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KIM G. DAVIS
Charlesbank
Capital Partners
Kim Davis is a managing director of Charlesbank Capital Partners,
a private investment firm.
Prior to co-founding Charlesbank Capital Partners in July 1998,
Davis was a managing director of Charlesbank’s predecessor
firm, Harvard Private Capital Group, the private equity and real
estate investment unit of Harvard Management Company.
From 1995 through 1997, he was engaged in personal investing activities,
as a general partner and a major shareholder of Gift Holdings, which
includes Papel Giftware and Fitz & Floyd. He is also an investor
in National Directories Inc., a publisher of yellow pages in Southern
California.
Davis was at Kohlberg & Co. as General Partner from 1988 through
1994. He was chairman of Northwestern Steel, as well as, chairman
of the executive committee of various Kohlberg portfolio companies,
including ABC Rail Corporation, ABTCo., Northwestern Steel &
Wire, Simplicity Manufacturing, and Welbilt Corporation. Formerly,
he was a Partner at Weiss, Peck & Greer, where he helped build
a leveraged buyout activity. Earlier in his career, Davis held various
positions at General Motors Corporation and Dyson-Kissner-Moran
Corporation.
He currently serves as a director of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies
Corporation (Wabtec), The Heafner Group, National Specialty Hospitals,
and Shoppers Drug Mart, all portfolio companies
Aside
from his principal business activities, Davis is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations, is a director of the Baltic-America
Enterprise Fund (to which he was appointed by President Clinton
in 1994), and served as the acting president and CEO of the Czech
and Slovak American Enterprise Fund. He is a member of the board
of advisors of the Washington Development Capital Corporation, co-chair
of his Harvard College Fund Class Committee, vice chair of the Harvard
College Fund and a member of the Harvard University Committee on
Resources.
He
is a member of the class of 1976 from Harvard College and a recipient
of an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1978.
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