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The HarbourVest Boston Team

John Powers

Vice President, Portfolio Operations

Boston

About John

John Powers joined HarbourVest in 2016 and currently focuses on US venture, buyout, and mezzanine partnership investments. He began his career with the Firm’s Portfolio Analytics team, where he compiled, monitored, and analyzed primary fund and secondary investment data received from third party managers.

John received a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance and Management from Northeastern University in 2016.

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”).