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Lynn W. Carpenter
Director
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E-mail: lwc@sfspartners.com
Direct Line: (440) 264-8008
Lynn joined South Franklin Street Partners in January 2002. Prior to joining South Franklin Street Partners, Lynn was with Morgenthaler Partners, a private equity investment firm, where she was responsible for identifying, evaluating, structuring and monitoring leveraged investments in a variety of industries.
Prior to joining Morgenthaler, Lynn worked for the Fountains Retirement Communities as Director of Acquisitions where she prepared and presented acquisition and development analysis and recommendations, including all financial and market feasibility analysis, and coordinated the due diligence process.
Lynn also worked at Key Bank where she underwrote senior debt financing transactions and managed a portfolio of relationships in its Healthcare Finance Group.
Lynn received a B.S from Miami University (Ohio) and an M.B.A from The Ohio State University.
Shawn R. Ely
Managing Director
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E-mail: sre@sfspartners.com
Direct Line: (440) 264-8006
Shawn joined South Franklin Street Partners in April 2007 and brings over 17 years of diverse and practical business knowledge to the firm, including private equity, investment banking and turnaround & restructuring experience, coupled with true hands-on operating experience in both an entrepreneurial and a large corporate setting. He has served as a board member or board observer for a variety of companies.
Prior to joining SFSP, Shawn was a Director with a NY-based turnaround, restructuring and investment banking boutique where he focused on providing investment banking and other advisory services to financially and operationally challenged companies. Previously, he had served as the Senior Vice President of Operations and Administration for Big Rock Sports, a $300mm specialty distributor jointly owned by Key Principal Partners and JP Morgan Capital Partners.
Big Rock Sports was a portfolio company of Mr. Ely’s at Key Principal Partners, where he had spent six years making both controlling and non-controlling investments in middle market companies across the U.S. Prior to his tenure with Key Principal Partners, Shawn served as a Vice President with a Cleveland-based regional investment banking firm where he focused on executing middle market M&A and capital raising transactions for clients in a variety of markets.
He had also spent several years in both the workout group at Key Bank and the corporate treasury division of KeyCorp.
Shawn graduated with a B.S., cum laude, from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and earned his MBA, with honors, from the University of Chicago.
Bonnie J. Klonowski
Marketing Manager
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E-mail: bjk@sfspartners.com
Direct Line: (440) 264-8001
Bonnie joined South Franklin Street Partners in July 2006 and manages South Franklin Street Partners' nationwide database of contacts. Bonnie is the point of contact for direct marketing campaigns and leads South Franklin Street Partners' direct calling program. She manages the development of marketing materials and executes the distribution process from implementation to completion.
Prior to joining South Franklin Street Partners, Bonnie managed her own business that required marketing and sales skills as well as financial analysis and computer skills. Bonnie also has a background in insurance underwriting and bonding.
Bonnie received her B.A. Magna Cum Laude from Baldwin Wallace College.
Raymond A. Lancaster
Managing Director
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E-mail: ral@sfspartners.com
Direct Line: (440) 264-8003
A co-founder of South Franklin Street Partners, Ray has 25 years of experience in building and managing private equity firms. From 1995 through 2000, he served as Managing Partner of Kirtland Capital Partners, a Cleveland, Ohio-based private equity firm. With two partners, he raised $300 million to invest in portfolio companies.
Ray was founder and Managing Partner of Key Equity Partners, having been recruited by KeyCorp to establish its presence in the leveraged buyout, private equity market. There he built a highly-profitable business that continues today as Blue Point Capital Partners.
From 1985-89, he served as the Managing Partner in a venture capital subsidiary of Norstar Bancorp, established to invest in early and mid-sized high-technology companies. This subsidiary was acquired by Fleet Bancorp and became a part of Fleet Partners. Ray also is the former Chief Financial Officer of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has served on over 20 boards of directors, six for which he is currently a director.
William W. Vogelgesang
Managing Director
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E-mail: wwv@sfspartners.com
Direct Line: (440) 264-8005
As co-founder of South Franklin Street Partners, Bill works with our portfolio company partners to help build long-term value for their customers, employees, suppliers and shareholders. With a passion for employee-owned businesses, Bill has a focus within the ESOP community and is a frequent speaker on the subject of employee ownership.
While his focus is on employee-owned enterprises, Bill has experience in a broad array of businesses including distribution, manufacturing and business services. Having spent time as an officer in a material processing business and having been involved in the startup of a number of other companies, Bill understands the struggles of building a successful business. All companies encounter difficult times; the successful ones find the seed of opportunity that is present in all of them. Having the right partner can make all the difference.
Bill was a Managing Director and Principal of Brown, Gibbons, Lang & Company, L.P. (BGL), a middle-market investment banking firm with offices in Chicago and Cleveland, where he worked for seven years. He served as Chairman of the Brown, Gibbons, Lang & Company's Management Committee. He was active in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and restructurings.
He also spent three years as a principal and the Chief Financial Officer of a hazardous waste acquisition and management company. Prior to joining BGL, Bill served as President of Colonial Capital, Inc., a NASD broker-dealer specializing in corporate development engagements for corporate and investment fund clients. He also worked for several years as a banking officer at Ameritrust (now part of KeyCorp) and Citicorp.
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