Dan P. Howell

Mesirow Financial Private Equity, Inc. (Mesirow Financial Private Equity) is a private equity subsidiary of Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc. founded in 1982. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Pivot3, Inc. provides data storage solutions. It offers failover-protected virtual machines, including vBank, a scale-out SSD/disk storage appliance and multiple VM that delivers compute and storage resources, and supports various virtual servers and solid state disk drives to extend storage performance across general business applications and bundles; VDI startup bundle to help organizations deploy virtual desktop environments; and vSTAC unified storage and compute appliances. The firm also provides Storage And Compute Stack for capacity-intensive environments that provide Direct Drive Access for virtual machines and federate hardware resources across Pivot3 appliances; CloudBank, a scale-out disk storage appliance and single VM; and DataBank, a scale-out disk storage appliance. The company was founded by William C. Galloway, Alan Skidmore, Ryan Callison and Lee Caswell in 2002 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Mesirow Financial Investment Management, Inc. (MFIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was established in 1986 and their sole shareholder is Mesirow Financial Services, Inc., which is wholly-owned by Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc., a Chicago-based financial services firm that was founded in 1937. MFIM provides advisory services to individuals, corporations or other businesses, pension and profit-sharing plans, non-qualified plans, state or municipal government entities, and charitable organizations.