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With over fifteen years of investment and transaction experience, Mr. Kothari has spent his career analyzing, structuring, negotiating, monitoring and exiting a variety of transactions in the public and private markets. His broad experience as an investor, a financial advisor, and an entrepreneur, provides a unique perspective on investments and transactions. Mr. Kothari is a co-founder and Managing Director of Seneca Partners, a venture capital and merchant-banking firm. In addition to assisting companies with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and corporate finance activities, Seneca Partners manages Seneca Health Partners, a venture capital fund dedicated to emerging healthcare companies located throughout Middle America. Prior to founding Seneca Partners, Mr. Kothari was a Director at Beringea (formerly GMA Capital), a boutique investment-banking and venture capital firm. Mr. Kothari led numerous divestitures, recapitalizations, acquisitions and other strategic transactions for clients in the automotive, heavy truck, healthcare, technology and other industries. In addition, he co-managed the firm’s $70 million healthcare private equity fund, InvestCare Partners where he was responsible for identifying, evaluating, structuring and providing on-going development of investment opportunities for the fund. He represented InvestCare as a member of the Board of Directors or Board representative for several of the Fund’s investments. Mr. Kothari has also served as an Investment Officer for ProVen Private Equity in London, England, a venture capital affiliate of Beringea. Mr. Kothari began his investment career as a money manager, most prominently for Masco Corporation where he was responsible for a portfolio of $130 million in pension assets. He left Masco to found Cranbrook Capital Management, a $650 million money management firm, where he was Treasurer and Director of International Investing. Currently, Mr. Kothari serves on the Board of MSO Holdings, Inc. and a board observer of IEI Financial Services. Mr. Kothari is an active member of a variety of trade and community organizations, including the board of Michigan Venture Capital Association, and Chairman of Great Lakes Entrepreneurs Quest. He is also a Councilperson for the Village of Wolverine Lake, Michigan and has been an active member of the Civil Air Patrol, for 25 years, a volunteer auxiliary of the United States Air Force. Additionally, Mr. Kothari is an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Notre Dame at the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and recently chosen as one of Crain’s Detroit Business’s 40 Under 40 honorees for 2006.
Mr. Kothari, a Chartered Financial Analyst, earned both a Bachelors of Arts and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Michigan. | 