User:Kendrick White

Kendrick D. White (47), has extensive venture capital fund management experience as well as corporate finance consulting and direct executive management experience, accumulated during his 18 years of full time work in Russia. In 2005, Mr. White founded Marchmont Capital Partners, LLC an investment advisory firm focused on finance raising in various innovation sectors, which has developed a wide network of consulting partnerships in key cities across the Russian Federation. In 2007, Mr. White created Marchmont Media which published the Marchmont Investment Guide to Russia journal and currently operates the www.Marchmontnews.com website covering daily bi-lingual regional investment news for finance professionals.

From 1998 to 2005, Mr. White was Director of the Quadriga Central Russia Regional Venture Fund (RVF), a USD $50.0 million private equity fund financed by the EBRD and the German KfW. He oversaw the implementation of numerous successful investment projects during this time, including Nizhpharm, now part of the STADA Group, Bridgetown Foods, a top FMCG producer, and Multiflex, the leading flexible packaging producer in Russia, and many others.

Between 1995 and 1998, Mr. White worked in the Corporate Finance Division of Price Waterhouse Coopers, where he was specifically seconded as a senior advisor to the Russian Privatization Center (RPC). Mr. White was responsible for training 22 Russian consultants in three provincial regions on the development of a self sustainable investment advisory center for SME businesses seeking growth capital.

Prior to his arrival in Russia in 1992 as an advisor to the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Administration on SME development programs, Mr. White worked from 1985 to 1992 at ABN/Amro - LaSalle National Bank, in Chicago, IL, in various management positions in the Strategic Planning, Cash Management and M&A divisions. Mr. White holds an MBA in Finance & Int’l Business from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, and a BA degree in International Economics from Stetson University, DeLand, FL. Mr. White lives full time in the city of Nizhny Novgorod and is married with two children.