Mr. Pratcher is a Senior Managing Director responsible for strategic initiatives at Artemis. He joined Artemis in August of 2023 and is based in New York City. Mr. Pratcher has over 18 years’ experience in the alternative investments industry and works with other senior executives to establish and manage the firm’s strategic direction, as well as leading fundraising and investing efforts.

Prior to Artemis, Mr. Pratcher was part of the leadership team that purchased and restructured Organix Recycling. The business is a leading provider of end-to-end sustainable waste management solutions. The team successfully restructured the business and ultimately exited it via a sale to a fund managed by a large publicly traded private equity firm.

Prior to acquiring the business, Mr. Pratcher spent two years (2017-2019) as the Co-Head of Investments at the asset management arm of the largest multi-family office based in the Middle East. He led the restructuring and institutionalization of the business, while overseeing investment teams based in New York, London, and Hong Kong.

Prior to joining the multi-family office, Mr. Pratcher spent 10 years (2007-2017) in senior leadership roles at the New York State Common Retirement Fund (the “CRF”), the third largest pension fund in the country. Mr. Pratcher spent his final five years at CRF as the Director of Opportunistic Investments (“Opportunistic”) and the Director of Absolute Return Strategies (“ARS”). The portfolios had a combined value of approximately $8 billion. As the head of Opportunistic, Mr. Pratcher led investments in several new strategies and teams, including leading the first scale seeding of an asset management firm in the history of the CRF.

Before taking over the Opportunistic and ARS portfolios, Mr. Pratcher spent five years creating the CRF’s Emerging Manager Program (“CRF EM Program”), which focused on investments with smaller and newer managers in private equity, real estate, private credit, and hedge funds. Mr. Pratcher and his team led the growth of the program from $400 million to the largest (at the time) in the country with over $8 billion and seeded some of the most successful MWBE firms in the nation. Mr. Pratcher was inducted into the National Association of Securities Professionals Hall of Fame (NY Chapter) for his work. Additionally, the CRF’s EM Program was voted by LPs and GPs as the Most Innovative Emerging Manager Program of the last decade at the RG Associates 10th Annual Conference.

From 2003 until 2006, Mr. Pratcher served as the Deputy State Director for then U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Immediately preceding his time on Senator Clinton’s staff, Mr. Pratcher spent three years (2000-2003) as an associate in the New York City and Menlo Park, CA, offices of the law firm Davis, Polk & Wardwell. His practice focused on private equity and mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Pratcher earned a B.A. from Hampton University in 1997 and a J.D. from Columbia University in 2000. He is the co-founder of the Harlem Jets, a not-for-profit after school program that serves over 400 children in Harlem and the South Bronx. Mr. Pratcher currently serves as an Independent Director at Finance of America Companies (NYSE: FOA) and the FS Credit Income Fund.