Operating Executives

Stewart Bloom is an Operating Executive with Golden Gate Capital focused on the software and business services sectors. He currently serves as Chairman of LiveVox, Neustar Security Services and Securly. Mr. Bloom previously held posts as Chairman and CEO of Aspect Software and Escalate Retail, from its inception until the time of its merger transaction with RedPrairie. He has served on the Boards of Golden Gate Capital portfolio companies Vector Solutions, Neustar Inc., Ensemble Health Partners, Infor and Symon Communications. Prior to Golden Gate Capital, Mr. Bloom held positions as Vice President Americas Technology Services for Capgemini and as Senior Vice President for Mainspring through its IPO and subsequent acquisition by IBM. Earlier in his career, Mr. Bloom was a Partner with Ernst & Young Management Consulting following its acquisition of Distributed Systems Solutions International (DSSI), where he was a Vice President and co-founder.

Janice Lin is an Operating Executive with Golden Gate Capital. Ms. Lin currently advises the firm and portfolio companies in a broad range of sourcing, procurement and operational matters. She most recently served as General Manager, Global Sourcing for GE Aviation, executing on the quality, delivery, and cost structure for GE Aviation’s complex supply chain. Prior to that, Ms. Lin spent nearly a decade at Caterpillar (including more than three years resident in Asia), where she held roles of increasing responsibility in procurement and purchasing. Before Caterpillar, Ms. Lin spent significant time in the automotive industry through direct positions with Ford and General Motors and as a consultant at A.T. Kearney. Ms. Lin holds MBA and BSE degrees from the University of Michigan.

Bernhard Nann is an Operating Executive with Golden Gate Capital focused on the software, data, analytics, and business services sectors. He currently serves on the boards of 2020 Technologies, Ensemble Health Partners, LiveVox, and ShaleApps and as an advisor to Neustar. Mr. Nann was on the board of previous Golden Gate Capital portfolio company, Green Street Advisors. Prior to Golden Gate Capital, Mr. Nann was CEO of Opera Solutions, a global provider of scalable advanced big data analytics and data science solutions. Prior to Opera, Mr. Nann served as President, Operations and Technology and CTO for IRI, a leading provider of big data, predictive analytics and forward-looking insights for consumer packaged goods, over-the-counter health care, retail and media companies. Prior to IRI, Mr. Nann was Senior Vice President and CTO at Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO). Mr. Nann was Founder and CEO of NAREX Inc., one of the first Software as a Service (SaaS) analytics firms, which was acquired by FICO in 2003. Early in his career, Mr. Nann worked at TRW Inc. Mr. Nann has bachelors and masters degrees in engineering from the University of Stuttgart and an MBA from Ohio State University (where he was a Fulbright Scholar).

Roy Rosas is an Operating Executive with Golden Gate Capital. He served as CEO of PetroChoice, a Golden Gate Portfolio company, and recently led its acquisition by Cosan/Moove, a Brazilian energy and logistics conglomerate with $23B in revenues. He has served on the boards of PetroChoice and Tronair, a former GGC portfolio company. Prior to Golden Gate Capital, he was an Operating Executive with Berkshire Partners and held the position of Chief Marketing and Administrative Officer at Vi-Jon. Mr. Rosas previously led Procter & Gamble’s Oral B Developing Markets Global Business Group, co-founded Reputation Technologies, a supply chain analytics company that was acquired by Security Source, and led strategy consulting engagements at the Boston Consulting Group. He started his career as a Marketing Manager with Procter & Gamble. Mr. Rosas holds an MBA from Harvard, an M.S. from the National University of Singapore, and a B.S. in Business & Accountancy from the University of the Philippines.

Matt Scanlan, CFA is an Operating Executive with Golden Gate Capital focused on investment opportunities in the Financial Services sector. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Pluribus Labs and a board observer at Aperio. Mr. Scanlan has over 30 years of experience in the investment management industry. Before Golden Gate Capital, he served as CEO of RS Investments until its acquisition in 2016 by Victory Capital. Mr. Scanlan served as CEO of Renaissance Institutional Management, where he was responsible for overseeing that firm’s institutional investment business. Prior to that, he was CEO of Barclays Global Investors’ Institutional Business, focusing on the U.S. corporate and public defined benefit and defined contribution markets, as well as endowments and foundations. He also previously served as a senior portfolio manager at The Northern Trust Company. Mr. Scanlan is a CFA charterholder and served on the Board of Governors of the CFA Institute. In addition to his work with Golden Gate Capital, Mr. Scanlan serves on the Board of the USC Marshall School of Business, is President of the Board of Trustees of the Mechanics Institute in San Francisco, and serves on the corporate boards of Adams Street Partners and Kennedy Capital Management. He has been widely published in practitioner journals and was given the Jacobs Levy Award for Best Article in 2006 in the Journal of Portfolio Management. Matt received his master’s degree in accounting and finance from the J.L. Kellogg School at Northwestern University and his B.S. from the University of Southern California (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).

Pat Stone is an Operating Executive with Golden Gate Capital focused on investment opportunities in the Services sector, specifically Real Estate and Financial Services. He is currently the Executive Chairman and Founder of Williston Financial Group. Mr. Stone also serves on the boards of portfolio companies, Green Street Financial and Nassau Re. Previously, Mr. Stone served as President and COO of Fidelity National Financial, Chairman and Co-CEO of Micro General, and CEO of Fidelity National Information Solutions. Additionally, he has served as Vice-Chairman of Metrocities Mortgage and Chairman of The Stone Group. He has also served on the boards of World Minerals, DigitalMap, Homegain, RedVision, Wystein Capital, and Inman News. Mr. Stone has also served as Chairman of the Santa Barbara Art Museum, Director of the Portland Art Museum, and Chairman of the Oregon State University Foundation.