IAN G. ROSS – PARTNER, CONCENTRIC EQUITY PARTNERS

Ian Ross is a member of the Board of Managers of Tricoci University of Beauty Culture

Ian has built his career as an investor in business, consumer and financial services companies.  He has more than 10 years of private equity experience in addition to five years as an investment banker and two years of lending experience.  He currently serves as a Partner at Concentric Equity Partners, and is responsible for investment origination, due diligence, deal structuring, and portfolio management.

Prior to joining Concentric Equity Partners in 2007, Ian was an Associate with The Edgewater Funds, a Chicago-based middle market private equity fund with approximately $1 billion under management.

Prior to joining Edgewater he spent nearly five years with Lincoln Partners (now Lincoln International) a boutique investment bank focused on mergers and acquisitions advisory work. Prior to Lincoln, he spent two years as an Investment Analyst with GE Capital’s Commercial Finance division that financed private companies. Ian also worked for a joint venture between GE Capital and The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. in Bangkok, Thailand.

Ian holds a BA in Finance (with honors) from Michigan State University and an MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Ian is a board member of the Financial Markets Institute at Michigan State University and a trustee of National Louis University.