Raquel Palmer is a Managing Partner of KPS Capital Partners, LP, Chairperson of its Investment Committee and member of its Management Committee.  KPS Capital Partners, LP is the manager of KPS Special Situations Funds, a family of private equity funds with approximatel...

Dr. Alice Mann is an Operating Partner at Blue Wolf Capital Partners LLC. The Blue Wolf Capital Funds are a family of private funds which focus on transformational investments in middle market companies.

For over 20 years, Dr. Mann has advised senior executives to build...

When United Steelworkers International President Leo Gerard asked a room full of the organization’s local members how many volunteered in their communities, every hand in the room went up.

The moment demonstrated the value that USW places on philanthropy,...

In September 2017, Adam Blumenthal, a member of the Yale SOM Class of 1989 and the founder and managing partner of the private equity firm Blue Wolf Capital Partners, received the 2017 Civic Champion Award from City Limits, a New York City-focused nonprofit investigati...

Michael Musuraca is Senior Advisor of ESG and Labor of Blue Wolf Capital Partners LLC. The Blue Wolf Capital Funds (www.bluewolfcapital.com) are a family of innovative private equity funds that have committed to responsibly transforming companies, strategically, operat...

NORTH BERGN, NJ – (October 10, 2016) It is with great sadness that the International Longshoremen’s Association, AFL-CIO reports the passing of Dr. Thomas Mackell, Special Advisor to ILA President Harold J. Daggett and the Executive Director of the Maritime Labor Allia...

Ana Lei Ortiz is a Managing Director of Relationship Management at Hamilton Lane. She joined joined the firm in 2008 and currently focuses on the Europe region. Prior to joining Hamilton Lane, Ms. Lei Ortiz was with various areas of HSBC. She is a CFA and holds her M.A...

"In addition to the trillions of dollars of workers’ capital, there’s $70-100 billion in labor-managed or affiliated investment houses and banks. And, btw, there's $1 trillion in non-ERISA funds in unions, mostly invested in treasury bonds, money markets, etc. These p...

Excerpts from interview with Jack Marco, chairman, Marco Consulting Group (December 8, 2014).  

“In the beginning, there was stiff opposition to the concept of ETIs, and many pension fund principals were hostile to the idea.  We thought of this as common sense, and co...

Interview date:  November 17, 2014

"Trustees have the power to shape the market, but they have little influence in the pension value chain.  We need to train people to become the checks and balances in the pension community.  Unions at the turn of the last century bui...