Mr. Tucker co-founded Triangle Capital Corporation's predecessor companies, Triangle Capital Partners, LLC and Triangle Mezzanine Fund LLLP in 2002 and 2003 respectively. Prior to co-founding Triangle, Mr. Tucker and an outside investor group sold First Travelcorp, a corporate travel services company that he and the investors founded in 1991. For the two years preceding the founding of First Travelcorp, Mr. Tucker served as Group Vice President, Chemical Bank, New York, with responsibility for southeastern corporate finance. Prior to Chemical Bank, Mr. Tucker spent a decade with Carolina Securities Corporation, serving as President and Chief Executive Officer until 1988. During his tenure, Carolina Securities Corporation was a member of the New York Stock Exchange, and Mr. Tucker served a term as President of the Mid-Atlantic Securities Industry Association. He entered the securities business in 1975 with Investment Corporation of Virginia. Mr. Tucker is a graduate of Washington & Lee University and Harvard Business School.
Mr. Burgess was a co-founder of Triangle Mezzanine Fund LLLP in 2003. Prior to joining Triangle, Mr. Burgess spent five years as Vice President of Oberlin Capital, a mezzanine SBIC fund focused on making debt and equity investments in the lower middle market. While at Oberlin, Mr. Burgess was responsible for all aspects of the investment process and served as the lead partner on multiple transactions. Prior to Oberlin, Mr. Burgess was an Associate at Cherokee International Management, a Raleigh based private equity fund. While at Cherokee, Mr. Burgess focused on evaluating and structuring private investment opportunities in the emerging economies of Eastern Europe. Mr. Burgess' involvement in the private equity industry includes serving on the board of governors of the National Association of SBICs where he formerly served as the president of this organization's Southern region. His involvement in community activities includes serving on the board of the International Affairs Council in Raleigh, NC. He is a native of Canada, and a graduate of the University of Regina (Great Distinction) and Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Steven C. Lilly Chief Financial Officer, Secretary, Treasurer
Mr. Lilly has been working closely with private equity investors for the majority of his career. Prior to joining Triangle in December, 2005, Mr. Lilly spent six and a half years with SpectraSite, Inc., which prior to its sale in August, 2005, was the third largest independent wireless tower company in the United States. Prior to that Mr. Lilly was in the Media & Communications Group with First Union Capital Markets (now Wachovia Securities).
At SpectraSite Mr. Lilly served as Senior Vice President-Finance & Treasurer as well as Interim Chief Financial Officer, prior to the company's sale to American Tower Corporation in a $4 billion transaction. During his time at SpectraSite, the company grew from a start-up entity to an investment grade company with over $400 million in annual revenue. From 1999 to 2005 Mr. Lilly was directly responsible for raising approximately $5.2 billion of capital in numerous private and public equity and debt financings, including over $1.7 billion in a successful initial public offering and four successful secondary public equity offerings, approximately $1.2 billion in multiple high yield bond transactions, and over $2 billion in syndicated senior debt transactions.
At First Union Mr. Lilly served as Vice President where he specialized in arranging financings for high growth, sponsor driven companies across the media and telecommunications sector. During his time at First Union, Mr. Lilly arranged over $3.5 billion in financings for companies in the following industries: wireless communications, wireless towers, wireline communications, radio & television broadcasters, publishers, cable television providers, and internet service providers.
Mr. Lilly is a graduate of Davidson College and has completed the executive education program at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler School of Business. Mr. Lilly's civic activities include serving on the Board of Directors of the Wake County Boys & Girls Club and the Board of Directors of the Methodist Home for Children. Mr. Lilly is also on the Board of Visitors at Peace College and is a Deacon in the Presbyterian Church.
W. McComb Dunwoody Independent Director
Mr. Dunwoody serves on our Board of Directors and is a member of our Compensation Committee. He is the founder of The Inverness Group Incorporated, and a Managing Member of Inverness Management LLC, a private equity investment firm that specializes in management buyout transactions. Prior to Inverness, Mr. Dunwoody began the Corporate Finance Department of First City National Bank of Houston as a Senior Vice President. From 1968 to 1975, he worked in New York as an investment banker with The First Boston Corporation and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Mr. Dunwoody currently serves on various corporate boards of directors and was formerly the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of National-Oilwell, Inc. Mr. Dunwoody's community involvement includes the cofounding of Imagine College, an education program serving over 5,000 inner-city students. He received an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas Honors Program.
Mr. Gambill serves on our Board of Directors and is a member of our our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. He is a co-founder and current Chairman of Cary Street Partners, a Richmond, Virginia based advisory and wealth management firm. From 1972 to 1999, Mr. Gambill was employed by Wheat First Butcher Singer ("Wheat"). He served as head of Wheat's capital markets group in the late 1980s, where he was responsible for investment banking, public finance, taxable fixed income, municipal sales and trading, equity sales, trading and research. He became President of Wheat in 1996. Wheat merged with First Union Corporation in January 1998. Subsequent to Wheat's merger with First Union, Mr. Gambill served as President of Wheat First Union. He later was named Head of Equity Capital Markets of Wheat First Union. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (NYSE: TRK) where he is Chairman of its audit committee and a member of its compensation committee. Mr. Gambill is also a director of NewMarket Corporation (NYSE: NEU) and serves on its audit committee. Mr. Gambill graduated summa cum laude from Hampden-Sydney College.
Mr. Goldstein serves on our Board of Directors and is a member of our Audit Committee and Compensation Committee. He is currently the President and Co-Founder of The Advisory Group, LLC, a real estate advisory, development and investment firm based in Cary, North Carolina. Mr. Goldstein is also active in his community, as he currently serves on the Boards of the Wake Education Partnership, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, as well as Paragon Commercial Bank. Prior to co-founding The Advisory Group, Mr. Goldstein was President and Partner of Roanoke Properties, the developer of a residential resort real estate community on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, which had a build out value of over $300 million. He spent three years in the securities business, having been the Chief Financial Officer of Carolina Securities Corporation for one year, and later named to head the Carolina Securities Division of Thomson McKinnon Corporation, which had acquired Carolina Securities. He began his career at KPMG, where he worked with audit and consulting clients with an emphasis on the real estate industry. A native of North Carolina, Mr. Goldstein graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in business.
Mr. Rich serves on our Board of Directors and is a member of our Audit Committee and our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. He retired in 2001 from his positions as Chief Executive Officer of Louis Dreyfus Holding Co. and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas, two affiliated Delaware and Oklahoma companies, respectively. As CEO, Mr. Rich's companies' combined operations included roles such as oil refinery processing, petroleum product storage and distribution, natural gas production and distribution and the merchandising and distribution of electricity in North America and Europe, as well as the merchandising and processing of agricultural products in North America, South America and Europe. During Mr. Rich's tenure, his companies successfully partnered with Electricite de France, creating EDF Trading, a company that currently dispatches France's electric generation system. His work experience, which spans more than thirty years, includes all aspects of the energy and agriculture industries. His expertise involves private equity investments with an emphasis on sustainability in energy and agriculture. In addition to Mr. Rich's career in the energy and agriculture industries, he currently serves as a trustee of Warren Wilson College and serves on the Board of Directors of Environmental Defense. Mr. Rich is also the former Chairman of the Board of Visitors of The Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, where he is now Emeritus and an adjunct instructor. Mr. Rich holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Duke University.
Mr. Smith serves on our Board of Directors and is a member of our Compensation Committee and our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. He currently serves as a Director of Franklin Street Partners, a privately held investment management firm in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Mr. Smith is also active in his community, as he currently serves as a Director and Vice Chairman of the Research Triangle Foundation and as a Trustee and Chairman of the Triangle Universities Center for Advanced Studies, Inc. Until 2000 he served as a Director of Carolina Power & Light Company (now Progress Energy Corporation), a company for which he has also served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. In addition, Mr. Smith has served as a director of Wachovia Corporation, Nortel Networks, Springs Industries, and Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company (Trustee). He has been a member of the Business Roundtable and The Business Council, and has served as Chairman of the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry. Mr. Smith has both an undergraduate and law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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