Private Equity Business DevelopmentConnect with me using: ►►►fratkinson3@gmail.com◄◄◄ All Invitations to Connect Welcome LION - LinkedIn Open Networker*********** Recruiters, HR Managers, Hiring Managers: Connect with me for access to my network deep in industry leadership. ***********I am an experienced and successful private equity and venture capital fund manager, with a U.S. and international background. I possess in-depth experience in fundraising, the due diligence process, portfolio management, turnarounds, rescues, exit strategies, M&A work and liquidations and distributions. I maintain an active multi-generational network of personal contacts in the venture capital and private equity arenas.I have a keen entrepreneurial spirit and have founded or co-founded three of the private equity firms I've worked with, and I was the first President of the prestigious Western Association of Venture Capitalists (Menlo Park, CA).During my career I've invested in areas as diverse as early stage technology in Silicon Valley, real estate developments in Hong Kong, Mexico City and the U.S. and technology and leading edge agricultural projects in the Middle East.I am currently active in both the U.S. private equity and venture capital investment scenes as well as U.S. and international projects involving Middle East financial institutions. To brainstorm and collaborate on any of these perspectives, contact me. In a non-business activity I spent two seasons playing professional football (Pittsburgh Steelers, Denver Broncos) between earning my undergraduate degree at Stanford and graduate degree at U.C.L.A. These escapades have been chronicled in three, books, 'Tales from the Pittsburgh Steelers Sideline' (2013), 'The '63 Steelers' (2012) and 'A Steeler Odyssey'.