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Malon Wilkus is the founder of American Capital and has been a director, Chief Executive Officer and President since the company's inception in 1986, and its Chairman since 1998.
Since the company’s inception in 2005, Mr. Wilkus has been the Chairman of European Capital (LSE: ECAS), a $2 billion publicly traded private equity and mezzanine fund.
Since the company’s inception in 2007, Mr. Wilkus has been the Chairman of American Capital, LLC, the fund management portfolio company of American Capital, Ltd.
He has served on the board of over a dozen middle market companies in various industries.
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Mr. Babeau is currently Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Gucci Group. Mr. Babeau started his career as an auditor at Arthur Andersen. He then joined the energy sector of Bolloré Group, a widely diversified French conglomerate, where he managed divestitures in France and abroad before moving to the tobacco division as Controlling, Treasury and Audit Director and thereafter became Group Controlling Director. In 1999 he joined retail group Carrefour where he was Group Controlling Director. In 2001 he joined the PPR Group (Pinault Printemps Redoute) as Chief Financial Officer of its credit division, Finaref, which was sold in 2003 to Crédit Agricole. In 2004, when PPR completed the takeover of the Gucci Group, Mr. Babeau moved into his current role. Mr. Babeau is the chairman of the audit committee of European Capital.
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Mr. Evans has extensive experience in the financial services industry. He qualified as a chartered accountant with Peat, Marwick Mitchell (which became part of KPMG) and subsequently worked for three years in the corporate finance department of Schroders. In 1986 Mr. Evans joined Phoenix Securities where he worked for twelve years in London advising companies principally in the financial services industry on mergers and acquisitions and more general corporate strategy. He advised companies in a wide variety of sectors, including asset management, stockbroking, insurance and insurance broking and banking. He is now a private investor in his own right and is currently also a director of World Challenge Expeditions, a private company in which he has taken a small shareholding. He is resident in Guernsey. Mr. Evans is a member of both the audit committee and the nomination committee of European Capital.
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Mr. Gleizes has over 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry. From 1969 to 1989 he worked at Chase Manhattan Bank in the United States, France, Belgium and Switzerland. He was involved in both corporate and institutional banking and also risk management. From 1989 to early 2007 Mr. Gleizes was the General Manager of the Paris branch of Bayerische Landesbank. This role involved establishing the office, general banking work including structured lending and securitisation, export and project work, treasury matters and bond trading. Mr. Gleizes is the chairman of the nomination committee of European Capital.
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Mr. Peterson is a director of American Capital and is the owner and Chief Executive Officer of Columbia Ventures Corporation, which owns and operates a number of businesses around the world in addition to an active investment portfolio. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Washington Policy Center, a free market think tank, and Globalstar Australia Pty. Ltd., which offers satellite telephony and data services throughout Australia. Mr. Peterson is a member of the audit committee of European Capital.
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