Tom Angell

Principal

Rothstein Kass

Tom Angell is the principal-in-charge of Rothstein Kass’ national Commercial Services Group and its Private Equity practice, and he is a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee.

Tom has extensive experience with both public and private companies, including advising private equity funds and investment advisors on all aspects of private equity transactions, such as raising financing, deal origination and structuring. He has over 25 years of experience providing audit, tax and consulting services to middle market businesses in the manufacturing, distribution, and service industries. Additionally, Tom specializes in organizational structure, operational issues and mergers and acquisitions for middle market businesses.

Tom is a certified public accountant and he is a member of the New Jersey, New York, and Virginia Societies of Certified Public Accountants as well as the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Rutgers College and a Master of Business Administration degree in Information Systems from the Rutgers Graduate School of Management.

His activities outside the Firm include membership in and serving as a former chair of the AICPA Large Firm networking group. Tom also serves as a treasurer to the Drumthwacket Foundation in New Jersey.

Eric Beckman

Partner

Ares Capital Management

Mr. Beckman joined Ares in 1998 and serves as a Partner in the Private Debt Group. In addition, Mr. Beckman serves as an Investment Committee member of Ares Capital Management LLC. Prior to joining the Private Debt Group, Mr. Beckman served as a Partner in the Private Equity Group, and as a Principal in the effort focusing on mezzanine and special situation investments. While at Ares, he has had responsibility for originating, structuring and managing investments in senior loans, mezzanine debt, private equity and distressed securities across a number of industries. Mr. Beckman joined Ares from Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he specialized in leveraged loan and high yield bond financings. While at Goldman Sachs, he was also involved in raising and managing the West Street Bridge Loan Fund, and in certain restructuring advisory and distressed lending activities. Earlier in his career he worked in the Office of the Mayor and for the City Council of New York. Mr. Beckman is the chair of the Los Angeles Advisory Committee and a member of the national Board of Directors of the Posse Foundation, a college access program for inner city youth. He graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Political Theory and Economics from Cornell University, and received his JD from the Yale Law School where he was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Jennifer Bellah Maguire

Partner

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P

Jennifer Bellah Maguire is a Partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Los Angeles office.   She holds a bachelor of arts from Bryn Mawr College, magna cum laude, and was awarded a Watson Foundation Fellowship following college.  Ms. Bellah Maguire received her JD from Boalt Hall, University of California, where she was a member of  Order of the Coif and Law Review.  Ms. Bellah Maguire's practice areas emphasize private equity, mergers and acquisitions and restructurings. Ms. Bellah Maguire's recent representative experience includes the following:

• Represented Power-One, Inc. in a 2009 PIPE investment by Silverlake Sumeru and related debt restructuring

• Represented Leonard Green & Partners in forming Green Equity Investors V, its most recent $5.3 billion leveraged buyout fund

• Represented Green Equity Investors V in various minority investments

• Represented SPARTA in its 2008 going-private acquisition by Cobham

• Represented USRG in the formation of USRG Power & Biofuels Fund II, LP, a clean tech fund with commitments of $475 million

• Represented GI Partners Fund II in forming a private equity buyout fund with commitments of $1.4 billion

• Represented the management of MGM in connection with its going private acquisition by a Sony and a consortium of private equity funds

• Represented Wedbush Capital Partners in forming a private equity buyout fund with commitments of $120 million

• Represented Global Innovation Partners in connection with the contribution of a portfolio of assets to and the IPO of Digital Realty Trust, Inc., a REIT

Ms. Bellah Maguire is a member of the Board of Directors of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Los Angeles and a founding member of the board of the Los Angeles Ballet.

Mike Bingle

Managing Director

Silver Lake

Mike Bingle joined Silver Lake in 2000 and is a Managing Director. He has significant experience in private equity investing, financial engineering, and large-scale mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Silver Lake, Mr. Bingle was a principal at Apollo Advisors, L.P., where he evaluated, structured, executed, and harvested a wide variety of private equity investments. He previously worked as an investment banker in the Leveraged Finance Group of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Mr. Bingle serves on the boards of Gartner, Inc., IPC Systems, Inc. and on the board of Visitors of the Duke University School of Engineering. Previously Mr. Bingle was a director of Ameritrade Holding Corp., Datek Online Holdings, Inc. and Instinet, Inc. He holds a B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University. While at Duke, Mr. Bingle completed a two-year fellowship for the National Science Foundation, the purpose of which was to develop new ultrasound technology for medical imaging.

John Dominguez

Partner

SVB Capital

John Dominguez is a partner with SVB Capital, where he focuses on later-stage private equity, growth capital and buyout sector fund investments.  Dominguez has more than ten years of private equity investment experience and has served on numerous private equity fund advisory boards focused on the U.S., European and Asian markets.

Prior to joining SVB Capital in 2007, Dominguez was manager of the Private Equity Group at Hall Capital Management LLC, covering venture capital, private equity and leveraged buyout investments. Previously, Dominguez was a founding principal and managing director of PrivateTrade Inc. and the Director of Alternative Investments for the Public Employees' Retirement Association (PERA) of Colorado.

Dominguez earned a bachelor's degree in finance and a MBA from the University of Colorado.

Brett Fisher
Managing Director
Fisher Lynch Capital

Brett Fisher is a co-founder and Managing Director of Fisher Lynch Capital.  Fisher Lynch Capital, with offices in Silicon Valley and Boston, manages private equity funds-of-funds as well as co-investment funds.  The firm manages over $850 million on behalf of leading endowments, foundations, and pension funds as well as prominent individual investors and family offices.

Prior to Fisher Lynch, Mr. Fisher was a Senior Vice President of GIC Special Investments, the private equity arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation.  Mr. Fisher led the group’s investments in U.S. private equity funds and co-investments. 

Before joining GIC, Mr. Fisher was a Director of Corporate Development for AirTouch Communications, one of the world’s largest wireless telecommunications companies, and was a Vice President with Genstar Investment Corporation, a leveraged buyout firm.  Mr. Fisher began his career with Marakon Associates, a management consulting firm. 

Mr. Fisher earned his M.B.A. at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics at Yale University. 

Stephen A. Kaplan

Principal

Oaktree Capital Management, L.P.

Mr. Kaplan is a founder of Oaktree and the worldwide head of the Principal Group.  The Principal Group manages over $10.2 billion in capital in control and significant minority positions.  He joined Oaktree in 1995, having previously served as a managing director of TCW and portfolio manager of TCW Special Credits Fund V - The Principal Fund.  Prior to joining TCW in 1993, Mr. Kaplan was a partner with the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and responsible for the firm's East Coast bankruptcy and workout practice.  During his career as an attorney, Mr. Kaplan specialized in transactions involving the purchase and sale of companies undergoing financial restructurings.  He received a BS in political science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a JD from the New York University School of Law.

Mark Lanigan

Managing Director

Black Canyon Capital

Mark Lanigan is a Managing Director of Black Canyon. Prior to founding Black Canyon, Mr. Lanigan was the Co-Head of the Los Angeles Investment Banking Department of Credit Suisse First Boston and a member of the Investment Banking Executive Board. Prior to CSFB, Mr. Lanigan was the Head of the Los Angeles office of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Mr. Lanigan started his investment banking career in the Beverly Hills office of Drexel Burnham Lambert.

Throughout his investment banking career, Mr. Lanigan provided corporate finance and advisory services to a broad range of industries, with an emphasis on negotiating, structuring and financing leveraged acquisitions, recapitalizations, restructurings and mergers on behalf of private equity firms and their portfolio companies.

Mr. Lanigan currently serves on the Board of Directors of Malibu Boats and Virgin America Mr. Lanigan graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a major in Economics from Colgate University, received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

James Loss

Partner

Bingham McCutchen LLP

Jim Loss is co-leader of Bingham McCutchen’s Private Equity Practice Group. He has more than 25 years’ experience in mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and other private equity transactions. He also has substantial experience in venture capital financings and public offerings and private placements and has served as outside corporate counsel to a wide range of public and private middle market companies in Southern California. Jim represents a number of California based private equity funds in both acquiring and selling portfolio companies.

After graduating from law school in 1980, Jim studied law in Germany under a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service from 1980 to 1981, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Malcolm M. Lucas, United States District Judge for the Central District of California, from 1981 to 1983. Jim joined the Los Angeles-based law firm of Riordan & McKinzie in 1983 and became a partner in 1988. Riordan & McKinzie merged with Bingham McCutchen in 2003. Jim is currently Managing Partner of the firm’s Orange County office. Jim is a graduate of Princeton University (A.B. cum laude, 1976) and Yale Law School.

Douglas Meltzer
Managing Director
PCG Capital Partners

Douglas Meltzer, Managing Member, co-manages PCG Capital Partners, including its Corporate Partners Funds and Co-Investment activities.  Prior to this, Mr. Meltzer was a Principal at The Blackstone Group where he was involved in sourcing, executing, and managing private equity investments in a broad range of industries. Before that, Mr. Meltzer had similar responsibilities as a Vice President, Associate and Analyst at DLJ Merchant Banking Partners.  Mr. Meltzer also had an operating role as the Director of Strategic Development at EZ Buy, EZ Sell Recycler Inc, a portfolio company of DLJ Merchant Banking Partners.   Mr. Meltzer has served on the Board of Directors of numerous private companies and currently sits on the Board of CMS Holdings Group, LLC (a foreclosure processing company) and Lincoln Pulp and Tissue.  Mr. Meltzer led PCG’s investments in AECOM (NYSE: ACM), an engineering firm, Ocwen Structured Investments and Nalco Holding  (NYSE: NLC). Mr. Meltzer received his BA from Cornell University and his MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. 

Mary Milliken
West Coast Bureau Chief
Thomson Reuters

Mary Milliken is West Coast Bureau Chief for Reuters News, responsible for multimedia news coverage from Alaska, down to California and over to Texas. The 45-member news team specializes in coverage of technology, climate change, clean-tech and alternative energy, entertainment, retail and leisure sectors. Prior to her current post in Los Angeles, she managed Reuters news teams in Brazil and Argentina for 10 years, specializing in emerging market debt and macroeconomics and regional politics. The previous 10 years she worked in Spain and Portugal as a reporter for the Associated Press and Dow Jones. She is bilingual English-Spanish and fluent in Portuguese and a graduate of the Indiana University School of Journalism in Bloomington, Indiana. A native of Wilmette, Illinois, she began her foreign work experience in high school, working summers on public health projects in Latin America.

Paul Newsome

Executive Director

Unigestion (US), Ltd

Paul Newsome is an Executive Director, head of Unigestion's private equity investment team responsible for investment research, due diligence and fund monitoring globally. He is based in Unigestion's New York office. Before joining in 2002, he worked at BancBoston Capital as an investment officer, making and managing venture capital investments in Europe. Earlier in his career, he was a finance manager at Procter & Gamble. Mr Newsome holds a first class Masters degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford University and is a Chartered Management Accountant.

C.N. Franklin Reddick III

Partner

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Frank Reddick co-heads Akin Gump's firmwide corporate practice and is a member of the firm’s management committee and policy and planning committee. Mr. Reddick has over 25 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and public company representations. He represents strategic and financial buyers and sellers in public and private M&A transactions. He also represents issuers and institutional investors in public and private debt and equity offerings, restructurings and other financing transactions and advises public companies on securities, corporate governance and other corporate matters. 

Mr. Reddick has been involved in transactions for a broad range of businesses, including businesses in the apparel, engineering services, food processing, health care, hospitality and gaming, mortgage servicing, motion picture, outdoor advertising, radio broadcasting, retail, sub-prime mortgage lending, television broadcast and cable and video game industries.

Mr. Reddick’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, public and private securities offerings (equity and debt), Rule 144A bond transactions, senior and mezzanine debt facilities and corporate governance and crisis management representations (including special board committee engagements). He has extensive experience in handling venture, mezzanine and other private financings; compliance with '34 Act reporting requirements; and other complex corporate transactions.

Recent representations include:

• a national radio broadcast and outdoor advertising company listed on the NYSE in a leveraged buy out transaction with an enterprise value of $24 billion
• a retail distribution company in its $450 million sale to a consortium of private equity buyers
• a major motion picture studio in a $2 billion off-balance-sheet Rule 144A debt financing
• a major motion picture studio in a $400 million off-balance-sheet financing transaction to fund the purchase and exploitation of international film rights

Mr. Reddick received his B.A. with high honors and great distinction from California State University at San Jose in 1977 and his J.D. in 1980 from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he was a member of Order of the Coif.

Mark Rosenbaum

Partner

Aurora Capital

Mr. Rosenbaum is a partner of Aurora Capital Group and serves on the Board of Directors of several of Aurora’s investments.  Previously, Mr. Rosenbaum was an associate at Summit Partners, where he focused on investments in middle market growth companies.  Prior to that he was an analyst at Montgomery Securities.

Mr. Rosenbaum graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.  He earned a Master’s of Business Administration from the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA where he was a Carter Fellow.

Elliot Royce

Partner

Alpinvest Partners

Elliot joined AlpInvest Partners in 2007 from Allianz Private Equity Partners where he led the US investment activities and was a member of the global investment and management committees since 2002. Previously, Elliot worked at GE Equity, the private equity arm of General Electric, where his experience included both fund investing and leading teams investing directly in venture capital, growth equity and LBO deals in both the US and Europe. Previous professional experience includes strategic consulting with McKinsey in Europe, corporate finance/M&A with Dillon Read and CSFB in both the US and Europe, and emerging markets investing with Aberdeen, Inc. He currently represents AlpInvest on numerous advisory boards.

Elliot received an AB in Government magna cum laude from Harvard College and an MBA with distinction from INSEAD.

Raul Sotomayor

Partner

Southern Cross Group

He holds a degree both in Economics and Business Administration from the Universidad Católica de Chile, where he then taught Corporate Finance.  He began his career as an associate of Fintec (a private investment fund in Chile), where he executed the acquisition of minority stakes in several corporations.

After graduation from his MBA at UCLA in 1991, Mr. Sotomayor worked as a Development Manager for Grupo Elecmetal (a leading group in Chile, with controlling interests in media, shipping and industrial companies). He participated in the successful turnaround of several business of the group, additionally Mr. Sotomayor executed the acquisition and integration of several cable properties in Chile.

Mr. Sotomayor joined the San Francisco office of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in 1995, and was later transferred to the Buenos Aires office. At BCG he participated in strategic and operational projects for leading firms operating in industries such as, energy, financial services, oil, telecommunications, retail and distribution.

In 1998, Mr. Sotomayor joined Southern Cross Group as partner, the year that it was founded.

He was Director of  the Board of Directors of Editorial Universitaria.

Actually he is Director of the Board of Directors  in the following companies:

La Polar, Quintec, Telmex, Gas Atacama, also he is member of the board of Endeavor and Acafi.

Robert V. Stefanowski

Chairman and Managing Partner, 3i North America, 3i Asia

3i Group plc

Bob Stefanowski is a senior financial executive with 25 years experience in all aspects of Corporate Finance and Private Equity.  He is currently the Chairman and Managing Partner of 3i North America, Chairman and Managing Partner of 3i Asia and the head of 3i’s Global Financial Services practice.  In these roles, he is responsible for over $4.0 billion in assets under management including a $1.0 billion US private equity portfolio, $1.0 billion in Asia buyout and growth capital assets, a $1.2 billion Indian Infrastructure Fund and $800 million in venture capital investments.  Bob has overall responsibility for 3i’s Asia and US operations, including developing an investment strategy, managing a team of deal professionals, identifying and executing on investments and raising capital to support the growth ambitions of the business.   In addition, Bob serves on the Global Management Committee of 3i, plc headquartered in London, UK, an international leader in private equity focusing on Buyouts, Growth Capital, Infrastructure and Quoted Private Equity across Europe, Asia and North America.  Bob is Chairman of the Board of 3i North America and a board member of 3i Investments Corporation.

Bob came to 3i from General Electric where he was President and CEO of GE Corporate Finance Europe. As CEO, Bob managed $45 billion in assets, over 2,500 employees and $600mm in annual net income. During his 14 year career at GE he held positions of increasing responsibility that included President and CEO of GE Media and Communications Finance as well as roles in M&A, Finance and Sales. Prior to GE, he spent five years in public accounting with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, was a Litigation consultant with Freeman & Mills and a Managing Director for a Fortune 500 services firm.

Bob is a graduate of Fairfield University, Cornell University's Johnson School of Management, and is a UPENN/Wharton Fellow. He also serves as an adjunct faculty to NYU Stern School of Business and the London Business School. His first book "Making M&A Deals Happen" was published in February 2007. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Cardinal Sheehan Center in Bridgeport, Ct, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK. Bob is an avid runner and recently completed the London and New York Marathons.

Jeffrey Stevenson

Managing Partner and Co-Chief Executive Officer

Vernis Suhler Stevenson Partners

Jeffrey T. Stevenson is the Managing Partner and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a private equity fund with $2.5 billion of capital under management. VSS manages equity and Structured Capital funds dedicated to companies engaged in the media, communications and information industries. He joined the Firm in 1982 shortly after its formation and has been the head of its private equity business since its first investment in 1989. Mr. Stevenson serves as the President of each of the Equity Funds, approves all capital commitments, and directs the investment activities of the Equity Funds. Previously, Mr. Stevenson was Executive Vice President in charge of corporate finance at VSS, a department he
founded.

Mr. Stevenson currently serves as a Director of Brand Connections, Vault, TRANZACT, SureSource, Advanstar Communications, Cambium Learning, Medizine, Market Strategies, Southern Theatres, Infobase, ITN Networks, TMP Worldwide, User-Friendly, Xtreme Information, and Access Intelligence. Previously, he served as a Director of The Official Information Company, Centaur Communications, Birch Telecom, ITE Group, Pepcom, Yellow Book USA, Rifkin Acquisition Partners, Triax Midwest Associates, Broadcasting Partners Holdings, Spectrum Resources Towers, PJS Publications, Kansas Broadcasting Systems, B&B Merger Corporation, Cable Management Ireland, International Media Partners, Hughes Broadcasting Partners, Triax Southeast Associates, Canon Communications, Hanley Wood, De Telefoongids, Mediatel and Broadcasting Partners.

Mr. Stevenson holds a BA from Rutgers College.

Kelvin Thompson
Managing Partner
MontaRosa LLC

Prior to founding MontaRosa in 2008, Kelvin was a senior partner for over eight years with the international executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles. During his tenure there he was most recently the global managing partner for the Private Equity, Venture Capital & Alternative Financing Practice. He also held several leadership positions, including global head of the Chief Information Officer/Chief Technology Officer Practice, chief innovation leader, chief strategy & development officer and chief marketing officer.

Prior to that Kelvin worked for Norman Broadbent International, where he was president of U.S. operations and chairman of its global New Media, Entertainment and Technology Practice.

Having worked as a leadership consultant on nearly every continent around the globe, Kelvin is a regular speaker and panel leader at international conferences and seminars on such topics such as human capital, global growth and innovation, and hiring of new thinkers. He has helped grow client companies by leading them through provocative and innovative strategizing exercises.

He has more than 20 years of experience working for clients in Europe, the United States and Asia. He has also held non-executive and advisory roles for both U.S. and European firms.

Kelvin holds a bachelor’s degree with honors from London University.

Steven Yager

Senior Managing Director, M&A

The Gores Group, LLC

Mr. Yager is a member of The Gores Group’s investment committee and is responsible for originating and structuring transactions, and overseeing portfolio company exits. Mr. Yager originally joined Gores in 1985, where he helped to build and sell the original Gores business.  He served as General Manager of that business for several years, and also held high level sales, marketing and general management positions.  Mr. Yager rejoined Gores in 1997 to serve as CEO and President of Artemis International Solutions (acquired by Gores) until 2002. At Artemis, he led a turnaround and restructuring initiative and was responsible for the acquisition of Software Productivity Research, Inc. as well as the sale of Artemis to Proha Oyj, a publicly-traded Finnish software company. He was subsequently responsible for the reverse merger of Artemis into Opus360 and served as Chairman and CEO of the publicly traded company. Mr. Yager also served as interim CEO of Aonix during the same time frame, and was responsible for the restructuring of that company. Since 2002, Mr. Yager has been primarily responsible for more than 25 transactions, including acquisitions, mergers and divestitures. Mr. Yager serves on the Boards of Directors of Siemens Enterprise Communications, Lineage, Vincotech and Sagem Communications. Mr. Yager earned a B.A. in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Michigan.