Richard Roeder

Richard Roeder cofounded Vance Street Capital, a private equity firm that acquires businesses in the medical, life sciences, and aerospace and defense sectors, in 2007.  He also is the managing partner of Cherry Hill Investments, a family investment firm.  Previously, he cofounded and served as a managing partner of private equity firm Aurora Capital Group from 1991 until 2007.  Before cofounding Aurora, he was a partner in the Paul Hastings law firm.  He received his undergraduate degree from Amherst College, attended Cambridge University as a research student in comparative law and received his law degree from the University of California at Berkeley.  Mr. Roeder is an Emeritus Trustee of the Music Center of Los Angeles County, past Board President and an Emeritus Trustee of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and past Chairman of the UCLA/Orthopaedic Hospital Foundation. He is currently a member of the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution and a board member of the Petersen Automotive Museum, the Berkeley Center on Law and Business and Cambridge in America.