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B. Lane MacDonald, a general partner of Alta Communications, joined the firm in 1999. He specializes in identifying and managing investments in media and telecom services with an emphasis on television broadcasting, cable television, publishing, information services and towers. Before joining Alta, he was a principal at J.W. Childs Associates, a leveraged buyout firm with more than $1 billion under management, where he invested in cash-flow-related businesses. Prior to this, MacDonald was an assistant vice president at BancBoston Capital (the private equity division of FleetBoston), where he also focused on cash-flow-related private equity investments. Lane graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in economics and received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was also a member of the 1988 U.S.A. Olympic Hockey Team. He was the 1989 winner of the Hobey Baker Award while at Harvard University, which is given to the nation's top collegiate hockey player, and he was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2005. He currently serves on the boards of several privately held companies including Rapid Communications LLC, JW Broadcasting LLC, Jackson Television LLC, The Yankee Group, and AmeriVault Corp. | 