Newlight Partners LP, a growth equity investment firm, has promoted Joshua Ho-Walker to partner and James Antoniotti and Kristian Hila to principal.
Ho-Walker joined the firm in 2008 and lead the firm’s thematic investments in evolution of bandwidth consumption. Before Newlight, Ho-Walker served with Merill Lynch. Antoniotti joined the Newlight team in 2016 and spends his efforts on investments across a spectrum of sectors. Prior to Newlight, he worked as an investment banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Hila has been with Newlight since 2016 and concentrates on investments across themes and sectors. Additionally, Hila also worked as an investment banker at Bank of America Merill Lynch before joining Newlight.
“We are proud to recognize the substantial contributions of Josh, James and Kristian with these well-deserved promotions,” said David Wassong and Ravi Yadav, co-managing Partners of Newlight. “Notably, we are thrilled to welcome Josh to the firm’s partnership. Since joining the Newlight team over a decade ago, Josh has distinguished himself as an outstanding investor and leader, and has driven significant value creation for our portfolio companies, management teams and other stakeholders. We are also pleased to acknowledge James and Kristian’s hard work and look forward to their long-term, continued success at Newlight.”