W Dana LaForge

Partner at Brera Capital Partners with overall responsibility for all aspects of this $680 million private equity fund. Prior to joining Brera in 2006, Mr. LaForge ran Colonnade Financial Group, Inc., a private equity services firm he founded in June 1992 with the support of Deutsche Bank. At Colonnade he managed a portfolio of private equity investments owned by Deutsche Bank. Earlier in his career, Mr. LaForge was a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank Alex Brown where he headed the Financial Institutions Group in Investment Banking. While there, he primarily advised clients on merger and acquisition transactions after several years of trading mortgage backed securities. In addition to serving on the Board of Directors of the MMRF, Mr. LaForge serves on the Board of Directors of GAB Robins, NA, Residential Loss Control Holdings, Inc. and Western Industries. Mr. LaForge earned a BS from Washington and Lee University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He lives in New York City with his wife, Kathleen McCabe and their two young daughters.