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The HarbourVest Boston Team

Ian Lane

Managing Director

Boston

About Ian

Ian Lane joined HarbourVest in 2003 and focuses on direct co-investments in venture, buyout, and mezzanine transactions and serves as the Chair of the Firm’s Direct Investment Committee. He led several of the Firm’s investments, including Acclaris, Advanced Health, Datatel, Digital Insight, eTapestry, Lightower, M-Qube, National Cardiovascular Partners, Nexidia, Planview, Secure-24, Wayfair (NYSE: W), and Zayo (NYSE: ZAYO). Additionally, Ian serves on the Board of Overseers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching and research affiliate of Harvard Medical School.

Ian’s previous experience includes two years with J.P. Morgan where he was an investment banking analyst in the mergers and acquisitions group. While earning his undergraduate degree, Ian founded and managed a chain of martial arts schools in Florida.

Ian received a dual BS/MS (with honors) in Accounting from the University of Florida in 2001 and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he graduated with distinction in 2008.

Continuation solutions encompass a host of transaction types in which a GP secures interim liquidity and/or additional primary capital for their LPs in a strongly performing asset, or set of assets, that the GP will continue to own and control. Specifically, they include continuation funds, new funds created by GPs for the purpose of acquiring the asset(s) that continue to be managed by the same GP and capitalized by one or several secondary buyers, or equity recapitalizations involving a direct equity or structured equity investment into a portfolio company. These transactions can also include a parallel investment from the GP’s latest fund into that same pool of assets (a “cross-fund trade”).