Robert J. Simon

Senior Managing Director, joined Bradford in 1984 and has more than 25 years of private equity investment and corporate finance experience. Mr. Simon is or has been the Chairman of the Board of numerous public and private companies including Alkota Cleaning Systems, Inc., Independent Printing Company, Inc., Overseas Equity Investors Ltd., Tufco Technologies, Inc., Adco Technologies, Inc., Mexican Accent, Inc., Overseas Private Equities N.V., Overseas Private Investors Ltd., Pamarco Technologies, Inc., Paramount Cards, Inc., The Sunbelt Companies, Inc. and TriMark USA, Inc. Mr. Simon serves or has served on the boards of CT Color Holdings, Inc., Electron Beam Technologies, Inc., Indo-European Foods, Inc., Overseas Callander Fund, Ltd., Professional Plumbing Group, Inc., Sunbelt Modular, Inc., The C.R. Gibson Company and VSC Corporation. He is the Chairman of the Board of the Entrepreneurs’ Exchange, Inc. at New York University Graduate School of Business Administration and also serves on the Advisory Board of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. Prior to joining Bradford, Mr. Simon worked at Kidder, Peabody & Company, Inc. as a securities analyst and at Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp in the acquisition finance department. Mr. Simon received an MBA in finance with honors from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration and a B.S. in finance with honors from the University of Minnesota School of Management.