Paul Tanen

Paul Tanen is a Managing Partner of Blue Creek Equity Partners.
Since 1991 Paul has completed over $1.0 billion of principal investments in 70 transactions.
He has served as Chairman and Board Member on dozens of corporate boards of directors.
He has led transactions in a multitude of industries in which he acted as a principal investor in both control and non-control opportunities.
Additionally Paul has invested in securities up and down the capital structure from senior secured loans to common equity.
Paul has spent the vast majority of his professional experience as either a principal investor or as an intermediary with a focus on capital raise, sell side and financial and operational workout and turnaround projects.
Prior to Blue Creek, Paul was the Managing Member of Torn & Frayed Advisors LLC, which provided capital raise assistance, sell side representation and financial restructuring guidance to privately held, middle market companies.
Prior to Torn & Frayed, Paul was a Managing Director of Allied Capital in Washington DC.
Allied managed over $4 billion of capital and was invested in over 100 companies.
He served on Allied’s Investment Committee and chaired the portfolio development committee.
Paul was hired in 2000 to start Allied Capital’s workout and turnaround practice.
Prior to Allied Capital, Paul, along with a Partner, founded the Private Investments Division of the hedge fund, Charter Oak Partners.
Charter Oak is one of the oldest hedge funds in the United States originally founded in 1965 as Steinhardt, Fine and Berkowitz.
Prior to Charter Oak Partners Paul worked as an Associate at The Argosy Group, North Star Partners, Morgan Stanley and Coopers & Lybrand.
Paul received his B.S.
from Northeastern University where he participated in the Cooperative Business Program.
Paul Graduated in 1990 with the distinction of Magna Cum Laude.
In 1992 Paul graduated from the Stern School of Business at New York University with a Masters Degree in Finance.