Harvey L. Tepner has served as an independent corporate director, strategic advisor, restructuring expert, and private investor since 2016. Prior to 2016, he was a senior executive of WL Ross & Co., an alternative asset manager and private equity firm, and was a general partner of WL Ross’ private equity funds. Before WL Ross, Mr. Tepner spent more than 20 years as an investment banker at Rothschild & Co., Dillon, Read & Co., Loeb Partners and Compass Advisors where he specialized in corporate restructurings and troubled company mergers and acquisitions. He began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Toronto.
In addition to Casa Systems, Mr. Tepner serves on the board of Bird Global, Village Roadshow Entertainment Group and several other private companies. Over the preceding five years, Mr. Tepner has served on the boards of public and private companies including Alpha Natural Resources, Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Contura Energy, Core-Mark Holding Company, Exide Technologies, Nine West Holdings, and Serta Simmons Bedding.
Mr. Tepner has a B.A. from Carleton University, an MBA from Cornell University, and is a Chartered Accountant/CPA (Canada).