Private Equity Fast Pitch

Jeff Sangalis has been in the Private Equity and Mezzanine world for over 30 years now. Most notably, he was with RSTW, which was the largest Mezzanine Capital firm in the US. In 2012 Jeff brought his wealth of connections and investing experience to the Orix Corporation to set up Orix Mezzanine and Private Equity. He quickly gained a reputation as a leading investor in "Independent Sponsor" deals, with 24 of their 32 portfolio companies falling within this category. Today they will be discussing the many branches of Orix and their approach within the industry, In addition, they will cover what differentiates independent sponsors and what young professionals can expect when they join Private Equity,

Our host, Jeff Henningsen, President of Lockton companies in Houston, will be speaking with Clay Hunter, a St. Louis native and Harvard grad, who began his career in Investment Banking before transitioning to traditional Private Equity 15 years ago, and then several years ago joining the Stephens group, a Little Rock-based family office with over 8 decades of successful investments and partnerships with a wide range of companies and management teams. Their approach is a simple and straightforward idea: partner with exceptional management and provide the resources needed to achieve their strategic vision in order to build long-term value.

Today, Jeff Henningsen will be speaking with Jay Jester who has been with Audax Group for over 18 years. As a Managing Director for the over 2 Billion dollar Private equity fund, Jay has been focused on building strategic assets out of small pieces. As of March 2018, Audax has invested in one hundred and thirteen platform companies and more than six hundred and fifty six add-on acquisitions for that portfolio.

Today, Jeff will be speaking with Kurt Haras with Quarton International. With 27 partners and 60 employees, Quarton has global operations with offices from Detroit to London ... along with a combined track record of more than 500 transactions totaling over 15 billion dollars. They'll be discussing what differentiates Quarton's approach within the market and current industry trends.