John Weber, Jr. Bio

Mr. Weber has 15 years of private equity, financial and business development experience. Prior to co-founding Laurel in 2007, he was a Partner at MVP Capital Partners, which he joined in 2003. While at MVP, Mr. Weber led three platform investments totaling $20 million in transactions valued at more than $70 million. During his tenure at MVP, Mr. Weber sourced numerous proprietary investment opportunities through his extensive personal and professional networks. He conducted due diligence on both platform and add-on acquisitions, recruited half a dozen senior executives, and raised $40 million in capital on behalf of his portfolio companies. Previously, Mr. Weber was a Business Analyst in the investment division of independent energy company Mirant Corporation where he focused on operations as well as strategy and planning. As one of a handful of recent MBA graduates recruited to complete a comprehensive management training program, Mr. Weber focused on business opportunities in the deregulated natural gas and electricity markets as well as prospective acquisitions for Mirant's internal venture capital group. Prior to attending graduate school at Duke, Mr. Weber spent four years in sales and marketing at the Quaker State Corporation. He began as a Territory Manager working in the northeast selling automotive aftermarket products to wholesale, retail, and industrial customers. After two years, Mr. Weber was promoted to Associate Brand Manager of the company's $130 million private label automotive lubricants business, which covered over 500 SKUs and operations in four states. Prior to Quaker State, Mr. Weber held operations and analyst positions at Boston-based firms Brown Brothers Harriman and The Raymond Company. Mr. Weber holds a B.A. degree from Wake Forest University and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.