PEI’s Investment Professionals
PEI Management Team
New York
Charles P. Stetson - Managing Director
David B. Parshall - Managing Director
Gunnar B. Fremuth - Managing Director
Richard Vietor - Venture Partner
Benjamin Wilson - Senior Associate
Anisur Choudhury - Analyst
Kellen DiStefano - Analyst
Jeanne Liou - Controller
Regional Partners
William H. Robb - Chicago
Lucien Ruby - San Francisco
Ryuzo Kinoshita - Tokyo
PEI Corporate Ventures
Kenneth W. Rind - Partner, PEICV
Charles P. Stetson, Jr.: Mr. Stetson is a Managing Director and co-founded PEI in 1992. Previously he was a Managing Director of Venture Capital Fund of America, leading the fund’s U.S. investments, and assisting in raising $50 million from U.S. and European investors. Before joining VCFA, Mr. Stetson was an investment banker, as President of Davis Skaggs Capital in San Francisco and previously as Vice President of Bache Halsey Stuart, in New York and in San Francisco. He pioneered private equity secondaries with a purchase of a portfolio of interests in 1978. Mr. Stetson is a graduate of Yale University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
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Direct telephone: 212-750-2933
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David B. Parshall: Mr. Parshall is a Managing Director and co-founded PEI in 1992. He has 30 years of related investment banking and private equity experience. Prior to forming PEI, he was a Managing Director of The Blackstone Group and a member of its Advisory Committee. Before that Mr. Parshall was a Managing Director of Lehman Brothers, where he had broad experience over a period of 14 years providing corporate finance and merger and acquisition advisory services for clients covering a cross section of economic sectors. Mr. Parshall worked at Lehman Brothers in Investment Banking in both New York and San Francisco. Mr. Parshall is a graduate of Columbia College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
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Direct telephone: 212-750-7132
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Gunnar B. Fremuth: Mr. Fremuth is a Managing Director and joined PEI in 1996. Prior to that, he was an investment banker with the boutique firm LT Private Placements, which specialized in raising early-stage capital for medical device and technology companies. Prior to that, he served as a Director and Controller of a publishing company. Mr. Fremuth is a graduate of New York University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He has passed the CPA and CFA Level I and II examinations.
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Direct telephone: 212-750-9361
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Kenneth W. Rind: Dr. Rind is a Co-founder and Partner of PEI Corporate Ventures, which focuses on the purchase of venture investments from corporate sellers. Dr. Rind has worked with PEI since 1996. He is an internationally active venture capitalist, who has been both a practitioner and long-time observer of corporate strategic investing. Dr. Rind has been a corporate development executive and strategic investor for Xerox, and a founder of 10 venture capital funds, including the Oxford Venture Funds. He was also an investment banking/venture capital partner at Oppenheimer (now CIBC), an advisor on investments to the Rockefeller family office, the portfolio manager of a technology-focused mutual fund, and a founder of an early technology consulting group. Dr. Rind was a founding Director of the National Venture Capital Association and is currently a Director of the Venture Investors Association of New York and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts. Dr. Rind is a graduate of Cornell University and Columbia University.
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Direct telephone: 212-838-6633
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William H. Robb: Mr. Robb is a Regional Partner responsible for originating deal flow in the Midwest. He has worked with PEI since 1996 and was a general partner of FIL Partners, LP, a PEI affiliate. He has over 20 years of experience in corporate development and equity investments as
a partner of Platte River Ventures, Managing Partner of Sentry Financial Corporation Accelerator Fund, VP Corporate Development of Fruehauf Trailer Company and President of Fruehauf International Limited, Partner of Ridge Capital Corporation, Managing Director of Continental Bank Mergers and Acquisitions Group, and Manager of A.T. Kearney. Mr. Robb is a graduate of Northwestern University and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Direct telephone: 847-854-2673
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Lucien Ruby: Mr. Ruby is a Regional Partner responsible for originating deal flow on the west coast. He has been associated with PEI since 1992. He has over 25 years of private equity experience, including as General Partner of Crown Advisors, Founder and General Partner of Quest Ventures, and as a Principal at Brentwood Associates. Prior to that, he was a consultant for the Strategic Planning Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts and managed Vermont Investment Capital, a small SBIC. He is a graduate of Duke University and the Harvard University Graduate School of Business.
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Direct telephone: 415-782-1414
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Ryuzo Kinoshita: Mr. Kinoshita is a
Regional Partner responsible for originating deal flow in Japan. He has been associated with PEI since 1997. Mr. Kinoshita is the President of Sojitz Private Equity, Inc. (formerly Nichimen Private Equity) in Tokyo, in which PEI is a shareholder. Mr. Kinoshita had previously worked in Tokyo at Techno-Ventures, a leading fund manager investing in U.S. private equity funds and at Nichimen Corporation.
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Direct telephone: [81] 03-5210-3601
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Richard Vietor: Mr.
Vietor joined PEI as a venture partner focusing on
healthcare. He has over 35 years experience following
the healthcare sector and is an industry consultant,
specializing in providing advice on corporate strategy,
financing and communications to specialty pharmaceutical
and medical technology companies. For the last few
years, Mr. Vietor has been engaged by Lehman Brothers as
a Senior Advisor to its Healthcare Investment Banking
Division. Prior to 2002, he was a Managing Director in
Merrill Lynch's Healthcare Investment Banking Unit, and
was involved in a number of M&A and financing
transactions. For most of his career at Merrill Lynch,
he was widely recognized as a top ranked Senior Analyst,
specializing primarily on research coverage of both
large and emerging pharmaceutical companies globally.
Mr. Vietor also serves as a director of QLT, Inc, a
public company developing drugs to treat ocular
diseases, and InfaCare Pharmaceutical Corporation, a
private company specializing in developing neonatal
drugs. Mr. Vietor received his B.A. from Yale University
and his M.B.A. in Finance from the Columbia University
Graduate School of Business.
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Benjamin Wilson: Mr. Wilson
joined PEI as Senior Associate in June 2008 upon his graduation from
the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Prior to pursuing his MBA, Mr. Wilson
spent five years in investment banking, first with
Deutsche Bank Securities and then with Friedman,
Billings, Ramsey & Co. He is a graduate of
Washington and Lee University and is NASD registered
(Series 7 and 63).
To Email Benjamin Wilson
please click here.
Direct telephone: 212-750-1408
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Anisur R. Choudhury: Mr. Choudhury joined PEI as an Analyst in June 2008 upon his graduation from New York University with a Bachelor’s degree in finance. Prior to graduation, Mr. Choudhury worked at Morgan Stanley as a research assistant while attending school.
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Direct telephone: 212-750-1409
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Kellen DiStefano: Mr. DiStefano joined PEI as an Analyst in June 2008 upon his graduation from The King’s College with a Bachelor’s degree in management. Prior to graduation, Mr. DiStefano worked as an intern at Oppenheimer & Company, Inc. while attending school. He has passed his Series 7 General Securities Representative Exam.
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Direct telephone: 212-750-1357
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Jeanne Liou: Ms. Liou joined PEI as Controller in 2006. Ms. Liou had previous experience with similar responsibilities at M.D. Sass Investors Services and Bear Stearns Asset Management. Ms. Liou also had prior work experience with PricewaterhouseCoopers. She is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a Master’s degree in Professional Accounting.
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Direct telephone: 212-750-4791
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