Monica Davis serves as an Operating Partner for New Catalyst. She and the New Catalyst team partner with GPs on business building and capital formation.

Monica is Founder and Managing Partner of MFD Advisory, a boutique consulting and advisory practice providing outsourced private equity investor relations solutions. Monica is responsible for all aspects of managing the firm and has ~17 years of private equity investor relations experience, including in-house leadership roles in product management, capital raising, and business development functions. In 2019, she was one of six private equity fundraising executives recognized on the Wall Street Journal’s Women to Watch list, an annual recognition of women’s work in the private equity industry. Prior to founding MFD Advisory in 2023, Monica led Vista Equity Partners’ investor relations and capital raising efforts in the Southeast & Mid-Atlantic U.S. out of Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Vista in 2021, Monica spent ~14 years in various PE capital formation roles in New York City, including two years with L Catterton, over seven years with KKR, and over four years with Merrill Lynch’s Private Equity Funds team and its subsequent spin-out company, Mercury Capital Advisors.

Monica holds MBAs from both Columbia Business School and London Business School, having completed a dual-degree program with coursework in New York, London, Dubai, Hong Kong, and Mumbai. Monica holds a BBA in Finance (summa cum laude) from Howard University. She is a board member of College Bound, Inc. and currently resides in Washington, D.C.

Senior Advisors and Operating Partners are third-party consultants that provide services to New Catalyst and portfolio companies of New Catalyst, and are not employed by New Catalyst or its affiliates.  Compensation is indirectly borne by investors and does not offset any management fee.