Tristam E. Collin

Mr. Collins has over 30 years of finance and operating management expertise. Mr. Collins brings a combination of his career experience as a senior investment banker at such firms as Merrill Lynch and Citigroup with his private equity and direct operating experience across numerous industry sectors including oil & gas services, media & entertainment, technology and multi-center childcare operations. In addition to being a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Starboard Tack Capital, Mr. Collins also serves as a senior executive or Director for a number of Starboard Tack’s portfolio companies, including BPI Midstream, a midstream saltwater disposal company in North Dakota; Dakota Oil Processing, a company developing a 20,000 barrel per day diesel refinery in North Dakota, and Imagine Early Education and Childcare, a multi-center childcare company. Mr. Collins founded and operates through Great Point Holdings, LLC, a venture capital holding and services company based in New Jersey. Great Point is an active operational partner with its portfolio companies and provides services including financial, strategic, M&A and business development as well as early stage company incubation for startup companies. Mr. Collins previously founded AcuStream, LLC, a provider of web-based revenue cycle solutions for Health Care providers and hospitals. Mr. Collins was formerly the senior operating and finance executive for the 15th largest radio company in the US and served as a board member of Opel Technologies (TSX: OPL), a large scale solar systems provider. Mr. Collins previously had a long career in investment banking during which he executed over $85 billion of transactions including tenure at Merrill Lynch and while he was a former sector head in Citigroup’s Media Investment Banking practice where he managed the firm’s relationship teams for such companies as Viacom and The Walt Disney Company. Mr. Collins holds an AB from Dartmouth College and also an MBA from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.