Decatur Group Team

Mr. Pak is a co-founder of The Decatur Group, a private equity firm focused on middle-market transactions. Prior to the founding of The Decatur Group, Mr. Pak spent four years as an Executive Vice President with Affordable Residential Communities Inc., the largest owner and operator of manufactured home communities in the U.S. During his tenure at ARC, Mr. Pak was responsible for the company’s corporate development activities. In addition to his involvement with ongoing capital raising and corporate acquisition activities, Mr. Pak was responsible for the creation and leadership of various new businesses, including Enspire Finance LLC and Enspire Insurance LLC, ARC’s consumer finance and insurance units, respectively. These business units were supported by a $250 million consumer receivables facility which provided the most flexible and liquid financing in the industry. In 2004, ARC completed the simultaneous closing of one of the largest acquisitions completed in the manufactured home community sector and the IPO of the company. Prior to joining ARC, Mr. Pak was a Principal at Breckenridge Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on acquiring middle-market companies located in the Southeastern U.S. Prior to forming BCP, Mr. Pak was a Principal at Fox Paine & Company, LLC, a San Francisco based private equity firm. He was one of four principals involved in establishing the firm and completing fundraising on a $500 million fund. From 1993-1997, Mr. Pak was a senior member of Indosuez Capital, the U.S. merchant banking division of Credit Agricole Indosuez. He was one of eight senior members of the group focusing on senior debt, mezzanine debt, bridge loans, private equity and asset management. The group completed 80 transactions with approximately $1 billion of senior debt exposure and invested over $400 million of mezzanine and equity capital. Additional activities included a $100 million dedicated private equity fund and an asset management business with $1.5 billion of third party assets in CLOs and CDOs allocated to high yield bank debt, high yield bonds and mezzanine debt. Prior to Indosuez Capital, Mr. Pak was a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Finance Groups at Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated. Mr. Pak holds a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University. He resides in Denver, Colorado with his wife and three children.