Graduate
Esther Yue Townell was named a winner of The M&A Advisor’s Emerging Leader Awards in the Dealmaker category. Esther is an associate at 40|73 Capital, an entrepreneurial private equity firm whose principal is Dileep Saksena, MBA’07. Dileep emails, “Esther has been instrumental in helping launch our investment focus on lower-middle market companies. She has done so by demonstrating entrepreneurial resourcefulness in the face of competition from better-capitalized private equity peers.” Before joining 40|73 Capital, Esther worked in impact investing at Goldman Sachs, where she helped establish the 10,000 Women initiative in China.