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Area of Focus: Partnership Investing Profile: Joined Mesirow Financial in June 2004 as senior managing director of Private Equity Head of Mesirow Financial's Private Equity division More than 14 years of experience and a multitude of top-tier private equity relationships in the U.S. and Europe Previously a partner with Adams Street Partners, where, for more than 11 years, he was active in all aspects of the firm's private equity partnership investment activities Prior to Adams Street, served as program manager of private investments for the IBM Pension Fund, working on U.S. and European private equity investments Accomplishments: Throughout career has participated in the approval of investment commitments to more than 300 LBO, venture capital and mezzanine private equity partnerships in the U.S. and Europe Has built many important relationships with premier private equity managers in the U.S. and Europe Served as a member of the investor advisory boards of 12 private equity investment firms Frequent speaker at private equity industry conferences and panel discussions Frequently quoted in private equity trade publications Education: B.A., Queens College M.B.A, Cornell University, Johnson Graduate School of Management Affiliations: Cornell University Private Equity Subcommittee, member on behalf of the Cornell University endowment The Executives' Club of Chicago, member National Venture Capital Association, member Illinois Venture Capital Associations, member. | 