About George:

George K. Kollitides, II is a senior executive at the leading private equity firm Alvarez & Marsal Capital, where he is a partner and member of the Investment and Compliance Committees within Alvarez & Marsal Capital Opportunities (“AMCO”), the fund’s lower middle-market growth strategy. Mr. Kollitides has 30 years of transaction, strategy and operations experience investing in and operating middle-market companies undergoing organic growth, consolidation, ownership transitions, operational challenges or other catalysts requiring capital and sophisticated partners. An experienced executive, he has served as a CEO, Chairman, Lead Director or Director on public, private and non-profit boards, including as a member or Chairman of Compensation and Audit Committees helping middle-market companies scale and professionalize.

Prior to joining AMCO, Mr. Kollitides was Chairman and CEO of the Remington Outdoor Company (“ROC”), a Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. (“Cerberus”) owned global consumer products company developed by acquiring and consolidating over twenty businesses. Prior to ROC, Mr. Kollitides was a Managing Director at Cerberus, one of the world’s largest investment managers, where he invested in middle-market private equity and debt.

Mr. Kollitides joined Cerberus after it acquired TenX Capital Management, a merchant bank he co-founded as President, that invested in middle-market companies. Prior to co-founding TenX, he was a Principal at Catterton Partners, the largest consumer and retail-focused private equity fund. Mr. Kollitides started his career at GE, where he was Six Sigma trained and where he held a variety of positions in the Corporate Finance and Restructuring Groups, ultimately helping found GE Equity, a global Private equity business.

Mr. Kollitides sits on the boards of WorldWise, Inc., one of the leading platforms in the pet supplies market, Frontier Dermatology, LLC, the largest dermatology practice in the Pacific Northwest and the seventeenth largest in the U.S., adMarketplace, a search advertiser, Precision Aero Gear Group, LLC, a manufacturer of critical gears for aerospace and defense, Teach for America Connecticut, a non-profit organization whose mission is to support our nation’s most promising future leaders, and he is the President-Elect of the New Canaan (CT) Youth Football Board of Directors. Mr. Kollitides is also on the Advisory Board of Tomahawk Strategic Solutions, and a Board Observer of Express Wash Topco, LLC.

Mr. Kollitides is an active member of the Young Presidents Gold Organization (YPO Gold) and is one of 100 regular members of the Boone and Crockett Club, a conservation organization founded by Teddy Roosevelt. Mr. Kollitides also serves on the Advancement Committee of the Institute for the Study of War and holds a U.S. Department of Defense Top Secret clearance (inactive).              

Mr. Kollitides previously served on the Lafayette College Trustees’ Financial Policy Committee, as the vice chairman of the Orthopedic Foundation for Active Lifestyles, various wildlife conservation organizations, a director of Good Sports New York Advisory Board, a Trustee of the Bridgeport Hospital Foundation, a board member of DOMUS, a residential program for vulnerable Connecticut youth, and as a volunteer fireman for 10 years.

Mr. Kollitides holds an MBA in Finance and Management of Organizations from Columbia Business School and a BA in Economics with a Minor in Government and Law from Lafayette College.