Meet our founder.

Nancy Vailakis is the principal of Ancram IRBD, a boutique capital formation and investor relations, marketing, and publicity support firm for the private funds industry. Focused primarily on private funds and deals in the private credit and private equity sectors, Nancy has over 18 years of alternative asset management industry experience as a business development, marketing, and investor relations professional, and over 20 years of experience in financial services overall.

Previously, she was a business development director at IQ-EQ, a vice president of investor relations at Cerberus Capital, and a sales and client relations specialist at BlueMountain Capital. She earned her Master of Business Administration from the New York University Stern School of Business and her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Binghamton University.

Nancy is engaged with many non-profit and professional organizations in New York. Additionally, she is a regular industry speaker and a contributing writer to industry publications like Emerging Manager Monthly.