Erika López is a corporate partner in Baker McKenzie's Chicago office and a member of the Firm's North America Transactional Practice Group and the Global Private Equity Practice Group. Erika advises private equity sponsors, private companies and public companies on a variety of complex transactional matters, including leveraged buy-outs, mergers and acquisitions, stock and asset purchases, carve-out transactions, divestitures, and minority investments. Erika also counsels clients on corporate governance and other general corporate matters.

Erika is recognized in Best Lawyers, Ones to Watch, Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2023) and received the "Top Lawyers Under 40" Award from the Hispanic National Bar Association (2020).

Mr. Huff has over twenty years of experience in the private equity industry and has been a partner in several private equity funds raised by Austin Ventures and J. H. Whitney. Mr. Huff led investments in, and had board responsibilities for, profitable investments in industry-leading companies such as R360 Environmental Solutions, Brooks Sports, ICON International, Kana Communications, Metis and Tallan.

Prior to co-founding Blue Sage in 2002, Mr. Huff was a partner at Austin Ventures, a large private equity fund based in Austin, Texas. Prior to joining Austin Ventures, he was a managing member at J. H. Whitney, a private equity firm that grew from approximately Blue Sage’s size to over $5 billion of assets under management while Mr. Huff was with the firm. Before joining Whitney, Mr. Huff was a Fulbright Scholar at the National University of Singapore and worked with McKinsey and Company.

Mr. Huff is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and a Founding Board Member of ACG Central Texas. He was also elected to the national Small Business Investor Alliance (SBIA) Board of Governors in 2011.

Mr. Huff received his undergraduate degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he graduated first in his class, was President of the Student Center Governing Board and earned First-Team Academic All-American honors in track and field. He earned his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Carl Press is a Partner on the Explore team at Thoma Bravo. Based in San Francisco, he joined the firm in 2015. Carl is responsible for founding and co-leading the firm’s Explore platform, which focuses on investing in high-growth, middle-market software and technology companies. GrowthCap named Carl to its list of Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors for 2021. Prior to Thoma Bravo, he was a technology investor at HighBar Partners, an Associate in the Special Situations Group at Oaktree Capital Management, and an Analyst at UBS Investment Bank. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees at SLS Preschool. Carl holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Palmer Scholar, and a BS, with honors, in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Kathy Reiland is a member of the Investment Committee at Integrum.

Kathy has over thirty years of investment and acquisition experience most recently during her tenure at Standard Industries (“Standard”) and 40 North Management (“40 North”) and Evercore Partners (“Evercore”).

Kathy joined Standard and 40 North in 2016 as Head of Strategy and Development and a member of the executive leadership team. Standard is a privately held global industrial company with a broad array of investments, technologies and holdings including building materials assets and next-generation solar solutions. 40 North, a related investment business of Standard Industries, is a fundamentally based investment platform that takes concentrated, long-term positions across a range of sectors to create value for all stakeholders. During her tenure, Kathy was involved in both public and private investments totaling more than $10 billion in enterprise value and ranging from early to late-stage including Braas Monier, W.R. Grace, Clariant, Hover, and Hippo.

Prior to joining Standard, Kathy spent eighteen years as a Senior Managing Director at Evercore, a global independent investment banking advisory firm, and Evercore Capital Partners, Evercore’s private equity platform. During that time, Kathy was a general partner of the private equity funds, and ultimately served as the Chief Operating Officer of the firm’s investment businesses that included private equity, traditional asset management and wealth management. Later, she served as head of Evercore’s international joint ventures in Asia. Kathy was involved in Evercore Capital Partner’s investments in Fidelity Information Services (FIS), Sedgwick, Bollinger and Causeway Capital. In addition, Kathy was actively involved in Evercore’s diversity and recruiting efforts responsible for launching the Women’s Forum which was designed to establish relationship networks and training to position women for senior leadership roles.

Prior to joining Evercore, Kathy was a buy-side equity analyst at Sanford Bernstein and a consultant at Bain & Co.

Kathy earned her B.A. degree from Duke University and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth.

Karl Schade has been structuring, analyzing, and managing private equity investments for over three decades. Today, he serves as Managing Partner of Presidio Investors, the private equity firm he founded in 2007. In this role, Karl has focused on middle market buyouts in the entertainment and business services industries in North America and Europe. At Presidio Investors, Karl, and the team he has recruited, have invested in seventeen platform investments through over forty acquisitions.

Karl also has significant CEO experience. From 2013-2016, he was the CEO of The Presidio Group, a San Francisco-based financial services firm with ~$5 billion of assets under advisement. As CEO, Karl worked with the team and Board of Presidio to grow assets, open a Washington D.C. office, and restructure the firm, resulting in a successful exit. During 2011, Karl also served as CEO of Hattrick Sports Group, one of Presidio Investors’ most successful technology investments.

Prior to founding Presidio Investors, Karl worked for a decade at several large private equity firms, including The Blackstone Group in New York City, Silver Lake Partners in Menlo Park, and Blum Capital Partners in San Francisco. While at these Firms, Karl learned industry best practices and was a team-member on deals representing approximately $1 billion of invested equity capital.

Karl received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his BA from Claremont McKenna College. Karl has served on numerous Boards and Associations and is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Mr. Thomas is a Managing Director of Peak Rock. He is responsible for all aspects of the investment process including sourcing, structuring, financing, and supporting the execution of growth and value creation initiatives. Mr. Thomas serves on the Board of Directors of numerous portfolio companies and has led investments across a wide range of industries including technology, business services, consumer, distribution, and industrials sectors.

Mr. Thomas possesses over 15 years of private equity and M&A experience, having previously worked at H.I.G. Capital and Sorenson Capital. Mr. Thomas began his career working in the investment banking divisions of Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers.

Mr. Thomas received master’s degrees in business administration and international studies from the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively. He received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Brigham Young University.