NEW YORK, March 3, 2003 – Sentinel Capital Partners today announced that Eric D. Bommer has been promoted to Partner.
Mr. Bommer joined Sentinel in 1997 as a Vice President and was promoted to Principal in 1999. He currently serves as a Director of Alemite Corporation, Floral Plant Growers, NorSun Food Group, and Tony Roma’s. He also served as a Director of Met Merchandising Concepts prior to Met’s sale. Previously, he was an Associate at Gefinor Acquisition Partners, L.P., a private equity fund that specializes in investing in underperforming, middle market companies, from 1995 to 1997. From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Bommer worked in the Investment Banking Division of CS First Boston on a variety of corporate finance and merger and acquisition transactions. Previously, he spent a year at LaSalle Partners as a financial analyst.
From 1991 to 1992, Mr. Bommer was captain of the Livingston Kings, a Scottish professional hockey team that he helped lead to the Scottish First Division Championship. He holds a B.A. degree from Brown University with a double major in Business Economics and Organizational Behavior. He was also a captain of Brown’s Varsity Hockey Team.
Sentinel Capital Partners specializes in buying and building smaller middle market companies in the United States and Canada in partnership with management. Sentinel targets business and marketing services companies, consumer products and services, food and restaurants, franchising, and niche/light manufacturing businesses. Sentinel invests in management buyouts, recapitalizations, corporate divestitures and going-private transactions of established businesses with $3-15 million of operating profit.