NEW YORK, October 15, 2002 – Sentinel Capital Partners is pleased to announce that Thomas P. Fitzpatrick has joined the firm as a Senior Advisory Partner.
Mr. Fitzpatrick has worked closely with Sentinel’s founders for more than a decade. He currently serves as a Director of Alemite Corporation, a Sentinel portfolio company. Previously, Mr. Fitzpatrick spent the majority of his career at Coopers & Lybrand in a variety of senior executive positions. While at Coopers & Lybrand, he led the team that supported acquisition due diligence reviews required by Sentinel to support its investment operations.
In his 34 years with Coopers & Lybrand, Mr. Fitzpatrick held a number of significant positions. He was a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, National Director of Mergers and Acquisitions, and Partner in Charge of the New York office’s Financial Advisory Practice. Over the course of his career, he has worked with dozens of private equity firms conducting due diligence and acquisition reviews on hundreds of investment opportunities. In addition, Mr. Fitzpatrick was the Partner in Charge of Coopers & Lybrand’s Investment Committee, which was responsible for investing the partners’ personal funds in private equity and venture capital.
From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Fitzpatrick was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Englehard Corporation, a Fortune 500 company involved in surface and material sciences. Mr. Fitzpatrick is a CPA and holds a BBA from St. John’s University.