Diana Cantor
Partner
Diana is a member of the firm’s Investment Committee and Board of Managers. She is also involved in the strategic direction of the firm’s portfolio management function.
Prior to joining the firm, Diana was a Managing Director at New York Private Bank & Trust before which she served for over a decade as the founding Chief Executive Officer of the Virginia College Savings Plan, which she grew to be the largest in the nation with over $27 billion in assets under management at the time of her departure. Prior to her state service, Diana was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, serving as Chief Administrator of the firm’s leveraged buyout and internal investment funds and merchant banking operations. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Diana practiced law in the real estate department of Kaye Scholer (now Arnold & Porter).
Diana is affiliated with numerous civic and professional associations including her current service as a Board member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, the YMCA of Greater Richmond and the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health System Authority. She is the past Global Chair of 100 Women in Finance and a past Chair of the Richmond Jewish Foundation Investment Committee and the Policy Forum Endowment Fund (supporting foundation of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce), a past member of the Virginia College Savings Plan's Investment Advisory Committee, a past Board member of the Bon Secours Richmond Health Care Foundation, and an eight-year member of the Virginia State Treasury Board. Diana has also served as a director of both private and public companies, which currently include Domino’s Pizza, Inc. (Past Chair of the Audit Committee), Universal Corporation (Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee), VICI Properties, Inc. (Chair of the Audit Committee), and the private company boards of SCP Retirement Services and Mauser Packaging Solutions. She is a past director of Revlon, Inc., Media General Inc., and The Edelman Financial Group Inc. as well as the private company boards of Adore Me, Edelman Financial Services, LLC, Service King Body and Paint LLC, Vistage International, and Knowledge Universe.
Diana is a past Chairman of the Board, and served for over ten years as a Trustee, of the Virginia Retirement System. She also serves as a Senior Advisor with AKF Consulting Group, a leading strategic advisor to public administrators of state investment programs, including 529, ABLE and retirement plans. Diana spends a material portion of her time working in these capacities and, except for her non-profit board affiliations, receives compensation for serving in these roles.
Diana is a C.P.A. and member of the State Bars in Virginia, Florida, and New York. She earned a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Florida, an M.B.A from the University of Miami, and a J.D. from New York University.