Financial Services >> Analyst Interviews >> September 23, 2003

Private Equity Investment: Brian Rich – Catalyst Investors

BRIAN RICH co-founded Catalyst in 2000. Prior to that, he founded and headed TD Capital, the entity that made TD's US-based investments in communications-related industries, from 1995 to 1999. As group head he oversaw more than 30 investments totaling more than $600 million in equity, mezzanine and limited partnership investments. Before founding TD Capital, he was a Managing Director in the bank's Media, Telecom & Technology Group. Prior to joining TD in 1990, Mr. Rich held positions at The Bank of New York and Intel Corporation. Mr. Rich earned a BS in Industrial Engineering from University of Buffalo and an MBA from Columbia University. Profile
TWST: Would you start us off with a brief overview of Catalyst

Investors?

Mr. Rich: Catalyst Investors is a private equity fund. We were founded

in 2000. The principals here came, for the most