Lee Gardella is the head of private equity North America and leads the firm’s investment risk and monitoring efforts and is a member of the investment committee.

Before joining Schroders Capital in 2007, he was a managing director leading the private markets group for CTC Consulting, the family office investment advisory subsidiary of U.S. Trust Company in Stamford, Connecticut. From 1997 to 2005 he worked for the U.S. Trust Company in the private equity and alternative investment divisions, making private equity direct and fund investments and leading the development of private equity, real estate and hedge fund investment products. Prior to that, Gardella was an associate at the Edison Venture Fund and Wilshire Associates and a treasury analyst at National Steel Corporation.

Gardella holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania and a master of business administration from the University of Notre Dame, U.S. He is also a CFA charterholder.