Leon is engaged in investments in listed and unlisted companies, as well as real estate investment through Alcarama Projects Real Estate SL. Previously, Leon founded and was CEO and CIO of BBVA AV & Partners, a company dedicated to the management of Hedge Funds (2000-2013). Leon was also Managing Director and Head of Proprietary Trading of Banco Santander (1997-2000), and Treasurer and Member of the Board of Directors of Bank Of America SA in Spain (1987-1997).  Leon is a graduate of the University of Deusto (1981) and holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from IESE (1984).

Mr. Claus von Loeper was a Member of Executive Board, Member of the Management Board, and Member of Board of Directors at Hannover Finanz GmbH. He was on the Executive Board since 1996. He joined the firm in 1991 and became a part of the management team in 1996. Mr. von Loeper was a Management Consultant at Bain & Co. from 1981 to 1983. He was Deputy Head of Central Marketing Management at Continental AG. From 1984 to 1987, he was the Director of Strategic Planning at Continental AG and following this with various marketing management functions. Mr. von Loeper holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a degree (Dipl.-Kfm.) from the University of Mannheim.

Mr. Egan is founder and General Partner of Alta Communications and Marion Equity Partners LLC, Massachusetts-based venture capital firms. He founded Alta's predecessor firm, Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. in 1979, and has identified and backed several of America's leading growth companies in the information technology, life sciences, and communications industries. He was one of the first investors in Fedex Corporation and is currently part owner of the Boston Celtics. Prior to founding Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co., Mr. Egan was a Partner at TA Associates. He began his career as a Manager of Venture Capital for New England Enterprise Capital Corporation.

Mr. Egan is past President and Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, a former Trustee of Fairfield University, a member of Wharton’s Board of Overseers, and a Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Cephalon, Inc., CRH plc, and a number of privately held companies. Mr. Egan is also a trustee of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Duniry Foundation. Mr. Egan received a degree in Economics from Fairfield University and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance.

Mike is the former CEO of Croda International plc, a FTSE-100 chemicals company. He was appointed to the Board of Croda in 1995 and became Group Chief Executive at the beginning of 1999, marking the start of a long and highly successful period in the company’s history. During his tenure as CEO (1999 to 2011), Croda’s share price increased over 1,000% vs. a decline in the FTSE-100 of -5%, a 108% rise in the FTSE-250 benchmark and a 280% rise in the FTSE Chemicals index over the same period. Mike joined Croda in 1969 as a management trainee and was appointed Managing Director of Croda Singapore in 1988, Croda Application Chemicals in 1990 and Croda Chemicals in 1991. Since retiring from Croda plc in Dec 2011, Mike joined IP Group plc’s board as a senior independent director. IP Group plc helps companies to commercialise intellectual property for technology innovations, primarily from research intensive partner universities, thereby offering more than traditional venture capital investment.

Mr. Lazier is Managing Partner of TD Investment Company. TD makes private equity investments, primarily in search funds. Mr. Lazier also serves as President of American Security Products, a leading manufacturer of high-security safes. He has served as Controller, Vice President of Sales and Co-President of Nelson Nameplate Company, a manufacturer of durable graphics and membrane switches based in Los Angeles, California. Prior to joining Nelson, Mr. Lazier worked as an engineer with IBM Corporation from 1982 to 1984. He is currently on the board of Nelson Nameplate Company, American Security Products, Columbia Sanitary Products and St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. He has also served on the board of Glendale Memorial Hospital Foundation and the San Gabriel Valley Habitat for Humanity. Mr. Lazier received his Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University.

Gerald Risk is the President of Asurion, the world’s leading provider of handset protection and other value added services to the wireless industry. Prior to serving as President, Mr. Risk was Asurion’s CFO. Since joining Asurion in 1999, Mr. Risk has been a key member of a management team that has grown the business 200 fold. Today, Asurion’s 10,000 team members serve over 200 million subscribers globally.

Prior to joining Asurion, Mr. Risk helped a wide variety of clients, from Fortune 500 firms to early stage start-ups, execute their strategic and financial plans as an investment banker with Goldman, Sachs & Co. in San Francisco, Hong Kong and New York. Mr. Risk has also worked for Hambrecht and Quist and the private investment arm of Toronto Dominion Capital.

Mr. Risk is an active mentor of entrepreneurial leaders in the for-profit and non-profit worlds. In this capacity, Mr. Risk is an active private investor and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Carillon Assisted Living (provider of assisted living services in the Southeast), HealthCPA (provider of medical expense management services for consumers), and QMC Telecom (cell tower operator in Brazil).

Mr. Risk holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar and where he served as a case writer for Jack McDonald, the Stanford Investors Professor of Finance. Mr. Risk also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Commerce with honors from Queen’s University in Canada where he was on the Dean’s List.

Mr. Thorndike founded Housatonic Partners in Boston in 1994 and has been Managing Director since that time. Prior to that, Mr. Thorndike worked with T. Rowe Price Associates where he did investment research in the nascent field of business services and Walker & Company where he was named to the Board of Directors. Mr. Thorndike is a graduate of Harvard College and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is a Director of Access Information Management; Alta Colleges; Continental Fire & Safety Services, LLC, Carillon Assisted Living, LLC; Liberty Towers, LLC; OASIS Group Ltd.; White Flower Farm, Inc., and a Trustee of Groton School and the College of the Atlantic.