Duane Harris

Bio

Mr. Harris has over 20 years of experience as a principal and senior executive in middle-market investing, formerly as one of the founders and managing partners of Northstar Capital, LLC and prior to that as senior vice president at Churchill Capital, Inc. At both firms he served as a senior manager in the investment process for over 50 transactions and as a member of the investment approval committee for 30 of those investments. Before entering the private equity fund management business, Mr. Harris spent five years at General Mills in strategic planning, ten years as a professor of finance and economics at Iowa State University and three years as an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Mr. Harris earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from Iowa State and a Ph.D. in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.