Buerk Craig Victor

Buerk Craig Victor (www.bcvllc.com) is a  private equity firm dedicated to growth-oriented companies in the Pacific Northwest region. With over 125 years of investment and operational expertise, BCV is uniquely positioned to help entrepreneurs build successful, enduring businesses. The Managing Directors have actively invested together, in various capacities, for over 20 years. They have served as executive managers, board members, and investors for many of the Northwest's most successful growth companies including Olympic Stain, Shurgard Storage, White Lightning, and Northwestern Trust.

Buerk Craig Victor has surrounded itself with associates, venture partners, and advisors that have the operational and investment expertise to identify attractive investment opportunities and provide active, hands-on assistance to the firm's portfolio companies. The firm prides itself on a prudent, disciplined approach to principal investing.

Steve Altmayer

Mr. Altmayer is President & Chief Executive Officer of Wrap Pack, Inc. in Yakima, WA, the leading manufacturer of treated fruit and vegetable wraps in the United States. Mr. Altmayer purchased Wrap Pack from Burrows Paper Corporation in 1988.  Previously, he spent nine years as the Chief Financial Officer of Burrows, where he supervised all finance related functions for a $100 million revenue manufacturer of specialty paper for the fast food industry, and three years as the President of Wrap Pack.  From 1971 to 1976, Mr. Altmayer was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. In 2001, Mr. Altmayer successfully negotiated the sale of Wrap Pack to Prospect Partners, a private equity partnership headquartered in Chicago.  He continues to manage the company on an ongoing basis and recently acquired the agricultural packaging division of Huhtamaki Van Leer.

Mr. Altmayer holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.  He is an active member of the Yakima community and sits on the board of several charitable organizations, including the Yakima YMCA, Perry Technical Institute, and Heritage College.

Terry Greve

Mr. Greve has played a leading role in the acquisition of over 35 companies engaged in a wide variety of businesses.  From 1980 to 1992 Mr. Greve was a principal of Wallner & Company, a middle-market private equity firm based in La Jolla, California.  At Wallner he developed and successfully exited a portfolio of operating businesses, generating a 53% investor IRR and over $50 million in realized capital gains.  He also served as interim CEO of three companies and worked closely with senior management of portfolio companies to formulate strategy, raise capital and implement add-on acquisitions or exit plans.  After moving to the Pacific Northwest in 1994, Mr. Greve was a principal of a Northwest private equity firm which acquired - or made minority equity investments in - five companies. In addition, he played a major role in raising a $250 million special purpose acquisition fund from a group of major institutional investors to consolidate Coca-Cola bottling companies in northern Mexico.

Mr. Greve holds a BS in Chemistry from the University of Cincinnati, a MS in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota, and an MBA from UCLA.  He has served on the Board of Directors of numerous companies in a wide variety of industries.  In 1982 he authored a popular book on mergers and acquisitions entitled How to do a Leveraged Buyout, published by Prentice-Hall.

Stuart Platt

Rear Admiral Platt (USN Ret.) has completed a distinguished career in the military followed by an equally successful career in business.  Appointed under President Reagan as the Navy's first Competition Advocate General, he led an historic reform program to improve the way the navy buys ships, aircraft, and weapons systems.  He was also Deputy Commander of the Naval Sea Systems Command, where he oversaw the acquisition of Navy surface ships and submarines.  Admiral Platt is a highly decorated Vietnam Veteran and was recently named to the Cold War Hall of Fame.  After retiring from the military, Admiral Platt joined Diagnostic Retrieval Systems, a NYSE-traded leader in the defense electronics industry, where he led and successfully grew two autonomous divisions: DRS Data Systems Group and DRS Precision Echo.  He now lives on Bainbridge Island and recently authored a book on military procurement processes entitled The Armament Tide.

Admiral Platt holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from the University of Rochester and an MBA from the School of Business at the University of Michigan.  He also completed the Executive Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.  Admiral Platt serves on the Board of Directors of several public and private companies including the Wornick Co., the leading supplier of combat and humanitarian rations to the Department of Defense.

Kinney Johnson

Mr. Johnson is a founding partner of Sequel Partners, a Colorado-based venture firm specializing in start-up technology companies in the IT, Telecom and Healthcare sectors.  Sequel has invested in 45 start-ups and currently manages over $410 million in three funds.  Previously, Mr. Johnson co-founded Capital Health Venture Partners, where he was involved in approximately 25 early-stage, life science/healthcare start-ups through the American Healthcare Funds I & II.  In 1973, prior to entering the venture capital industry, Mr. Johnson and two partners founded Fischer Imaging Corporation, a diagnostic imaging company.  Under his ownership, Fischer grew from just 10 employees and $1 million in revenue to a highly profitable public company with 560 employees and revenues of $75 million.

Mr. Johnson received a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Business Administration from Augsburg College in 1965, and a Master's degree in Mathematical Computer Science from the University of Iowa in 1969, where he was the recipient of a joint grant from the American College Testing Company and the IBM Corporation.

Bill Greenwood

Bill Greenwood is the founding partner of Windswept Capital LLC, a leading regional M&A firm serving the Northwest market.  He has helped raise capital for a broad range of Northwest companies and brought to a successful conclusion the merger or acquisition of many others.  From 1968 to 1986, Mr. Greenwood served in various senior positions at Smith Barney, Foster & Marshall, and Dain Bosworth, all NYSE member firms. From 1986 through 1992, he was President and CEO of Spider Staging Corporation, a Seattle-based manufacturer of powered scaffolding equipment with 16 US branch offices serving a world-wide customer base. Under his direction, Spider grew rapidly, became the leader in its industry, and was acquired by Flow International in 1992.

Mr. Greenwood earned a BA degree from Yale University and an MBA with honors from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University.  He has served on the board of directors of several public and private companies including Advanced Input Devices, Flow International, Foster & Marshall, Skyland Scientific Services, and Port Townsend Paper Company.