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The MSD
management team has a broad base of both operating and financial experience
in its targeted investment areas. In addition, MSD has an extensive
network of executives and potential corporate partners who can be brought
in to help its companies best achieve their business objectives.
Glenn
R. Fuhrman
Mr. Fuhrman is the Co-Managing Partner of MSD and the Co-Founder of the
firm. Prior to forming MSD, he worked from 1988 to 1998 at Goldman, Sachs
& Co., where he was a Managing Director and Head of the Special
Investments Group. He helped form this group in 1990 after two years in
Private Client Services in New York. While at Goldman, he served on the
Investment Committees of Goldman Sachs' Private Equity Partners I, II
& III, L.P., a series of mutli-manager
private equity partnerships aggregating over $3 billion, and on the Boards
of Directors of the Stone and Bridge Street Funds, the private investment
funds for the partners and employees of Goldman Sachs. Glenn received his
M.B.A. in 1988 from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania
after submatriculating from the undergraduate
program, where he studied Finance and Art History and received a B.S.E.
in 1987, summa cum laude. Glenn is Chairman of the American
Acquisitions Committee of the Tate Museum, Vice-Chairman of the
Contemporary Arts Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is
a member of the Board of Trustees of Berea College in Berea Kentucky, the
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in
Washington D.C., and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.
He is also a Board Member of the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security
Foundation.
John C. Phelan
Mr. Phelan is the Co-Managing Partner of MSD and the
Co-Founder of the firm. Prior to
forming MSD, he was a Principal from 1992 to 1997 at ESL Partners, a
Greenwich, Connecticut based investment firm. At ESL, Mr. Phelan was responsible for
ESL’s Special Situation Investments and helped grow the firm from $50
million to over $2.0 billion in assets under management. Prior to ESL, John was Vice President
in charge of Acquisitions (Western Region) for the Zell-Merrill Lynch
Real Estate Opportunity Funds.
John began his career at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he worked
from 1986 to 1988 as an Analyst in the Investment Banking Division. John received his M.B.A. from Harvard
Business School in 1990 and graduated cum
laude with distinction and Phi
Beta Kappa from Southern Methodist University in 1986 with a B.A. in
Economics and Political Science.
John also holds a General Course degree with an emphasis in
Economics and International Relations from the London School of
Economics. John is on the Board of
Trustees of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Chairman of the Investment
Committee), the Aspen Art Museum (Executive Council) and the Whitney
Museum. He is also on the
Investment Committee for the SMU Endowment, the Executive Council of the
Cox School of Business, the North American
Advisory Board of the London School of Economics and is the Major Gift
Chair of the Harvard Business School Class of 1990.
Howard
M. Berk
Mr. Berk joined MSD as a Partner in 2002. From 1998 to 2002, he was
Managing Director of TG Capital Corp., an investment group that manages
the capital of a single family and acquires and invests in both public
and private companies. From 1995 to 1998, Howard was with The Stenbeck Group acquiring and managing businesses in
multiple countries. Prior to that, Howard was with Goldman, Sachs &
Co., where he worked in the Principal Investment Area. In 1987, he began
his career at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the Mergers and Acquisitions
Department. Howard received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in
1991 and graduated magna cum laude from The University of Texas in
1987 with a B.B.A. in Finance.
Andrew C. Hee
Mr. Hee joined MSD in 2001.
He became the co-manager of the Special Opportunities Funds in
October 2001 and a Partner of MSD in January 2006. From 1998 to
2001, Andrew was with Bear Stearns & Co. as a member of the firm’s
Distressed and Special Situations trading desk, where he specialized in
initiating investment positions utilizing the firm’s proprietary
capital. From 1993 to 1996, he was an investment manager at Asian
Strategic Investments Corporation, a China-focused private equity firm
that was a joint venture between Trust Company of the West, Morgan
Stanley Dean Witter and The Pacific Group. Andrew received an
M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1998 and a B.S.
in Commerce, with distinction, from the University of Virginia in 1992.
Marc
R. Lisker
Mr. Lisker joined MSD in September 1999 as its General Counsel, and he
became a Partner of MSD in January 2008.
From September 1996 to August 1999, he was an associate in the
Corporate and Securities Group at Mayer Brown LLP in Chicago. Marc received his J.D. cum laude from
the Northwestern University School of Law in 1995, where he was a Note
and Comment Editor of the Law Review.
After law school, Marc spent one year as a law clerk to the
Honorable Stanley F. Birch, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for
the Eleventh Circuit. He received
his B.A. with distinction in European History from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1990.
Robert M. Platek
Mr. Platek joined MSD in January
2002 as co-manager of the Special Opportunities Group, and he became a
Partner of MSD in January 2006. From 1995 through 2001, Mr. Platek
founded Griffin Partners, L.P. and Plymouth Partners, L.P., and he was
also the Hedge Fund Portfolio Manager for the Proprietary Group of Paine
Webber, in each case focusing primarily on distressed and high yield
bonds as well as restructured equities. From 1991 through 1994, Mr.
Platek was a member of the High Yield Trading Group at Citicorp
Securities, Chase Securities and The Printon
Kane Group. From 1986 through 1990, Mr. Platek was a financial
analyst of Chase Manhattan Bank’s Debt Restructuring Group and Financial
Audit Group. Mr. Platek received a B.S. degree from Rutgers
University in 1986.
Eric J. Rosen
Mr. Rosen joined MSD as a Partner in March 2005 to lead the
firm’s private equity group. Prior
to joining MSD, Eric was a Managing Director of Onex Corporation, where
he spent the last sixteen years.
Onex is a diversified holding company operating through autonomous
subsidiaries and strategic partnerships.
At Onex, he provided leadership on a broad mix of the firm’s
investments in the industrial and consumer areas and worked with both
manufacturing and services businesses.
Prior to joining Onex in 1989, Mr. Rosen was a member of the Mergers
& Acquisitions and Merchant Banking Groups of Kidder, Peabody &
Co. He received an M.B.A. from the
Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1987 and a B.S. in Economics,
magna cum laude, from the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania in 1983.
Barry
A. Sholem
Mr. Sholem joined MSD as a Partner in 2004 to lead the firm’s
newly-formed real estate investment group. Prior to joining MSD, Barry
was the Chairman of CSFB Real Estate Capital Partners. In 1995, he
co-founded a leading opportunistic real estate investment fund, DLJ Real
Estate Capital Partners (“RECP”), where he had responsibility for
directing overall investment strategy and overseeing the day-to-day
activities of its investment professionals. Prior to co-founding RECP,
which later became part of CSFB, Barry led the Real Estate Principal
Investment Area and Real Estate Investment Banking on the West Coast for
Goldman, Sachs & Co., and he had national responsibility for real
estate related entity-level investments and acquisitions in the hospitality
industry. Barry received a B.A. from Brown University in 1977 and his
M.B.A. from Northwestern University in 1979.
Daniel Shuchman
Mr. Shuchman joined MSD in July 2002 to establish and manage
a portfolio primarily focused on investing in a very limited number of
outstanding public companies. He became a partner of MSD in January
2008. From 1994-2001, Daniel was a principal of Gotham Partners, an
investment partnership, and from 1988-1994 he worked in various
capacities at Goldman Sachs & Co, including the Equity Research
Department, the Merger & Acquisitions Department and the Strategic
Development Group. Prior to that, he worked at the Manhattan
Institute, a nonprofit public policy organization. Daniel received
his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987, where he studied
history and philosophy. He has written for The Wall Street Journal,
Survival (the journal of the International Institute for Strategic
Studies), and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. Daniel
is a trustee of the THANC Foundation (thyroid, head and neck cancer
research) and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
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