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Gerald Beechum
Gerald Beechum has served as the Managing Partner of White Cornus Lane Investments, LLC (WCLI), a private equity investor focusing on consumer, business services, and niche manufacturing industries, for the last 12 years. WCLI partners with teams to professionalize businesses using scalable processes and systems. He also has expertise in investing, operating, and advising founders of early-stage and middle-market companies.
Doug Conner
Doug has spent the last 30 years buying and selling lower-middle market businesses throughout the Midwest. However, it was his first professional decade as a Marketing Representative at IBM, a Baker Scholar at Harvard Business School, and a consultant at Bain & Company that established his focus as foremost a value-added partner to executive teams. The last three decades included
Kate Crowley
Kate Crowley has 25 years of experience working with operating businesses to evaluate and fund strategic investments and expansions. These efforts include the evaluation of creative financial solutions that are highly impactful to project feasibility within the middle market. Her clients have benefited from complex capital stacks that include favorable financing programs, Tax Incremental Financing, New Markets Tax Credits, Property
Kevin Nemetz
Kevin Nemetz has over 30 years of experience in food & consumer goods. His areas of expertise include business transformation, go-to-market strategies and execution, manufacturing and supply chain efficiencies, top and bottom-line growth, collaboration with alliances, and organizational integration improvement. Kevin has served in executive positions including CEO, GM, VP of Sales, SVP of Alliances and Analytics, Brand and Sales
Kelly Cornelis
Ms. Cornelis is an experienced investor and board member with over 25 years of experience investing in the lower middle market. She joined LaSalle Capital in 2005 and spent 19 years as a Partner and Chief Operating Advisor, where she was responsible for deal sourcing and execution, financial operations, portfolio management and investor relations. Previously she led investment activities at
