CHUCK BUTLER

Mr. Butler is a Partner at Palomino Capital LLC. He is an expert at leading management teams, lenders and investors through the entire span of the private equity investment process from growth strategy through post-merger integration. Having successfully completed over eighty transactions representing over $2 billion in value, he is also highly skilled at negotiating and maximizing value.

Mr. Butler sits on several boards including his role as chairman Palomino’s investments in River Bend Industries, Hospitec and Fortius Solutions.

Mr. Butler formerly led Barrier Advisor’s investment bank practice which focused on distressed and out of favor industries. Prior to Barrier, he served as Vice President of Integration with Convergent Communications where he led numerous capital raises and the acquisition /integration of fourteen companies during his tenure.

Mr. Butler spent eight years with PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Corporate Finance and Transaction Services practice where he provided M&A advisory, capital raise and post merger integration services primarily for private equity clients in a variety of industries.

Mr. Butler holds a Business Administration degree from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Mr. Butler is active in a number of civic and charitable organizations including serving as an Advisory Board Member to the Cattle Barron’s Ball, which raises funds for cancer research and is the nation’s single largest fundraising event for the American Cancer Society raising more than $28 million over the last 32 years in an ongoing pursuit of a cure for cancer.