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Reeve B. WaudManaging Partner
Reeve Waud is the Founder and Managing Partner of Waud Capital Partners. Over his 34-year investment career, he has acquired more than 340 companies. Prior to founding WCP in 1993, Mr. Waud worked at the private equity firm Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner and in the venture capital group at Salomon Brothers.
Mr. Waud is Chairman of Heart + Paw as well as serving on the Boards of The GI Alliance and Lifelong Learner Holdings. He is also the Chairman of Acadia Healthcare Company (NASDAQ: ACHC), which was previously a WCP portfolio company.
He is a member of the Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Finance Committee and is on the Board of the Northwestern Memorial Foundation. In addition, he is a Trustee and member of the Finance Committee and Photography Committee of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Previously, he served as a Trustee of St. Paul’s School for ten years and was the Treasurer of the school as well as Chairman of Audit and Risk and a Member of the Executive Committee. In addition, he spent more than twenty years on the Board of the Shedd Aquarium and served on the Executive Committee as well as the Chairman of the Finance and Audit Committee. Over the past decade, Mr. Waud was also the Vice Chairman, a Member of the Executive Committee and Member of the Board of Directors of The Economic Club of Chicago. For more than six years he served as the Chairman of the Illinois State Police Merit Board, which has oversight responsibility for the Illinois State Police.
Mr. Waud holds a B.A. in Economics from Middlebury College and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Reeve B. Waud
Managing Partner
Matthew W. Clary
Partner
Justin C. DuPere
Partner
Christopher J. Graber
Partner
David O. Neighbours
Partner
Matthew R. Albers
Principal
Samuel T. Bennett
Senior Associate
Kenneth C. Collins
Principal
Timothy J. Cremieux
Principal
Scott R. Fischer
Vice President
Marc Gruenhut
Vice President
Brandon Jonas
Associate
Graham Kenter
Associate
Kyle D. Lattner
Principal
Ed Lee
Associate
Michael J. Lehman
Vice President
Daniel P. Pellegrino
Vice President
William P. Renehan
Associate
Sean Riordan
Vice President
Neal Riutta
Associate
Richard P. Roggeveen
Vice President
Karan Sabharwal
Vice President
Robert S. Scherl
Senior Associate
Paul D. Sutphin
Principal
Ryan Thomas
Associate
Riva R. Trivedi
Senior Associate
Martha Wong
Associate