Anita is the Maryland Market Manager for Arctaris where she leads the sourcing, due diligence and execution of debt and equity investment opportunities in Maryland and Washington, DC.
Ms. Graham was also co-founder and Managing Director of Graham & Associates, a company formed to provide financial and administrative advisory services to businesses. Graham & Associates assembled and partnered with a network of professionals experienced in assisting management teams in developing processes to meet operational and financial objectives, identifying the appropriate source of capital to support the management team’s goals, and performing internal operational and financial audits to ensure that the goals are being met. Graham & Associates has executed transactions across private equity, mergers and acquisitions, management buyouts and senior/mezzanine debt financing.
Previously, Anita served as a General Partner of Opportunity Capital Partners (“OCP”), a minority-owned private equity firm (that also included an SBIC and an SSBIC) with $135 million of capital under management that focused on providing later stage growth equity to companies primarily in the telecommunications, media, industrial services and healthcare industries. As a private equity investor with over 25 years of experience, Ms. Graham has made direct investments in an array of sectors leading transactions that total in excess of $300 million. In her capacity as a Partner, Ms. Graham fundraised, sourced transactions, structured and negotiated term sheets, and actively oversaw the investments until their liquidity events. Prior
to joining OCP, Ms. Graham served as the President of Renaissance Capital Corporation, a company that provided equity to small middle market companies in diversified industries.
Ms. Graham is the former Chairman of the National Association of Investment Companies, the trade association and the largest network of diverse owned and merging manager private equity funds and hedge funds, who collectively manage more than $50 billion in capital. She also served on the Advisory Board and was a founding board member of Pacific Community Ventures, a fund with over $40 million of capital under management that targets markets primarily in California. Ms. Graham also served as a board member of the Maryland Small Business Development Financing Authority which provides financing to small business throughout the state of Maryland. Ms. Graham has a BA in Economics from Cornell University and an Executive MBA from Golden Gate University.