Mohamed Ousseimi

Mr. Ousseimi has over 27 years of investment banking, asset management, private equity and venture capital experience. He has also gained extensive operating experience through active board level participation at many portfolio companies and served as Chairman of two companies where he spearheaded operational and financial turnarounds. He started his professional career at State Street Research & Management Company in Boston, and subsequently joined Merrill Lynch's investment banking division in New York, where he primarily focused on leveraged buyouts and high yield financings. He then joined the Gefinor Group in New York and built the firm's private equity and venture capital business. Mr. Ousseimi gained extensive investment banking experience while at Merrill Lynch advising fortune 1000 industrial companies and private equity groups on multi-billion dollar leveraged merger and acquisition transactions and high yield financings. While at Gefinor, he was responsible in an entrepreneurial setting for originating, managing and raising a number of private equity and venture capital funds, and successfully establishing a licensed Small Business Investment Company (SBIC). He also originated, arranged financing, and structured several acquisition and divestiture transactions, as well as venture capital financings for early stage technology start-up's. Mr. Ousseimi received his MBA from the John E. Anderson School of Management at UCLA, and graduated from the University of California Berkeley with a BA in Political Economy. He currently serves on the boards of Genesant Technologies and on a number of Gefinor Group company boards and committees.