Chairman
Arthur Maxwell is Founder and Chairman of AIS, LLC, one of the largest business furniture manufacturers in the United States. The Massachusetts-based company was founded in 1989. In October of 2007, Audax Group, a top-tier Private Equity Firm, purchased a majority interest in AIS and Maxwell remains a significant shareholder and a company advisor. AIS is also the recipient of the 2003 Shingo award, which is referred to as the Nobel Prize of manufacturing. Mr. Maxwell was formerly the managing General Partner of AIS Venture Fund LP, a multi-faceted investment vehicle. He holds positions with Harwich One LLC, AIS Funding LLC, and AIS Equity Holdings LLC. In 1998, Maxwell completed the successful sale of Sovereign Capital Corporation, which focused on real estate development and mortgage-backed securities. Mr. Maxwell has served on the Board of Directors of publicly traded US Technologies, an incubator of early stage technology ventures, as well as Krueger Brent, S. A., a multi-national holding company headquartered in Luxembourg with executive offices in Switzerland. In 2004, Mr. Maxwell led the buy out of Pearl Street Capital Group (PSCG, www.pearlcap.com), which utilizes proprietary tools and methodologies to understand behaviors of private equity and venture debt portfolios. Pearl Street projects performance, simulates cash flows, assesses risk, and structures rated and non-rated leveraged transactions. From early 2004 until August of 2006, Maxwell served as the CEO of WhiteFence (www.whitefence.com), where he continues to sit as Chairman of WhiteFence. In late 2007, Mr. Maxwell took control of NewMarket Impressions, LLC, a company who pioneered its patent pending technology for freshness dating, traceability and advertising on Eggshells. When Yucaipa purchased controlling interest in August of 2010, Mr. Maxwell made significant investments in Noram Partners, Inc., the exclusive distribution partner for Amazon in the rapidly growing video game industry, as well as Charity Partners, LLC, a for-profit platform seeking to establish a middle ground between commerce and philanthropy in a series of vertical markets. He currently serves as an active investor, advisor and Board member to a handful of enterprises at different stages of development, as well as sitting on the financial advisory Board of the Culinary Institute of America. Maxwell attended Boston College from 1976-1979, where he majored in Political Science and Economics. He resides in Sudbury, MA with his wife and three daughters.