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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
RENAISSANCE HOTEL 2222 N. Stemmons Fwy., Dallas, TX
Astrid Soto Suzanne Yoon
Vice President of Managing Partner
Business Development Kinzie Capital Partners LLC
and Investor Relations
AUA Private Equity Partners, LLC
Astrid Soto is a Vice President of Business Suzanne Yoon is the Founder and Managing Partner
Development and Investor Relations of AUA Private of Kinzie Capital Partners, a private investment firm
Equity Partners, LLC. Prior to joining AUA Equity, Ms. focused on making control and minority investments
Soto worked at Audax Group in Boston, where she in companies across North America with revenues
was responsible for deal origination and business starting at $10mm, with up to $15mm in EBITDA. Ms.
development. Prior to Audax Group, Ms. Soto Yoon has led and closed nearly $3 billion in middle
handled capital raising and business development for market deals during her 18 years in corporate finance,
Massachusetts General Hospital and was a Consultant capital markets, and private equity, and advised on
with Argos Consulting Network U.S.A. where she billions of debt restructurings while in advisory services
created and executed food and beverage-focused and special assets.
sourcing initiatives.
Prior to Kinzie, Ms. Yoon was a Managing Director of
Ms. Soto was recently named among the 2017 Most Versa Capital Management, LLC, a private equity firm
Influential Women in Mid-Market M&A by Mergers & where she led transaction development throughout
Acquisitions Magazine. Ms. Soto is currently on the North America. Prior to Versa, Ms. Yoon was a Senior
non-profit Junior Council board of El Museo del Barrio, Vice President of CIT Group, co-founded LaSalle Bank/
New York City’s only museum dedicated to Latin ABNAMRO’s Corporate Restructuring Group, and held
American and Caribbean art, and is Vice-Chairman positions in distressed loan portfolio management
of ACG NY Women of Leadership Committee (WOL), and advisory at LaSalle Bank and Ernst and Young’s
focused on facilitating connections between women Corporate Finance Group, respectively.
leaders in the deal-making community. Ms. Soto was
previously the recipient of the ACG Boston Accelerator Ms. Yoon serves on various boards, including as
Class of 2014 and is a member of ACG New York. a Board Trustee and Vice Chair of the Investment
She is a former member of ACG Boston, ACG Boston Committee for the National Philanthropic Trust, and
Planning Committee, and a former Committee Member as a steering committee member of Private Equity’s
of ACG Boston Deal Hunters. Women Investor Network (PE WIN) and of the Women’s
Association of Venture & Equity (WAVE). She maintains
Ms. Soto is originally from Spain, and completed active involvement with Turnaround Management
most of her studies at the Madrid Campus of Association, where she was a Board Trustee, and
Suffolk University. Ms. Soto holds a B.S. in Business American Bankruptcy Institute, where she formerly
Administration from Suffolk University, and completed co-chaired its Finance Committee. She is also active
the negotiation and conflict resolution consortium in Chicago community activities, including through
program at Harvard Law School. her service on the Board of Directors for HFS Chicago
Scholars, a not for profit that serves economically
disadvantaged inner-city high school students.
She is an Executive Scholar from Northwestern’s
Kellogg School of Management and received a BA in
Economics from the University of Iowa.
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RENAISSANCE HOTEL 2222 N. Stemmons Fwy., Dallas, TX
Astrid Soto Suzanne Yoon
Vice President of Managing Partner
Business Development Kinzie Capital Partners LLC
and Investor Relations
AUA Private Equity Partners, LLC
Astrid Soto is a Vice President of Business Suzanne Yoon is the Founder and Managing Partner
Development and Investor Relations of AUA Private of Kinzie Capital Partners, a private investment firm
Equity Partners, LLC. Prior to joining AUA Equity, Ms. focused on making control and minority investments
Soto worked at Audax Group in Boston, where she in companies across North America with revenues
was responsible for deal origination and business starting at $10mm, with up to $15mm in EBITDA. Ms.
development. Prior to Audax Group, Ms. Soto Yoon has led and closed nearly $3 billion in middle
handled capital raising and business development for market deals during her 18 years in corporate finance,
Massachusetts General Hospital and was a Consultant capital markets, and private equity, and advised on
with Argos Consulting Network U.S.A. where she billions of debt restructurings while in advisory services
created and executed food and beverage-focused and special assets.
sourcing initiatives.
Prior to Kinzie, Ms. Yoon was a Managing Director of
Ms. Soto was recently named among the 2017 Most Versa Capital Management, LLC, a private equity firm
Influential Women in Mid-Market M&A by Mergers & where she led transaction development throughout
Acquisitions Magazine. Ms. Soto is currently on the North America. Prior to Versa, Ms. Yoon was a Senior
non-profit Junior Council board of El Museo del Barrio, Vice President of CIT Group, co-founded LaSalle Bank/
New York City’s only museum dedicated to Latin ABNAMRO’s Corporate Restructuring Group, and held
American and Caribbean art, and is Vice-Chairman positions in distressed loan portfolio management
of ACG NY Women of Leadership Committee (WOL), and advisory at LaSalle Bank and Ernst and Young’s
focused on facilitating connections between women Corporate Finance Group, respectively.
leaders in the deal-making community. Ms. Soto was
previously the recipient of the ACG Boston Accelerator Ms. Yoon serves on various boards, including as
Class of 2014 and is a member of ACG New York. a Board Trustee and Vice Chair of the Investment
She is a former member of ACG Boston, ACG Boston Committee for the National Philanthropic Trust, and
Planning Committee, and a former Committee Member as a steering committee member of Private Equity’s
of ACG Boston Deal Hunters. Women Investor Network (PE WIN) and of the Women’s
Association of Venture & Equity (WAVE). She maintains
Ms. Soto is originally from Spain, and completed active involvement with Turnaround Management
most of her studies at the Madrid Campus of Association, where she was a Board Trustee, and
Suffolk University. Ms. Soto holds a B.S. in Business American Bankruptcy Institute, where she formerly
Administration from Suffolk University, and completed co-chaired its Finance Committee. She is also active
the negotiation and conflict resolution consortium in Chicago community activities, including through
program at Harvard Law School. her service on the Board of Directors for HFS Chicago
Scholars, a not for profit that serves economically
disadvantaged inner-city high school students.
She is an Executive Scholar from Northwestern’s
Kellogg School of Management and received a BA in
Economics from the University of Iowa.
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