Howard D. Morgan, senior managing director of Castle Harlan, joined Castle Harlan in 1996. From 2000 to 2002, he was Executive Director of CHAMP Private Equity, an affiliate of Castle Harlan in Sydney, Australia. He has been a Director and Executive Committee member of CHAMP since its inception. Previously, Mr. Morgan was a Partner at The Ropart Group, a private equity investment firm, where he was particularly instrumental in the acquisitions and growth of Blyth, Inc. and XTRA Corporation. Mr. Morgan began his career as an Associate at Allen & Company, Inc., working in mergers and acquisitions and private equity. He is a board member of CHAMP, AmeriCast Technologies, Inc., AdobeAir and Ciao Bella Gelato Company. He is a former director of over one dozen companies, including UK-based Polypipe Global Holdings, Austar United Communications Ltd., Ion Track Instruments, Land 'N' Sea Distributing and Penrice Soda Products. He is a director of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association, the Harvard Business School Club of New York, the Alexander Hamilton Institute, the Parkinson's Disease Foundation and Treasurer of the Friends of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. Mr. Morgan received his B.A. from Hamilton College in Mathematics and Political Science and his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.