John Janitz

Mr. Janitz is the Chairman and Co-Founding Partner of Evergreen Capital Partners LLC.  Evergreen supports Private Equity sponsors by sourcing investment opportunities, co-investing, and providing strategic, operational and financial guidance with respect to portfolio company investments.

Evergreen Capital Partners, founded in 2007, has been engaged by several firms over the years including The Gores Group, Towerbrook Capital Partners, as well as DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, the Private Equity arm of Credit Suisse.

Mr. Janitz has held key executive positions over his 40-year career in the public and private segments as well as in the investment community.

He was President and COO of Texton, Inc., President of Gulf & Western Manufacturing CO., a subsidiary of Gulf & Western Industries, Chairman Teksid Aluminum, President E W Bliss Company, Executive VP TRW, Co-Managing Partner of Jay Alix’s Questor Funds, Chairman, Global Industrial Partners, DLJ Merchant Banking.

In the past Mr. Janitz has served on numerous boards including Textron, Lojack, Kodak, Teksid, Sparton Ind., and Chairman of US Farathane.  He is currently Lead Director at STR and serves as a board member to TurbineAero, Dalco GFT, Telos, Prestige, Securit, Avon, and Purflux.

Mr. Janitz began his career at Ford Motor Co.  He holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University, did graduate work in Metallurgy at Marquette University, completed an M.B.A. at Eastern Michigan University, and is a graduate of the Harvard Advanced Management Program AMP.