Mr Brandon Bethea

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Bio

Mr. Bethea is a Partner at Aterian Investment Partners where he is involved with the investment and portfolio company activities of the firm. Mr. Bethea has been a private equity investor for more than ten years during which he has been involved in numerous transactions totaling nearly $150 million of capital deployed and more than $500 million in related financing transaction value. Prior to Aterian, he was a Principal with Insight Equity, an operationally intensive private equity firm managing $800 million of committed capital focused on investing in underperforming businesses. While at Insight, Mr. Bethea served on the Board of Directors or Board of Managers of five different entities and was a director nominee of a sixth entity. Prior to Insight, Mr. Bethea was an investment professional for three years at Freeman Spogli & Co., a Los Angeles based private equity firm that manages more than $2.0 billion of committed capital. While at Freeman Spogli, Mr. Bethea participated in a variety of transactions including an out-of-court restructuring for Hudson Respiratory Care, Inc. that included negotiations with banks, bondholders and other stakeholders regarding obligations greater than $200 million in aggregate. Mr. Bethea began his career as a generalist in Salomon Smith Barney’s West Coast Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Finance departments. Mr. Bethea received his AB from Harvard University. He also earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.