KBI Logo Board of Directors

Our distinguished directors.
  

In addition to Joseph T. McMahon, profiled under Management, the KBI Biopharma Board of Directors includes:

 

Dick Brandewie

Chairman of the Board

Managing Partner - Ballast Point Ventures
Prior to co-founding Ballast Point Ventures in 2001, Dick was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Quality Distribution, Inc. (QDI) and its predecessor firm, MTL Inc., a transportation logistics business. Dick helped build MTL from $138 million to $571 million in revenue over eight years.

Dick was a General Partner with South Atlantic Venture Funds I and II from 1985 to 1992, where he helped develop South Atlantic's successful regional investment focus and participated in numerous venture capital investments across a diverse group of industries, with a particular emphasis on the health care and life science segments. Prior to joining South Atlantic, Dick was a General Partner with MBW Venture Partners and Michigan Investment Fund and a Vice President and Investment Officer with Doan Resources, a venture capital firm founded by Ted Doan, the former Chairman of Dow Chemical. He graduated from Bowling Green State University with a bachelor's degree, and from the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business with an MBA.

Dick currently serves on the boards of directors of Blue Medical Supply, GHN-Online, Matrix Management Services, MolecularMD, KBI BioPharma and Advanced Processing & Imaging and previously served on the board of PDSHeart.

 

Will Thomas

Assistant Vice President - Capital Southwest Partners
Will joined Capital Southwest in 2006. Previously, Will served as a U.S. Air Force officer for eleven years in varied positions including chief pilot of an airlift group, director of worldwide logistics operations and chief of aircraft development contracts. He has also served as a consultant for Investor Group Services, where he analyzed potential investments in mid–market companies by assessing technology, market position and performance for private equity firms. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in engineering sciences from the U.S. Air Force Academy.

 

Howard F. Auman, Jr.
Mr. Auman is an accomplished entrepreneur, owner of Southern Property Management LLC, Auman Productions LLC and Partner and Board member of Blue Highways Television Network. He builds, owns and manages commercial buildings and apartment complexes throughout central North Carolina. Previously, he served on the board of Triad Bank, the Board of Trustees of Randolph Community College and as President of the Asheboro Home builders Association. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 

Harrington Bischof
Mr. Bischof is co-founder and president of Pandora Capital Corp., a private investment company. He has thirty years of investment banking experience, including 11 years with White, Weld & Co., where he became Senior Vice President and head of its investment banking activities in the Midwest. Following the merger of White, Weld and Co. with Merrill Lynch & Co., he served on several Merrill Lynch Investment Banking management committees and as a Director of Merrill Lynch International Bank in London. Mr. Bischof later served as Senior Advisor to Prudential Securities, Inc. He is currently a Director of Peerless Industrial Group, Inc., Old Republic International Corporation (NYSE) and Utilities, Inc.

 

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