Anthony Buffa, Managing Partner, has over 26 years of experience in the private equity industry.  He founded Endeavor Capital Management in 1988 and oversees all investment and operating activities of the firm.  Mr. Buffa has been actively involved as an investor, director and advisor to a number of successful growth companies in a variety of industries including, among others, Catalina Marketing (NYSE – POS), Timberjack Holdings (now a division of John Deere), Harbinger Corporation (merged with Peregrine Systems and subsequently sold to Hewlett Packard), efax.com (merged into j2 Global Communications), Jostens Learning (formerly Education Systems Corporation), National Water & Power and Clean Air Power (LSE – CAP).

Previously, Mr. Buffa was a general partner of Edelson Technology Partners (“ETP”), a private venture capital firm where he managed ETP’s single most successful investment, Catalina Marketing, which Mr. Buffa identified, co-led and originated to the venture community.

Prior to joining ETP, Mr. Buffa was an investment officer with Michigan Capital and Service (MCS), a Small Business Investment Company (SBIC), then operated by NBD Bank, N.A.

Mr. Buffa entered the private equity industry in 1980 as an associate at New Court Securities Corporation (now Rothschild, Inc.), then one of the larger active technology-oriented, venture banking and private equity-investing firms in the country.  During this time, in addition to his investment and advisory duties, Mr. Buffa took on his first operating assignment and initiated his proactive approach to lead investor duties by serving as interim Chairman and CEO of a troubled Rothschild family-owned business, which he stabilized and sold successfully.

Mr. Buffa has been a Director of more than 25 private equity–backed businesses.  He began his career as a loan officer for the Chase Manhattan Bank in Caracas, Venezuela.  Mr. Buffa received a B.A. degree from the University of Michigan.