About SLBDF
management profiles
RICK PALANK, President & CEO
ST. LOUIS COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL 1981-Present
   Senior Vice President, Business Finance Division

Serves as President and CEO of the Business Finance Corporation of St. Louis County and of the Industrial Development Authority of St. Louis County.

Founded the Saint Louis Business Development Fund in 1994

B.S. Marketing. Saint Louis University
MBA, Saint Louis University

 
TIM HOUGHTON, Chief Investment Officer
HUTCHINSON FOUNDRY PRODUCTS, INC., Alton, IL 1992-2001
   President and owner of Hutchinson Foundry Products, Inc.

Hutchinson is a $12 million per year revenue company which manufacturers precision die cast parts for the electric motor industry.  With plants in Alton, IL and Monterrey, Mexico, the company employs about 120 people.

ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES, St. Louis, MO 1978-1990

   Vice President and General Manager

Metal Container Corporation, St. Louis, MO
Responsible for all operations, engineering, purchasing, quality, and personnel functions of manufacturing subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch - 1700 employees.

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Missouri at Rolla
MBA, University of Wisconsin, Milwuakee

 
MATT PADBERG, CFA, Chief Financial Analyst
TRANSCEND FINANCIAL, INC., St. Louis, MO 2004-
Present
Chief Financial Analyst

Financial consulting practice that performs M&A, busintss development, and turnaround work with a focus on fundamental, cash flow-based analysis.

DELOITTE & TOUCHE, LLP, St. Louis, MO 1998-2004

   Senior Manager, Financial Advisory Services

Managed the St. Louis valuation practice. Valued private companies ad divisions of publicly-traded companies.

THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY, Cincinatti, OH 1995-1998
   Worldwide Pharmaceuticals Cost Analyst and Forecaster

Bachelor of Arts, Wake Forest University, Magna cum Laude
MBA, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

 
DANA BACICH, CPA, Chief of Portfolio Management
HARCOURT CAPITAL, L.P., St. Louis, MO 2004-2006
Chief Financial Officer

Harcourt Capital, LP is a multi-strategy fund of hedge funds with an investment objective to achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns while controlling the downside risk associated with adverse market conditions.  The fund involved very sophisticated partnership accounting and income tax allocations.

SWINK, FIEHLER & COMPANY, P.C., St. Louis, MO 1994-2004

 Senior Tax Manager

Swink, Fiehler & Company is a full service CPA and consulting firm specializing in privately owned businesses, their principals and individuals of significant net worth.

Worked as a consultant to a diverse group of small businesses and did extensive work in the real estate development field.

B.S. in Accounting, University of Missouri - Columbia

 
VINCE VOLPE, JD, CPA, Business Development Liason
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY, John Cook School of Business  
Asst. Professor of Management
ARBIRIS CONSULTING; Managing Director  

PPC INTERNATIONAL; CEO of global behaviorial healthcare co.

PAULI & COMPANY; Investment banker with NASD broker-dealer
KPMG; Head of M&A Group in St. Louis. Coordinator of National Quality Group
GUILFOIL PETZALL & SHOEMAKE; Corporate Attorney
CITY OF ST. LOUIS; Chief aide and counsel to Mayor Vincent Schoemehl
LEWIS, RICE & FINGERSH; Corporate Attorney
BARRY WEHMILLER COMPANIES; Financial systems development

DELOITTE & TOUCHE; Auditor

JD, Saint Louis University
MBA, Saint Louis University
M.Ed, William Paterson University
BA, Indiana University

 
 
Saint Louis Business Development Fund
121 S. Meramec Ave., 9th Floor St. Louis, MO 63105 (314) 615-7667