ABOUT INVESTMENT CRITERIA TEAM PORTFOLIO Team The co-founders of Staple Street Capital, Stephen D. Owens and Hootan Yaghoobzadeh, are veterans of The Carlyle Group and Cerberus Capital Management, respectively, and first worked together in Carlyle's US Buyout Group starting in 1998. Our team has completed over 100 transactions involving complicated corporate carve outs, operational turnarounds, management led buyouts, public-to-privates, restructurings, refinancings and/or recapitalizations. Stephen D. Owens Co-Founder Hootan Yaghoobzadeh Co-Founder Jeffrey D. Hyslop Managing Director Rashid Lattouf Managing Director Shaun Fitzgibbon Principal Raheel Valiani Operating Principal Kevin Siedenburg Principal & Head of Business Development Daniel Franklin Vice President David E. Fusco Head of Human Capital Thomas Chung Senior Associate Ryan Zukoff Senior Associate Bryan Godel Associate Nate Lee Associate Russell McGahren-Clemens Associate Luke Thompson Associate Peter Conzola Business Development Steve Burgermeister Controller & Chief Compliance Officer Copyright © 2021 Staple Street Capital Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Print Brochure