Richard Kestenbaum

President

Richard is a co-founder and Partner of Triangle Capital and has been an investment banker for almost 30 years. Richard has a great deal of experience advising clients in merchandising businesses, particularly in the apparel, accessories and retail industries. Richard is an often-quoted expert on the retail and merchandising industries and appears regularly in print and other media as well as industry panels and speaking programs. Richard also heads up the Firm's activity in the People's Republic of China, where Triangle has an exclusive representation agreement with the China National Textile and Apparel Council, an affiliate of the Chinese government.

Before co-founding Triangle Capital, Richard was a Managing Director at a boutique investment banking firm, Financo, Inc. While at Financo, Richard was responsible for a majority of the apparel industry transactions done by the firm. Prior to joining Financo, Richard was a Partner and First Vice President at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. At Drexel, Richard was responsible for a group of 14 professionals doing middle-market mergers and acquisitions all over the world.

Richard is the coauthor of three books on finance and computer programming. He is formerly an Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Business at the graduate program of the Stern School of Business at New York University. Richard received a B.S. in Accounting from New York University and a M.B.A. with a concentration in Finance from Harvard University. Richard is married and has two gorgeous children.

Richard has been an active member of Lincoln Square Synagogue for over 30 years and previously served as President from 1996-1999.
 

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Michael Doppelt

Vice President

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Alan Samuels

Vice President

Alan is currently the CEO of iClearpath, a venture-backed star-up that is revolutionizing the confusing, costly and paper-based immigration filing process, just as TurboTax transformed tax filing. With a background in international corporate, start-up and consulting businesses, Alan brings a wealth of experience to the iClearpath organization as well as personal experience with the U.S. citizenship and immigration process.

Most recently he was a key member of the executive team that turned around the business at Dotmenu, the nation’s largest consumer marketplace for online food delivery, culminating in a strategic merger with leading industry player GrubHub that more than doubled the value of the business in 18 months. Prior to that, he was a co-founder of People Capital, an education finance platform, where he led the development of the peer-to-peer lending platform, private-label services and innovative risk analytics for the student marketplace.

In the corporate world, Alan has extensive experience leading product management, marketing, business development and data operations functions. He spent over 10 years in the financial information space as an executive at both Standard & Poor’s (part of The McGraw-Hill Companies) and Fitch Ratings. He has also led product management and strategy at WorldPay, a leading electronic payments processor. He began his career as a management consultant with Arthur Andersen and Gemini Consulting, where he worked on many strategic and operational consulting projects across the US, Europe and Africa. He has an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and an MA (Hons) in Law and Management from Cambridge University.

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Shirley Stark

Vice President

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Ian Silver

Treasurer

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Eric Sussman

Financial Secretary

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Heshy Kofman

Controller

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Lloyd Epstein

Program Secretary

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Marcie Cappell

Recording Secretary

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Jay Ziffer

Corresponding Secretary

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Joyce Friedman

Executive Secretary

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