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Greg Baty is the founder of BB Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in lower middle market companies. He was most recently a partner at Trivest Partners where he led the raise of a new fund focused on less than control investing, a new asset class for the firm. After setting an initial target for the fund of $100M, Greg successfully raised $225M for the Trivest Growth Investment Fund (TGIF) within the first five months of joining the firm. He successfully led and closed the first investment in TGIF investing roughly ten percent of the fund in a unique and highly profitable health care company.

Prior to joining Trivest Partners, Greg was a Principal at Hamilton Lane, a private equity asset manager with more than $300B under management and supervision. Greg opened and managed the firm’s Florida office from its’ inception in 2009. He established and led the Florida Growth Fund (FGF) whose sole limited partner was the State Board of Administration, the manager for the state of Florida’s pension funds. The FGF was initially a $250M fund established to invest in private equity/venture capital opportunities within the state of Florida. Given the success of the initial $250M fund, Greg oversaw two subsequent commitments of $250M as well as a $100M commitment carved out for credit opportunities within the state. All totaled, while leading the FGF, he invested approximately $500M in 34 direct investments and 24 fund investments. Greg served in board capacities for ten portfolio companies and served on multiple advisory boards of the private equity funds in which the FGF invested.
Before joining Hamilton Lane, Greg held investment positions within the private equity marketplace and has previous experience in venture finance with firms such as Garage.com (Garage Technology Ventures) and Sand Hill Capital. At these firms, he screened potential portfolio companies, sourced deal flow for emerging technologies, raised capital and managed relationships with top-tier venture capital and venture debt firms. Greg also has an operational background, having owned and operated multi-unit branded retail franchises (Blockbuster Video and Jamba Juice) along with having operational roles in technology startups.

Greg also spent nine years as a professional football player in the National Football League. He was drafted by the New England Patriots and finished his career with the Miami Dolphins.

Greg received a Master's in Science of Management degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor's degree in Human Biology from Stanford University. Greg also studied at Stanford’s Florence Italy campus.

Mr. Bosl is currently a Vice President with Hyde Park Capital supporting its mergers and acquisitions, private capital raising and corporate finance efforts. His responsibilities include origination pre-transaction advisory, deal oversight and execution, transaction structuring and negotiation. Industry focus includes Software / Tech-Enabled Services, Transportation & Logistics, Industrial and Energy.

Prior to joining Hyde Park Capital, Mr. Bosl worked within Morgan Stanley’s Fixed Income Division and was employed by a North American subsidiary of Électricité de France where he was responsible for originating, analyzing, structuring, and negotiating complex financial transactions complementary to EDF’s trading, distribution and services businesses.

Mr. Bosl graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.S. in Business Administration. In addition, Mr. Bosl holds a Masters in Business Administration from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Lou Marinaccio has spent 25 years investing in, advising, and operating Healthcare and Consumer Health & Wellness companies.  While he was a Managing Director at North Castle Partners, his prior firm and where he remains an Operating Advisor, he led investments in such well-known Consumer Health & Wellness brands as Naked Juice, Bora-Bora Organic Foods, Saratoga Spring Water, Mountain Sun Organics, FlatOut Flatbreads, Doctors’ Dermatologic Formula, and Mineral Fusion, among others.  In the Healthcare sector, he led investments in Atkins Nutritionals, a successful turnaround of the once-pioneering weight management program, and Turnbridge, the industry leading provider of extended care programs for young adults facing substance abuse and co-occurring mental health disorders.

As an operating executive, Mr. Marinaccio drove dramatic business transformation for two North Castle portfolio companies on a path to strategic exit.  He served as Chief Operating Officer of Naked Juice (sold to Pepsico) and as Chief Executive Office of Doctors Dermatologic Formula (sold to Procter & Gamble).  In addition, he currently serves as a strategic advisor to the CEO of Turnbridge.

Mr. Marinaccio previously was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Co., advising consumer, life sciences, retail, and healthcare clients on strategy, growth, and operational improvement issues.  He began his career in middle-market corporate finance at ABN-AMRO.  Mr. Marinaccio received a BBA with Distinction in Finance from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Harvard Business School.  He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Turnbridge, Palladio Beauty Group, and SoCozy.

Gus is an audit partner with over 30 years of public accounting experience. Prior to joining Grant Thornton in 2016 he was with two Big Four firms and a local firm in Atlanta.

Gus has in-depth experience serving both large and small public and private companies including early stage companies. Gus has significant experience with public equity and debt offerings, private placement offerings, initial public offerings and providing Sarbanes-Oxley readiness services. Gus has instructed national audit training and is an engagement quality reviewer for various public and private audit clients. Gus is active in recruiting and leads the firm’s efforts at the University of Florida.

His experience includes serving as lead client service partner on multi-national technology and manufacturing entities. His in-depth industry experience includes consumer business, life sciences, manufacturing, retail and technology.