Demetrius Sidberry
Managing Director
PRIVATE MARKETS EXPERIENCE
Over 15 years across private markets, spanning principal PE investing, product development, fundraising, and corporate strategy, with a deep focus on the emerging manager ecosystem.
WHAT HE HELPS BUILD
Organizational strategy, institutional infrastructure, talent development, capital formation, governance, and long-term planning to help GP partners build enduring firms.
WHAT HE BELIEVES
The strongest investment firms are built long before they're widely recognized.
HOW HE THINKS
Long-term success requires thoughtful strategy, operational rigor, and trusted partnerships built well before the first investment is made.
Full Biography
Demetrius is a Managing Director and Investment Committee Member of New Catalyst, where his primary responsibilities include firm leadership, investment oversight and value creation support for the firm's GP portfolio.
Prior to New Catalyst, Demetrius was a Managing Director and Investment Committee Member of Hamilton Lane’s Direct Equity team. In this role, his primary responsibilities included strategy oversight, direct deal sourcing and execution and client management. During his time at Hamilton Lane, Demetrius also served as a senior member of the firm’s secondaries team and worked on various strategic initiatives including serving as the Head of Public Investor Relations throughout the execution of the firm’s initial public offering in 2017.
Prior to joining Hamilton Lane in 2011, Demetrius was a deal professional with ICV Partners, a lower middle market buyout firm that invests across multiple sectors, predominately in North America. Demetrius began his career as an analyst in the global consumer products and retail investment banking group at UBS, where he worked on a range of sell-side and buy-side advisory transactions, acquisition financings and equity offerings.
Demetrius received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington where he graduated magna cum laude.