Pantheon promotes Wong and Vainio to partner

Katharine Hidalgo
17 January 2020

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Pantheon has promoted investment principals Erik Wong and Toni Vainio to partners, as well as several other promotions.

Wong joined the firm in 2007 and is a member of the firm's global co-investment committee. He is responsible for sourcing, execution and monitoring co-investments in Europe. Wong joined from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Prior to that, he worked for IFRS Foundation in the UK and in the direct investments team at Quilvest.

Vainio joined Pantheon in 2010 and is a member of the global credit committee. He is responsible for growing the firm's debt investment business, including analysis and selection of secondary debt fund investments. Vainio is also a member of Pantheon's European investment committee, focusing on the due diligence and monitoring of European primary investments, and sits on a number of limited partner advisory committees in Europe. Toni was previously at Cambridge Associates, where he worked in the private equity team.

The pair are based in the firm's London office.

Stuart Cullen has also been promoted to principal from the investment team in London. He joined the firm in 2017 from Jones Day and started his career at CBRE.

Pantheon offers regional primary fund programmes, secondaries, co-investments, infrastructure and real assets. The firm is currently investing from its Pantheon Global Select fund-of-funds, which closed on $562m in December 2014. The firm is also out to market with a $2bn target for its Pantheon Global Secondary Fund VI, according to Unquote Data.