Chloe Cooke-Yarborough

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Chloe joined Hollyport in 2025 as a People Advisor in London. Chloe will maintain HR systems, contribute to updating policies and employee handbooks, and play a part in ensuring our practices remain fair, compliant, and aligned with company values.

Before joining Hollyport, Chloe worked for two years at Slaughter and May in the HR department.

Chloe studied Liberal Arts at University of Exeter with a study abroad year in Barcelona at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and can speak conversational Spanish. She is currently doing her CIPD Level 5 Associate Diploma in People Management.

Outside of work, she loves skiing, playing tennis and running.

Conor Molloy

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Conor joined Hollyport in 2025 as an Associate in the Portfolio, Data and Analytics team, based in London. Conor’s particular focus within the Portfolio, Data & Analytics team is on analysis. This role will focus on analysing both our internal dataset and external data, in order to find insights and trends that can be used for both data-driven decision making and marketing.

Before joining Hollyport, Conor worked as an analyst on the Multi-Asset desk at Russell Investments. He holds an undergraduate degree in Financial Mathematics and Actuarial Science, as well as a master’s degree in Quantitative Finance, and is currently pursuing the CFA designation.

Outside of work, Conor enjoys reading, playing and watching sports, and maintaining an active lifestyle.

Ksenia Carnegie

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Ksenia joined Hollyport in 2025 as an Associate in the Portfolio, Data and Analytics team, based in London. Ksenia will be working within the data subdivision of the Portfolio, Data & Analytics team where she will help with data pipelines, visualisations and data governance. She will be heavily involved in the delivery of ATLAS and the creation of dashboards, as well as assisting with process automation.

Ksenia has a degree in Informatics and Applied Mathematics from Bryansk State University in Russia and over three years’ experience as a Data Analyst in the logistics sector. Her expertise lies in transforming complex datasets into clear insights that support better decisions.

Outside of work, Ksenia loves travelling and going for long walks with her family. Most recently, she has started a new creative journey as a weekend student at art school, learning how to paint.

Matthew Smith

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Matthew joined Hollyport in July 2025 as Financial Controller, based in the London office. He is responsible for the group’s financial operations, including accounting, consolidation, and reporting. His role covers the production of management accounts and financial statements, coordination of audits, and supporting the firm’s treasury, remuneration and fund-related activities, while maintaining robust financial controls as Hollyport continues to grow.

Prior to joining Hollyport, Matthew spent 3 years at Leadenhall Capital Partners as Financial Controller, where he was responsible for management and statutory reporting, audits, tax and cash flow forecasting. He previously worked for 4 years at Throgmorton UK, a financial services provider supporting alternative asset managers, where he qualified as an ICAEW Chartered Accountant (ACA) in 2020, having completed his AAT qualification in 2017.

Outside of the office, Matthew enjoys football, golf, cycling and skiing, and he takes the opportunity to go scuba diving whenever he can.

Ellie Tsao

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Ellie joined Hollyport in 2025 as an Associate in the Investment team in London. Her role involves supporting the team in assessing new investment opportunities, carrying out due diligence on private equity funds and their managers as well as financial modelling.

Prior to joining Hollyport, Ellie was an Associate at HSBC in the Healthcare team, where she focused on M&A and financing transactions.

Ellie holds a Master’s in Financial Analysis from London Business School. Originally from Taiwan, she is fluent in Mandarin and English. In her spare time, Ellie enjoys attending theatre performances and hosting dinners.

Eirik Tichy

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Eirik joined Hollyport in 2025 as an Investment Associate in London. He is involved with the evaluation and execution of investment opportunities, carrying out due diligence on private equity funds and their managers as well as financial modelling.

Prior to joining Hollyport, Eirik was an Associate in Baird’s Industrial and Consumer team, focusing on transatlantic mid-market M&A transactions.

Eirik holds an MSc in Finance & Investments from the Rotterdam School of Management. He is fluent in Norwegian and has lived in five different countries.

Outside of work, Eirik enjoys going to the gym and exploring London’s restaurant scene.

Christian Jones

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Christian joined Hollyport in 2025 as an Investment Associate in London. In this role, he supports the investment team by analysing potential acquisitions of private equity funds, performing due-diligence and financial modelling. He is excited to apply his M&A transaction experience to the secondary market. As part of his development, Christian aims to deepen financial modelling techniques and his understanding of the private-equity secondaries market.

Before joining Hollyport, Christian spent over three years in EY’s M&A Financial Due Diligence practice, advising strategic and private-equity clients on buy-side and sell-side transactions. Prior to moving into finance, he worked as an engineer with the UK Ministry of Defence in Singapore and with BAE Systems on UK military vessels.

Christian is an exam-qualified Chartered Accountant, due to achieve full qualification in 2025, and holds a First Class BEng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sheffield.

Away from the office, Christian used to play basketball competitively but has since swapped this for going to the gym and hiking. In addition to English, he speaks intermediate Spanish and is taking lessons to improve his fluency.

Annabel Howell

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Annabel joined Hollyport in 2025 as an Investment Associate, based in London. Her role involves evaluating new investment opportunities, performing due diligence and pricing analysis on potential transactions alongside the investment team.

Before joining Hollyport, Annabel worked with the Healthcare Investment Banking group at Bank of America and was involved in M&A and capital markets advisory to corporate and private equity clients across the healthcare sector.

Annabel graduated from Duke University (USA) with a degree in Political Science. Outside of work, Annabel enjoys running. She has completed the London and Stockholm marathon and hopes to do more in the future.

Thomas Rodricks

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Thomas joined Hollyport in 2025 as an analyst in the Portfolio, Data and Analytics team.

Thomas is an Economics undergraduate student at the University of Bath and is completing his placement year at Hollyport. His role focuses on overseeing the performance of Hollyport’s funds through the review and processing of calls, distributions, financials and capital account statements. In addition, he works closely with teams across the firm to contribute to internal reporting and analysis.

Thomas is interested in how data and analysis support portfolio decisions and he is looking forward to applying his analytical skills to produce insights, whilst also building up his knowledge of the Secondaries market.

In his spare time, Thomas enjoys reading, going to the gym and playing the oboe. He also likes to travel and has recently started learning Spanish.

Johanne van der Walt

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Johanne joined the Compliance team as an Associate in 2025 and plays a key role in supporting the firm’s compliance function by managing day-to-day operational tasks.

She holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Auckland and spent a semester abroad studying at the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. As a student, Johanne completed a Consulting Internship at EY and volunteered her time at a free legal clinic.

After relocating to London in 2024, Johanne started her career in Compliance at one of the UK’s largest trading brokerages, where she gained experience working within a highly regulated space.

Johanne grew up in South Africa, Saudi Arabia and New Zealand and is fluent in Afrikaans. Outside of work, she enjoys swimming, travelling with friends and listening to live music.