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Principal.
Mr. Eakes joined the Firm in 2000 as an Associate, and was promoted
to Vice President in 2006 and Principal in 2007. Mr. Eakes has approximately
ten years of private equity and corporate finance experience. While
at KRG, Mr. Eakes has been actively involved with a number of current and
past portfolio companies in a broad range of industries including
life sciences and med-tech (Specialty Research, Accellent and CIVCO), infrastructure/energy
(Focus), marketing services (Aspen Marketing), construction products
(Tecta), and consumer products (Case Logic and Sun Valley). Prior to joining
KRG, Mr. Eakes was an Analyst in the Financial Sponsor Group at Banc of
America Securities, LLC, from 1997 to 2000 where he executed senior debt
financings for leveraged buyouts of middle market companies by private
equity firms and prior to that, was a Sales Representative for Access International,
a Chicago-based software development firm. Mr. Eakes serves as a
director of KRG portfolio companies, Celebrity, Specialty Research and
Tecta. Mr. Eakes earned a BS in Business Administration with Distinction
from the University of Kansas.
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