HCAP Partners promoted Jessica Kim and Ben Consoli to vice president and hired Chenjing Wang as senior associate, all within its investment team. As HCAP expands its impact in 2024 and beyond, these new appointments’ collective passion and expertise will be invaluable to the firm’s success.
“We’re thrilled to have Jessica, Ben and Chenjing at HCAP,” Tim Bubnack, managing partner at HCAP, said. “We know that people are a company’s greatest asset, which is why we prioritize job quality improvements at our portfolio companies. We are equally committed to nurturing internal talent at HCAP and supporting Jessica, Ben and Chenjing in their careers.”
In their roles, Kim, Consoli and Wang participate in the origination and analysis of new investment opportunities and are responsible for structuring, closing and monitoring debt and equity investments.
Kim originally joined HCAP as an Impact Capital Managers mosaic fellow. After completing the fellowship and her graduate studies, Kim joined HCAP’s investment team as a senior associate and was promoted to vice president. Kim currently serves as a board observer for Apprio, Arosa and ELB Learning. Prior to joining HCAP, Kim was with Morgan Stanley as a vice president overseeing credit analytics and regulatory capital methodologies for the wealth management lending portfolio. Before that, Kim was a banker at Emigrant Bank Fine Art Finance underwriting loans secured by art, wine, and other collectible assets. Prior to that, she was a senior vice president at Citigroup, where she had various roles in risk management. Kim holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Columbia University and an M.B.A. from the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business.
Prior to HCAP, Consoli spent five years with CVF Capital Partners, a middle market private equity fund focused on making control and non-control investments, where he gained deep knowledge of the business services, technology, manufacturing and healthcare sectors. Consoli currently serves as a board observer for PAX Health and is a member of Latinos in Finance, an organization dedicated to promoting the advancement of Latinos in the finance industry. A CFA charterholder, Consoli graduated with honors from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he majored in finance.
Wang joins HCAP with a background in credit and underwriting. Before joining HCAP, Wang was on the credit team at Morgan Stanley covering corporate and real estate lending transactions and fund-level equity investments. Wang began her career at a regional impact fund, where she supported deal execution and due diligence before moving to Santander Bank, where she led a team and worked on origination and portfolio management for several debt and equity deals. She is a loan committee member of Greater Newark Enterprises Corporation and a board member of Columbia Venture Community. Wang is currently completing an M.B.A. at Columbia Business School, where she is on the Dean’s Honor List and is a Private Equity Program fellow. Wang holds a Master of Arts (M.A.) from University of Southern California and a B.A. with high honors from China University of Political Science and Law.
