David McLeese - Managing Partner

Dave McLeese started First Capital Partners in 2006 and serves as its managing partner. He has more than 25 years of corporate finance and investing experience, which includes private equity, venture capital, mezzanine capital, leveraged finance and commercial lending. Since 1987, Dave's career has focused on financing mergers and acquisitions, management buyouts, growth financings and leveraged recapitalizations. He joined First Capital Partners from Odin Capital Group, a venture capital firm based in Omaha. Prior relocating to Omaha in 1999, Dave was a managing director at Bank of America in Chicago in its acquisition finance group and a vice president at Citicorp (now Citigroup) in Chicago in its leveraged capital group and high yield bond group. Dave began his career as a credit analyst at the National Bank of Commerce in Lincoln, Nebraska. He has a B.S. in business administration from Nebraska Wesleyan University and an M.B.A. in finance and economics from the University of Chicago.
 


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