Jan Mende will be joining the investor relations department of I Squared as a managing director, beginning the week of Aug. 19.
Mende has more than 15 years of experience in the private equity industry with a specialization in infrastructure and real estate. She joins I Squared from Callan, one of the largest independently owned investment consulting firms in the United States, where she was a senior vice president working with institutional investors across their real assets portfolios. She also had research coverage responsibility for global private infrastructure strategies as well as real assets secondaries, Asian real estate and timber products. Before Callan, Jan was the head of client relations at Capital Dynamics, a global private assets manager.
At I Squared, Mende will be responsible for covering key investment partners on the U.S. West Coast.
“Jan is a key hire to cover important regional partners on the West Coast,” said Gautam Bhandari, CIO and
