Kim Davis
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Kim Davis is a Managing Director and founding partner of Charlesbank
Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity firm with more than $1.5
billion under management. The firm focuses on middle-market
management-led buyouts and growth capital financings. Charlesbank is
currently investing Charlesbank Equity Fund VI - a $985 million fund
that includes a range of institutional investors and high-net-worth
individuals.

Mr. Davis currently serves on the boards of directors of CSI Leasing,
Horn Industrial Services, National Surgical Hospitals, Southcross,
Tecomet and Zenith Products. He has significant corporate governance
experience, both with public and private companies.

He was appointed by President Clinton to the Baltic-America Enterprise
Fund in 1994 and served as Interim CEO of the Czech and Slovak
American Enterprise Fund in 1996. He is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations and is a former vice chairman of the Harvard College
Fund. He graduated from Harvard University with a BA in history and
holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Blog Entries by Kim Davis

Product Warranty Proposal for the Ratings Agencies

Posted April 27, 2010 | 17:08:10 (EST)

An enduring mystery of the debate about regulatory reform is the extent to which the ratings agencies are a second order issue of concern.

Firms like S&P and Moody's are Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (or "NRSRO") and issue credit ratings that the SEC permits other financial firms to...

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The President's Health Care Reform Symposium

Posted February 9, 2010 | 18:18:28 (EST)

Elections are about making promises and making friends; governing is about making choices and making enemies. If President Obama wants health care reform then, both for political and policy reasons, he needs to start making some real enemies on his left because the strategy of conditioning passage on an all-liberal-with-a-few-moderates...

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National Healthcare Reinsurance Pool

Posted August 28, 2009 | 15:14:44 (EST)

The delay until September of legislative action on health care reform provides a critically needed time out so that the Obama administration and legislators can hit the reset button. We are heading for increasing partisan rancor and a wasted opportunity unless the major players in this effort focus on the...
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