Edwin Wahlen Bio

Mr. Wahlen was a Founder and Managing Partner of TCP. Mr. Wahlen passed unexpectedly in July 2022 and is Partner in Perpetuity. From 1985 to 2014 he was Founder and a Managing Partner of CGW Southeast Partners which successfully invested four private equity funds aggregating over $750 million acquiring more than 40 companies. The last of these funds was successfully closed out in 2014. These private equity funds supported management teams in acquisitions and recapitalization of middle-market companies (typically valued between $25 and $200 million). He was a Chartered Financial Analyst and was an officer of several banks and investment banks prior to forming CGW in 1985. Spike was a Director of Pharos Marine Automatic Power, Toxaway Automotive Group and TWR Lighting at the time of his passing. Additionally, Spike was a member of the Georgia Tech Sheller College Business Advisory Board, an emeritus member of the Board of Visitors of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC and served on the board of directors of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), (www.bens.org), a national, nonprofit organization of senior business leaders working for a more secure America. In 1991, Mr. Wahlen co-founded Atlanta Charity Clays, Inc., which to date has raised more than $5 million dollars for children’s charities in Atlanta and was chairman of its’ board of directors. He also served as vice chairman of Zoo Atlanta and served on that board for over twenty years as well as having served as the Chairman of the board of The Atlanta chapter of The American Diabetes Association. Spike held a BSIM from the Georgia Institute of Technology – BSIM and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.