John Bates Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Potomac Equity Partners is a Washington D.C.-based private equity investment firm focused on providing superior equity returns through the close partnership and collaboration with our portfolio company management team members. We strive to invest in companies with leading products and services, superior management teams, and in which our invested capital and collaborative efforts can enable companies to exponentially ramp their long-term growth prospects and overall performance.While open to investment opportunities in a variety of industries, we specifically target middle market opportunities in the following sectors:Business ServicesEducation and TrainingHealthcare Information ServicesSoftware and Technology

Board Member and/or Lead Director for various investment companies of Potomac Equity Partners and Arlington Capital Partners, from 2004 to the present.

College Park, Md

Board Member and Chairman of the Finance and Audit Committee for UMUC Ventures. UMUC Ventures is an organization established by the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) to generate new revenue streams – and new businesses – that ultimately serve to reduce the cost of a UMUC education. The university, the largest public university in the country with approximately 85,000 students, has been a pioneer and innovator in distance education since its founding in 1947. See www.umucventures.org.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Capital Partners for Education (CPE) mentors low-income high school and college students in the academic middle from the Washington, D.C. area to provide the skills and experiences they need to successfully complete college and to excel in the workforce. Over the past ten years, 97% of CPE students who graduate high school enroll in college, and graduate at more than double the rate of their similarly-situated peers. See www.cpfe.org.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Arlington Capital is a Washington D.C.-based private equity firm focused on middle market buyouts in the business services, defense/aerospace, education, government IT, healthcare, and information services/media sectors. Completed 18 new portfolio company investments and add-on acquisitions during career at Arlington Capital.

Greater New York City Area

Vice President in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group of Investment Banking, focused on transactions in the communications, media, and technology sectors.

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Mba, Finance

Ba, Political Economics