Deborah L. Bernstein, a partner at the private equity firm Aquiline Capital Partners, died on Friday in New York. She was 41.
The cause was cancer, Aquiline said in a statement.
“She made a lasting impact on the firm, including building our financial technology group and developing our talented team,†Aquiline, a New York firm that invests in financial services, said.
Ms. Bernstein began her career in the financial institutions group of Goldman Sachs after graduating summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1993, with a degree in economics. She received an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1997 before returning to Goldman that year in the principal investment area.
After a period at Thomas Weisel Capital Partners, Ms. Bernstein worked as a partner at Pequot Capital Management’s venture capital arm, which later became known as FirstMark Capital. She worked for Pequot in San Francisco and then New York before joining Aquiline in 2008.
Deborah Lisa Bernstein was born on July 1, 1971, in Washington, and was brought up in Atlanta. She was the daughter of Caroline Kresky and Michael Bernstein.
She is survived by her husband, David Steven Miller, the chief marketing officer at eFront, a financial software company, whom she married in 2002, and an infant son, Asher.
