Bio

Mr. Santomero has been a private equity investor since 1983. Beginning in 1991, Mr. Santomero has partnered with TMB Industries in all of its investments in addition to making other private equity investments through Guard Hill Holdings and Rabbit Hill Industries. Prior to 1991, Mr. Santomero was a partner at Chemical Venture Partners (now JP Morgan Partners) and a partner at Butler Capital Corporation, one of the first Institutional LBO and Mezzanine shops in the United States. From 1979 to 1981, he was a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions group at Salomon Brothers. Mr. Santomero has an MBA from Stanford Business School and a BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.