
Our Team
The Emona Capital team consists of senior professionals with complementary skills and proven international track records, having invested over $2 billion over the last two decades.
We bring to bear decades of professional experience with blue-chip private equity funds, hedge funds as well as advisory firms (General Atlantic, Insight Partners, Warburg Pincus, Elliott, Och-Ziff, McKinsey and Merrill Lynch).
In addition, members of our Gaming Advisory Board offer unique operational and strategic insights, building on decades of distinguished executive and advisory careers.

Managing Partner
Dominik Dolenec
Dominik has over 25 years of investment and advisory experience. Prior to founding Emona Capital in 2013, Dominik was an associate portfolio manager with Elliott Advisors in London, a global special situation hedge fund with $70bn of AUM. Earlier in his career he worked at Insight Partners, General Atlantic Partners and McKinsey & Company.
Dominik holds an MBA from INSEAD and graduated summa cum laude from the Management and Technology Programme at the University of Pennsylvania.

General Counsel
John Van de North
John brings nearly 30 years of experience in private practice at Kirkland, Sidley and O'Melveny where he advised private equity sponsors and venture capital firms in connection with transactions and capital raising efforts throughout Europe and North America.
John attended the University of Notre Dame (B.S., biology, 1992) and the University of Iowa College of Law.

Partner
Michael Moriarty
Prior to joining Emona, Michael was an associate at Warburg Pincus in London where he worked across financial services, consumer, energy, TMT and healthcare teams. He started his career in the leveraged finance group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Michael holds a BSc (Econ) from the London School of Economics.
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Senior Associate
Mike Palan
Prior to joining Emona, Mike was an associate at McKinsey & Company where he focused on private capital transactions within TMT and previously was part of the franchise strategy group at Warner Bros. Entertainment.
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Mike holds an MBA from INSEAD and MSc from the London School of Economics and BA from Queen Mary, University of London.
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