Bio
Mr Rhee joined GB Merchant Partners in 2009 to oversee the 1903 Equity Fund. Previously, he founded FirePine Group, a merchant bank that provided operating and capital solutions to distressed retail and consumer companies. From 2000 to 2007, Mr. Rhee held various senior level positions at J.W. Childs Associates, LP, a leading middle-market private equity firm with over $3.5 billion of committed capital. He was involved with such investments as The Meow Mix Company, Murray’s Discount Auto Stores and Brookstone and played an integral role in managing the turnaround of such companies as Pan Am International Flight Academy. Mr. Rhee was also an associate in the Mergers and Acquisition Group of Merrill Lynch & Company. He has raised over $1 billion of debt capital and invested in or stewarded companies with close to $2 billion of aggregate enterprise value. Mr Rhee is Chairman of the Board of Ashley Stewart Holdings, serves on the Board of Directors of Como Fred David and Grafton-Fraser and is an outside director of Ultra Diamonds. Mr Rhee received his AB with honors from Harvard College and his JD with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
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