BOSTON & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 14, 2026--
Partners Capital, a leading global investment firm with over $70B of assets under management* on behalf of endowments, foundations, family offices, and high net worth individuals, is delighted to announce seven promotions into its senior leadership team including three Partners and four Managing Directors.
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New Partners
John Beil, Sam Hufton, and Emmanuel Pitsilis have been promoted to Partner.
John joined Partners Capital in 2022 to lead the firm’s Private Equity and Real Estate strategy. Prior to Partners Capital, John was Managing Director of Private Equity at the University of California Investment Office. He has more than 20 years of experience across the investment space, including roles at IFC Asset Management Company, International Finance Corporation, and Citigroup. John is based in the San Francisco office.
Sam joined the firm in 2009 in the London office, before relocating to Boston. He is a senior member of the Client CIO team, partnering with several of the firm’s private and institutional clients in North America. Sam is based in the Boston office.
Emmanuel joined Partners Capital in 2021 to co-lead the Asia Pacific business. In 2025, Emmanuel was named Global Head of Partners Capital Alternative Asset Management (PCCAM), the firm’s alternative investment solutions for financial institutions and their clients. Emmanuel has close to 35 years of experience in scaling financial services and technology businesses as an entrepreneur and senior partner at McKinsey & Co. Emmanuel is based in the Singapore office.
New Managing Directors
These Managing Director appointments highlight the strength of talent across Partners Capital’s US and UK teams:
“These promotions reflect the outstanding accomplishments of these individuals and their meaningful contributions to our firm’s performance and culture,” said Arjun Raghavan, Chief Executive of Partners Capital. “At a pivotal moment in our global growth, their leadership strengthens our senior team and reinforces the values that underpin how we work together and partner with our clients.”
*As of September 30, 2025
Leadership Promotions
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday refused to declare that Democratic lawmakers who briefly fled the state in 2025 to block a vote on new congressional voting maps pushed by President Donald Trump had vacated their office.
The all-Republican court dealt a blow to Gov. Greg Abbott and state Republicans in their efforts to severely punish the more than 50 Democrats who bolted for New York, Illinois and Massachusetts in a bid to stop a vote on the maps during a special session. State Republicans had sought their arrest and threatened fines to bring them back to the state Capitol.
Abbott had argued in a lawsuit filed directly to the state’s highest civil court that state Rep. Gene Wu, the leader of the House Democratic caucus, and others had effectively abandoned their office.
Wu had argued that he was not abandoning his office in the quorum break, but was exercising a right to dissent.
In denying Abbott’s request, the court opinion written by Justice James Blacklock noted that the Republican-majority Legislature had adequately resolved the problem itself through measures such as fines against the missing lawmakers, and that they eventually returned on their own within a few weeks.
“In the end, a quorum was restored in two weeks’ time, without judicial intervention, by the interplay of political and practical forces,” Blacklock wrote.
“Courts have uniformly recognized that it is not their role to resolve disputes between the other two branches that those branches can resolve for themselves,” the opinion said.
If the issue rises again and the Legislature cannot effectively compel lawmakers to return, the court may someday consider whether the courts should step in, the opinion said.
“When Greg Abbott threatened to arrest and expel us for denying him a quorum, we told him he should ‘come and take it.’ He tried!” Wu said in a statement Friday. “Abbott was wrong, weak, and after all his bluster, he couldn’t come and take a damn thing.”
Wu and the other lawmakers eventually returned to Texas, and the new map was passed and signed into law by Abbott.
Wu had argued that because he had returned to the Capitol and the map was eventually signed into law, there was no longer any reason for the court to weigh in.
“Their return is robust proof that they never intended to abandon their offices,” Wu argued in legal briefs. “Despite the overheated rhetoric, this quorum break was always understood to be temporary.”
The Texas walkout intensified into a high-stakes national drama as Trump urged Texas and other GOP-controlled states to redraw their congressional districts to help Republicans maintain control of the U.S. House. The Texas map effort set off a wave of similar efforts across several states as governors from both parties pledged to redraw maps with the goal of giving their political candidates a leg up in the 2026 midterm elections.
FILE - Texas state Rep. Gene Wu speaks to the crowd before California Gov. Gavin Newsom during a rally with Harris County Democrats at the IBEW local 716 union hall on Nov. 8, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Karen Warren, File)
FILE - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Gabriela Passos, File)
