Mr. Powell’s career spans investment banking and financial advisory, private capital investment, operating, and board governance roles.  His investment banking and financial advisory experience includes positions as head of consumer investment banking and a member of the investment banking operating and credit committees of RBC Capital Markets; managing director of Prudential Securities, Wheat, First Securities and L.F. Rothschild & Co.; associate in Merrill Lynch’s high yield finance group; and audit manager in Arthur Andersen & Co.’s emerging growth companies group.  His industry sector experience includes consumer products manufacturing, distribution, licensing and omnichannel retail; consumer and business services; franchising; B2B and B2C technology; direct response marketing; and selected financial services sectors.

His board governance experience includes positions as lead independent director and compensation committee chair of OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: OSW); audit committee chair of Haymaker Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: HYAC) the acquiror of ARKO, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARKO) and BioTe Medical (Nasdaq: BTMD); and a director of Massage Envy Holdings, Atkins Nutritionals, and Strivectin Holdings, among others.

His private capital investment experience includes positions as managing director of Prospect Capital Management (Nasdaq: PSEC), senior advisor to private equity firms Roark Capital Group and LCatterton, and founder and President of Cameron Capital, where he co-led the capitalization, acquisitions, operations and sale national consumer services, specialty retail, franchising and direct marketing business.

He graduated from the University of Virginia with BS in Commerce and MBA degrees and holds FINRA Series 63 and 79 investment banking registrations.