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Charlie Buckley
    Charlie has extensive experience in the plastics equipment industry with over 30 years of relevant experience. Currently, he serves as President and CEO of Davis-Standard LLC, the world leader in plastic extrusion equipment. He is the past president of John Brown Plastics and former Chief Financial Officer of Leesona. Charlie is a past director of Brown Plastics Machinery LLC, and Black Clawson Converting Machinery, Inc. In addition to serving on the board of Davis-Standard LLC, Charlie also sits on the board of The Fitzpatrick Company and has served on the advisory boards of Dormia, Dynisco, and Hudson Products.
Chris Carmel
    Chris is a private investor and friend of HRCP having been involved in a number of transactions following a consulting position at Citicorp Venture Capital Ltd. He has been a Director of American Coachlines, Inc. and High Voltage Engineering Corporation.
Peter de Kok
    Peter has served as President and CEO of GranQuartz since its founding. He has spent his entire career in the natural and engineered stone industry, beginning in 1959 as an apprentice with the largest granite monument manufacturing company in Germany. In 1971, he then relocated to the U.S. and founded GranQuartz.
Gordon E. Ettie
    Gordon brings extensive experience in process equipment industries. He retired from Hosokawa Micron International, Inc. where he was President of the Product Recovery Group. At Hosokawa he also had served as President of the Americas and President of Hosokawa Bepex in Minneapolis, MN. Previously he was President and CEO of AquaAir, Inc., a Vice-President of Ingersoll-Rand and President of CPM, a division of Ingersoll-Rand. Recently Mr. Ettie has been a consultant to large multinational companies such as Baker Hughes and Alfa Laval, Inc. Gordon sits on the Board of Dexter Magnetic Technologies and Fitzpatrick.
Brad Goebel
    Brad brings 20 years of experience from the energy services and industrial equipment world. Currently he serves as President of the Petreco Division of Cameron, having previously served as CEO of Petreco International during the period of our ownership. He was CEO of Applied Process Solutions, where he grew the company from a small upstream process equipment company into a worldwide leader with operations in Europe, North America and Asia, and previously with Baker Hughes. Brad is on the Board of Dexter Magnetic Technologies.
Sheila Greatrex
    Sheila has over 20 years' experience of providing capital to food and agribusiness companies. She has initiated transactions that contributed over $1.5 billion to the industry, ran ING's North American Food and Agribusiness Group for five years and has been CFO to two small companies with unique products for the food industry.
Mitchell Haber
    Mitch has spent over 23 years in the media, publishing, and information industries and completed 43 acquisitions and investments totaling $1.2 billion. He was a senior executive with Simon & Schuster and investor with Veronis Suhler Stevenson. Mitch is on the Board of All Island Media.
George A. Hand
    George has over 25 years of progressive managerial and technical experience in the financial services sector; has served as director for public, private and non-profit concerns; and was an initial director of and investor in AGCO Corporation. He gained his institutional experience from HK International, GE Commercial Finance, Heller Financial Inc. and Arthur Andersen & Company.
Gary R. Langford
    Gary has been involved with HRCP in various capacities since 1990 when he was a financial officer with AGCO Corporation. He contributes over 20 years of financial and operating experience with small and middle market companies, including Fieldcrest Cannon, Hartwell Industries and ePValue. Gary started his career at Arthur Andersen & Company implementing enterprise computer systems.
Len LaPorta
    Len brings extensive experience in medical device and aerospace contract manufacturing industries. Len was the owner of Crystal R&D, which he built through acquisitions around Boston’s hi-tech 495 manufacturing corridor and sold in 2006. Crystal R&D utilized the latest CNC technology and was named a worldwide supplier for C.R. Bard. Len has advised business owners on M&A, capital raising, business strategy and general operations for nearly a decade. Previously, Len was Manager of Fixed Income Trading for Putnam Investments and State Street Global Advisors in which he supervised investment operations with over $200 billion of assets under management and nearly $12 trillion of dollar value trades from 1996-2000. He is a graduate of U.S. Naval Academy and earned an MBA from Boston College.
Mark Panozzo
    Mark joined Black Clawson Converting Machinery LLC as President, Converting Systems in 2000. From 1991 to 2000, prior to joining BCCM, he held various executive positions at Rexam Release (a division of Rexam plc), including Vice President of Sales and Business Unit Manager. From 1985 to 1991 Mark was a sales representative for National Starch & Chemical Corporation. Mark holds an MBA from DePaul University and a BS from Eastern Illinois University.
Hamilton Robinson Jr.
    Tony founded HRCP in 1984 and remains an investor and friend of the firm. He was educated at Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and entered the investment field in 1967. Prior to that, he practiced corporate, financial and securities law with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and Paris. He has served as chairman or director of 12 middle market companies.
Jay Shattuck
    Jay held executive positions with GE and GE Capital for over 20 years after graduating from the Corporate Manufacturing Management Program. He has developed, managed and divested niche product lines and businesses for GE that ranged from continuous process engineered materials to high technology systems integration. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland University College teaching the masters seminar in Innovation and Technology Management.
David Zachariah
    David has extensive experience in international operations with a number of energy service companies. He has lived and worked in Russia and the United Kingdom and worked extensively in the Peoples Republic of China, Latin America and the Middle East. David served as Vice President of Eastern Hemisphere for Petreco International, Inc. and President of Petreco Canada, Ltd. Prior to that he was Vice President of Applied Process Solutions, Inc. In his 25 working years, David has held a variety of management positions in manufacturing, sales and operations with various energy service companies including Weatherford, Cooper Cameron, Hanover Compression, Baker Hughes, Camco, and TRW.


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