Theresa Starnes

Theresa Starnes is a Senior Associate at Headlands Capital, where she focuses on the firm's secondary investment program and deal sourcing. She joined the firm in 2024 after serving as a Senior Associate on the secondary fund team at Industry Ventures, a venture capital firm with $7 billion in assets under management. Previously, Starnes worked as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Global Industrials Group at UBS, executing mergers and acquisitions, debt financings, and equity raises for industrial technology clients. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Operations Research and Information Engineering from Cornell University and is currently a CFA Level 2 candidate. Her investment background centers on executing complex secondary market transactions, with specialized expertise in both limited partner-led and general partner-led liquidity solutions across the venture capital and private equity asset classes.