PE Program Breakfast Series: Planning your PE Career Search Workshop

Greta Larson

Columbia Business School

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gretalarson/

Greta E. Larson is  Senior Director of the Private Equity Program at Columbia Business School. She interfaces with alumni, industry professionals, and students who are working in, or aspire to work in the field of private equity. Greta works closely with the PE Fellows Program and the KKR Competition for MBA students, and plans and facilitates the program's annual Deal Camp in Montauk.



Aside from her role at the Private Equity Program, Greta is a success coach for executives who are part of Columbia's VC PE program with Emeritus.

Prior to joining the Business School in October 2008, Greta worked at University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. She holds a B.A. in Music from San Francisco State University and a Masters of Public Administration degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Michael Hillmeyer

Columbia Business School

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mhillmeyer/

As an independent consultant, Michael Hillmeyer has been working with small IT & Healthcare companies since 2004, advising them on strategy, capital raising options, valuation, and restructuring. He has also assisted lower middle market PE funds in their due diligence of potential targets. Michael works with the Private Equity Program at Columbia Business School, where he has contributed to original academic research on the market, co-authored an academic case study (on Burger King & 3G Capital) and helped to put together the Private Equity Fellows Program, a selective honors program for second year MBA students interested in the private equity industry.



Michael is a contributor to the Modern Consensus blog, where he writes about blockchain technology and its applications. Michael was a Director and Chief Financial Officer of Avantogen Oncology Inc. from 2007 to 2014. He joined Avantogen as part of the company's restructuring and was instrumental in its strategic transaction with SciClone Pharmaceuticals, Inc.



Michael was a senior sell-side equity research analyst at Merrill Lynch, covering the IT Hardware and IT Distribution industries. In 2003 he was a named member of Institutional Investor magazine’s second ranked IT Hardware team.



Michael holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering degree from The Cooper Union. At Columbia University, he earned an MBA (Finance, International Business) and a Master of International Affairs degree. He has also studied at the University of Lausanne HEC in Switzerland.