Patrick McGowan is a Managing Director, serving as the Head of Manager Research and Head of Alternative Investments at Sanctuary Wealth. In his current position, he spearheads a team that is responsible for developing Sanctuary Investment Research efforts, including overseeing the Sanctuary Investment Research Focus List, and all Alternative Investment activities, including the firm's private equity, private credit, real asset, and hedge fund investing strategies.
Mr. McGowan is a member of the Sanctuary Asset Management Investment Council, which plays a pivotal role in constructing the Firm's global economic and capital market views, providing invaluable global asset allocation guidance, and managing model allocations. Mr. McGowan also leads the Alternative Investment Committee. Before joining Sanctuary, Mr. McGowan held a senior leadership position at the GP-stakes firm Azimut Alternative Capital Partners (BIT: AZM), a Milan-based wealth manager, where he focused on strategic growth initiatives for the firm's investments in mid-market private markets GPs. Before that, he worked at Invesco Private Capital, a leading institutional PE and VC fund-of-funds, within the trillion-dollar asset manager, Invesco (NYSE: IVZ).
Prior to Invesco, Mr. McGowan worked at a Carlyle Group venture, formerly known as OC Private Capital, focused on strategic growth initiatives in private wealth for the $1 billion close-ended private credit interval fund (TAKIX). Prior to this role, Mr. McGowan had various roles at OppenheimerFunds, AI Insight, and Altegris Investments.
Mr. McGowan earned a Bachelor of Science from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. He holds FINRA Series 7 and 63 registrations.