‍Peter Kopacz joined Maybern earlier this year as an Implementation Manager, bringing more than a decade of experience in private markets at the intersection of investment operations, technology, and data. Before joining Maybern, he served as a Product Onboarding Manager at Juniper Square, where he led dozens of enterprise-scale implementations across private equity, real estate, and venture capital.

After years of witnessing how painful fund accounting becomes when technology isn’t pulling its weight, Peter wanted to help build the solution at Maybern. In his previous roles, he saw first hand how fund accountants needed to dig through prior administrators’ files, double-check every number, and reconcile data across a maze of spreadsheets. Delays and last-minute fire drills were the norm. Watching talented people spend their days battling broken processes convinced him that something needed to change.

What brought you to Maybern?

Peter: Maybern stood out because the company runs toward the hardest problems in fund operations, and brings real technology to solve them. Other tools have tried to stitch together pieces of the puzzle, often relying on more people behind the scenes to fill the gaps. Maybern is different. 

We are building a technical foundation that connects everything end-to-end and finally gives CFOs clarity and capability they have never had before. The chance to help create a true Performance Book of Record with a team that thrives on solving the “unsolvable” is what brought me here.

What common themes do you hear when speaking with fund CFOs about their operations?

Peter: Across my work in private markets, from private equity research to implementation roles at Juniper Square and Maybern, the biggest theme has always been data. Fund managers struggle to maintain data integrity, keep consistent access controls, and ensure teams work from a unified source of truth.

As firms add more systems to modernize their operations, the complexity can grow. Every tool requires transparent data flows and constant quality checks. CFOs worry that even modern data warehouses or BI tools will not deliver value if the underlying data creation processes and calculations remain unchanged.

Fund managers and CFOs are navigating increasingly complex data structures as they adopt new systems and software to streamline operations. This is where Maybern provides a different path. Every number that flows into downstream tools is calculated and governed by Maybern. It removes the constant cycle of reconciliation and revalidation each time someone runs a report. CFOs finally get to focus on analyzing their data, not defending it.

What’s the most complex fund structure or scenario you’ve ever worked on, and what made it challenging?

Peter: One of the most challenging scenarios we are working on involves a client with highly specialized economics. Each investment has its own fee structure, its own waterfall, and its own set of side letter terms layered on top. Historically, firms would manage this with dozens of independent spreadsheets that inevitably drift out of sync over time.

Instead, Maybern is taking a different approach by building a new configuration layer that captures all of these rules in a reusable, scalable way, not a custom-coded one-off. We break the structure down into flexible components that can support future funds and future clients. The result is less risk, more transparency, and an implementation that scales with complexity instead of collapsing under it.

As a leader on our Implementation team, how do you work with Maybern’s engineers to ensure the software meets our users needs?

Peter: The implementation team is the first to use new features in real scenarios, which makes us the earliest and heaviest users of the product. We test new functionality in the same screens and workflows our customers use, which gives us direct insight into what works well and what needs refinement.

This allows us to give rapid, concrete feedback to Engineering. When we identify unexpected behaviors or design friction, we can communicate that quickly with full context from real customer work. Tight collaboration ensures that the product evolves with actual user workflows in mind and that every release solves problems clients care about.

What's most rewarding about helping funds transform their operations?

Peter: It is rewarding to hear how excited fund operations teams are to adopt Maybern because they understand how much it can simplify their daily work. This excitement doesn't come just from those who live in spreadsheets every day and know how much time is being lost to manual processes, but also from CFOs and executive leadership who recognize the transformative value across the business. 

Many of these teams are eager to hand over their most complex Excel files and fund mechanics because they know Maybern will systematize them entirely. For instance, one fund manager overseeing a particularly complex structure asked to expand their contract before we had even completed the original implementation, knowing that moving her funds on to Maybern would automate and streamline so much of that work, and allow her team to focus on higher-value objectives.