Management Team
Linda DeJure
Tel: 215-574-5821
Fax: 215-574-5921
E-Mail:
Linda.DeJure@TRFund.com
Ms. DeJure is a Managing Director at TRF Private Equity. Ms. DeJure joined The Reinvestment Fund (TRF) in January 2002 and has been associated with TRF Private Equity since 1998 as Vice Chair of its first fund’s investment committee, DVCRF Ventures. Prior to joining TRF Private Equity, Ms. DeJure served as Co-Head of Private Capital at Berwind Financial Group, L.P, where she was primarily focused on leveraged buyouts and growth capital transactions. She was also a member of the Berwind Financial Group Management Committee.
Prior to joining Berwind, Ms DeJure was a Principal at CMS where for five and one-half years she managed the Private Equity Group. This Group invested on behalf of high net worth entrepreneurs in private operating businesses and commercial real estate, both directly and through other buyout fund managers. The group invested in excess of $75 million of equity capital annually and managed over $400 million of private equity assets.
Prior to CMS, Ms. DeJure served as Vice President at Bradford Ventures, a New York-based middle market buyout firm. In addition to deal structuring, financing, and monitoring acquisitions, she also developed a network of regional banks through which the firm sourced investment opportunities. The first half of Ms. DeJure’s career was divided among various banking and finance assignments with Banker’s Trust Company, Texas Commerce Bank and First Pennsylvania Bank.
Throughout her career, Ms. DeJure has served many boards of directors related to buyout and growth capital financings that she initiated. Currently she is a member of the Board of Directors of Sun & Earth, Inc, Ricochet Manufacturing and Prince Telecommunications.
Ms. DeJure also serves as Executive Vice President – Economic Development of TRF with corporate responsibility for TRF’s venture capital, small business, sustainable energy, and workforce areas. Ms. DeJure holds a B.A. in Economics from Pennsylvania State University.
Peter M. Askey
Tel: 215-574-5888
Fax: 215-574-5988
E-mail:
Peter. Askey@TRFund.com
Mr. Askey serves as a Managing Director at TRF Private Equity He joined TRF in January, 2004, coming from Boathouse Partners. Boathouse Partners, a company he had founded, is a Philadelphia-based private equity firm focused on investing in smaller middle market companies. Prior to forming Boathouse, Mr. Askey was a Principal in the Leveraged Acquisitions Group at Berwind Financial Group, where he was responsible for initiating, structuring, and negotiating middle market acquisitions, and for overseeing the investments in the portfolio companies as a member of their Board of Directors.
In the mid 90’s, Mr. Askey served as Chief Financial Officer of Wennegren-Williams Group, an outdoor advertising company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Mr. Askey previously worked at Overseas Partners, Inc., an international middle-market buyout group located in New York and Manufacturers Hanover Trust, where he began his career.
Mr. Askey is the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Fypon, Ltd., and is a member of the Board of Managers at Priority Air Express, LLC. He graduated with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 1986.
TRF
Private Equity Investment Committee
TRF Urban Growth General Partner, LLC and DVCRF Ventures
General Partner, LLC.
Robert Keith
Chair
TL Ventures
Linda DeJure
Vice Chair
The Reinvestment Fund
Peter Askey
The Reinvestment Fund
James Bromley
Bromley Consulting Services
Michael Crist
The Reinvestment Fund
Scott Jenkins
S.M. Jenkins & Co.
Jeremy Nowak
The Reinvestment Fund
Robert Reilly
PNC Bank