Established private equity investor with 28 years experience in growth-orientated middle market investments. I have spent my entire career in the field of finance, starting first as a corporate lender and then progressing to private equity investing. Since April of 1994, I have been active in all aspects of private equity investing including investment origination and evaluation, transaction execution and portfolio company management. My investment efforts have been focused on industrial manufacturing and value-added distribution companies where I have participated in over 45 transactions with total transaction values of almost $4.0 billion. Working at the Board of Directors level, I have