Jeri Harman is the Founder & Chairman of Avante Capital Partners, a women and minority-owned private credit and structured equity fund based in LA and founded in 2009. 

Topics:

- Why she took the plunge into entrepreneurship (in 2009) and what it took to get the business off the ground

- Failure is not an option

- The importance of storytelling in fundraising

- Balancing the desire to lean into her identity as a women-owned fund vs just being known as an outstanding investor

- Creating an ecosystem and how it has helped source 60% of their deals

- The evolution of women in finance, PEWIN, and Kelly Williams

- Her #1 advice for women in finance