Team
Partner Sherri Williams
Biography
Sherri is a Partner at Raine. She is Head of Investor Relations and Fundraising and a member of the Fund Management Committee. Sherri has over twenty-five years of raising capital from a variety of institutional investors for both funds and growth companies.
Prior to joining Raine, Sherri was a Principal at Montgomery & Co., a West Coast-based digital media and technology investment bank, and a senior member of the private placements team in the firm’s New York office. Prior to Montgomery, she was an Executive Director at JPMorgan and a senior member of the New York equity private placements team.
Prior to joining JPMorgan, Sherri was a Vice President at Rothschild in the private placements group, where she worked on a variety of debt, mezzanine, and equity private placements for domestic and European companies. She also worked with the M&A group on financial sponsor coverage and helped develop the firm’s first mezzanine co-investment fund.
Prior to Rothschild, Sherri was an Associate and Vice President at Credit Suisse First Boston in the Private Finance and Consumer Products groups.
Sherri holds a B.S. in International Economics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where she played on the Division I tennis team. She also holds an M.B.A. from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
Through 2025, Sherri served on the Board of Trustees of the Randall’s Island Park Alliance, one of New York City’s major parks with significant sports and recreation facilities, and on the Board of Directors of Maureen’s Haven, a homeless services organization serving communities in and around the Hamptons.
Sherri currently serves on the Board of Directors of Onrise, a company that provides mental health services to professional and college sports leagues, teams and players. Sherri is also an Advisory Board member for Athletes Invest, a non-profit organization providing training and mentoring around finance for Georgetown University student-athletes.