ACG Louisiana December Networking & Speaker Series Luncheon

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ACG Louisiana brings dealmakers together to help them achieve their business and professional goals. Private equity professionals, investment bankers, intermediaries, attorneys, auditors, accountants, lenders, corporate development officers, company leaders and others focused on the middle market are members of ACG.

Guest Speaker: Rick Rees, Co-Founder & Chairman of LongueVue Capital Partners

Mr. Rick Rees is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at LongueVue Capital. He served as Chairman at Zavation Medical Products. He participates in all investment decisions and the day-to-day management of LVC. He is the former CFO of Halter Marine Group, a $1 billion revenue company at the time of its merger with Friede Goldman. Both companies specialized in the design, construction, conversion and repair of a wide variety of marine vessels, mobile offshore rigs, and engineered products for commercial and government markets. Following the merger, he joined FGH as CFO and continued in that role until he left to start LVC. Prior to joining HMG, he was a managing partner in City Capital and its affiliated companies. City Capital was a private equity group with significant holdings in maritime-related businesses. Its portfolio included shipyards, Penn Ship and Texas Drydock; a marine stevedoring and terminal operation, Penn Terminals; and a marine finance company, Maritime Capital, which was formed to purchase a portfolio of distressed loans and foreclosed vessels. Before joining City Capital, he was CFO and Director of Halter Marine, the antecedent of HMG, which was sold to Trinity Industries in 1983. He graduated Cum Laude from Tulane University with a BA in 1974 and earned an MBA in 1975. He is also a Certified Public Accountant.

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