Charles D Martin

Bio

During the last 35 years Chuck has served on the Board of Directors of 46 public and private companies. He has completed over 90 merger & acquisitions and numerous corporate financing transactions. He also has extensive operating executive experience; earlier in his career he served as CEO or V.P. Corporate Development of various computer systems and software companies. Today, Chuck is the Chairman/CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Mont Pelerin Capital, an investment management company that he founded in 2005. Prior to his latest venture, Chuck was the founder and Managing Partner of Enterprise Partners, the largest venture capital firm based in Southern California. Enterprise has $750 million of equity capital under management and has invested in over 120 emerging growth portfolio companies. During his term as the firm’s Managing Partner, Enterprise Partners consistently ranked as one of the top quartile performing venture capital firms in America. Investors in Enterprise Partners’ funds include the endowments of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, the Ford Foundation, the Common Fund, AT&T, General Motors, Eastman Kodak, Bank of America and others. Over 80 CEO’s of California companies are also investors in these funds. Chuck was also the cofounder of Westar Capital, a private leveraged buyout/recap investment firm, with George Argyros, and served as a general partner of that firm from its formation until 2000 when he retired as its partner emeritus. During his term of leadership in Westar Capital, it achieved returns that were extraordinary by any standard in the private equity industry. In 2003 he was appointed the Investment Advisory Committee of the Regents of the University of California. This investment program has responsibility for the endowment and pension funds for all ten campuses of the university (approximately $67 billion). He also serves on the investment committee for the University of California, Irvine and served as the Chairman of the investment Committee for Chapman University for four years. For 25 years, until its sale in 2000, Chuck was a co-owner and served on the Board of Vedax Sciences Corporation, the parent company of TEC International, the largest proprietary membership organization in the world for company Presidents and CEOs, operating in 72 US cities and 8 foreign countries. Chuck is also active philanthropically, serving as the first Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Orange County Museum of Art from 1996 to 2000, and continuing as its Chairman Emeritus. He served as a Chairman of the Board for the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine until 2005 when he was elected to Chairman Emeritus status. Also, he is a Trustee of Chapman University and the University of California, Irvine Foundation.