Dale Irby

Nathalie Zar Walker

StepStone Group

Stepstone believes that investing in diverse managers brings a broad range of perspectives, experiences and skills to the table, leading to more innovation and reducing the chance of bias in decision-making. By building an inclusive culture and investing in diverse managers, Stepstone is driving long-term outperformance and building enduring and differentiated portfolios on behalf of its clients. The firm has launched two specific vehicles focused on diverse managers. The Fund’s objective is to deliver strong net-of-fee returns relative to the benchmarks and allocate capital with the goal of supporting diversity in the innovation economy. The general partner focus is on early-stage, diverse-led US managers with at least 33% diverse key persons, management company or carried interest ownership. Natalie Zar Walker is a Partner at StepStone on the Private Equity team. In this position, she leads StepStone’s Small, Emerging and Diverse investment efforts which seeks to optimize risk-adjusted returns by focusing on fund investments, secondaries, co-investments, and recapitalizations in partnership with best-in-class Small Buyout managers based in North America. Ms. Walker is Portfolio Manager of StepStone’s Accelerate Diversity Fund, is involved in various management activities, and sits on five LP Advisory Boards. Dale Irby is a member of the private equity team, focusing on venture capital and growth equity investments. Prior to StepStone, Mr. Irby was a managing director with Greenspring Associates, a venture capital and growth equity investment firm that merged with StepStone in 2021. Before that, he was a managing director at Wellbridge Partners.