Bio

Mr. Giess has over 25 years of experience investing as a principal at all different layers of the capital structure. Prior to Anvil Capital, Mr. Giess was a founding Partner of Hampshire Equity Partners, a middle-market private equity firm with over $850 million under management. At Hampshire, he was responsible for originating, structuring, and managing portfolio investments. Over a ten-year period with Hampshire and its predecessors, Mr. Giess was responsible for the deployment of over $200 million invested in thirteen portfolio companies, with transactions including buyouts, consolidations, recapitalizations, restructurings and growth financings. Before Hampshire, Mr. Giess was with the Corporate Finance Group of GE Capital, where he was actively involved in all phases of new business development of merchant banking transactions. Previously, Mr. Giess was the Credit Department Manager and a founding executive of the Boston branch of Algemene Bank Nederland (ABN), where he was responsible for monitoring the risk exposure of the portfolio as it grew from $25 million to over $250 million. Mr. Giess started his career at Shawmut Bank of Boston. Mr. Giess received an MBA in accounting and finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in economics from Dartmouth College. Mr. Giess is married with four children and lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts.