John W. Goense

Mark A. Bounds

Erik W. Bloom

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John M. Goense
jmg@goensebounds.com

John Goense is a Managing Director of Goense Bounds & Partners, which he co-founded in 2000.

Mr. Goense has served on the Board of Directors of several portfolio companies, including Indian Head Industries, Imagine Technology Group, BVF Holdings, Capital Drywall, Melco Electric, Security Guard Holdings, BSI Holdings and CrossCom National and US Builder Services. Mr. Goense began his private equity investment career in 1988 as founder and President of Heller Equity Capital Corporation.

The partners at HECC built this buyout group to over 20 leveraged buyout investments by 1995. In 1996, Mr. Goense joined Allstate Insurance Company as Managing Director responsible for its $750 million private equity portfolio and managed the highly profitable repositioning of that portfolio. Prior to entering private equity investing, Mr. Goense held positions in investment banking and commercial banking as well as management of a successful start-up company. From 1977 to 1980 he was employed by Harris Bank. He then co-founded and managed American Paging, Inc., a telecommunications company that eventually was publicly traded. In 1984, Mr. Goense joined Kidder Peabody & Company’s investment banking group, where he concentrated on mergers and acquisitions and financing activities until leaving to found HECC. Mr. Goense earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and graduated magna cum laude from Aquinas College with a BS degree in Accounting and Business Administration.

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