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Co-founder of KarpReilly, LLC, 2006 – Present
Co-CEO of Apax Partners, L.P., 2005 – 2006. Member of the U.S. Investment and Operation Committees and a member of the Apax Worldwide Executive Committee.
Co-founder, Saunders, Karp & Megrue (SKM), 1990 – 2005
B.S. in Chemistry from University of California – Santa Cruz and M.S. in Management from M.I.T. Sloan School of Management
Began his career at Morgan Stanley in the M & A Department, moving to the Private Equity Department in 1986. Played a leading role in the creation and marketing of Morgan Stanley’s $2.0 billion private equity fund. Principally responsible for fund’s acquisition of Tom Thumb (Cullum Companies), a major southwestern food retailer, in August 1988 and the acquisition of Colt Industries in May 1988.
Prior to M.I.T., Allan served as a staff scientist at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, where he designed sonar systems for the U.S. Navy. Prior to that he did graduate work in molecular and atomic physics at M.I.T. He also worked as a consultant in the technology management group at Booz-Allen and Hamilton and for IBM as part of the research group in the magnetic bubble memory development effort at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose.
Co-founder of KarpReilly, LLC, 2006 – Present
Partner of Apax Partners, L.P., 2005 – 2006. Head of US Retail and Consumer Group. Member of US Investment and Operating Committees.
Partner, Saunders Karp & Megrue (SKM), 1990 – 2005. Member of SKM Investment and Management Committees.
Began career at Bankers Trust and later joined Morgan Stanley’s Merchant Banking Department, 1986 – 1990
B.S. in Accounting from Providence College, M.B.A. in Finance from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Vice Chair and member of Board of Trustees at Providence College, Chair of Finance Committee
Partner of KarpReilly, LLC 2007 – Present
Formerly with Apax Partners, L.P. and Saunders, Karp and Megrue, 2001-2007
Began his career in the M&A departments of Gleacher Partners and Merrill Lynch
Graduated summa cum laude with high honors in economics and a minor in philosophy from Colgate University
Partner of KarpReilly, LLC, 2017 – Present
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Compliance Officer, 2010 – Present
Joined the firm as a Senior Associate in 2007
Former Associate at Goode Partners, a consumer private equity firm and at Sandler O’Neill & Partners in the Investment Banking Group
Began his career at KPMG LLP in public accounting
B.S. in Accounting from Lehigh University
Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York
Partner of KarpReilly, LLC, 2008 – Present
Former Partner of Apax Partners, L.P., 2005 – 2008
Billy has worked with the KarpReilly co-founders since 1997, when he joined Saunders Karp & Megrue as an associate
Began his career at Morgan Stanley’s Real Estate fund
B.A. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Serves on the Advisory Board of UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South
Partner of KarpReilly, LLC, 2018 – Present
Joined the firm as an Associate in 2009
Began his career at NewStar Financial, a middle-market focused leveraged finance firm
B.S. in Management, with concentrations in Finance and Accounting, from Boston College’s Carroll School of Management
Ajay Natrajan,
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Financial Officer of KarpReilly, LLC
Joined the firm as Controller in 2011
Former Senior Associate at Cerberus Capital Management and Assistant Controller at Wexford Capital in the private equity fund administration group
Began his career at KPMG, LLP in the Consumer and Industrial Markets Practice
B.S. in Finance from Purdue University
Masters in Accounting from Pace University
Certified Public Accountant in the State of Connecticut
Principal of KarpReilly, LLC
Joined the firm as an Associate in 2011
Began his career at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the Real Estate Group, Gaming and Lodging Investment Banking Department
B.S. in Economics with concentrations in Finance and Management and B.A.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Drew Skolnik,
Vice President
Vice President of KarpReilly, LLC
Joined the firm as an Associate in 2014
Began his career at Evercore in the Consumer & Retail Group
B.S. in Economics with a concentration in Finance from University of Pennsylvania
Will Mooney,
Vice President
Vice President of KarpReilly, LLC
Joined KarpReilly as an Associate in 2015
Began his career at Financo where he focused on Consumer & Retail M&A
Graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania where he received a B.S. in Economics with a concentration in Finance
Joined KarpReilly as an Associate in 2017
Began his career at Guggenheim Partners in the Retail Investment Banking Group
B.A. in Economics from Cornell University
Rhiana Gademsky,
Associate
Joined KarpReilly as an Associate in 2018
Began her career at Barclays in the Natural Resources Investment Banking Group
B.S. in Operations Research and Information Engineering from Cornell University
Stephanie Parry,
Assistant Controller
Joined KarpReilly as an Assistant Controller in 2018
Former Supervisory Accountant at AIG, in the Derivative Accounting Group
Began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC in the Alternative Investment Practice
B.S. in Accounting and Management from Fairfield University’s Dolan School of Business
Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York.
