I am the Alternatives Investment Director for the Pacific region and part of Mercer’s growing alternatives business, having relocated from London to Sydney. I help institutional investors structure and make new capital commitments across single and multi-manager strategies for deployment into private market alternative investments. Mercer’s global alternatives business has grown through organic growth and acquisition of high quality alternatives boutiques including SCM, Altius, Pavilion and Summit. Mercer’s global alternatives team has +200 professionals, including over 80 private markets research and investment specialists (as at January 2021) spread across 25 offices globally. I grew up in