4th Private Markets Summit

14 May 2026

Sheraton Grand Sydney Hyde Park

Following the success of the 3rd Private Markets Summit in 2025, the event returns in 2026 for its fourth year as a senior-level forum focused on the best practice management of private assets.

It is a forum for asset owners, fund managers and other institutional investors to gather and discuss their challenges, to work towards making the industry more efficient for the benefit of both parties. The event attracts 120+ senior investment and operational attendees.

The day examines a selection of focused topics through presentations, case studies, roundtable discussion, panel sessions and Q&A. The agenda covers valuations, investment risk management, governance and oversight, performance measurement, data and technology challenges among other topical items.

Please note: this event operates a closed-door format; access is restricted to institutional investors / limited partners and asset managers / general partners.

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Featured Speakers 2025

Jamie Stewart

speaker

Jamie Stewart is a managing director with Alvarez & Marsal Valuations in Sydney.

Karen Chan

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Karen is a portfolio manager at Perennial Private Investments, one of Australia’s leading crossover investors.

Dale Winfield

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Dale has approximately 25 years of valuation experience, gained from a wide range of roles in both private and public sectors across Australia, NZ and the UK.

Joanne Lupton

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Joanne is a partner at KPMG and has worked in the UK and Australia. She has over 25 years of international corporate finance experience.

Sainandan Gajjala

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Sai Gajjala is a valuation manager at Aware Super, primarily involved in the private equity and private credit sectors.

Stephanie Lyons

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Stephanie Lyons is the general manager, investment risk at Rest Super and is accountable for oversight of their investment risk management framework.

Jason Kotkin

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Currently with Rest, Jason has over 20 years' experience in the financial services industry, including servicing and onboarding large complex investment firms.

Zsuzsa Balabas

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Since joining IFM Investors in 2018, Zsuzsa has been instrumental in supporting IFM's transformation agenda.

Geoff Stewart

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Geoff leads the investment risk team within APRA’s superannuation division and has deep experience in determining risk appetites, investment objectives and asset allocation strategies.

Bridget Auer

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Bridget is managing partner of Thames Capital and has 27 years’ experience in investment banking and financial markets, spanning public and private sectors.

Amit Malguri

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Amit holds a senior leadership role as the functional head of investment control at Aware Super.

Bev Durston

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Bev Durston is a seasoned investment professional with over 30 years of global financial services experience. She sits on several institutional investment committees.

Jack Martinelli

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Jack leads data-focused projects at IFM, combining his financial and coding expertise to drive large-scale initiatives aimed at centralising and structuring firm-wide datasets.

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The content is suited to:

Super funds and other asset owners / investors in private markets
Fund management companies / managers of unlisted investment vehicles
Senior investment executives
Investment risk executives
Chief financial officers
Chief operating officers
Heads of investment operations
Heads of regulation & compliance

Attending offers delegates a useful opportunity to examine issues that impact their organisations now and going forward, discuss best practice, exchange ideas and interact with peers in an intimate setting.

Feedback 2025 (out of 10)

Overall:	8.2
Agenda:	8.0
Speakers:	8.3
Would attend again:	100%
Would recommend:	100%

Testimonials

Slide 1

"I found the sessions on valuations very interesting."

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"I think the agenda is very good, with a mixture of topics such as valuations, risk, data and technology."