Neal Costello '08

Neal is a Managing Director at New Mountain Capital.  Neal co-leads New Mountain’s Atlas strategy, a GP-led secondary solutions platform.  Prior to New Mountain, Neal was a Partner in the Secondary Investments team at AlpInvest Partners (The Carlyle Group).  Neal spent over 20 years with AlpInvest, where he helped found the AlpInvest US Secondary Investments team in 2003.  Over the course of his tenure at AlpInvest, he has led the firm’s Asia Secondary efforts via the Hong Kong office, the European efforts from the Amsterdam office, and most recently as the Head of AlpInvest’s London office.

Neal also spent time with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, where he led the Secondary and Co-investments business in Europe.  Previously, he was also with CIBC World Markets’ Mergers & Acquisitions Investment Banking division. He currently serves as a Director on the Columbia University Business School Private Equity Board. Neal received his MBA from Columbia University in New York and an Honors Business degree (HBA) from the Ivey School of Business at Western University in Canada. He is also a CFA ® Charterholder.