Kevin McCafferty

Kevin is a Founder and Special Partner of Catalyst and a member of the Investment Committee. Kevin brings over 30 years of experience in venture capital and private equity investing, including deal evaluation and structuring, managing a venture capital firm, and developing discipline and best practices for investments. Kevin investment experience has spanned a broad spectrum of corporate maturity and risk/reward profiles, ranging from seed-stage start-ups to leveraged buyouts of well-established operating companies. In 1982, Kevin started and managed the Boston offices of First Chicago Venture Capital and later Madison Dearborn Partners, which focused on early stage venture and smaller leveraged buyout investments. In 1991, Kevin co-founded New England Capital Management and subsequently founded its successor, New England Capital Partners, both focusing on leveraged buyouts of small to medium-sized operating companies. Kevin earned his B.A. at Harvard College and his M.B.A. at the University of Chicago.