Mr. Finkel is President and founder of Prism Capital, the management company of both the Prism Opportunity Fund and the Prism Mezzanine Fund. For the last eighteen years he has been completing middle market transactions, the last sixteen years in the Chicago private equity community. As Managing Partner of both the Prism Opportunity Fund and Prism Mezzanine Fund, Mr. Finkel has recruited and coordinated two investment teams and has overseen equity fund deployment into fourteen portfolio companies and mezzanine fund deployment into twelve companies. Mr. Finkel currently serves on the Boards of Penn-Wheeling Closure and Artromick, Inc. and is a founder and former Chairman of the Illinois Venture Capital Association, from whom he received their prestigious Fellows Award. Mr. Finkel was selected to serve on the State Treasurer's fund of fund review board and serves on the board of Chicago Junior Achievement.

Previously, Mr. Finkel was an Investment Manager at Wind Point Partners where he invested in early, growth and later stage companies. Before entering the world of private equity, he was an investment banker specializing in mergers and acquisitions with Paine Webber. He received an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business and a BA from Johns Hopkins University.

He can be reached at (312) 464-7900.