Riad Uddin

IT Manager

Riad is A&M Capital Europe’s IT Manager.

Prior to joining A&M Capital Europe, Riad held a similar position at Law Business Research. Before joining Law Business Research, Riad worked in the education sector as an IT Technician.

Riad holds a BSc (Hons) in Multimedia Computing with Design for Interactive Media. He is also CompTIA hardware certified.

Isabelle Fischer

Executive Assistant

Isabelle is as an Executive Assistant at A&M Capital.

Prior to joining A&M Capital Europe, Isabelle worked in London as an Executive Assistant at Coller Capital, Bain Capital and Vitruvian Partners.

Isabelle holds a Bachelor of Arts majoring in English from Strasbourg University and was awarded the AAT Foundation Certificate in Accounting Level 2 with distinction in 2020.

Isabelle speaks French, English and Spanish and is learning Mandarin.

Jemima Bailey

Executive Assistant

Jemima is an Executive Assistant at A&M Capital Europe.

Prior to joining A&M Capital Europe, Jemima worked as a Client Manager at Caroline Baker Limited, an Independent family office. The role included Personal Assistant duties and Property Management for UHNWIs.

Jemima graduated from Oxford Media and Business School in 2014 where she gained a Professional Business Diploma with Distinction Honours.

Michael Odrich

Managing Partner & Founder

Mike Odrich is a Managing Partner and Founder of A&M Capital. Previously, Mr. Odrich was a Managing Director and the Head of the Private Equity business of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. He built, managed and controlled investment oversight of an alternative investment business with 38 different investment strategies and six asset classes, which invested in excess of $20 billion since 2000.

Mr. Odrich served as the senior private equity member of the Lehman Brothers Investment Committee and screening committees for the six asset classes of private equity. He is a former director of RTI Biologics, Inc. and Firth Rixon Ltd.

He was formerly a director of Gabriel Brothers, Inc., PureStar Linen Group, Centerra Services and Organix Recycling and is currently a director of Med-Metrix, ettain group, GS Foods Group, WHC Energy Services, CNSI, PatientCare EMS Solutions, Talus Payments and Pritchard Brady Holdings.

Mr. Odrich holds a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Columbia University.

Jack McCarthy

Managing Partner & Founder

Jack McCarthy is a Managing Partner and Founder of A&M Capital. Previously, Jack was a Managing Director and National Practice Leader of Alvarez & Marsal’s Private Equity Advisory Group, which serves both private equity sponsors and certain strategic investors. From 2008-2010 Mr. McCarthy served on assignment as Head of Principal Investments & Private Equity for Lehman Brothers Holdings with overall responsibility for the estate’s private equity partnerships, direct equity investments and stakes in third party private equity / hedge funds, in total amounting to nearly $20 billion in invested capital.

From 1996-2005, Mr. McCarthy was a Partner and member of the founding team and investment committee of BA Capital Partners Europe (BACPE), Bank of America’s European focused middle market private equity partnership. His primary responsibilities included originating, assessing, executing and managing mid-cap buyout and growth capital investments across the European marketplace. While with BACPE, he led deal teams on investments in Germany, Spain, Sweden, France, Hungary and the UK. Prior to joining BACPE, Mr. McCarthy was with BA Securities, Inc. (1993-1995) and Continental Bank (1991-1993), where he focused on corporate finance advisory and equity/debt capital raising mandates. 

He was formerly a director of PureStar Linen Group and Centerra Services, LLC and a board member of ProAmpac and is currently a director of CNSI, GS Foods Group and Pritchard Industries.

Mr. McCarthy holds an MBA, with concentrations in finance and international business, from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business and a BA in finance and accounting from Central Michigan University.

Mark Kelly

Managing Partner

Before starting A&M Capital Europe in 2017, Mark was a Managing Director & Partner with H.I.G. Capital, a €45 billion global private equity fund. Mark headed H.I.G.’s LBO office in Chicago and was a founding member of H.I.G. Europe.

Prior to H.I.G., Mark was the COO of Brakes Group, Europe’s largest foodservice company, and CEO of Pauley’s Foods.

Previously, he was with Bain & Company’s private equity group in San Francisco and London. Mark began his career with the Smurfit Kappa Group in Dublin, Ireland.

Mark is Chairman of Bollé Brands and a director of La Patria S.p.A. and Pet Network International (“PNI”).

Mark is an Irish national and holds an MBA Degree from Harvard University and received a BSc (Hons.) and an MA from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Mark speaks English and French and has substantial board level experience in France, Benelux, Italy, Spain, Ireland and the UK.

Rob Redmond

Managing Partner

Rob Redmond is the Managing Partner of the A&M Capital Strategic Investments Fund. 

Prior to joining the A&M Capital team, Mr. Redmond was Executive Chairman of Macquarie Capital (USA). He previously served as Chairman and CEO of the U.S. advisory and merchant banking business where he oversaw an on-balance sheet funded direct investment business of over $2 billion. 

Mr Redmond joined Macquarie Capital from Barclays Capital, where he held the title of Vice Chairman. Prior to this, he was Vice Chairman of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. and Chairman of the firm’s Global Financial Sponsor coverage business. 

Mr. Redmond holds a BA in Economics from Lafayette College and received his MBA degree from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. He currently serves as an emeritus member of the Johnson Graduate School of Management Advisory Board.

Drew Baird

Partner

Drew A. Baird is a Partner and Co-Founder of AMCO. Mr. Baird has over 15 years of industry experience and more than 11 years of experience in making middle-market growth equity investments in partnership with entrepreneurs across the healthcare, consumer, retail, business services and industrial sectors. While serving as an active member of several boards, Mr. Baird has worked closely with many management teams on budgeting, performance improvement, recruitment, integration and expansion efforts. Over his career Mr. Baird has worked on 13 transactions that have accounted for approximately $250 million of invested capital.

Prior to helping establish AMCO, Mr. Baird was a Principal of Star Avenue Capital, a middle-market private equity firm. Star Avenue is a joint venture between Creative Artist Agency and Irving Place Capital focused on making growth equity investments in branded consumer and retail businesses. Previously, Mr. Baird served as a Senior Associate of BGCP, an affiliate of Bear Stearns. Prior to getting his MBA, Mr. Baird served as a Vice President for Wachovia Capital Partners (since renamed Pamlico Capital) where he focused on growth equity investments in the healthcare sector. Mr. Baird began his career as an Analyst in Merrill Lynch’s Technology Investment Banking Group.

Mr. Baird formerly served as a Director of Surgical Alliance, LLC and is currently a Director of Maximum Human Performance, LLC and an Official Observer to the Board of Directors of IT’SUGAR, LLC.

Mr. Baird holds an MBA, with concentrations in Finance and Decision Sciences, from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management and a BS in International Business and Finance from The Pennsylvania State University where he was a member of the Schreyer Honors College.

Tom Clayton

Partner, Healthcare

Tom Clayton is a Partner of A&M Capital focusing on the healthcare industry. Mr. Clayton brings more than 20 years of private equity experience investing in healthcare companies. Other areas of industry focus have included media, telecom, energy services and energy technology.

Mr. Clayton’s investment experience spans the entire healthcare industry including services, clinical products, outsourcing, distribution and information technology. He has experience investing across the capital structure and in various transaction types including buyouts, growth capital, highly structured transactions, and venture capital. Areas of particular focus have included hospitals, post-acute care, management services organizations, DME, specialty distribution, medical devices, pharmaceutical manufacturer and service providers, and healthcare information technology.

Mr. Clayton started his career at Morgan Stanley’s Princes Gate Fund, a $1.6 billion private equity fund where he focused predominantly on minority investments and structured financings in the healthcare, energy, media and telecommunications sectors.

Mr. Clayton is currently a director of PatientCare EMS Solutions and Med-Metrix.

Mr. Clayton received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and a Juris Doctorate from The Yale Law School.

Sean Epps

Partner

Sean Epps has over 25 years of private equity experience working with growth oriented middle market companies. Throughout his career, Sean has focused on making investments in a number of industrial and business services sectors including specialty distribution, industrial services and niche manufacturing sectors. Prior to joining AMCO, Sean was a partner at Snow Phipps, where he worked from 2005 through 2017 and was a principal with J.P. Morgan Partners from 1999 to 2005. Earlier in his career, Sean was an associate with Paribas Principal Partners and an analyst with Chase Manhattan’s Merchant Banking Group. He has served on the boards of directors of over a dozen companies over the course of his career, including Electric Guard Dog, Kele, Service Champ, ArrMaz Custom Chemicals, Chromalox, Brand Scaffolding and Stauber Performance Ingredients, and currently serves on the board of directors of Flow Control Group.

In 1991, Sean graduated cum laude with a BA from Hamilton College with honors in economics and earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 1997.

Robert Haisch

Partner

Rob Haisch is a Partner with A&M Capital. Since 2001, Mr. Haisch has led or co-led the execution of numerous middle-market transactions across a variety of structures, including leveraged buyouts, mergers, corporate carve-outs, family / founder capital solutions, buy and builds, leveraged recapitalizations and growth equity investments. His primary areas of industry focus have included healthcare services, environmental services, business services and transportation / logistics.

From 2008 to 2014, Mr. Haisch was a Principal with Charterhouse Equity Partners, a private equity firm with a focus on leveraged buyout investments in the middle-market. Prior to joining Charterhouse, Mr. Haisch was a Senior Associate at North Castle Partners from 2004 to 2008, where he was involved in the sourcing, evaluation, execution and monitoring of leveraged buyout transactions across a variety of industries. He began his career in the Syndicated and Leveraged Finance Investment Banking group of J.P. Morgan Securities.

Mr. Haisch was formerly a director of Organix Recycling and is currently a director of MedX, Nevada Heart & Vascular, PatientCare EMS Solutions and Talus Payments.

Mr. Haisch holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, magna cum laude, from Vanderbilt University.

George K. Kollitides, II

Partner

George K. Kollitides, II is a Partner of AMCO, where he sits on the Investment and Compliance Committees. Mr. Kollitides has 30 years of transaction, strategy and operations experience investing in and operating middle-market companies undergoing organic growth, consolidation, ownership transitions, operational challenges or other catalysts requiring capital and sophisticated partners. An experienced executive, he has served as a CEO, Chairman, Lead Director or Director on public, private and non-profit boards, including as a member or Chairman of Compensation and Audit Committees helping middle-market companies scale and professionalize.

Prior to joining AMCO, Mr. Kollitides was Chairman and CEO of the Remington Outdoor Company (“ROC”), a Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. (“Cerberus”) owned global consumer products company developed by acquiring and consolidating over twenty businesses. Prior to ROC, Mr. Kollitides was a Managing Director at Cerberus, one of the world’s largest investment managers, where he invested in middle-market private equity and debt.

Mr. Kollitides joined Cerberus after it acquired TenX Capital Management, a merchant bank he co-founded as President, that invested in middle-market companies. Prior to co-founding TenX, he was a Principal at Catterton Partners, the largest consumer and retail-focused private equity fund. Mr. Kollitides started his career at GE, where he was Six Sigma trained and where he held a variety of positions in the Corporate Finance and Restructuring Groups, ultimately helping found GE Equity, a global Private equity business.

Mr. Kollitides is currently a Director of Dutchland Plastics, LLC, and Frontier Derm. Partners, LLC and a Board Observer of Classic Brands, LLC, Crash Champions, LLC and Express Wash Topco, LLC.

Mr. Kollitides holds an MBA in Finance and Management of Organizations from Columbia Business School and a BA in Economics with a Minor in Government and Law from Lafayette College.

Ryan McCarthy

Partner

Ryan McCarthy is a Partner of A&M Capital. He has spent the last 22 years helping middle-market companies navigate various forms of growth, transition or inflection, including as an owner, investor, operator and management consultant. As an investor, Mr. McCarthy has led numerous transaction structures including family / founder capital solutions, corporate carveouts, buy and builds, middle market buy-outs, special situations, structured solutions and debt investments. He enjoys helping companies undergoing a transformation (from growth to turnaround), by partnering with management teams and bringing the tools of A&M to achieve their long-term goals and potential.

Previously, he was a Co-founder and Senior Portfolio Manager of Highview Capital. He led, built and managed all facets of the firm’s investment activities including strategy, investment criteria, team build out, sourcing, investment committee processes, deal execution and structuring, board creation, key transformational portfolio initiatives and strategic plan development. Highview Capital is a $500M middle market fund based in Los Angeles that takes a long-term view on companies undergoing a transformation. He previously led and served on the Boards of American Plastics, GS Foods, National Fire & Safety, and Firstlight Media.

Prior to co-founding Highview, Ryan spent nine years helping build Aurora Resurgence, Aurora Capital Group’s value-oriented private equity fund, as a Founding Member, Partner and Member of the Investment Committee. At Resurgence, Ryan executed buy-out, corporate carve-out and turnaround transactions in the U.S. and Europe across a variety of industries, including consumer, industrials, business services, transportation and logistics. He previously served on the Boards of SIRVA, ALLTUB, International Cookware (Pyrex), Lexington Precision and Tops Parking.

Ryan previously spent more than eight years with Alvarez & Marsal. Ryan was the first analyst ever hired at A&M in 1999, when the company was in its infancy, and eventually rose to the rank of Senior Director. As part of his advisory role at A&M, he served as a management consultant and as interim COO, CFO and Treasurer to over 10 companies.

Ryan holds a B.S. in Accounting and Finance from Indiana University.

Alex Nivelle

Partner

Alex Nivelle is a Partner with A&M Capital. Previously, Mr. Nivelle was an analyst at Warburg Pincus, a New York-based private equity fund, where he focused on investments in the business services, media and technology sectors. Prior to that, Mr. Nivelle worked for DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, also a New York-based private equity fund, where he focused on executing leveraged buyouts across a range of industries. He began his career as an analyst in the Media and Telecommunications Investment Banking group of Credit Suisse First Boston.

Mr. Nivelle was formerly a director of Gabriel Brothers, Inc. and Centerra Services, LLC, and a board observer of ProAmpac and is currently a director of ettain group and CNSI.

Mr. Nivelle holds an AB in politics, magna cum laude, from Princeton University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Joachim Ogland

Partner

Prior to joining A&M Capital Europe, Joachim was a Senior Partner with BC Partners LLP, a €17 billion private equity fund which has completed 99 transactions with total enterprise value of €121 billion in Europe and North America. At BC Partners, Joachim was head of the Nordic region and co-head of TMT in Europe, co-led several investments, and served as Chairman and Director on numerous boards.

Prior to BC Partners, Joachim was part of the European team of Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, the private equity arm of Morgan Stanley, evaluating growth and LBO investments across Europe. Previously, Mr. Ogland worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in Oslo, advising clients in TMT and financial services on strategy and organizational improvements. 

Joachim is currently a director of Bollé Brands and La Patria.

Joachim is a Norwegian national and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor in Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Joachim speaks Norwegian and German and has substantial board level experience in the Nordics, UK and Spain.

David Perskie

Partner

David Perskie is a Partner of A&M Capital. Since 1997, Mr. Perskie has led or co-led the execution of numerous middle-market transactions across a variety of structures, including leveraged buyouts, mergers, public-to-private acquisitions, leveraged recapitalizations and growth equity investments. His primary areas of industry focus have included business services, industrial manufacturing, consumer products and services, and energy services.

Prior to joining A&M Capital in 2011, Mr. Perskie was a Principal with PCG Capital Partners, a private equity firm with $1.0 billion of assets under management with a focus on late-stage growth equity investments in the middle-market. Before that, Mr. Perskie was a Vice President in the Consumer & Retail Group at Gryphon Investors from 2001 to 2007, where he was involved in the sourcing, evaluation, execution and monitoring of leveraged buyout transactions in a variety of industries within the consumer sector. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Perskie was an Associate at American Industrial Partners, where he evaluated leveraged buyout opportunities within the industrial manufacturing landscape. Mr. Perskie began his career at Interlaken Capital (now Atlas Holdings), where he executed growth equity and leveraged buyout investments across multiple industries.

Mr. Perskie was formerly a director of Gabriel Brothers, Inc. and PureStar Linen Group and is currently a director of WHC Energy Services, LLC, Talus Payments and Pritchard Brady Holdings.

Mr. Perskie received a Bachelor of Science in Economics, cum laude, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Thomas Slater

Partner

Thomas Slater is a Partner of the A&M Capital Strategic Investments Fund.

Prior to joining the A&M Capital team, Mr. Slater was a Senior Portfolio Manager of APG Asset Management US Inc., a subsidiary of Netherlands-based APG (All Pensions Group), a Dutch pension capital investor and services company. 

Previously, Mr. Slater was a Principal with The Rhône Group, a middle market private equity firm investing over €2 billion of committed equity capital in trans-Atlantic or pan-European businesses, and an Associate with Metalmark Capital, a middle market private equity firm based in New York. Mr. Slater started his career in the investment banking and corporate banking divisions of Merrill Lynch and Brown Brothers Harriman & Company focusing on M&A as well as debt and equity issuance underwriting. 

Mr. Slater has an MBA with honors in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. cum laude in History and French from Amherst College.

Charles Grimm

Managing Director

Before joining A&M Capital Europe, Charles was a Principal with CCMP Capital, a €3 billion private equity fund formerly known as J.P. Morgan Partners. Charles was based in London and focused on pan-European investments.

Prior to CCMP Capital, Charles was an Associate at Merrill Lynch’s investment banking team in Paris, France.

In aggregate, Charles has over 17 years private equity investing and investment banking experience.

Charles is currently a director of Bollé Brands and La Patria.

Charles is a French national and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin (magna cum laude).

Charles speaks English and French and has substantial board-level experience in Germany, Spain, France, Italy and the UK.

Alessandro Luongo

Managing Director

Prior to joining A&M Capital Europe, Alessandro was a Partner at Investindustrial, where he was responsible for the origination, execution and monitoring of majority equity investments across Europe.

Prior to Investindustrial, Alessandro spent 11 years at TowerBrook Capital Partners in London and New York.

In aggregate, Alessandro has 17 years of private equity and investment banking experience and he has been a main board director of several Investindustrial and TowerBrook investments in the consumer, business services, healthcare and industrial sectors.

Alessandro is an Italian citizen and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. He is fluent in Italian, English and Spanish.

Clayton Cole

Principal

Clayton S. Cole is a Principal of AMCO. Mr. Cole has over 10 years of industry experience and more than eight years of investing in lower middle-market private businesses. During Mr. Cole’s career in advisory, principal investing, and strategic support for portfolio companies, he has worked on transactions totaling over $1 billion of enterprise value. Mr. Cole has partnered with founders and management teams to collaborate on acquisitions, growth initiatives, balance sheet optimization, and financial planning across a range of industries, including: business and technology enable services, healthcare services, industrial, manufacturing, and consumer.

Prior to joining AMCO, Mr. Cole was a Principal that focused on control and minority investments in growth oriented businesses at General Catalyst Partners, an investment firm with over $3.8 billion in asset under management. While at General Catalyst, Mr. Cole served as a Director of CLEAResult Consulting, an energy efficiency services organization, and observer for Envoy Global, a global workforce management platform that provides immigration support services.

Before joining General Catalyst, Mr. Cole spent three years as an Associate at H.I.G. Capital, a $750 million middle-lower market-market private equity fund that specialized in levered majority recapitalizations. Mr. Cole started his career at Stephens Inc. as an Analyst in the Investment Banking Group.

Mr. Cole received a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering with a minor in General Business from the University of Arkansas.

Adam S. Fuchs

Principal

Adam Fuchs is a Principal of A&M Capital Partners. Previously, Mr. Fuchs was a Vice President at KPS Capital Partners, a New York based private equity firm, where he focused on investing in the manufacturing and industrial sectors. Prior to that, he worked in Huron Consulting’s Restructuring & Turnaround Group. Mr. Fuchs graduated from Miami University with a BS in Accounting from the Farmer School of Business.

Mr. Fuchs is currently a director of Pritchard Brady Holdings.

Nathan Myers

Principal

Nathan A. Myers is a Principal of AMCO. Mr. Myers has 18 years of investing, advisory, financing and operating experience, including 14 years experience working with growth-oriented middle-market companies across the healthcare industry. Over the course of his career, he has worked closely with many management teams in pursuing their growth objectives in various roles and recently served as an executive in an operating company. He has worked on 13 growth equity transactions that have accounted for approximately $200 million of invested capital, advisory assignments accounting for approximately $5 billion in enterprise value, and equity and debt financings accounting for approximately $3 billion in capital raised.

Most recently, Mr. Myers served as a Managing Director of Medical Properties Trust, Inc., a publicly-traded healthcare REIT. In this role, he was part of the Acquisitions team, which focused on originating investment opportunities in general acute and specialty hospitals, and was recently involved in the $900 million buyout of a leading for-profit hospital operator. Previously, Mr. Myers served as Vice President of Strategic Payor Initiatives at DaVita HealthCare Partners, a Fortune 250 healthcare services company. Working on the managed care team, his primary responsibilities included strategy, business development, and contracting. Additionally, he was a member of the senior leadership team of the integrated care management division and responsible for leading the non-government programs.

Mr. Myers began his career at Bowles Hollowell Conner & Co, an M&A boutique, and spent 13 years with successor firms (First Union, Wachovia, and Wells Fargo) ultimately serving as a Director in the M&A department. Previously, he was a member of the private equity department serving as Vice President of Wachovia Capital Partners (since renamed Pamlico Capital), where he focused on growth equity investments in the healthcare industry. Mr. Myers served as a Director of Surgical Alliance, LLC.

Mr. Myers holds a BA in Economics, Summa Cum Laude, from Washington and Lee University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Todd Rubin

Principal

Todd Rubin is a Principal of A&M Capital Partners.

Previously, Mr. Rubin worked at Trilantic Capital Partners, a New York-based middle market private equity firm, where he focused on the consumer, business services and industrial sectors. Prior to that, he worked at Barclays Capital in the Investment Banking Division’s Global Industrials group.

Mr. Rubin is currently a director of ettain group.

Mr. Rubin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Economics from the Wharton School.

Ale Amesquita

Director of Business Development

Ale Amesquita is a Director of Business Development of A&M Capital Partners. 

Previously, Ms. Amesquita worked at Sunstone Partners, a tech-focused growth equity firm based in the Bay Area. During her time at Sunstone, she spearheaded the business development efforts and was responsible for originating new platform investments and add-on acquisitions for the portfolio. Prior to that, she worked at ProsperWorks (now Copper) on the Business Development team. Ale started her career at NBCUniversal, where she helped manage agency and brand relationships in the Broadcast vertical. 

Ms. Amesquita graduated from DePaul University with a BA in Journalism and Public Relations.

Paul Lattanzio

Senior Advisor

Paul S. Lattanzio is a Senior Advisor and Co-Founder of AMCO. Mr. Lattanzio has over 30 years of industry experience and more than 25 years of middle-market private equity experience. Over the course of his career, Mr. Lattanzio has founded, built and managed several affiliated middle-market private equity investment vehicles. During that time he has completed over 40 investments representing more than $700 million dollars of invested capital.

Prior to helping establish AMCO, from April 2010 through January 2015, Mr. Lattanzio was President of Star Avenue Capital, a middle-market private equity firm. Star Avenue is a joint venture between Creative Artist Agency and Irving Place Capital focused on making growth equity investments in branded consumer and retail businesses. While Mr. Lattanzio is no longer involved with the management of Star Avenue Capital, he remains on the Board of Maximum Human Performance and IT’SUGAR, two of its portfolio companies. From 2003 through 2009, Mr. Lattanzio founded, built and managed Bear Growth Capital Partners (“BGCP”), an affiliate of Bear Stearns. BGCP managed approximately $375 million of proprietary firm capital across two platforms, primarily focused on investments in middle-market growth equity transactions across a variety of consumer, services, industrial and healthcare sectors.

Mr. Lattanzio started his career and spent 13 years at Bankers Trust. The early years were focused on various investment banking disciplines including Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Markets and Restructuring Advisory. The later and majority of the years at Bankers Trust were spent as a senior partner in BT Investment Partners, an affiliated middle-market private equity effort.

Mr. Lattanzio has also served, or is serving, on the Boards of Directors or Advisory Boards of Insperity Inc. (NYSE: NSP), Insight Communications, River City Broadcasting, L.P., Rapala, Inc., United USN, US Broadcast Group, Genesis Teleserv Corporation, General Communications, Inc., Medical Logistics, Inc., Clintrak Pharmaceutical Services, LLC, Harlem Furniture, Inc., Avid Health, Inc., Chef’s Warehouse Holdings, LLC, New Chapter, Inc., Everything But Water, LLC, Francesca’s Collections, Inc., Crestcom Holdings, LLC and J Brand, Inc.

Mr. Lattanzio earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics with Honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1984.

Aaron Darr

Vice President

Aaron W. Darr is a Vice President of AMCO. Most recently, Mr. Darr worked for two years as an investment banking analyst in the Leveraged Finance & Financial Sponsors Group at Macquarie Capital where he specialized in middle-market leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and other debt financings across numerous industries.

Mr. Darr received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Economics, Magna Cum Laude, from Colgate University in 2014.

Joe Dentici

Vice President

Joe Dentici is a Vice President of A&M Capital Partners. Mr. Dentici is responsible for all aspects of the investment process, including helping to identify, evaluate and execute new investment and acquisition opportunities. Previously, he was with Tengram Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on growth and turnaround investments in both private and public settings. Prior to that, he was with Raptor Group, an investment firm focused on equity opportunities across a variety of industries. Mr. Dentici began his career in leveraged finance at NewStar where he executed credit investments in support of middle-market buyouts. Mr. Dentici holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Boston University.

Kenneth Lee

Vice President

Kenneth Lee is a Vice President at AMCO. Mr. Lee has approximately seven years of industry experience, including four years in middle-market private equity investing. Mr. Lee has worked across a range of industries, including: industrials, manufacturing, business services and healthcare services.

Prior to joining AMCO, Mr. Lee was an Associate at Nautic Partners, a middle-market private equity firm with over $4.2 billion in assets managed that focused on making investments in growing and differentiated companies in the manufacturing, industrials, business services and healthcare industries. While there, he participated in the execution of four platform acquisitions. Mr. Lee began his career as an analyst in the Diversified Industrials group at Macquarie Capital.

Mr. Lee received a Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, in Finance and General Accounting from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.

Mason Nyhoff

Vice President

Mason Nyhoff is a Vice President of the A&M Capital Strategic Investments Fund. Prior to joining the A&M Capital team, Mr. Nyhoff was a Senior Associate of APG Asset Management US Inc., a subsidiary of Netherlands-based APG (All Pensions Group), a Dutch pension capital investor and services company. Mr. Nyhoff joined APG in 2017 where he directly evaluated over €4 billion in co-investment opportunities and was involved in committing ~€800 million in equity across all industries, investment theses and market segments. Prior to joining APG, he was an Analyst at HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. Mr. Nyhoff holds a B.S. in Finance from Emory University – Goizueta Business School.

Matt Rhone

Vice President

Matt Rhone is a Vice President of A&M Capital Partners.

Previously, Mr. Rhone worked at Tailwind Capital Partners, a New York-based middle market private equity firm, where he focused on investments in business services, industrial and healthcare sectors. Prior to that, he worked at Jefferies & Co. in the Investment Banking Division’s Global Industrials group. Mr. Rhone is currently a director for Med-Metrix.

Alex Sacripanti

Vice President

Alex Sacripanti is a Vice President of A&M Capital Partners.

Previously, Mr. Sacripanti worked at Credit Suisse Securities in the Leveraged Finance group where he was responsible for the underwriting and execution of syndicated bank loan and high yield financings across sponsor led LBO and corporate M&A transactions. Prior to that, Mr. Sacripanti was an Investment Analyst at GAMCO Investors focused on special situation opportunities. Mr. Sacripanti began his career in the Investment Banking Division of Lazard as a member of the Global Restructuring Group.

Mr. Sacripanti holds a BA in Economics from Connecticut College and an MBA from Cornell University.

Paolo Ferrari

Director

Before joining A&M Capital Europe, Paolo was an Associate Director with Temasek in London and focused on pan-European investments across a range of sectors, including consumer, technology and business services.

Prior to Temasek, Paolo was an Associate at Change Capital, a mid-market specialist consumer and retail investor. Prior to that, Paolo was an analyst in Citigroup TMT investment banking division.

Paolo has 9 years private equity investing and investment banking experience.

Paolo is currently a director of La Patria.

Paolo is Italian and holds a CEMS Master International Management jointly issued by Bocconi university and the Rotterdam School of Management.

Paolo speaks English and Italian and has board-level experience in Italy, France and the UK.

Stefan Miesner

Associate Director

Before joining A&M Capital Europe, Stefan was a Principal with Onex Partners in London and focused on pan-European investments across a range of sectors, including industrials and business services.  

Prior to Onex Partners, Stefan was an Associate in the M&A team of Barclays’ investment banking division.  

In aggregate, Stefan has 10 years private equity investing and investment banking experience.  

Stefan is a German national and holds a Bachelor in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.  

Stefan is fluent in English and German and has board-level experience in the UK.

Fernando Rodríguez

Associate Director

Prior to joining A&M Capital Europe, Mr. Rodríguez was an Investment Banking Analyst in Citigroup’s Global Industrials and Iberia teams, where he executed a number of M&A and capital markets transactions.

Mr. Rodríguez is a Spanish national and graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration from ESADE Business School. Mr. Rodríguez speaks English, Spanish, and Catalan.

Sebastian Toft Sorensen

Associate Director

Before joining A&M Capital Europe, Sebastian was an Associate Principal with Palamon Capital Partners in London and focused on pan-European investments across a range of sectors, including business services, consumer and healthcare.

Prior to that, Sebastian was an Analyst at Deutsche Bank where he worked in the Consumer and Retail Investment Banking team.

Sebastian holds an MSc in Finance and Accounting and a BSc in Business Administration and Commercial Law from Copenhagen Business School. 

Sebastian is a native Danish speaker and also speaks Swedish and Norwegian. Sebastian has board-level experience in Sweden, United Kingdom and Italy.

Adam Gottlieb

Senior Associate

Adam Gottlieb is a Senior Associate of A&M Capital Partners.

Previously, Mr. Gottlieb worked at Perella Weinberg Partners as a generalist in the M&A and Restructuring groups.

Mr. Gottlieb graduated from Cornell University with a BS in Industrial & Labor Relations.

J. Robert Heflin

Senior Associate

J. Robert Heflin, is a Senior Associate at AMCO. Mr. Heflin has over five years of industry experience, including over three years in middle-market private equity investing. Mr. Heflin has worked across a range of industries, including: healthcare services, transportation & logistics, business services and industrials.

Prior to joining AMCO, Mr. Heflin was an Associate at The Jordan Company, a middle-market private equity firm with over $11.0 billion in assets managed with a generalist investment mandate that focused on supporting strong management teams over long hold periods and creating value through add-on acquisitions and identifying operational inefficiencies. Mr. Heflin began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Healthcare Group at Deutsche Bank.

Mr. Heflin received a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in History from Amherst College.

Tommy McThenia

Senior Associate

Tommy McThenia is a Senior Associate at AMCO. Prior to joining AMCO, Mr. McThenia was an Associate at MSouth Equity Partners, an Atlanta based private equity firm with over $2 billion in assets. While at MSouth, Mr. McThenia worked on an investment mandate focused on partnering with leading management teams in the Southeast to create shareholder value via operating performance improvements. Mr. McThenia began his career as an M&A Analyst in the Consumer Group at Harris Williams in Richmond, Virginia.

Mr. McThenia received a Bachelor of Science in Business and Economics, Cum Laude, from Washington and Lee University in 2015.

Lucas Zheng

Senior Associate

Lucas Zheng is a Senior Associate of A&M Capital Partners.

Previously, Mr. Zheng worked at Barclays in the Technology and Global Industrials groups where he advised clients on a variety of transactions including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and debt financings.

Mr. Zheng graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in Economics and a minor in Business Institutions.

Simon Amat

Associate

Simon Amat is an Associate at AMCO and joined the firm in 2021.  Previously, Mr. Amat was an Investment Banking Analyst in the Diversified Services group at Stifel.  While at Stifel, Mr. Amat worked on the execution of various merger & acquisitions and financing transactions with a focus on business services and industrial & environmental services.

Mr. Amat received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Spanish from the University of Virginia in 2018.

Emilien Arnold

Associate

Prior to joining A&M Capital, Emilien was an Analyst in the Healthcare Group at Barclays Investment Bank. During his time at Barclays, he worked on the execution of various M&A and financing transactions with a focus on healthcare services.

Emilien is a French national and graduated from McGill University with a BCom, followed by a Master’s degree in finance from HEC Paris.

Corbin Bagenstose

Associate

Corbin Bagenstose is an Associate of A&M Capital Partners.

Previously, Mr. Bagenstose worked at Caltius Equity Partners, a Los Angeles-based lower middle market private equity firm, where he focused on the business services, consumer, and industrial sectors. Prior to that, he worked at Harris Williams & Co. in the Healthcare & Life Sciences group where he focused on sell-side M&A advisory.

Mr. Bagenstose graduated from the University of Virginia with an MS in Commerce and a BA in Biology and Spanish.

Max Haensel

Associate

Max Haensel is an Associate at AMCO and joined the firm in 2020.  Previously, Mr. Haensel was an Investment Banking Analyst in the Grocery & Restaurants group at PJ Solomon.  While at PJ Solomon, Mr. Haensel worked on the execution of various merger & acquisitions and financing transactions with a focus on traditional and specialty food retailers.

Mr. Haensel graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics-Economics.

Jimmy O’Brien

Associate

Jimmy O’Brien is an Associate of A&M Capital Partners.

Previously, Mr. O’Brien worked in the Leveraged Finance group at Jefferies, where he focused on structuring and executing leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and other debt financings across a range of industries.

Mr. O’Brien graduated from the College of the Holy Cross with a BA in Political Science.

Parker Odrich

Associate

Parker Odrich is an Associate of the A&M Capital Strategic Investments Fund. Prior to joining the A&M Capital team, Mr. Odrich was with Alvarez & Marsal as a Management Consultant in the Private Equity Services group.  Prior to joining Alvarez & Marsal, he held positions with A&M Capital Partners and JetBlue Technology Ventures. Mr. Odrich holds a B.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.

Jill Owen

Associate

Jill Owen joined AMCO as an Associate in March of 2021. Prior to joining AMCO, Ms. Owen was an Associate at RFE Investment Partners, a middle market private equity firm pursuing control investments in North American small market companies across a range of industries. Ms. Owen began her career as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Industrials Group at Wells Fargo Securities.

Ms. Owen received a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Economics from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University in 2016.

Michael Revord

Associate

Michael Revord is an Associate of A&M Capital Partners.

Previously, Mr. Revord worked at PJ Solomon as a generalist focusing on mergers and acquisitions across a variety of industry groups including Consumer Retail, Infrastructure Power & Renewables, and Technology Media & Telecom.

Mr. Revord graduated from the University of Michigan with a BBA from the Ross School of Business.

Aubrey Salmon

Associate

Aubrey Salmon is an Associate at AMCO and joined the firm in 2021.  Previously, Mr. Salmon was an Investment Banking Analyst in the Business Services group at Harris Williams.  While at Harris Williams, Mr. Salmon worked on the execution of various mergers & acquisitions and financing transactions with a focus on the business services sector.

Mr. Salmon received a Master of Science in Commerce and a Bachelor of Arts in History and English Literature, cum laude, from the University of Virginia.

Charlotte Wechsler

Associate

Charlotte Wechsler is an Associate of A&M Capital Partners.

Previously, Ms. Wechsler worked at Barclays in the Financial Sponsors Group where she advised clients on a variety of transactions including debt financings supporting leveraged buyouts, mergers & acquisitions and equity issuances across multiple industries.

Ms. Wechsler graduated from Wake Forest University with a BS in Finance.

Carlo Leone

Analyst

Prior to joining A&M Capital Europe, Carlo was an Investment Banking Analyst in the EMEA M&A Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London, where he executed a number of M&A transactions.  

Carlo is an Italian national and holds a Masters in Management from London Business School and a Bachelor of Science in International Finance (magna cum laude) from Bocconi University.

Michael R. Bardorf

Chief Financial Officer

Michael Bardorf is Chief Financial Officer of A&M Capital, responsible for the day-to-day operations of the firm, as well as fund accounting, compliance and investor relations. Previously, Mr. Bardorf was Chief Financial Officer at Enhanced Equity Funds, a New York based private-equity firm focused on lower-middle-market growth companies in the healthcare industry. Prior to that, Mr. Bardorf was Controller at American Securities, a leading middle-market private equity firm based in New York and Controller at FLAG Capital Management, a Connecticut-based venture capital, private equity and real assets fund-of-funds. Mr. Bardorf began his career at Ernst & Young.

Mr. Bardorf holds a BS in Accounting from Fairfield University.

Philip Barritt

Finance Director

Prior to joining A&M Capital Europe, Philip was a Manager at Coller Capital, a leading Secondaries Private Equity firm. Whilst at Coller Capital, Philip managed the day-to-day finance operations of Coller Capital’s active funds and was also responsible for structuring financing facilities.

Before joining Coller Capital, Philip was an auditor in the Investment Management division of PwC, London. Philip was responsible for auditing a range of private equity, venture capital and mutual funds.

Philip holds a BSc in Economics and Politics from Queen Mary, University of London, and an ACA from the ICAEW.

Matthew Fliesser

Controller

Matthew Fliesser is the Controller of A&M Capital.

Previously, Mr. Fliesser was the Assistant Controller at Commonfund Capital Inc., a private equity and venture capital asset manager specializing in fund of fund investments, co-investments, and secondary investments. Prior to that, Mr. Fliesser was an Assurance Senior Associate in PwC’s alternative investment group where he audited hedge funds and private equity funds.

Mr. Fliesser holds a BSBA in Accounting from Western New England University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Lana Ostrovsky

Management Company Controller

Lana Ostrovsky is the Management Company Controller of A&M Capital, responsible for the accounting and financial reporting of the Advisor. Previously, Ms. Ostrovsky was the Management Company Controller and CFO Advisor at Prologue Capital, a Greenwich-based macro hedge fund specializing in sovereign debt and currencies with offices in London and Miami. Prior to that, Ms. Ostrovsky was the Vice President and Senior Controller for Private Equity Fund of Funds at PineBridge Investments, a global alternative asset manager based in New York, where she focused on fund of funds, Direct PE, Hedge and Real Estate products. Ms. Ostrovsky began her career as an Audit Associate at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Ms. Ostrovsky holds a BS in Accounting from NYU Stern School of Business and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Barbara Gould

General Counsel/CCO

Barbara Gould is the General Counsel and CCO of A&M Capital. Previously, Ms. Gould was the General Counsel of multiple leveraged finance platforms within GE Capital, including GE Capital Lending, GE Sponsor Finance, and GE Equity. From 1993- 2016, she held a series of legal positions within GE Capital. Ms. Gould has 30+ years of corporate finance, private equity, and securities law experience.

Ms. Gould began her career in NYC at Shearman & Sterling, a global corporate law firm, where she focused on workouts, restructurings, and complex commercial and securities litigation.

She holds a BA in Political Science from Colgate University, and a JD from St. John’s University School of law. She is admitted to practice law in New York and is an Authorized House Counsel in Connecticut.

Scott Richter

Head of Investor Relations

Scott Richter is a Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations at A&M Capital. Since 1997, Mr. Richter has held senior private equity marketing positions and been responsible for all aspects of marketing private equity partnerships to institutional investors including public and corporate pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, foundations & endowments, fund of funds, family offices and high net-worth individuals. During this time, Mr. Richter’s senior leadership roles were with Ashton Stewart & Co, Barclays, Lehman Brother / Neuberger Berman, Atlantic-Pacific Capital, Bear Stearns, J.P. Morgan, PaineWebber and BancBoston Robertson Stephens. Prior to marketing private equity partnerships, Mr. Richter was with Pacific Corporate Group (1994 to 1997), a leading private equity consultant, where he was responsible for direct, co-investments and limited partnership investing. He was the lead consultant on the California Public Employees’ Retirement System account. Mr. Richter was also a corporate banking officer at Bank of Nova Scotia and began his career as a consultant/auditor at Ernst & Young.

Mr. Richter is a Certified Public Accountant. He holds an MBA, double major in Finance and International Business, from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Science and Economics with an emphasis in Accounting from St. Mary’s College of California.