Roger B. Kafker
|Senior Advisor
Boston
Roger focuses on investments in financial and business services companies with a focus on asset management and transaction processing. He joined TA in 1989 and has more than 33 years of experience in the private equity industry.
Experience
- Formerly served on TA's Executive, Core Investment and Portfolio Committees
- Had over a 30 year career at TA, sponsored more than 30 investments, 27 of which are fully or partially exited
- Significant experience investing in asset management companies having made eight investments in this sector
- Served on the board of seven investments in private companies that have gone public, raising well over a billion dollars of capital, including Affiliated Managers Group and ANSYS, both of which now have market capitalizations of more than $10 billion
- Experience investing in transaction processing companies, including Cardtronics, BluePay and Rectangle Health; helped source and close multiple acquisitions for these companies with an aim to accelerate growth by building scale
- Served on the Board of Directors of numerous public companies
- Former active partner at TA
Prior to TA
- Bankers Trust Company – focused on leveraged acquisitions
Education
- Harvard Business School – MBA, with Honors
- Haverford College – BA, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, History
