Terri Duhon
Senior Advisor
Terri is part of the Hanover Group Board and serves on the Investment Committee for Credit investments.
Terri is an award-winning educator and a TEDx speaker. She is the Non-Executive Chair of Morgan Stanley Investment Management Ltd and is on the boards of Morgan Stanley International where she chairs the Risk Committee, Rathbones plc, a FTSE250 UK Wealth Manager, and Wise plc, a global fintech. She has a prominent role in education as an Associate Fellow at The Said Business School, is part of the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee and is a motivational speaker for Speakers for Schools.
Terri started her career at JPMorgan where she joined from MIT as a derivatives trader. She was part of the team that pioneered the credit derivative market place, as documented in Gilian Tett's Fools Gold and on PBS Frontline.
Susan Fleming
Senior Advisor
Susan serves on the Investment Committee for Private Equity investments.
Susan is an entrepreneur in residence, corporate director, angel investor and executive educator. She began her career on Wall Street where she was a Partner of Capital Z Financial Services Partners, a $1.9B private equity fund focused on investing in financial services firms and an Analyst at Morgan Stanley. Susan has served on the board of seven publicly traded companies, and is a current director of RLI Corp. and Virtus Investment Partners, Inc.
After leaving Wall Street in 2003, Susan earned a Ph.D. in Management at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management where her research focused on better understanding the factors contributing to the dearth of women in leadership positions.
Brett Lankester
Senior Advisor
Brett is part of the Hanover Group Board.
Brett was CEO of Union Bancaire Privee (UBP) in London, having sold his Wealth Management business, ACPI, to UBP in 2018. Brett joined ACPI as Managing Partner in 2007 and prior to that was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs.
Brett is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a B.Com and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Accounting from the University of Cape Town.
Michael Sofaer
Senior Advisor
Michael serves on the Investment Committee for Private Equity investments.
Michael is the founder and principal of Sofaer Capital Inc. following its inception in 1986, as the first Asian-orientated hedge fund with offices in London, New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. Prior to this, Michael was a securities analyst with the Schroder Group in London before establishing the research department for Schroder Investment Management in Hong Kong, where he managed two unit trusts.
Michael has served on several company boards internationally and is an active investor in both private and public companies.
John Woodard
Senior Advisor
John sits on the Investment Committee and he currently serves on the board for Escher and Clearstar.
John has been a member of Hanover's Investment Committee since 2015 and joined full time in 2021. Prior to Hanover John spent over 25 years in the private equity industry at Credit Suisse First Boston, Wesray Capital Corporation, The Blackstone Group and Vestar Capital Partners, where he led the Industrial practice, served on the Investment Committee and spent three years in Japan running Asian operations.
John has served on various boards including Duff & Phelps, International AirParts, Hampshire Chemical, American Axle, Argo-Tech and Colorado Open Lands.
John earned his BA in Economics, with honours, from Williams College.