US-headquartered private markets investment firm Hamilton Lane, which has $1 trillion in assets under management and supervision, announced yesterday that it has made over 25 promotions and appointments.

Hamilton Lane has made a number of appointments, including Alexandre Hökfelt in London as managing director on the direct credit investment team, overseeing the firm’s UK and European Direct Credit platform. He leads investment sourcing and due diligence efforts.

Hökfelt reports to Tom Kerr, co-head of investments and co-head of secondaries, the firm said in a statement.

It also appointed Christopher Alpaugh as managing director, head of national sales, reporting to Beth Nardi, head of US private wealth. Based in New York, he will be involved with the development and execution of the firm’s US evergreen sales strategy.

In Switzerland, Maria Sala was appointed as principal and head of multi-strategy, evergreen product specialist, where she leads the global ex-US product specialist effort for multi-strategy evergreen investment solutions, the firm continued.

She is joining from BlackRock, where she spent more than a decade, most recently as head of Wealth Alternatives Specialists for DACH and Italy. In that role, she led private markets distribution across Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Austria. Earlier in her career, she served in senior client-facing roles at Barclays, Goldman Sachs and HSBC, the firm said in a statement.

The firm also recognized the promotions of the following individuals to managing director:

-- Anastasia Di Carlo, Client Solutions

-- Brian Reilly, Taft-Hartley

-- Emily Lozada, Investment Legal

-- Jan Verstraete, Secondary Investments

-- Kaylin Liu, Fund Accounting

-- Nelda Chang, Direct Equity Investments

-- Scott Thomas, Client Solutions

-- William Bannard, Portfolio Management Group

In addition, the firm promoted the following individuals to principal:

-- Agnieszka Lor, Account Execution

-- Charlotte Riley, Human Resources

-- Da Eun Kim, Client Solutions

-- Jeff Benson, Client Solutions

-- Jeff Straus, Secondary Investments

-- Jerome Kamm, Direct Equity Investments

-- Kristen McCarthy, Digital Business Transformation

-- Kyle McGinnis, Direct Equity Investments

-- Lauren Williamson, Client Solutions

-- Steve Caplan, Direct Equity Investments

All promotions were effective as of April 1, 2026.

Since the start of 2026, the firm has made the following principal appointments:

-- Ian Meyers, head of Enterprise Relationships

-- James Wu, head of Data Integrity

-- Joseph Montelione, Treasury

-- Kenneth Lower, Fund Accounting

-- Sean Abbott, Portfolio Management Group

“Our growing leadership bench correlates directly to our ability to continue raising the bar for our clients around the world, as we seek to deliver best-in-class service and support for the evolving needs of more than 2,600 institutional and private wealth investors worldwide,”  Juan Delgado, co-CEO at Hamilton Lane, said.