"I do feel that as a female minority in our industry that I have an obligation to elevate women [and minorities] in all fields and industries,” said Suzanne Yoon, founder and managing partner at Chicago-based Kinzie Capital.
And Yoon said that it’s not just diversity in gender and race that she’s after in building her private-equity firm. It's also diversity in age, experience, ways of thinking. “I know that diversity produces good results,” she said.