HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, today announced the hiring of Bryce Klempner as a managing director. Klempner will be a member of the firm’s investment solutions and strategy teams focusing on new product innovation and strategic growth.

“We are pleased to welcome Bryce to HarbourVest,” said John Toomey, Managing Director, HarbourVest Partners. “Bryce’s deep experience in private markets and advising a wide variety of institutional investors will further enable HarbourVest to help our clients pursue innovative approaches to achieving their investment goals.”

Klempner was previously a partner at McKinsey and co-head of its Global Institutional Investor practice, advising pensions, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, and family offices, as well as private equity firms and other types of investors. He co-led McKinsey’s efforts in ESG and sustainable investment and led the firm’s global research on private markets. Prior to joining McKinsey, he worked at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo, at private equity firms in Mumbai and Shanghai, and for a software start-up oriented towards individual investors.

Klempner received a BA in East Asian Studies from Harvard University and a JD from Harvard Law School.

Source: Business Wire