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WHO WE ARE
ABOUT US
Phi Tran, Acting Chief Executive Officer
Phi Tran serves as PEP’s acting CEO. Phi was promoted from Chief Operating Officer – a role he held for a year - by PEP’s Governing Board. Phi is PEP’s longest serving employee, integral in the creation of the program’s back-end services (financial management, receipting, audits, database and technology systems, etc). He is primarily responsible for building out and managing all of our re-entry and reintegration services. Phi has worked for PEP since October 2004 and has served in many different capacities over the last 5 years, beginning with design and development of a comprehensive database for case management. He actively manages PEP’s in-prison programs as well as chairing all of management meetings for the organization, including playing a leading role in the development and fundraising process.
Phi brings to PEP a diverse entrepreneurial background with multiple successful ventures in industries ranging from technology distribution to entertainment. He was the founder and owner of a JDP Production, an organizer of entertainment events. Previously, he founded and owned a company called Panorama, a storefront selling Japanese animation products. The business rented videos to a 600-member customer base and sold related products, generating monthly sales of up to $30,000 over two years.
Phi holds a Bachelors Degree in Accounting at the University of Houston.
Governing Board
Mike Humphrey
Managing Director
Tanglewood Investments
Houston, Texas
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Mike founded Tanglewood Investments, a middle-market private equity firm focused on turnarounds and growth equity investments in industrial manufacturing. Tanglewood has bought or started 18 companies worldwide in industries ranging from heat-exchanger manufacturing to air pollution control systems.
Prior to founding Tanglewood, Mike led the turnaround and sale of Utopia Spring Water to the Perrier Group. He also worked as a project engineer at Mobil Oil and a partner in the investment banking division of Smith Barney, specializing in mergers and acquisitions and private equity investing.
Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in engineering from Texas A&M University and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
John Jackson
Director
Exterran Holdings, Encore Energy Partners and Seitel, Inc.
Houston, TX
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John is a director of Exterran Holdings, Encore Energy Partners and Seitel, Inc. Previously, John was president and CEO of Hanover Compressor Company from 2004 until its merger with Universal Compressor in August of 2007, which formed Exterran Holdings. John joined Hanover in 2002 as chief financial officer.
Prior to joining Hanover, John served as chief financial officer of Duke Energy Field Services, a midstream energy company based in Denver. John joined Duke Energy Field Services as controller in 1999 and was named chief financial officer in 2001.
John graduated from Baylor University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting.
Eliot Kerlin
Principal
Insight Equity
Dallas, Texas
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Eliot is a principal at Insight Equity, a private equity firm with approximately $900 million in committed capital under management that focuses on acquiring and transforming underperforming middle market companies.
Prior to Insight, Eliot served as a turnaround manager for Bay State Paper Company while the company was in Chapter 11; an associate at Jupiter Partners and an investment banker with Merrill Lynch in their Global Communications Group in New York. While with Merrill, he was involved in executing more than $35 billion of strategic acquisitions and debt and equity financings.
Eliot graduated with honors from Texas A&M University where he received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance. Eliot completed his Masters in Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he graduated with Distinction.
Eliot serves on the boards of several private companies as well as the Board of Directors of the Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth.
Bill Meyer
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Bell Microproducts
San Jose, California
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Bill has more than 20 years of senior finance experience in the technology industry. He is currently CFO of Bell Microproducts, a Fortune 1000 distributor of computer storage technology and related systems.
Prior to joining Bell, Bill served as managing director of Financial Intelligence LLP, a senior financial consulting firm providing strategic and interim-CFO consulting services to technology companies. He also served as executive vice president and CFO of BroadVision, Inc., a leading global supplier of web-based application software, and held similar executive roles with Phoenix Technologies, Ltd., Silicon Corp. and Mainsoft Corp. Bill has led efforts on an initial public offering, several merger-and-acquisition transactions of up to $250 million, and a number of multimillion-dollar licensing transactions. He spent the first six years of his career at the San Jose office of Arthur Andersen.
Bill earned a Bachelor of Science in business administration from California State University Sacramento.
Bill serves as Chairman of the Board for PEP.
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