Primary Job Title Partner Primary Organization Trilantic Capital Partners
Gender Male
Investor Type
Mr. Charles Ayers, also known as Charlie, is a Partner and Chairman of Trilantic Capital Management LLC. Mr. Ayers serves as an Investment Professional at Trilantic Capital Partners V (North America) LP. Mr. Ayers joined Trilantic Capital Management in 2003 and has 25 years of private equity experience. Prior to that, he was a Founding Partner of
MidOcean Partners. He serves as Chairman of Trilantic Capital Partners IV, L.P. and Trilantic Capital Partners III, L.P. He served as Managing Partner at American Infrastructure MLP Funds. Mr. Ayers also served as the Head of DB Capital Partners North America where he was responsible for overseeing $1.2 billion of investments and managing the 25-member investment team. Prior to DB Capital, Mr. Ayers was a Managing Partner at McCown De Leeuw & Co. He served as Managing Director and Head of DB Capital Partners North America at Deutsche Bank AG, Investment Arm. He served as the Managing Director and Head of Global Merchant Banking Business- New York of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. since April 10, 2003. From 1987 to 1991, Mr. Ayers was a Managing Partner at HMA Investments, Inc. He also worked in the Mergers and Acquisitions department at Lazard Freres & Co. and the Corporate Finance Group at Kidder, Peabody & Co. Mr. Ayers has over 25 years of private equity experience. During his career, he has been responsible for sourcing and executing more than 15 investments and has been a Member of the Board of Directors of several companies. Mr. Ayers serves as a Director of certain privately held companies, including Tiara Motorcoach Corporation. He serves as a Director of Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, Inc. and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He serves as Director of Papa Gino's Inc and is an active member of YPO, the Young President’ Organization, Gotham Chapter. Mr. Ayers served on the Board of Directors of Kinetics Group Inc. He served as a Director of Ichor Systems, Inc. since August 2000 and Nimbus CD International Inc. since March 1995. He served as a Director of Bonita Bay Holdings, Inc., Accretive Commerce, Inc., Jet Plastica Industries, Inc., Celerity Group Inc., Strayer Education Inc., and Prestige Brands International Inc. Mr. Ayres holds an M.B.A. degree from the Amos Tuck School of Business of Dartmouth College and a B.A. degree in Economics, magna cum laude, from Duke University.
