About Us

Christina is the Founder and Chair of the WINS board. Christina is a principal in the secondary advisory group at PJT Partners. Prior to joining PJT, she spent 9 years on the fund financing team at Nomura most recently as the Head of Sales.

She specializes in lending, hedging and other solutions for a wide variety of alternative asset investors and managers, with a strong focus on the secondaries market.

Christina also serves on the board of and is the Treasurer for Breaking the Chain through Education, a non-profit working to rehabilitate victims of child trafficking in Ghana.

Christina graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers Business School and is a CAIA Charterholder

Leah is a Board Member of WINS. She is a Partner and the General Counsel at Whitehorse Liquidity Partners, a private equity manager dedicated to providing innovative structured liquidity solutions to the alternative asset class. At Whitehorse Liquidity Partners, Leah leads the legal, tax, compliance, and people & culture functions and serves on the Executive Committee and the Investment Committee. Prior to Whitehorse Liquidity Partners, Leah was a Partner at a leading Canadian law firm where she maintained a corporate and securities law practice with a focus on private equity and M&A.

Leah received a J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School and a B.B.A. in Finance, Management & Economics from the University of Toronto.

Pamela is the Co-Founder and Board Member of WINS. She is a Principal at TPG, a global alternative asset firm with approximately $85 billion of AUM. At TPG, Pamela is a member of the TPG Strategic Solutions team, which focuses on providing secondary solutions capital to the private markets across North America and Europe. Prior to TPG, Pamela was a Director at Landmark Partners, where she worked on private equity secondary transactions. Prior to Landmark, she worked at Glouston Capital Partners.

Pamela received an M.A. in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis International Business School and a B.A. in Applied Psychology from Emory University

Erica is a Co-Founder and Board Member of WINS. She is a member of the Blackstone Strategic Partners investment team, where she is currently a Principal with a focus on private equity secondary transactions. Erica focuses on sourcing, underwriting and executing transactions across the landscape of secondaries.

Additionally, she is also a member of the Task Force for the Blackstone Women’s Initiative.

Prior to joining Strategic Partners, Erica attended Harvard University and graduated with a B.A. cum laude in Neurobiology.

She is a Managing Director in the Secondary Advisory Group at Lazard, based in New York. Mrs. Ugarte focuses on GP-led transactions including single asset SPVs, fund continuation vehicles, tender offerings and strip sales. Prior to joining Lazard, Amanda was a Director on the Healthcare Advisory team at PJT Partners and later a Managing Director in the Secondary Advisory team. She also spent ten years at Morgan Stanley in the Investment Banking Division across the Healthcare, Technology and Management Groups.

Mrs. Ugarte received a BA in Economics and Psychology summa cum laude from Wellesley College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Nicole Washington is a Co-Founder and Board memberof WINS. She is partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where she is a key member of the Firm’s Investment Funds Group. Nicole regularly represents domestic and international sponsors on forming, marketing and operating private investment funds, as well as on structuring, regulatory and compliance issues.

Nicole serves as co-chair of Kirkland’s Transactional Associate Review Committee, and is a member of the Committees on Billings and Collections, Diversity and Inclusion and Firmwide Recruiting. She also serves on the board of PeacePlayers International, a non-profit organization which uses basketball to unite and educate children and their communities.

Nicole received a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from Harvard University.