“Several of you over the last few months have thanked me for coming to Israel - there is no country I’d rather be in other than the U.S. I feel blessed to be here today,” said Brendan Dillion at the opening of his remarks during the Israel Private Markets Summit. The Partner, Co-Head of Credit & Capital Markets, and Head of Capital Formation at Veritas Capital was giving a talk to a room of 500 guests on the intersection of government and technology.

“We had an epiphany in the 1990s about investing in government services,” he explained. “The characteristics we saw were that they were undercovered in private equity; there were long-term contracts of 5-7 years in nature, and they were sticky and hard to lose.” Today, the company invests across four main sectors: Aerospace Defense and National Security, Education, Sustainability and infrastructure, and Healthcare. READ MORE