OUR TEAM

Meet the NextGen team.

Brian O’Connor

Managing Partner

Jim Bland

Partner

Rich Herrick

Chief Financial Officer & Chief Compliance Officer

Eric Wilson

Principal, Portfolio Operations

Victor Saad

Chief Talent Officer

Mark Agnew

Adjunct Professor, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Michael D. Alter

Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Gabe Barkley

Former CEO at MHW, Ltd.

Brandon Buhai

Founder and President, DAWGS Vacant Property Security

Michael Burke

Executive Vice President, MediaLink

Dennis Chookaszian

Former Chairman & CEO, CNA Insurance Companies

Austin Ashmore

CEO at Sunrise Landscape

Scott Jacobs

CEO at JMG Marketing

Linda Barros

CEO at Condata

Michael Ciaglia

Founding Partner, Performant Capital

Michael Curry

Co-Founder and CEO, Lullwater & Co.

Nick Oberhouse

CEO at D.A.W.G.S., Inc.

Will Daly

Former Co-President, COO & CFO, BarcodesInc

Jay Davis

Co-Founder, The Nashton Company

Patrick Dickinson

President & CEO, Kitchen Cabinet Distributors

Jake Levine

CEO at Robo 6K

Kyle Hebenstreit

CEO at PMP Marketing Group

Scott Donaldson

President, CLS Equity Partners, Sector Partner, CIC Partners

Chris Dooley

Former President and CEO, DMP Corporation

Joel P. Feldmann

Managing Director, Wells Fargo Securities

Chris Kalpin

Director, Value Creation

Vince Maida

Director, Value Creation

Nick Olmstead

Senior Associate

Adam Gerchen

CEO, Gerchen Capital Partners

Tom Burke

Associate

Rhea Juneja

Senior Associate, Value Creation

Mackenzie Hill

Communications and Talent Manager

Jenna Schmitt

Finance & Accounting Associate

Sunny Joiner

Operations Manager

Marcus Menninger

Analyst

Joe Higgins

Former CEO & current Chairman, Generation Brands

Alex Hodgkin

Co-founder & Managing Partner, Intrinsic

Mark Hoffman

CEO, Larson Packaging Company

Dr. Steve Kaplan

Neubauer Family Professor, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Brad Morehead

CEO, LiveWatch Security

Steve Morrissette

Managing Director, Providence Advisors

Jim Perry

Co-Founder & Managing Director, Madison Dearborn Partners

Alyssa Rapp

CEO & Director, Healthwell Acquisition Corporation I

Paul Reilly

Founder & CEO, Paul Reilly Company of Illinois

Dave Rhodes

Chief Technology Officer, Condata Global

Ellen Rudnick

Former President & CEO, Healthcare Knowledge Resources

Jim Ryan

Former Board Chair and CEO, Grainger

Braeden Wilson

CEO at Premiere Property Services

Alex Schneider

Co-Founder & Partner, Clover Capital Partners

David Sulaski

Co-Founder and Partner, Livingstone Partners

Kim Vender Moffat

Managing Partner, Rosa Partners

Adam Philpot

Entrepreneur-in-residence

Brian Corbat

Managing Partner at JEA

Brian Wolfe

Partner, Kirkland & Ellis

Javier Gomez

Entrepreneur-in-residence

Matt Herring

Entrepreneur-in-residence

Joshua Ahrens

Entrepreneur-in-residence

Mitch Pulver

CEO at Quality Network Solutions

Charlie Ponitz

Entrepreneur in Residence

Alex Skantze

Analyst

Drew Chiles

CEO at Morris Heating & Cooling

Ben Stubblefield

Entrepreneur-in-residence

Founded on partnership.

Our approach, our origin story, and our culture are all deeply rooted in a commitment to sharing knowledge, capitalizing on symbiosis, and mutual growth.

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