Bio

Kerri Hagen is a Director within Cascadia’s Financial Sponsor Coverage team. Her focus is to develop and manage relationships with leading financial sponsors in the Northeast. Kerri joined Cascadia from Gemspring Capital, a middle market private equity firm, as Director of Business Development where she was responsible for sourcing new investments and driving the firm’s business development efforts and investment banking relationships. Prior to joining Gemspring, Kerri was a Senior Business Development Consultant at Axial, where she assisted in the deal sourcing and M&A efforts of middle market private equity firms, family offices and lenders. Prior to joining Axial, she served as Vice President, Equity Sales at The Buckingham Research Group. Earlier in her career, Kerri assisted the research, sales, and trading functions of investment banks while at IHS Markit (formerly Ipreo, a portfolio company of Blackstone and Goldman Sachs). Kerri received a BA in Communications, summa cum laude, from the University of Michigan. She currently serves on ACG NY’s Women of Leadership Committee.