What sectors does Reverence Capital Partners focus on?

Reverence Capital Partners focuses on Fintech.

Reverence Capital Partners

Private equity

17 people tracked

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Investment thesis

Reverence Capital invests across a broad range of middle-market financial services companies, backing leading businesses and working alongside management to build long-term value. It pursues control and influence-oriented minority investments while remaining flexible on deal structure. Target companies have proven, defensible business models, strong management teams, and growing revenues and earnings that produce high free cash flow or attractive returns on retained capital. Drawing on its team's operational expertise and a network of Special Advisors, the firm aims to accelerate earnings growth, drive scale to improve returns, leverage relationships to broaden the business, and apply deep financial services product knowledge.

Invests inFintechGlobal

Source: firm website, verified Aug 6, 2026.

Instruments

Equity

Founded

2013

Tracked investments

Team · 17 people

from the firm's website

Alex Chulack· Co-Founder

Co-founder of Reverence Capital Partners with extensive experience in the financial services industry.

Milton Berlinski· Co-Founder

Co-founder of Reverence Capital Partners with an extensive career advising and investing in financial services businesses.

Peter Aberg· Co-Founder

Co-founder of Reverence Capital Partners with a background advising and investing across financial services.

Josh Swidler· Managing Director, Co-CIO - Credit

Joined Reverence in 2024 with over 30 years of finance and capital markets experience. Previously CIO at Teamshares, 11 years at Elliott Associates running European structured credit and real estate, and 14 years at Lehman Brothers in structured finance.

Alexander Rothbard· Vice President

Joined Reverence in 2025. Previously an investment professional at Castlelake focused on real estate debt, and began his career as an analyst at Piper Sandler. Holds a JD from Harvard Law School.

Beau Fenske· Vice President, Head of Asset Management and Commercial Real Estate Underwriting

Joined Reverence in 2020 with 28+ years of underwriting and loan management experience, including 22 years at Goldman Sachs where he led asset management for a large CRE, residential, and consumer loan portfolio.

Jacob Kahan· Senior Associate

Joined Reverence in 2025. Previously an investment professional at Arena Investors focused on structured and special situations CRE credit, and began his career at Link Logistics.

James DeSorbo· Senior Associate

Joined Reverence in 2024. Previously worked at Citigroup on the Non-Agency RMBS Research desk and as a trader. Graduated summa cum laude from Villanova University.

Jeff Nabi· Senior Vice President

Joined Reverence in 2024 with 30+ years of capital markets experience. Formerly Head of Capital Markets at Imperial Fund and held senior roles at Funding U, Cantor Fitzgerald, and various bond insurers.

John Ro· Senior Vice President

Joined Reverence in 2025 with 12+ years investing in private asset-backed credit. Previously Head of Real Assets at i80 Group and spent 10 years at Bayview Asset Management.

Katie Kuga Wenner· Head of Capital Partnering, Credit and Real Estate

Joined Reverence in 2026 with 20+ years in global capital raising and investor relations. Previously Head of Business Development & Investor Relations at TerraCotta Group and Head of Investor Relations at Mubadala Capital.

Matt Richards· Head of Investor Relations & Project Management, Credit and Real Estate

Joined Reverence in 2025. Previously a Director at TPG Angelo Gordon leading market intelligence, and a Vice President at J.P. Morgan. Began his career at PIMCO.

Matthew Sheridan· Vice President

Joined Reverence in 2025. Previously a quantitative researcher and trader in structured credit at Squarepoint and a credit derivatives trader at J.P. Morgan. Holds degrees from Wharton and the University of Chicago.

Nicole Timmens· Senior Associate

Joined Reverence in 2025. Formerly Real Estate Lead at Teamshares and worked in Bank of America's Real Estate Structured Finance group and at Fitch Ratings.

Sarf Siddiqui· VP of Finance, Credit

Joined Reverence in 2022. Previously Senior Controller at Colbeck Capital Management and Assistant VP at Cerberus Capital Management. A New York State licensed CPA.

Steven Herrup· Deputy CIO

Joined Reverence in 2020 with 30+ years in specialty finance. Previously at Varadero Capital and 11 years at Goldman Sachs' Special Situations Group as a Managing Director and Co-Global Head of Structured Investing.

Wendy Wang· Assistant Controller, Credit

Joined Reverence in 2025. Previously a Director at Gen II Fund Services with 9+ years in private equity fund administration.

What they invest in

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Fund performance · per public LP disclosures · 16

as of Jun 2025

Fund	Vintage	Committed	Net IRR	TVPI	DPI
Reverence Cap PTR Op Fd V (PE Fd III)LPs: California State Teachers' Retirement System	2023	—	29.2%	1.37x	0.03x
Reverence Capital Partners Opportunities Fund V, LLPs: Baltimore City Employees' Retirement System	2022	—	-11.4%	0.90x	0.00x
Reverence Capital Partners Opportunities Fund V (FOO) (PE Fund III)LPs: New York City Police Pension Fund, Teachers' Retirement System of the City of New York	2021	—	31.1%	1.67x	0.04x
Reverence Capital Partners Opportunities Fund V (PE III)LPs: Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, Texas Municipal Retirement System, Los Angeles City Employees' Retirement System +2 more	2021	—	21.6%	1.52x	0.05x
Reverence Capital Partners V (PELPs: New York City Fire Department Pension Fund	2021	—	—	9.20x	—
Reverence Capital Partners V (PE Fund III)LPs: New York City Employees' Retirement System, New York City Fire Department Pension Fund	2021	—	21.3%	1.44x	0.00x
Reverence III Side CarLPs: New York City Employees' Retirement System, New York City Fire Department Pension Fund	2021	—	31.1%	1.67x	—
Reverence Capital Partners Opportunities Fund II (Parallel)LPs: New York City Employees' Retirement System, New York City Police Pension Fund	2019	—	31.6%	3.20x	0.82x
Reverence Capital Partners Opportunities Fund II, LLPs: Baltimore City Employees' Retirement System, New York City Employees' Retirement System	2019	—	22.6%	2.09x	0.61x
Reverence Capital Partners Opportunities Fund IILPs: Texas Municipal Retirement System, New York City Employees' Retirement System, New York City Police Pension Fund	2018	—	22.9%	2.37x	0.76x
REVERENCE CAP PRTNS II COINVSTLPs: New York City Board of Education Retirement System	—	—	—	3.17x	—
REVERENCE CAPITAL III COINVESTLPs: New York City Board of Education Retirement System	—	—	—	1.49x	—
Reverence Capital Partners Opportunities Fund II, L 2019LPs: Baltimore City Employees' Retirement System	—	—	—	0.20x	—
Reverence Capital Partners Opportunities Fund V, L 2022LPs: Baltimore City Employees' Retirement System	—	—	—	0.00x	—
REVERENCE CAPITAL PRTNERS IIILPs: New York City Board of Education Retirement System	—	—	—	1.43x	—
REVERENCE CAPITAL PTRS OPP IILPs: New York City Board of Education Retirement System	—	—	—	2.86x	—

Source: public limited-partner disclosures (CalPERS, CalSTRS). Net IRR / TVPI / DPI as reported by the limited partner; a fund's early-year IRR is an interim estimate (J-curve).

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What sectors does Reverence Capital Partners focus on?: Reverence Capital Partners focuses on Fintech.

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