Ranked #1 in the World
TPEC Forums Brochure
Learn More About Thunderbird
TPEC Executive Advisory Board
The TPEC Advisory Board was founded by the Thunderbird Global Private Equity Center (TPEC) is composed of approximately 15 representatives from corporations, governmental and non-governmental institutions and others who have a strong interest and professional background in global private equity. Leadership is composed of a Chairperson, Vice-Chairs and Ex-Officio Members (together forming the “Steering Committee”).
|
JIM ANDERSON '80 KURT GEIGER THOMAS GREER '73 |
SANJIV KAPUR '81 MARCEL MEYER JOSEPH QUINLAN AMIT RATANPAL JESSE REYES |
JIM ANDERSON '80
President
SVB Analytics
Jim Anderson is the former president of SVB Analytics, a wholly owned subsidiary of SVB Financial Group. SVB Analytics provides solutions to analytical problems that are specific to emerging growth technology, life science and venture capital companies. In that regard, SVB Analytics is rendering valuation opinions for clients to help them comply with IRC 409A and delivering capitalization management solutions through the firms controlling stake in eProsper, Inc.
Anderson joined Silicon Valley Bank in 1999 and has served in a variety of capacities, including founder, president and chief investment officer of SVB Asset Management, a non-bank affiliate of Silicon Valley Bank. He was also a founder and managing director of SVB Securities, Silicon Valley Bank's broker dealer subsidiary. These groups today represent total client assets in excess of $14 billion.
Anderson has more than 25 years experience in investment banking, asset management, and commercial banking, assisting clients with corporate finance strategies, valuations, M&A and investments, including 20 years in the technology and life science sectors.
Prior to joining Silicon Valley Bank, Anderson was managing director of technology investment banking for CIBC Oppenheimer where he was responsible for initiating the firm's entry into the technology sector in 1991. He has worked with a wide range of firms, including small development stage companies and multi-billion dollar investment grade corporations. In his early banking career, Anderson held several positions with Chase Manhattan Bank, including managing the West Africa Region for three years based in Dakar, Senegal. He also worked as a software engineer at Electronic Data Systems and served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Zaire.
Anderson earned a master's from the American Graduate School of International Management and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the State University of New York. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Anderson is a member of the Asset Liability Committee, which has responsibility for strategy and management of Silicon Valley Bank's $2 billion investment portfolio. He is the editor of the weekly newsletter, Investment Strategy Outlook, published by SVB Asset Management and is frequently asked to speak at industry-related events on the economy and financial matters for technology and life science companies.
MARC FRISHMAN ‘98
Partner, Conduit Capital
Marc Frishman is an Investment Manager for the Latin Power Funds. Marc joined the Latin Power team in 1998. Among notable Latin Power Fund investments, Mr. Frishman was instrumental in the successful Mexhidro investment which included the origination, development, financing, operations, and sale of three medium size hydroelectric plants in western Mexico. Mr. Frishman also originated and managed the Green Energy Libramiento portfolio investment which encompassed the development, financing, operations, and sale of a 65 kilometer natural gas pipeline in Queretaro, Mexico under long-term contract with Pemex Gas y Petroquimica Basica. Other significant transactions include infrastructure projects in Chile, Argentina, Peru, and Central America. Mr. Frishman holds a B.A. degree in History and International Marketing from Tulane University and an M.B.A. degree in International Finance from Thunderbird School of Global Management. Prior to his graduate studies, Mr. Frishman worked for a Mitsubishi Group company both originating and structuring new international business ventures in the automotive, aerospace, real estate and energy industries in the United States, Japan, Europe and Latin America. Mr. Frishman has lived in Mexico and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
DR. ALDO FOZZATI
Managing Director
Fozzati & Associates
1975, Ph.D. in Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering; 1976, Ph.D. in Civil and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnic of Turin. Former management positions with: Aeritalia; Fiat; General Motors; Varity; Delco Remy International. Since 1995, Member, Advisory Board, Citigroup Venture Capital, Citibank N.A. Member of the boards of several companies. Member: Advisory Board, Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management: Visiting Professor: China Europe International Business School, Shanghai; I.P.E. Istituto per ricerche et attività educative. Member, Financial Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce, Germany. China Cultural Foundation, New York. Founder, Fozzati Partners, international investment banking with focus on prIvate equity, deals origination.
KURT GEIGER
Chairman Emeritus, TPEC Advisory Board
Chairman, ALPHA Associates
Mr. Geiger has 30 years of international experience in Banking and an extensive track record in equity investments gained during a career in major international banking groups (Chase, Midland Montagu, HSBC, EBRD) with work experience in Frankfurt, London, Hong Kong, New York and Eastern Europe.
From 1993 onwards he worked with the EBRD, an IFI established to promote transition from centrally planned economies to market economies. He is Head of the Financial Institutions Group with a portfolio of €5 billion, and a main driver in building an effective and functioning financial services industry in Central and Eastern Europe. Under his leadership the EBRD invested in over 120 banks, insurance companies and pension funds in 27 countries and also was instrumental in building a private equity industry in the region where the Bank is a core investor in 90 equity funds. Mr. Geiger has been actively involved in many of these transactions and has an excellent reputation as a successful deal maker. He has overseen over 300 equity investments in the region over the past 12 years.
Previously he served as Managing Director with Midland Montagu/HSBC in London from 1989-1990, where he had regional management responsibilities for Europe and later MD International at Midland PLC. Before that, he spent 15 years with Chase Manhattan with postings in Europe, the United States and Asia. He covered many aspects of international finance in different markets with responsibility for large corporate relationships, project finance, corporate restructuring, turnaround, M & A and investment banking.
He served on many Boards such as Trinkaus and Burkhardt Germany, Pekao Poland, Budapest Bank, Hungary (Vice-Chairman of Board of Directors), all listed companies and equity funds such as Advent International and First NIS Russia (listed). Mr. Geiger has a Ph.D. in Law from Innsbruck University in Austria and a Post-Graduate Degree in International Finance from the College of Europe in Belgium. He is bi-lingual in English, German and speaks also Spanish and French. He is married with two daughters.
GARY GIBBONS
Academic Director
Thunderbird Global Private Equity Center
Gary Gibbons, Ph.D., visiting professor of entrepreneurship at Thunderbird School of Global Management, is an expert in investing and corporate finance with extensive experience in portfolio management, securities valuation, financial modeling, and financial planning and evaluation in entrepreneurial firms.
Dr. Gibbons is a Principal with The Coleridge Group, an Investment Advisory Firm in Phoenix, Arizona. He has accumulated a diverse range of experience, including his management at various times of stock portfolios for Physician’s Mutual Insurance Co., Home Federal Bank and the Painwebber Equity Trust; for the Baker and Kellogg families; in addition to numerous individuals in the sports and entertainment industries.
Additionally, Dr. Gibbons has managed fixed-income portfolios organizations including the Bank of Bermuda, the Agyros Foundation and Imperial Mortgage. His extensive corporate background includes work with Houlihan Lokey Howard and Zukin Investment Management Inc.; Uni-Net Inc.; Pacific Midwest Gas Co; Richmark Corp.; Century Technology and US Sports Co.
Among his other business-related activities, Dr. Gibbons has served as an expert witness or expert consultant in numerous legal proceedings. He has been engaged by well-known national and regional law firms, public agencies, and Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) trusts and their boards of trustees, as well as securities-brokerage firms and their clients. His legal engagements have been applied in support of specific tax or regulatory positions, in civil litigation and in support of arbitration or mediation proceedings. Dr. Gibbons earned his Ph.D. in business administration – with emphasis in strategy and finance – at Claremont Graduate School of the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management. He received his MS in business administration from California State University, and he earned his BS in business administration at the University of Arizona.
He is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, a scholastic honor society for collegiate schools of business, Phi Beta Delta, a scholastic honor society for international scholars, the Los Angeles Society of Financial Analysts, the Phoenix Society of Financial Analysts and the National Federation of Municipal Analysts.
THOMAS GREER, JR. '73
Vice Chairman, TPEC Advisory Board
Managing Director, Enterprise Capital Corp.
Mr. Greer is a co-founder of China Enterprise Capital Corporation, a leading private equity management firm in China, and Chairman of Enterprise Capital Corporation.
He began his business career at Morgan Guaranty and Trust Company followed by over a decade with Citicorp in Asia in senior positions in Indonesia, South Korea and Hong Kong. Mr. Greer subsequently joined Royal Trust Asia as its lead executive in Asia and initiated a merchant banking and private banking business that was later sold to the Royal Bank of Canada. He then joined Bank of America as head of its Asia private client and investment management businesses and served on the investment committee of the firm's Asian Direct Equity Fund.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from the University of Colorado and a MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management. He served as an infantry and special forces officer in the United States Army in Viet Nam and Europe
Mr. Greer has been or is a member of a number of professional and not for profit organizations including the Young Presidents' Organization, World Presidents' Organization, trustee of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and is presently Vice Chairman of the Thunderbird Global Council and the Thunderbird Private Equity Center.
ROBERT D. HISRICH, EX-OFFICIO
Director, Thunderbird Walker Center for Global Entrepreneurship
Professor Hisrich received his B.A. from DePauw University, his M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cincinnati, and honorary doctorate degrees from Chuvash State University (Russia) and the University of Miskolc (Hungary). Prior to joining Thunderbird, Dr. Hisrich held the A. Malachi Mixon, III Chaired Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Hisrich was a Fulbright Professor at the International Management Center in Budapest, Hungary in 1989. In 1990-91 he was again named a Fulbright Professor in Budapest at the Foundation for Small Enterprise Economic Development, where he also held the Alexander Hamilton Chair in Entrepreneurship. Dr. Hisrich has held visiting professorships at: the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia); the Technical University of Vienna (Austria); the University of Limerick (Ireland); the Queensland University of Technology (Australia); The University of Puerto Rico; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He has authored or co-authored twenty-five books, including Entrepreneurship: Starting, Developing, and Managing a New Enterprise (translated into nine languages and now in its seventh edition), The 13 Biggest Mistakes that Derail Small Businesses and How to Avoid Them and Marketing. Dr. Hisrich has written over 300 articles on entrepreneurship, international business management, and venture capital, which have appeared in such journals as The Academy of Management Review, California Management Review, Columbia Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Venturing, Sloan Management Review, and Small Business Economics. He has served on the editorial boards of The Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Small Business Management, and Journal of International Business and Entrepreneurship. Besides designing and delivering management and entrepreneurship programs to U.S. and foreign businesses and governments, particularly in transition economies, Dr. Hisrich has instituted academic and training programs such as the university/industry training program in Hungary, a high school teachers entrepreneurship training program in Russia, an Institute of International Entrepreneurship and Management in Russia, and an Entrepreneurship Center in Ukraine.
CYNTHIA HOSTETLER
Chairman, TPEC Advisory Board
Director, Artio Mutual Funds Complex
Cynthia Hostetler was elected in 2010 to the Board of Directors and as a consultant to funds in the Artio Mutual Funds Complex. The Artio Funds have both domestic and international focuses, with the international family of funds recognized as the eleventh largest in the United States. Artio Asset Manager has over $55 billion under management. Ms Hostetler serves on the Administrative Services Committee (Chairman), the Audit Committee, the Risk Management Oversight Committee, and the Valuation Committee.
From 2001 to 2009, Ms. Hostetler served as Head of Investment Funds at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) . In this capacity, Ms. Hostetler ran the private equity and venture capital group and had direct responsibility for leading a team of 10 professionals investing in emerging markets private equity. Ms. Hostetler was responsible for over $5.5 billion committed to 65 funds and over 400 portfolio companies, making OPIC the largest known investor in emerging markets private equity in the world. During Ms. Hostetler’s tenure, she completely restructured the investment processes and procedures for alternative asset investments. Ms. Hostetler also initiated and led the asset allocation planning for the portfolio, resulting in new commitments of approximately $3.5 billion from 2002-2009.
Prior to joining OPIC, Ms. Hostetler served as President and member of the Board of Directors of First Manhattan Bancorporation (FMB), a bank holding company. Ms. Hostetler was President of FMB from 1991 to 2006. In addition to her bank holding company role, Ms. Hostetler also served for over eight years in a variety of positions at First Savings Bank (FSB), FMB’s primary subsidiary. Ms. Hostetler served as President of FSB from 1996 to 1999 and continued as a Board Member of FSB until 2006.
Previously, Ms. Hostetler was an attorney in the corporate/banking department of the New York branch of the international law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.
Ms. Hostetler currently serves as Vice Chairman and on the Executive Committee of the Eisenhower Presidential Library Foundation. Additionally, she is Vice Chairman of the Thunderbird Private Equity Center Board of Directors. Ms. Hostetler was also a member of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association Advisory Board and a member of the Young Presidents Organization for ten years.
Ms. Hostetler received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia, School of Law in 1988. She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Southern Methodist University in 1985. While at SMU, Ms. Hostetler also received numerous awards, including the Robert H. Dedman Award for most outstanding Arts and Sciences student, the Presidential Award of Excellence, and the “M” Award.
SANJIV KAPUR '81
Managing Director, Asia
Wolfensohn & Company
Sanjiv Kapur currently serves as the Managing Director in Asia for Wolfensohn & Company, a private investment firm focused on private equity in emerging markets. From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Kapur was Senior Partner and Head, Asia Pacific Private Equity for Henderson Private Capital in Singapore. In this capacity, Mr. Kapur managed a successful $210 million Asian private equity fund that invested in China, India, Korea, Singapore and Thailand. He served as a Director/Observer on the Boards of HT Media (India), Maginet (Singapore), Jubilant Organosys (India), and Airmate (China). From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Kapur was the Chief Investment Officer, Private Capital for AMP Henderson Global Investors in Sydney, Australia, where he established the successful India infrastructure fund jointly with UTI that invested in ports, telecom, and gas distribution. He has served on the Investment Committees of several private equity funds including Capital Z Asia II, AXA-AIG Select Global Fund of Funds I and Asia Equity Infrastructure Fund. He also headed the $235 million Henderson Global Fund of Funds investing in US., Europe and Asia. From 1989 to 1999, Mr. Kapur held various investment positions at the IFC in Washington including Head of Private Equity and Head, International Securities Group, and invested in companies and funds across Asia, Latin America, Central Europe and Africa. He served on the Boards of Handlowy Heller (Poland) and CIC (Chile). From 1986 to 1989, Mr. Kapur worked in New York at the HSBC Group (Vice President, Sovereign Risk Management) and also at AIG (1982-1986). From 1981 to 1982, he was at State Bank of India in New York. Mr. Kapur has a BA in Economics (Honours) from St. Stephen’s College (Delhi University) and an MBA with Distinction from the Thunderbird School of Global Management (Thunderbird). He was elected to the Executive Committee of the Singapore Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (2003-2005).
LARRY K. MELLINGER '68
Vice Chairman, TPEC Advisory Board
Private Equity Adviser, LKM Advisors LLC
Mr. Mellinger is a financial advisor and consultant to private sector investors and bankers doing business in the United States and emerging markets. His career as a senior financial services executive has encompassed broad-based experience in private equity, commercial banking and financial advisory work, across markets in developed and developing countries.
Prior to his current financial advisory work, Mr. Mellinger had served for five years as Senior Managing Director and Global Head of AIG's Alternative Investments area. In this capacity he was in charge of AIG's private equity and hedge fund activities in the United States, Europe, Japan and emerging markets world-wide. His responsibilities included AIG's sponsored funds, which today total 36 funds with over $10 billion in capital commitments, with five additional funds currently in the advanced stages of fund-raising, in addition to an additional approximately $10 billion of AIG's proprietary capital invested in various categories of alternative assets.
Before joining AIG in September 2000, he was a founding partner of Integra Partners, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based financial advisory and infrastructure project development firm specializing in emerging markets. Mr. Mellinger has over 30 years of experience in emerging markets banking and finance, including the seven years he served as the U.S. Executive Director for Presidents Reagan and Bush on the board of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, from 1986 to 1993.
Prior to the IADB, he was Chief Financial Officer of Mexico's Gruma Corporation, one of the largest food manufacturing groups in Latin America. He began his professional career with the Union Bank in Los Angeles, where he became the regional head of both the Latin America and Asia Pacific groups, before becoming its Senior Vice President and General Manager for International Banking.
He holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Kansas and an M.S. in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management.
He was raised in Latin America and Australia before attending school in Kansas and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
MARCEL MEYER
Partner, PricewaterhouseCooper AG Switzerland
Marcel is an Assurance Partner in the Zurich office of PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd. As a member of the Swiss leadership team in the asset management (AM) department Marcel's responsibilities include implementing the strategic goals of the AM practice and focusing on building the firms profile in the Swiss asset management market. This includes regulated investment managers, the private equity and real estate industry. Further, he is in charge of the Corporate Asset Management (CAM) team where Marcel manages a dedicated group of professionals servicing the asset management functions of the Swiss firm’s larger insurance clients and their strategic partners. In the last few years Marcel has built an extensive client base in Eastern Europe, mainly Russia and the Ukraine, and continues to spend considerable time servicing clients in the region.
Marcel has over 8 years of experience in serving national and multinational traditional and alternative investment management clients in countries such as the US, most central and Eastern European countries as well as the Near and middle East. He is the engagement Partner on Swiss and Liechtenstein regulated fund management companies including their managed funds (private equity, infrastructure and other alternative investment funds), alternative investment managers and private equity houses in Switzerland and Eastern Europe. Additionally, he is looking after the asset management functions of major international (Re-) insurance companies such as Swiss Re, Swiss Life and Baloise Insurance Group. This includes traditional and alternative investment portfolios, in particular their private equity allocations.
After graduating from the University of St.Gallen with a master’s degree in International Relations, Marcel started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd. He qualified as a chartered certified accountant (FCCA) and obtained the certification as an approved audit expert according to the Federal Audit Oversight Authority of Switzerland (FAOA). He is an approved Lead auditor for investment companies in Liechtenstein. Marcel is fluent in German, English, French and Russian and has basic skills in Arabic and Italian.
Mr. Buckley is a Founding Partner of Innova Capital. Since 1994, Innova has advised five investment funds in Central Eastern Europe, which currently manage approx. €900m. Mr. Buckley has led investments in Euronet Worldwide, PolCard, Voxtel (Moldova) and Dom Finansowy QS. He currently sits on the boards of Meritum Bank, Expander, and Donako, a Polish-based manufacturer of energy components. He focuses on developing investment opportunities in financial services, telecom and media across the region.
Since 1990, Mr. Buckley has resided in Warsaw, Poland. He first advised the Polish Government on early privatization programs, and then co-founded Company Assistance Ltd (CAL), one of Poland's leading market research firms, before establishing Innova in 1994. Prior to 1990, he worked with the consulting firms Bain & Company, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, and Arthur Andersen.
JOSEPH QUINLAN
Chief Market Strategist
Bank of America Investment Strategies Group
Joseph Quinlan is a Managing Director and the Chief Market Strategist of Bank of America, Global Wealth and Investment Management. He is charged with the development and implementation of domestic and global investment strategies. He joined the firm in June 2003 after working for several years as a Global Economist at Morgan Stanley (1994-02).
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Quinlan worked as Director of Economic Research at Sea-Land Services, a $3 billion global transportation firm. He has also been an International Management Consultant. Quinlan started his career with Merrill Lynch Economics.
In addition to his duties at Bank of America, Mr. Quinlan is a leading expert on global capital flows and the transatlantic economy. He has been a Senior Transatlantic Fellow (non-resident) at The German Marshall Fund in Brussels, Belgium since 2003, where his research centers on regional and global trade and investment flows. As a Fellow, he regularly debriefs and advises senior U.S. congressional leaders on global economic/financial affairs on Capitol Hill, and has testified before the European Parliament on transatlantic trade issues.
Quinlan is also a Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University. In 1998, he was nominated as Eisenhower Fellow and studied China-Taiwan cross-straits relations for a month in Taiwan.
He is the author, co-author, editor or contributor to eight books, the most recent: “Deep Integration: How Transatlantic Markets are Leading Globalization,” Johns Hopkins University, 2005, co-authored with Daniel Hamilton. He has published over 125 articles on international economics and trade, with publications appearing in such venues as Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and Barron's.
Quinlan lectures on global finance at New York University, where he has been on the faculty since 1992. He has lectured on global affairs and international finance at various institutions in Europe and Latin America. Mr. Quinlan has also served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of States.
He earned a Master's degree in International Political Economics and Development from Fordham University in 1984. He attended Niagara University, graduating in 1980 with a B.A. in Political Science. He has done additional course work in international finance at New York University. He sits on the Board of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Fordham University and is a member of the President's Council, Fordham University.
AMIT RATANPAL
Director, Kaizen Management Advisors Pvt. Ltd.
Amit in his 11 years of work experience has the distinction of successfully traversing varied roles across the financial industry. This has given him cross skills vital to his current assignment as the Head of Fund of Funds business at ICICI Bank Limited. A large part of Amit’s experience has been in the areas of Private Equity, Investment banking, Asset management and Private Banking.
Amit joined ICICI Bank Limited in March 2005 and became a key part of its International Banking Group at a time when it was the key focus area for the bank. He has played several pioneering roles to build up its business streams where he set up its equity desk for global and private banking investors, its offshore investment management company. He also started the investment banking practice for private banking and global institutions. In his present profile he Head’s the Fund of Funds platform.
Prior to this, Amit worked for 5 years with Birla Sun Life group on various assignments. Some of the key assignments include providing appropriate treasury solutions to corporate clients for debt and equity linked products, part of the core team to form the firm’s Alternate Channels division as well as conceptualizing and implementing its electronic broking solution and distribution network across India.
During his three years of articleship while doing his Chartered Accountancy, he was working on full time assignments geared towards financial consulting to several large and reputed organizations
Amit is a Chartered Accountant and an Executive MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai. He has attended several training programs including a course on Private Equity & Venture Capital at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
JESSE REYES
Managing Director
Reyes Analytics
Jesse Reyes manages Crane Capital Associates' U.S. operations and leads U.S. manager origination and due diligence efforts. Prior to joining Crane Capital, he was Vice President, Global Research at Thomson Venture Economics. He joined Venture Economics in 1989 as Research Manager and later became Managing Director of Venture Economics' Institutional Investor Services' - which is a performance and portfolio analytics monitoring service which monitored over $300 billion in LP investments in private equity and venture capital investments for limited partner clients.
Jesse is widely regarded as one of the leading experts on performance measurement and quantitative analysis of the venture capital and private equity industry. He pioneered many of the performance benchmarking metrics now standard in the private equity industry. He developed private equity benchmarking products at Venture Economics such as the Investment Benchmark Reports and the Private Equity Performance Database on private equity performance, which have become the leading fund performance measurement tools by LPs and GPs alike. While at Venture Economics he also developed the Post Venture Capital Index-a public market index jointly developed with Warburg Pincus. He is one of the most highly sought-after speakers at industry conferences and is a frequent contributor to the industry and financial press.
In addition to his activities at Crane, Mr. Reyes is a member of the CFA Institute's and the Global Investment Performance Standards' (GIPS) committees on performance presentation standards representing private equity investing. He is an Educational Board Member of the Kauffman Fellows program. He also is an courtesy lecturer at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, where he teaches classes on topics in institutional private equity investing.
Prior to joining Venture Economics, he was a visiting assistant professor at Texas Tech University teaching courses in futures, finance and applied economics. While at Texas Tech he also served as a consultant to U.S. AID projects specializing in economic and financial analysis of micro-business development and financial markets development projects in Central America. He was the founder and the managing director of Texas-based Decision Research Associates, a software firm specializing in oil and gas partnership accounting and other office management software.
A native of Ralls, Texas, his background includes a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural and Applied Economics and an MBA in Finance and Statistics., both from Texas Tech University as well as graduate studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University.
ROBERT THELEEN '70
Chairman & Co-CEO
ChinaVest
Robert Theleen has been a pioneer in China's venture capital industry. Formerly, he was Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and a founder of ChinaVest, the oldest American venture capital firm in Greater China. Founded in 1983, ChinaVest raised more than $300 million from leading American and European institutions, and invested in industries including light manufacturing, branded services, telecommunications and information technology. Mr. Theleen is currently a trustee of the Asia Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors of one of China's leading state-owned enterprises.
He was educated at Duquesne University, Thunderbird School of Global Management, and Johns Hopkins University.
CHRISTIAN WILDMOSER
Managing Director
CVC Capital Partners
Mr. Wildmoser is Managing Director of CVC Capital Partners Switzerland GmbH, Zurich. Before joining CVC in 2000, Mr. Wildmoser was CEO of Helarb Management S.A., a private equity firm based in Lausanne, Switzerland, a position he held for two and a half years. Prior to Helarb he worked for eight years with B. Metzler Seel. Sohn & Co, the Frankfurt based privately held investment bank, in Frankfurt and New York, latterly as Co-head of M & A and Corporate Finance. Prior to Metzler he worked for eight years for Manufacturers Hanover Trust in Frankfurt and New York in corporate banking. Mr. Wildmoser is an Austrian national and holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Vienna.
1 Global Place, Glendale, AZ 85306-6000
+1 (602) 978-7000 | 800-848-9084 (US)
