John Mazzarino

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Biography

Mr. John Mazzarino is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Principal at Cherokee Investment Partners. After establishing Cherokee's predecessor with Mr. Darden in 1989, he served as a director of Cherokee Sanford Group and as president of two portfolio companies, Hackney Holdings, Inc., a truck body manufacturer that served as Cherokee's first brownfield acquisition; and Carolina Ceramics, Inc., a commercial brick manufacturer. Mr. Mazzarino is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Cherokee Investment Partners, a private equity real estate investment management firm focused on the acquisition, remediation, management and development of brownfields in North America and Europe. Prior to co-founding Cherokee's predecessor firm in 1988, Mr. Mazzarino worked at Bain & Company from 1982 to 1988, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions and corporate strategy. From 1977 to 1982 he worked at Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., consulting on policy issues with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Energy and other federal agencies. Mr. Mazzarino currently serves as a member of the board of advisors of the MIT Sloan School of Management and is a director of Cherokee Gives Back, Cherokee's philanthropic arm. In addition, Mr. Mazzarino is a member of five other private and not-for-profit company boards. He also serves as Independent Director at Fidus Investment.