Sarah Silverman will be joining Northleaf Capital Partners as a managing director, business development for the U.S. Silverman comes from BlackRock where she held a similar senior position in business development. Prior to BlackRock Silverman worked at Kingdon Capital Management and Goldman Sachs.

Silverman’s appointment comes as Northleaf seeks to put over $2 billion over newly raised funds to work between its infrastructure and private credit funds, each of which closed recently. Toronto-based Northleaf manages more than $17 billion in private equity, private credit and infrastructure.