Les Poole

Les Poole serves as a Director of Portfolio for Trinity Capital. His key roles and responsibilities include client relationship management, financial analysis, credit risk rating and preparing and presenting memos to Trinity’s investment committee for loan modifications or upsizes. Additionally, he has frequent discussions with other portfolio company stakeholders such as equity investors and debt providers.

Poole previously spent 5 years in KPMG’s Deal Advisory practice. As a manager on the Asset Based Lending team, he was responsible for analyzing target company data in numerous industries including healthcare, oil & gas, steel, technology, logistics, and manufacturing. He specialized in identifying risks associated with existing and potential asset-based lending transactions as well as securitization type transactions.

Poole is a licensed CPA who earned his bachelors (B.S.) and masters (M.A.S.) degrees in accountancy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While in Champaign, he also played four seasons as a receiver on the Illini football team.