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Drew Guff is Managing Director and Founding Partner of Siguler Guff & Company, LP, a multi-strategy private equity investment firm with over $13.0 billion of assets under management. Siguler Guff manages specialized private equity funds in the areas of U.S. and European real estate, emerging markets, small and mid-size U.S. buyouts and global distressed opportunities. Siguler Guff serves over 450 institutional clients, including corporate and public employee benefit plans, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds and family offices. The firm is headquartered in New York with offices in Boston, London, Moscow, Shanghai, Sao Paulo and Mumbai, employing 165 professionals worldwide.

Mr. Guff has 35 years of private equity experience. In addition to his oversight of the Firm, he leads Siguler Guff’s emerging markets investment strategy and the direct investment activities of Russia Partners, an affiliate of Siguler Guff that manages more than $1 billion of private equity investments. Mr. Guff is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on its Investment Advisory Committee. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), the 20-20 Investment Association and also the U.S.-Russia Business Council. He sits on the board of directors for a number of portfolio companies and previously served on the board of directors of EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM). Mr. Guff was the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Award for corporate citizenship in recognition of his contributions to the advancement of U.S.-Russia relations. Mr. Guff holds an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College and attended Leningrad State University in 1981.

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