Michael Karangelen

Mr. Karangelen joined Investindustrial in 2016 and currently leads the U.S. team. Prior to joining Investindustrial, Mr. Karangelen was with TowerBrook Capital Partners from 2006 to 2016, where he most recently served as a Managing Director, Brera Capital Partners from 1999 to 2006, Eschelon Telecom, Inc. from 1997 to 1999 as Director of Business Development and Stolberg Partners from 1994 to 1997 as Vice President. Prior to that, Mr. Karangelen held various positions at S.G. Warburg and Goldman Sachs in London and New York. Mr. Karangelen is a Trustee Emeritus of the Student Agencies Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to the promotion of entrepreneurship and business learning at Cornell University. Prior to becoming Trustee Emeritus in 2020, Mr. Karangelen was a Trustee from 1988 to 2019 and Chairman & President from 2012 to 2019. Mr. Karangelen has also been a member of the advisory board of Entrepreneurship at Cornell since 2000, a member of the Cornell University Council from 2010 to 2020, a board member and chairman of Student Agencies, Inc and Student Agencies Properties, Inc from 1988 to 2020, a founder and member of the board of managers of eLab LLC, a member of the board of trustees of The Bedford Playhouse from 2017 to 2019, a trustee of Girls Prep, a charter school, from 2011 to 2015 and a member of the advisory council of Cornell University’s college of arts and sciences from 2005 to 2011. Mr. Karangelen holds a bachelor of arts in Economics from Cornell University.