Mercer
Partner
Amy Ridge is a Partner in Mercer’s alternatives group where she specializes in private markets investing. She works with institutional clients to build and maintain their private markets portfolios, with a focus on risk mitigation, total portfolio analysis and identifying best in class investments. Ms. Ridge leads Mercer’s private markets diverse manager research team and serves as the Chair of the Investment Committee for Mercer’s diverse manager funds.
Ms. Ridge is a voting member of the Real Assets Investment Committee, a voting member of the Real Estate Ratings Review Committee and Chair for the Natural Resources Ratings Review Committee.
Ridge has 18 years of private markets experience, 15 years of which are at Mercer (including Pavilion Alternatives, which was acquired by Mercer in 2018). Ms. Ridge holds a BA in finance from the University of San Francisco. Prior to Mercer, Ms. Ridge spent almost three years at TorreyCove (now Aksia), where she was part of the private equity consulting group.
Ms. Ridge was named to the Diversity, Equity and Inclusive Capitalism Power 100 List in 2024, recognizing those in the industry who understand the importance of creating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive asset management industry.
Ms. Ridge was the recipient of the 2022 PEI Media’s Women of Influence in Private Markets award across all private markets asset classes.
She was also the recipient of the 2021 Chief Investment Officers’ Knowledge Brokers award naming her