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Team:

 Management, Research and Administration
 
  Karey Barker, CFA
Managing Director
Vice President, Wasatch Advisors

Karey is a Managing Director for Cross Creek Capital and a member of the Board of Directors of Wasatch Advisors. Karey first developed the concept of Cross Creek Capital in 2004 while managing the Wasatch Small Cap Ultra Growth portfolios. As a public equity money manager investing primarily in small companies, she saw a need to develop an expertise in the private equity markets to help her better understand emerging themes and competition.

Prior to Cross Creek Capital, Karey was a portfolio manager for the Wasatch Small Cap Ultra Growth portfolios for over 14 years. She joined Wasatch Advisors in 1989.

 
  Greg Bohlen, MBA
Managing Director

Greg is a Managing Director for Cross Creek Capital. He joined Wasatch Advisors in late 2004 to help Karey develop the Cross Creek Capital concept. Greg’s experience and relationships in the venture capital and investment banking communities were instrumental in the validation and implementation of Cross Creek Capital.

Prior to Wasatch, Greg was the Chief Financial Officer and an investing professional at The Aurora Funds in North Carolina. Greg’s previous work experience also includes a significant tenure in investment banking most recently with UBS AG as the Director for the Private Equity Coverage Group from 2001 to 2003 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

 
  Gene Podsiadlo, MBA
Venture Advisor
Board Member, Wasatch Advisors

Gene has been a member of the Board of Directors of Wasatch for over five years. He has consulted with Wasatch on new product initiatives including alternative investment vehicles like that of Cross Creek Capital.

Prior to working with Wasatch, Gene was President of Warburg Pincus Funds and Managing Director of Warburg Pincus/Credit Suisse Asset Management from 1994 to 2001. Gene's other work experience includes serving on the boards of Ic39, a venture capital incubator and American Capital Strategies, a publicly traded business development company.

 
  Blake Modersitzki
Venture Advisor
Managing Director, UV Partners

Blake has been in the venture capital industry since 1997. Blake started his venture capital career at Novell, Inc., a leading networking infrastructure company, as the Vice President of Novell Ventures and Strategic Business Development. Blake was responsible for leading all direct and fund-of-funds investment activities and setting strategy for Novell's venture capital, private equity, and business development. Blake also held a number of key positions in corporate development, product management, and sales and marketing at Novell. Prior to Novell, he worked for WordPerfect Corporation managing global sales, channel sales and marketing activities.

 
  Tyler Christenson
Senior Associate

Tyler is a Senior Associate for Cross Creek Capital and currently coordinates the due diligence process with the broader Wasatch Advisors Research Team. Tyler was an integral member of the Wasatch Advisors Venture Initiative Group established to take Cross Creek Capital from concept to reality.

Tyler joined Wasatch Advisors in 2004 as an equities research analyst. Prior to Wasatch Advisors, Tyler was president of American Investment Financial, a Leucadia National Corporation subsidiary located in Salt Lake City, Utah.

 
  Sherry Ward
Administrative Assistant

Sherry joined Wasatch Advisors in 2006 as Cross Creek Capital's Administrative Assistant.

Prior to joining Cross Creek Capital, Sherry worked for ICS Triplex, Inc. in Houston, Texas as an executive assistant to the president.

 
  Wasatch Advisors
Public Research Team



 
  Collected Intelligence
Venture Partner


Collected Intelligence is a team of former business journalists with extensive experience in developing sources, getting up to speed on subjects quickly, finding facts and reporting information in an objective and timely fashion. Collected Intelligence has a proven track record in providing clienits with deeper insight into and understanding of their investments.

 
 Operations
 
  Dan Thurber
General Counsel, Wasatch Advisors

Dan serves as Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel of Wasatch Advisors, which he joined in 2006. He currently oversees Cross Creek Capital’s adherence to Wasatch’s overall compliance program.

From 2001 to 2006, he was an associate and partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Salt Lake City, Utah. At Dorsey, as Wasatch Advisors’ outside counsel, Dan was instrumental to the formation of Cross Creek Capital and its integration with Wasatch Advisors.

 
  Mike Yeates
Chief Financial Officer, Wasatch Advisors

Mr. Yeates joined Wasatch Advisors in 2003 as an Assistant Controller. Prior to joining Wasatch, he worked for the University Venture Fund in Salt Lake City, UT. Mike left Wasatch in 2006 to become a Management Associate at Bridgewater Associates, a multi strategy hedge fund in Westport, Connecticut. Mike rejoined Wasatch in August 2007 as the Chief Financial Officer.

He earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Utah.

 
  Allison Christensen
Assistant Director of Operations, Wasatch Advisors

Allison is the Assistant Director of Operations for Wasatch Advisors. She has taken over the added responsibility of certain Cross Creek Capital operations.

Allison joined Wasatch Advisors in 2000 in the Operations Department. In 2002, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Communication from the University of Utah.

 
  Sarah Matthews
Senior Operations Analyst

Sarah is a Senior Operations Analyst for Wasatch Advisors and as a result is involved in the operational support for Cross Creek Capital.

Sarah joined Wasatch Advisors in 2006 in the Operations Department. In 2006, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Westminster College.

 
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