Richard Paul Buckanavage

Chief Executive Officer at

Harvest Capital Credit LLC

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Richard Paul Buckanavage is the founder of Patriot Capital Funding, Inc. (founded in 2003), Harvest Capital Credit LLC (founded in 2011), Harvest Capital Credit Corp.
(founded in 2012), and Patriot Capital Funding, Inc. (Private Equity) (founded in 2002).
He holds the titles of President, Chief Executive Officer & Director at Patriot Capital Funding, Inc. from 2003 to 2009, President & Chief Executive Officer at Harvest Capital Credit LLC since 2012, and President & Director at Harvest Capital Credit Corp.
from 2020 to 2021.
In addition to his founding positions, Mr. Buckanavage has held former jobs at General Electric Capital Corp.
as Managing Director & Head-Debt Capital Markets from 1999 to 2003, Harvest Capital Strategies LLC as Managing Director, Bank Austria Creditanstalt Corporate Finance, Inc. as Senior Vice President & Manager-Midwest Region from 1995 to 1999, Creditanstalt Small Business Investment Corp.
as Senior Investment Officer, Fleet Bank (Doylestown, Pennsylvania) as Principal, and Bank of America Oregon, NA as Principal.
He is currently working as the CIO at Assurance Mezzanine Capital LLC since 2021.
Mr. Buckanavage completed his undergraduate degree at Central Connecticut State University in 1987 and obtained an MBA from Syracuse University in 1988.

Richard Paul Buckanavage active positions

Companies	Position	Start
Harvest Capital Credit LLC Harvest Capital Credit LLC Investment ManagersFinance Acts as an alternative investment manager	Chief Executive Officer	-

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Assurance Mezzanine Capital LLC Assurance Mezzanine Capital LLC Investment ManagersFinance Assurance Capital invests in both public and private lower middle-market companies in the United States with an enterprise value of USD 5 - 75 million and an EBITDA of USD 1 - 10 million. The firm focuses on a broad range of sectors and industries. It provides financing in the form of mezzanine debt and preferred equity for growth, buyouts, MBOs, corporate divestitures, and non-sponsored and sponsored-led transactions with an investment size of USD 3 - 20 million. The firm makes control investments and does not invest in real estate or oil and gas exploration.	Chief Investment Officer	31/01/2024
HARVEST CAPITAL CREDIT CORPORATION	Chief Executive Officer	27/03/2018
Patriot Capital Funding, Inc. Patriot Capital Funding, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Acts as Private Equity Fund	Founder	30/11/2009
General Electric Capital Corp. General Electric Capital Corp. Financial ConglomeratesFinance Provides financial services	Corporate Officer/Principal	31/12/2002
Bank Austria Creditanstalt Corporate Finance, Inc. Bank Austria Creditanstalt Corporate Finance, Inc. Major BanksFinance Provides banking services	Corporate Officer/Principal	31/12/1998

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Private companies	13
General Electric Capital Corp. General Electric Capital Corp. Financial ConglomeratesFinance Provides financial services	Finance
Harvest Capital Strategies LLC Harvest Capital Strategies LLC Investment ManagersFinance Harvest focuses on equity hedge funds, private equity and venture capital, and middle-market lending. They seek to generate above-average returns with below-average market risk in their areas of specialization. The firm employs fundamental, bottom-up research on companies in a variety of industry sectors and aims to identify those securities that they believe are over- or under-valued by a significant margin.	Finance
Patriot Capital Funding, Inc. Patriot Capital Funding, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Acts as Private Equity Fund	Finance
Harvest Capital Credit LLC Harvest Capital Credit LLC Investment ManagersFinance Acts as an alternative investment manager	Finance
Harvest Capital Credit Corp. Harvest Capital Credit Corp. Investment Trusts/Mutual FundsMiscellaneous Acts as Closed-End Investment Fund/Investment Trust	Miscellaneous
Central Connecticut State University Central Connecticut State University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
Syracuse University Syracuse University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
Patriot Capital Funding, Inc. (Private Equity) Patriot Capital Funding, Inc. (Private Equity) Investment ManagersFinance Patriot Capital Funding invests in small- and mid-sized companies with annual revenues ranging from $10 million to $100 million that operate in diverse industry sectors. The firm invests across companies' capital structures, from senior secured loans to equity securities. Patriot Capital's products include revolving loans, acquisition lines of credit, senior secured term loans, junior secured term loans, delayed draw term loans, subordinated loans and equity co-investments. The firm's minimum investment is typically $3 million. Patriot Capital primarily finances privately-held companies in transactions initiated by private equity sponsors. They generally target the sponsors of private equity funds with less than $250 million in assets that are focused on making investments in companies with $10 million to $100 million in annual revenues and EBITDA of at least $ 2million. The firm looks for established, US-based companies that maintain a significant market share in a defensible industry niche. Companies should have sound historical financial performance with industry appropriate margins, low technological and/or product obsolescence risk, a diversified customer/supplier base and a strong, proven management team with aligned	Finance
Bank Austria Creditanstalt Corporate Finance, Inc. Bank Austria Creditanstalt Corporate Finance, Inc. Major BanksFinance Provides banking services	Finance
Creditanstalt Small Business Investment Corp.
Fleet Bank (Doylestown, Pennsylvania) Fleet Bank (Doylestown, Pennsylvania) Regional BanksFinance State chartered commercial bank	Finance
Bank of America Oregon, NA Bank of America Oregon, NA Major BanksFinance Nationally chartered commercial bank	Finance
Assurance Mezzanine Capital LLC Assurance Mezzanine Capital LLC Investment ManagersFinance Assurance Capital invests in both public and private lower middle-market companies in the United States with an enterprise value of USD 5 - 75 million and an EBITDA of USD 1 - 10 million. The firm focuses on a broad range of sectors and industries. It provides financing in the form of mezzanine debt and preferred equity for growth, buyouts, MBOs, corporate divestitures, and non-sponsored and sponsored-led transactions with an investment size of USD 3 - 20 million. The firm makes control investments and does not invest in real estate or oil and gas exploration.	Finance