Pantheon Ventures has added three investment professionals to its PRESS RELEASE Leading private equity fund-of-funds investor, Pantheon, is building on its long-standing presence in Asia with three new high-calibre professionals for its primary investment team in Alex Wilmerding joins Pantheon at the end of September as a Principal from Citigroup Private Bank in Boston, where he spent two years as a director, following nine years as a partner at Boston Capital Ventures. Alex has extensive experience of working in Asia, having held positions with Fednav in Minjun Chung has joined as Associate, following two years as a research analyst at global consultancy firm McKinsey & Co. and two years with Samsung Corporation. Leah Liu joins Pantheon in September as Analyst from Lazard Freres in “Our Asian investment strategy has evolved to reflect the developments in Asian markets,” says Chris Meads, Partner at Pantheon's Pantheon has been active in private equity since 1982 and is one of the world's leading private equity fund-of-funds and secondaries managers, with $24 billion under management (as of 31 July 2008), a global team of 141 including 63 investment professionals, and offices in London, San Francisco, New York and Hong Kong. Pantheon develops and implements private equity investment strategies for over 250 global institutional investors; product and service offerings include regional funds-of-funds in the U.S., Europe and Asia, customised separate account programmes and global secondary funds. Pantheon also acts as manager to Pantheon International Participations PLC (“PIP”), the world's first quoted private equity fund-of-funds, launched in 1987 and listed on the London Stock Exchange. Pantheon is part of Russell Investments. For more information, go to www.pantheonventures.com. Russell Investments Russell Investments provides strategic advice, implementation services, performance benchmarks and a range of institutional investment products. With over $210 billion in assets under management (as of 30/06/08), Russell serves individual, institutional and advisor clients in more than 40 countries. Russell provides access to some of the world's leading money managers. It helps investors put this access to work in corporate defined benefit and defined contribution plans, and in the life savings of individual investors. For more information, go to www.russell.com.