Europe, including fund of funds, insurance companies and pension plans. Mr. Pawlicki has also provided strategic advice to financial sponsors on building and expanding their business to manage additional institutional capital. He has also sourced and assisted in the negotiation of strategic investments in new firms or ones undergoing transition.

Prior to co-founding Stonington, Mr. Pawlicki was a founding partner of and Managing Director and Global Head of Origination and Project Management of Evercore Partners’ Private Funds Group. In his role at Evercore, Mr. Pawlicki originated, diligenced and advised general partners on their fundraising strategies and also managed some of the team’s largest institutional investor relationships across the Northeast and Midwest. Prior to joining Evercore (as a result of Evercore’s purchase of the business from Neuberger Berman), Mr. Pawlicki was Global Head of Origination and Project Management of Neuberger Berman’s Alternative Advisory and Placement Group and previously held the same title at Lehman Brothers (its predecessor entity). At Neuberger Berman and Lehman Brothers, Mr. Pawlicki also had coverage responsibilities for institutional investors in the Northeast and Midwest. Prior to Lehman Brothers, Mr. Pawlicki was Head of Product Development for Citigroup Alternative Investments (“CAI”), where he worked for 5 years. At CAI, he was responsible for the promotion, structuring and development of alternative investment products, including private equity, infrastructure, hedge funds and real estate across CAI’s investment centers and distribution channels globally. He also served as Chairman of the Structured Sales Approval Committee and as a member of the Alternative Investment Product Committee. Before joining CAI, he worked as a corporate attorney in the New York offices of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobsen and Seward & Kissel LLP where he advised numerous fund sponsors and financial institutions.

Mr. Pawlicki holds a J.D. from the Cornell Law School, an M.B.A. in corporate finance and investment management from the Ohio State University (Fisher) and a B.A. in economics from Middlebury College. Mr. Pawlicki also holds FINRA Series 7, 24, 63 and 79 licenses through Stonington Drive Securities LLC and is a member of the New York, Ohio and District of Columbia bars.