Boston, San Francisco, and London, December 31, 2024 – Spectrum Equity is thrilled to ring in the new year with a round of well-deserved team promotions.

Three members of our investment team have been promoted to the role of Principal: Emily Calkins, Kevan Olander, and Annaliesa Routh. Two additional members of our team have also been promoted – Chanel Andre to Director, Talent, and Johnathon Broekhuizen to Director of IT Services.

Emily Calkins to Principal

Emily joined Spectrum in August 2021 as a Vice President from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Since joining Spectrum, Emily has dedicated extraordinary energy and creativity to our origination efforts, developing substantive relationships with our future portfolio leaders, acting as a key member of our deal team, and creating value across the portfolio through her ongoing support of companies like SponsorUnited, Litmus, Presence and Prezi. Emily also plays a pivotal role mentoring members of our investment team, and fostering collaboration across our whole firm.

Kevan Olander to Principal

Kevan joined our San Francisco office in May 2020 as a Senior Associate and was subsequently promoted to Vice President in January 2021. Kevan hit the ground running early in his Spectrum tenure by stepping into active portfolio company work across ExamSoft, Teachers Pay Teachers and Headspace, where he demonstrated his much-relied-upon technical transaction execution skills. He has since expanded his impact across a range of new investments including Ease, and now Employee Navigator, as well as Rover and Otter.ai.

Annaliesa Routh to Principal

Annaliesa joined Spectrum in the summer of 2020 as an MBA intern, returning after graduation to become an indispensable member of our team. Upon her return, she has taken active board roles at RapidRatings, Tenstreet and Seamless. Annaliesa’s natural curiosity, analytical rigor, and exceptional rapport building with management teams has been particularly noteworthy on her transaction work. Beyond that, she’s a trusted advisor to her portfolio companies and a natural leader, lending her guidance and mentorship to our investment team.

Chanel Andre to Director, Internal Recruiting & Talent Management

Chanel joined Spectrum in September 2022 as a Senior Manager on our Talent Team, where she primarily focuses on Investment Team recruiting and professional development. During her tenure, Chanel has improved our internal processes, enabling the firm to scale Investment Team hiring, particularly across Associate, Analyst, and Intern positions. Beyond recruiting, she coordinates Investment Team onboarding, modeling and technical skills training, and performance review processes. Chanel brings professionalism and positive energy to her role at Spectrum as we continue to attract the best and brightest talent in our industry.

John Broekhuizen to Director of IT Services

John joined Spectrum in May 2023 as the Senior Manager on our IT Team. While at Spectrum, John has spearheaded many IT initiatives and network and security upgrades. In particular, he has continued to finetune our cybersecurity controls, upleveled our outsourced IT vendors and software providers, and improved the internal process for handling all of our computer, phone and connectivity needs.

About Spectrum Equity

Spectrum Equity is a leading growth equity firm providing capital and strategic support to innovative companies in the information economy. For over 30 years, the firm has partnered with exceptional entrepreneurs and management teams to build long-term value in market-leading internet-enabled software, data, and information services companies.

With offices in Boston, San Francisco, and London, the firm is investing its tenth fund with $2 billion in limited partner capital. Representative investments include Ancestry, Definitive Healthcare, GoodRx, Lucid Software, Origami Risk, RainKing, SurveyMonkey and Verafin. For more information, including a complete list of portfolio investments, visit our Portfolio page.