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Managing Directors

Charles F. Baird, Jr.
Managing Director and Founder

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Charles F. Baird, Jr., North Castle's founder, has spent the last 25 years as an investor and consultant partnering with Chief Executive Officers to improve their companies' operating performance and shareholder returns. Mr. Baird began studying the emerging Healthy Living & Aging trends more than 10 years ago with strategic partners at Bain & Company, Adams, Harkness & Hill and Age Wave.

Mr. Baird founded North Castle Partners in 1997 specifically to pursue opportunities in this dynamic new marketplace. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for four North Castle portfolio companies: gloProfessional, Atkins Nutritionals, Cascade Helmets, and Enzymatic Therapy. Mr. Baird also serves on the Boards of Performance Bicycle, Octane Fitness, World Health Club and Red Door Spas and has served on the Boards of Directors of CRC Health, Equinox Fitness, GEI and Naked Juice. Mr. Baird is a trustee of The Alger Fund and the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

Prior to founding North Castle, Mr. Baird served as a Managing Director of AEA Investors LLC, where he was involved in initiating, negotiating, financing, monitoring and exiting principal investments. From 1978 to 1989, Mr. Baird worked at Bain & Company, where, as an Executive Vice President and North American Management Committee member, he was involved in developing strategy and implementing profit improvement initiatives for companies in the health care, forest products, packaging, publishing, chemicals, food, plastics and textile industries.

From 1975 to 1977, Mr. Baird worked in mergers and acquisitions at The First Boston Corporation. He received an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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