Private Equity

Elevation has extensive experience evaluating and executing private equity investments. Elevation Partners has invested in market-leading technology, media and entertainment companies including Facebook, Yelp, Palm (acquired by HP), Forbes, MarketShare, and Bioware-Pandemic (acquired by Electronic Arts).

Prior to Elevation, Bret Pearlman was a private equity investor in large-scale transactions for 15 years, most recently as a Senior Managing Director at The Blackstone Group. Roger McNamee was a co-founder of Silver Lake Partners and Integral Capital Partners. Sherwin Chen and Adam Hopkins have substantial prior private equity experience at Bain Capital and Silver Lake, respectively.