Our staff includes experts in operations, consulting, investment banking, and finance. We've invested over several business cycles and appreciate the importance of patient investing. Our culture, which values development of collective investment judgment, is instrumental in attracting and retaining key personnel.

The expertise of our investment staff enables us to serve as value-adding resources to our portfolio companies. We are not operating managers; nor do we intend to be. We provide analytic and investment expertise to evaluate significant operating and investment decisions, such as capital investment, acquisitions, or entrance into new markets.

We play a supportic role, assisting in strategic planning and focusing on long-term growth initiatives for each portfolio company. We encourage thoughtful organizational development and actively assist in recruiting key hires.

Louis M. Girard
Email: Lgirard@TULCAN.com

Mr. Girard serves as Managing Director of TULCAN, L.P. a middle market growth equity buy out firm based in Houston, Texas. Prior to TULCAN, Mr. Girard served as Managing Director of Private Equity for Sanders Morris Harris (NASDAQ: SMHG) an investment-banking concern where he was employed from 1995 to 2000. From 1994 to 1995, Mr. Girard served as project finance analyst and later director at Enron Development Corp. Mr. Girard earned a BA from Southern Methodist University in 1991, read International Common Law at Oxford University, England in 1989 and attended the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Executive Management at Rice University in August 2000.

Patrick G. Bromley
Email: Pbromley@TULCAN.com

An advisor to and special limited partner of TULCAN, L.P.  Mr. Bromley was a Managing Director at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette Securities Corporation (“DLJ”) where he was employed from August 1977 through April 1993.  During that period, he was engaged in a broad range of capital raising, corporate finance and merger and acquisition assignments.  From 1984 through 1993, Mr. Bromley was a senior investment banker in DLJ’s mergers and acquisitions practice.  Earlier in his career, Mr. Bromley was employed as an industrial engineer in a large U.K. based engineering conglomerate, Tube Investments, Ltd. (1970 to 1972); and as a senior financial analyst in a major U.K. consumer products company, Whitbread & Co. (1972 to 1974).  Mr. Bromley holds a Master of Arts degree in the Natural Sciences and Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge, England (Trinity College, 1970) and received his MBA from the Graduate School of Business Administration of Harvard University (1976).  Mr. Bromley is also a graduate of the Institute of Management Accountants in the U.K.

Elliot Roosevelt, III
Email: Eroosevelt@TULCAN.com

An advisor to and special limited partner of TULCAN, L.P. Mr. Roosevelt is Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director of RPM Metropolitan Partners, L.P. which he founded in 1999. Mr. Roosevelt previously served as a Director and then Partner in the private equity investment fund of Stephens Group, Inc. (“Stephens”), a private, family-owned investment firm. Mr. Roosevelt earned his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. Mr. Roosevelt received a B.A. in Political Science with honors from Stanford University. Before starting his business career, Mr. Roosevelt served as a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force and United States Air Force Reserve.