Xponance

Tina Byles Williams is the CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Xponance and its parent firm, FIS Group. She founded the firm and oversees all portfolio construction and manager selection across the private equity and public markets platforms. Key-person risk is concentrated in her role, which is typical for a founder-led institutional asset manager of this size.

Xponance is the private equity fund-of-funds arm of FIS Group, a Philadelphia-based institutional investment manager. FIS Group also manages public equity and fixed-income strategies that apply a similar investment philosophy—identifying high-conviction emerging and diverse-owned asset managers. Together the two platforms serve institutional clients including public pensions, endowments, and foundations.

The firm's client base includes public pension funds, Taft-Hartley plans, corporate retirement funds, endowments, and foundations. Many of these institutions have explicit supplier-diversity or emerging-manager mandates that align with Xponance's core investment thesis. The firm's Philadelphia base gives it proximity to a dense institutional market in the US Northeast, though its client relationships extend nationally.

Through its parent, FIS Group, the firm offers liquid strategies in public equities and fixed income that complement the private equity fund-of-funds portfolios. Both platforms share a focus on diverse and emerging managers, making a combined mandate possible for institutions that want a unified approach to manager diversity across asset classes. Xponance itself remains concentrated on private equity.