Phyllis Haberman

Phyllis Haberman has over twenty years of experience in executing middle market private equity transactions across all investment formats including leveraged buyouts, providing growth equity and venture capital deals.

Ms. Haberman is a former Partner and a member of the Investment Committee at Charterhouse Group, Inc. a middle market private equity investment firm managing capital in excess of $1.3 billion on behalf of global institutional investors.

Ms. Haberman served on the Board of Directors for numerous public and private firms, including a publicly traded provider of information and transaction processing services, a provider of outsourced business process solutions, a manufacturer of automotive parts, a medical device technology company, an apparel manufacturing business and a manufacturer of engineered products. She was a member or Chairperson of the audit committee for a majority of these Boards.

Ms. Haberman has reviewed and evaluated hundreds of businesses for sale or seeking capital across a wide spectrum of industry segments including business services, consumer products and industrial markets. She has negotiated, structured, valued and led due diligence for acquisition transactions and, subsequent to the closing of the investments, was responsible for monitoring the companies, as well as advising on the timing and execution of exit strategies. Additionally, she has regularly provided expertise to management with business strategy including add-on acquisitions.

Prior to joining Charterhouse in 1985, Ms. Haberman held business development, marketing planning and financial management positions at Celanese Corporation, a publicly traded chemical manufacturing company.

Ms. Haberman earned a B.S. in Mathematics from Simmons College and an M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia University Business School.