Andrew M. Paul
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Sopris Capital was established in 2002 as the personal investing entity for Andy Paul and partners. Mr. Paul is the managing member of Sopris Capital, as well as the Chairman of Enhanced Capital Partners (ECP) and the managing general partner of the Enhanced Equity Fund (EEF).

Mr. Paul has been actively engaged in private equity and venture capital investing for more than 28 years, primarily in the healthcare industry. In 1984, he joined Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe (1984-2000), a private investment firm that specializes in venture capital/LBO opportunities, after working for the venture capital group of Hambrecht & Quist as an Associate (1983-1984). Since its founding in 1979, Welsh Carson has become one of the oldest, largest and most successful private equity investment firms in the U.S. focusing exclusively on information services, communications and healthcare. During his 16 year tenure at Welsh Carson, he was jointly responsible for healthcare investing and was one of two lead partners for 38 investments in the healthcare industry, serving on the board of directors of 11 companies that successfully completed public offerings. At the time he left the firm in 2000, he had held a position on the Management Committee as a senior executive of the firm, and the firm had grown to an aggregate capital base of approximately $12 billion, which was an 84 times increase in capital over Mr. Paul's tenure with the firm. Mr. Paul retired from Welsh Carson in September 2000 to focus his time on ECP and his other investment interests including Sopris Capital.

Andy Paul is currently the Chairman and largest shareholder of ECP, a state-sponsored small business investment vehicle formed in 1999 to provide capital to small and emerging companies in specified geographies. Since it's founding, ECP has raised more than $250 million of capital. ECP currently has established investment funds in Alabama, Colorado, Louisiana, New York, Tennessee, Texas and Washington, D.C. He is also the managing general partner of EEF, a $600 million equity fund focused on buyouts of and growth capital for lower middle-market companies that closed in 2005.

Andy received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1978 and his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1983. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University, the Board of Directors of Lawrence Hospital and the co-chairman of the Cancer Research Institute. He lives in Bronxville, New York with his wife Margaret and their four children.

Jon Kaiden
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Jon Kaiden has been a principal and founding member of Sopris Capital since 2002. He has more than 17 years of private equity and financial transaction experience, with a strong focus on healthcare and information technology.

Mr. Kaiden has led a number of investment transactions over his career and currently sits on the board of directors for Enhanced Capital Partners, Inc., SRSsoft, Inc., Tallwave LLC, Planet Payment, Inc., Mountain Temp Services LLC, Healthcare Data Solutions Corp. and was an advisor to the boards of iCrossing, Inc. and Valutec Card Solutions, Inc.

Before joining Sopris Capital in early 2002, Mr. Kaiden spent the prior twelve years as an investment banker and securities attorney focusing on corporate finance and mergers & acquisitions. He began his investment banking career at S.G. Cowen, where he provided corporate finance services and advice to companies throughout the healthcare industry, including biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical devices and healthcare services. After his associate years at S.G. Cowen, he became a vice president with The Seabury Group, a boutique merchant banking group geared toward helping middle market companies obtain private equity and venture capital. He then headed Josephthal & Co.'s healthcare investment banking practice for the years prior to joining Sopris Capital. Prior to receiving his MBA, he practiced corporate and securities law at the New York law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan.

Jon holds an M.B.A., with honors, phi beta kappa, from Columbia Business School (1996), and J.D., cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School (1991). He obtained his undergraduate degree, B.A., in government from Cornell University (1988).

Mark Groner
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Mark Groner joined Sopris Capital as a Senior Associate in 2010.  He has been involved in principal investing and investment banking since 2004.

Prior to graduate school, Mr. Groner was an Associate at Linden LLC focusing exclusively on buyout investments in the healthcare industry.  Mr. Groner began his career in the Investment Banking Division of Citigroup Global Markets, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions in the industrial, consumer, and automotive industries.

Mr. Groner received a B.S. in Finance from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and an M.B.A. from The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

Brian Benoit
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Brian Benoit has been the Controller of Sopris Capital since 2009. He has more than 7 years of private equity and financial reporting / transaction experience.

Prior to joining Sopris Capital in early 2009, Mr. Benoit worked for a global real estate investor and developer, responsible for the financial reporting function of three real estate fund portfolios with over $750 million of capital commitments. Mr. Benoit began his career at Baker Tilly LLP, where he spent four years focusing on financial statement audits of private equity funds and emerging companies.

Mr. Benoit graduated from The Robins School of Business at the University Of Richmond in 2004, where he received a B.S. in Business Administration with a Major in Accounting.