Brad Cornell joined Lake Capital in 2006 after completing his MBA at the Wharton School and having interned with Lake in 2005. His primary responsibilities include evaluating potential investments, structuring transactions, leading due diligence, negotiating transaction and financing agreements, and managing portfolio company investments, including NetStar-1, FishNet Security and Soil Safe.

Prior to joining Lake Capital, Brad was an assistant vice president with GE Capital’s Merchant Banking Group, where he performed extensive due diligence, valuation analyses, and portfolio company monitoring for senior and subordinated debt and junior capital investments in private equity-sponsored leveraged buyouts. Before joining GE, Brad was an investment banking analyst in the Business Services Group at William Blair & Company. He began his finance career as an analyst in Bank One’s Corporate Banking Development Program, where he rotated through various capital markets areas of the bank.

Brad received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, having previously graduated with a BBA in finance from James Madison University.