A $147 trillion industry is building its next infrastructure.
Global asset management is incorporating private assets, and that takes more than capital.
It takes new plumbing, driven by technologists and operational leads tackling the hard challenges that sit beneath the surface.
Here are 125+ leaders doing that work.
And through it shaping the next phase of finance:
After all, this isn't the industry's first reinvention.
The 1990s: open architecture. Distribution broke open.
The 2000s: the ETF. Access broke open.
The 2020s: private markets. The whole portfolio breaks open.
"Retailization" undersells it. This is the asset management industry itself repositioning around private assets ... professionally managed, in model portfolios, across the world's largest wealth platforms.
The scale:
$14 trillion of individual capital flowing into privates over the next decade, on the way to $65T in private market AUM by 2032. (Bain)
But private markets were built to serve a few hundred institutions. Onboarding, pricing, liquidity, servicing, data ... none of it was built for millions of wealth clients.
This phase won't be won on the assets. It'll be won on the build.
So we went looking for who's actually building it! Here's what we found:
The 2026 Who's Who in Private Wealth Infrastructure.
125+ people across the asset managers, wealth platforms, and technology firms constructing the operating layer for private markets.
Founders and operators. Allocators and engineers. The ones doing the unglamorous work of making a $147 trillion industry actually run on private assets.
And please note: this is obviously not a perfect list and missing many key people, so we’ll keep improving it!
Only 20 tickets remain for the Private Wealth Infrastructure Summit on May 28 in New York.
You can still secure a spot if you act today:
Learn from senior GPs, LPs, and technology leaders making real operating decisions across private credit today, and apply to be part of a highly curated audience.
📍 May 28 2026 | New York
🔗 Apply to attend
