Meet the Team

He co-founded Bright Harbor Advisors, where he provided placement advisory services spanning fundraising, due diligence, and transaction negotiation for private equity funds, buyouts, and venture capital, and advised on secondary sales and fund restructuring. Previously, he was Principal & Head of Global Private Equity at Aon Hewitt, where he founded and led the firm's Secondary Market Services as President & CEO. He also held a Principal role at INVESCO Private Capital, focusing on private equity partnerships and secondaries. He began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in corporate finance.

Brett holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University and an MBA from LeBow College of Business at Drexel University. He also completed continuing education in Management at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds Series 7, 63, 65, and 39 licenses.

He has invested more than $4 billion in private markets and helped raise more than $4.5 billion of institutional capital. His experience on both sides of the investment process, as an institutional limited partner, investment firm founder, entrepreneur, and placement advisor, provides a differentiated perspective on how investors evaluate managers and investment opportunities. Prior to Gabriel Horn Capital, he founded LaCrosse Investments 374, a boutique placement firm that raised more than $4.5 billion for over 15 private equity funds and more than 10 independent sponsor transactions from institutional investors and family offices. He also co-founded and served as President and CEO of Trusted Insight, an institutional investment network and alternative investment marketplace connecting more than 400 institutional investors across 90 countries, and helped secure the company's venture financing. Earlier, he was a Founding Partner of Centinela Capital Partners, an institutional investment firm managing approximately $1 billion, where he participated in the approval of more than $825 million across 41 private equity investments. He began his institutional investing career at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where he spent approximately 12 years as an Investment Officer and led the sourcing, due diligence, and monitoring of more than $3.1 billion across 121 private market investments.

Jonathan holds an MBA from Rider University and a B.S. from Rowan University. He maintains FINRA Series 7, 63, and 79 securities licenses. Throughout his career, he has served on more than 35 boards and fund advisory committees.