Charles F. Auster, Managing Partner
Chuck Auster has more than 30 years of experience creating value through entrepreneurship, large corporate executive management, and private equity investments and transactions. He is currently Founder and Managing Partner of Auster Capital Partners (ACP).
Mr. Auster sits on the board of a number of companies and is currently Chairman of the Board of Global Packaging Corporation N.V. and Senior Advisor to Yorkville Advisors, LLC. He is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Center of Tufts University, and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of L'Enfant Trust, Washington, D.C., a 501(c)(3) historic preservation organization that he co-founded.
Before establishing ACP, Mr. Auster was a Partner and Managing Director at One Equity Partners (OEP), the private equity arm of JPMorgan Chase. OEP manages $8 billion of investments and commitments for direct investments in corporate transactions and leveraged buyouts. Among other transactions, Mr. Auster led the deal team in the acquisition of Polaroid Corporation by OEP and served as Chairman of the Board of Polaroid.
Prior to joining OEP, Mr. Auster was President and Chief Executive Officer and a Member of the Board of Directors of Infocrossing, Inc. (NASDAQ:IFOX), a premier provider of a full range of IT outsourcing services, including mainframe and open systems as well as complex hosting and managed services.
Mr. Auster was a Founder, and formerly the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and a Member of the Board of Directors of IXnet, Ltd. (NASDAQ), a network provider of communication services offering an international voice, data and IP extranet for the financial services community. He was in a leadership role as part of the senior team that negotiated the sale of IPC and IXnet to Global Crossing in a stock-for-stock exchange valued in excess of $3.8 billion.
Mr. Auster earlier served as Executive Vice President and on the Board of Directors of Washington-based AmeriTrade, Inc., an international trade and investment banking firm that helps U.S. firms structure, finance and manage overseas transactions. Mr. Auster's primary work included projects with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, The U.S. Export Import Bank, The Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and The International Finance Corporation of the World Bank.
As a Founding Partner in Andes Equity Partners, Ltd., Mr. Auster aided in the conception and sponsorship of the South American Private Equity Growth Fund, LP, a $180 million Overseas Private Investment Corporation guaranteed direct investment fund for Latin America.
Mr. Auster graduated from Tufts University with Highest Honors in Economics and holds a Juris Doctor with Honors from the National Law Center, George Washington University. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Virginia State Bar.
Peter Hase, Managing Director, EMEA
Following a successful career as an Insurance Broker, Peter moved into the Telecoms sector in 1983, working for Siemens and Racal before joining Midland Network Services, building value in the Travel and Banking managed services sector.
Peter formed the start-up global services provider Saturn Global Network in Europe and then ran the European and US business’ prior to the sale of to IXNet, which then was floated on NASDAQ in August 1999.
In 2000 Peter joined Interxion (in Amsterdam) as Group MD, running the data centre business, with almost 400 staff reporting to him and responsibility for 16 European data centres. He was part of a fund raise of Euro 180M in 2001.
After a 3 year period operating his own consulting practice with clients ranging from blue-chip names to VC’s and start-ups, Peter joined Telstra International and was fundamental in the strategic review of the US business (working in New York) and has been closely involved in the revision and expansion the Telstra European business. Peter was appointed as CMO in Jan 2007 and then became SVP Global Business Development in 2008, responsible for many Telstra International strategic business innovations and has been closely involved with the deployment of new Global services.
Peter joined ACP as Managing Director EMEA in March 2010 working from London. He holds a US visa and is an executive member of the Cambridge Conservative Assoc.
