Investment Committee

Synetro Capital’s investment committee has a track record of active investing in and building successful companies.

• Pantelis A. “Pete” Georgiadis – Founder, Managing Partner
  (Synetro Group, Lante, McKinsey & Co., Hewlett-Packard)



• Joseph R. "Joe" Katcha – Investment Committee Member
  (High-Street Capital, S.G. Warburg, First Atlantic Capital, Paine Webber)



• Ranjan Lal – Investment Committee Member
  (Mosaix Ventures, Vector Fund Management, UBS-O’Connor, McKinsey & Co.)

Joseph R. "Joe" Katcha – Investment Committee Member, Synetro Capital

Joe Katcha has been involved in private equity investing and mergers and acquisitions since 1986.

Before founding High Street Capital in 1997, he was a director at S. G. Warburg, Ltd., London, where he helped run an operating business which had over 200 employees globally in a technology-related field. He helped set strategy and was successful in doubling this important business area.

From 1991 to 1993, Mr. Katcha was a Partner and Managing Director/Chief Operating Officer in a Chicago-based business, which he then helped sell to Warburg. Before that he was an Associate with First Atlantic Capital, Ltd. in New York, a private equity firm focused on middle market companies. He joined that firm from the Investment Banking Division of PaineWebber Inc., where he was in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department, specializing in middle market transactions.

After passing the C.P.A. exam in 1982, he spent two years as an auditor with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. (now KPMG Peat Marwick) in Chicago.

Mr. Katcha is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mr. Katcha is married with two children.