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Mr. Flanz joined J.W. Childs Associates in March 2005. Mr. Flanz is a private investor who also serves as Advisor to Sterling Enterprises, Limited, Senior Advisor to Baring Private Equity Asia, Limited, and Independent Non Executive Director of Kerry Properties Limited and Integrated Distribution Services Group Limited. Based in Hong Kong, Mr. Flanz will be playing a senior advisory role for the Firm’s initiatives in Asia. Mr. Flanz began his career with Chase Manhattan Bank N.A., where he served as Country Manager for Japan, Area Director for the Middle East and North Africa, and later was appointed Area Director, responsible for all of Chase's activities in Asia Pacific. He was a founding partner of Prudential Asia Investments Limited, and subsequently a member of the Management Committee of Investcorp International Limited, and then Chairman and C.E.O. of Gucci Group, N.V, before returning to Hong Kong and becoming CEO of Sterling Enterprises Limited, a Hong Kong based investment company. He graduated from New York University with Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, and also holds an MBA from the University of Michigan. | 