Current Trustee Members


AAAIM would like to thank its trustee members:



AGI Capital is a San Francisco-based real estate development and investment company that develops successful residential, commercial, and mixed-used projects. Since 1998 AGI Capital has consistently executed pioneering new constructions, condominium conversions, and residential and office rehabilitation projects that help communities fully realize their future while delivering market-leading returns to investors and partners.  AGI has successfully overseen real estate projects throughout the Greater Bay Area with a total market value in excess of $500 million.



Capital Z Asset Management (CZAM) is an alternative investment sponsor with offices in New York. We invest in hedge funds and structured products while assuming a meaningful minority interest in the management companies of such vehicles.

CZAM evaluates hundreds of investment strategies each year to identify the next generation of leading alternative asset managers across the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. CZAM is exclusively focused on creating a world-class alternative asset firm providing institutional investors with a diversified selection of high-quality alternative strategies.


Centinela Capital Partners, LLC is an independent alternative investment management firm that provides discretionary services in alternative investments via fund-of-funds, separate accounts, co-investments and secondaries. Within these broad services we emphasize discovering new opportunities, particularly with emerging managers. We are able to customize individual programs to meet our clients’ needs. Investments can be across all sub-asset classes including corporate finance/buyout, growth capital, venture capital, mezzanine, distressed debt and real assets.


Centinela’s team has over 100 combined years of alternative investment experience as general partners, limited partners and operating executives with have extensive experience in:

  • direct investing
  • co-investing
  • primary fund investing
  • secondary investing, and
  • complicated restructurings


Clearstone Venture Partners has three funds under management with $650 million of committed capital. Begun as a vehicle for investing in opportunities created by the maturation of the Internet and the World Wide Web, Clearstone achieved some of the best results in Internet business model investing, including successful outcomes for eToys, Overture, PayPal, United Online, MP3.com, Jump and eMusic. Over the past five years, its portfolio has broadened to include investments in enterprise computing (including software applications, infrastructure, storage and communications), wireless technologies, photonics for optical networking, chips and digital services. Clearstone's Fund III closed in April 2005 and includes its first investment initiatives outside the US, in India.


Hamilton Lane is a private, independently owned firm that provides alternative asset management services to institutional investors worldwide. Our private equity offerings include customized separate accounts, funds of funds and advisory services. In short, we provide solutions tailored to the goals and risk profiles of our clients.


Founded in 1991, Hamilton Lane has grown to over 90 employees in offices around the globe. Headquartered outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hamilton Lane has managed accounts of over $10 billion and has an additional $69 billion in advisory assets under supervision– making us one of the largest allocators of private equity capital in the world.


Hamilton Lane has clients and fund investors around the world including public and corporate pension funds, labor union funds, financial institutions, insurance companies, foundations and endowments. Our clients include a number of the world’s largest institutional investors, as well as many mid-sized and smaller institutions. Among others, we serve six of the ten largest pension plans in the U.S. and six of the 20 largest private equity investors in the world.




The Hina Group is an investment banking and private equity firm focusing on cross-border opportunities between China and the global community. Hina was launched in April 2003 with offices in Silicon Valley, U.S.; Shanghai and Beijing, China; and Singapore.

Hina Group Funds' Unique Value Proposition:

We bring our Limited Partners a better way to invest in China.
One of the largest deal sourcing teams based in China today.
Large merchant bank platform to actively create value.

Companies want Hina to join as investor, often at a significant discount to other investors, to help:

  • Raise additional financing in the future
  • Fund and execute roll-ups, carve-outs, buy-outs
  • Effect mergers and acquisitions
  • Globalize and "de-risk" the company
Hina Group Fund leverages Hina's assets and competencies to identify, improve, and monetize investments in China. Hina Group Fund aims to become China's premiere private equity fund, with a uniquely global perspective grounded in a practical merchant banking model.



Leading Edge Investment Advisors ('LEIA') is a manager of managers founded in July 2005 by Clayton Jue, a pioneer of emerging manager funds of funds for institutional investors. We are the premier provider of innovative multi-manager products across all asset categories utilizing emerging investment management firms in addition to specialized and unique investment strategies.

Our team of highly skilled investment professionals has almost 20 years experience developing and managing emerging manager programs for more than two dozen of the largest corporate and public pension plans in the US. We are proficient at all aspects of multiple manager fund management and analysis, employing a suite of proprietary analytical tools and techniques to perform manager due diligence, fund analysis and fund optimization. In addition, our proprietary research is recognized as an authoritative source of information on the performance characteristics and competitive attributes of emerging firms.

To date, Leading Edge has $700 million in assets under management.



PCG Asset Management oversees more than $15 billion of private equity commitments through a combination of fund-of-funds, separate accounts and advisory relationships. PCG focus is exclusively on investments in private equity.

PCG selects outperforming fund managers through a diverse mix of market cycles through an investment approach that has been developed and refined over the past 17 years. Its manager selection process utilizes a proprietary mix of qualitative and quantitative factors aided by PCG Asset Management's expansive private equity database, its proprietary research on market segments and use of industry-leading portfolio analytics tools.



Progress is a Manager of Emerging Managers. Progress is distinguished by this exclusive focus, as well as by the depth and breadth of its experience and its extraordinary commitment to emerging managers and clients. As a result of this commitment, Progress  manages  $6.0 billion in assets for a blue chip list of Public and Corporate pension fund clients across a variety of asset classes that include small, mid, and large cap equities, international equities and fixed income, as well as private equity.

Progress is an independent, employee-owned Registered Investment Advisor that is certified as a Minority Business Enterprise.



Rustic Canyon Partners invests in venture capital stage and middle-market companies positioned for strong growth. Rustic Canyon typically invest in private, growth stage companies that capitalize on opportunities created by technology change, market evolution, regulatory shifts, or other factors.

To date, Rustic Canyon Partners has over $800 million under management and has invested in a broad array of technology-driven and middle-market companies in sectors such as communications, software, IT infrastructure, digital media, business and information services, materials science, and efficient energy.



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