Alex S. Kessel

Workforce Insight LLC provides strategic workforce management consulting and implementation services. The firm offers technology and strategy services including implementations, upgrades, change management and training services, advisory, analytics, workforceIQ and workforce-OPX services. It serves the retail, healthcare, government and education, manufacturing, transportation and financial services industries. The company was founded by Steve Goldman and Donald C. Giffels in 2006 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Adams Street Partners LLC (Adams Street Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1972 by George H Spencer and Shahab Rashid. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, IL, with offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, London, Menlo Park, Munich, New York, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.

Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. is a global investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm located in New York City with additional offices in Dallas, Boston and San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary Bear Sterns Cos., Inc. (NYSE: BSC). Their equity research team consists of senior analysts located throughout the world. In addition to domestic coverage, they have research teams focusing on Latin America, Asia and Europe. The analysts use a bottom-up approach to stock selection. The Bear Stearns fixed-income research department provides coverage of every sector of the fixed-income universe. The financial analytics and structured transactions group (F.A.S.T) provides investment research, fixed-income portfolio management and analytical systems, trading technology and general financial expertise. The group also provides a broad range of services to financial institutions including asset-liability management, balance sheet restructuring, receivables-based financing analysis, security and portfolio analysis, peer analysis, and historical and real-time market-based information.

Lincoln Clean Energy LLC develops, owns, and operates wind farms. Its operational projects include Oak Solar, Lone Valley 1, Lone Valley 2, Hereford Wind, Jumbo Road Wind, and Horse Creek Wind. The firm’s development projects include LCE development pipeline and Electra Wind, Nazareth Solar, Rockwood Energy Center, and Shawnee Energy Center. The company was founded by Declan Flanagan, James R. Estes, Alex S. Kessel, Avy H. Stein and Christopher G. Boehm in 2009 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Robert W. Baird & Co Inc (Private Equity) (Robert W. Baird) is a private equity division of Robert W. Baird & Co Inc formed in 1989. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Founded by John Willis and Avy Stein in 1995, Willis Stein & Partners is a private equity firm located in Chicago.