Bio

Mr. Chidsey is a co-founder of The Decatur Group. Prior to the founding of The Decatur Group, Mr. Chidsey spent six 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. Chidsey was responsible for the company’s capital raising activities, acquisitions and corporate development activities. ARC raised substantial public and private debt and equity capital and completed over 100 acquisitions in support of its growth plan. 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. Chidsey 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 1992-1997, Mr. Chidsey 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, he was a member of the High Yield and Restructuring Group at Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated. Mr. Chidsey holds a B.A. from Emory University. He resides in Denver, Colorado.