Paul Leck

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Mr. Paul Leck serves as an Executive at Mallard Capital Investment Holdings. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Keswick Partners. He is responsible for deal sourcing, due diligence, portfolio management, and investor relations. He also served as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Mallard Acquisition. He serves as a Board Member at MyWorkChoice. He also serves as Chairman at Hudson&Canal. From June 2019 until the present, he has been evaluating various potential private equity investments in conjunction with our Chief Financial Officer, John Kirtley. Until June 2019, he was a Special Advisor with KLH Capital Fund III, LP, a managing general partner with KLH Capital Fund II, LP, and a managing general partner with KLH Capital, LP. Each of these KLH Capital Funds I, II, and III are/were Small Business Investment Companies, licensed by the United States Small Business Administration, investing in private equity control positions in the lower middle market. He co-founded KLH Capital in 2005. Before KLH Capital, he was a managing general partner of FCP Investors Funds I-V, LP, institutionally backed private equity funds investing in private equity control positions in the lower middle market. He co-founded Florida Capital Partners, which invested in lower middle-market private companies, in 1989 with Mr. Kirtley. Before 1989, he held positions as a General Partner, Vice President, and Associate at Chemical Venture Partners, the private equity and venture capital arm of Chemical Bank, and as a financial analyst at Drexel Burnham Lambert. He is currently a Director of MyWorkChoice LLC, a tech-enabled contract staffing company (since January 2020), Hudson & Canal Corp., a designer, importer, and distributor of home furnishings to the eCommerce trade (since 2017), and Educational Symposia, Inc., a continuing medical education company (since 2001) and has served as a Director of numerous portfolio companies of the KLH Capital Funds and FCP Investors Funds described above. He serves as an Advisor to KLH Capital (since July 2019). He also serves as an Advisor at Arcus Ventures. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Commerce from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.