Charles Harper is a Managing Director and serves as Head of Private Credit, Co-Head of the Junior Debt Team and a member of the firm’s Management Committee.

Prior to joining Portfolio Advisors in 2013, Mr. Harper was Co-Head of DLJ Investment Partners at Credit Suisse. Prior to the DLJ and Credit Suisse merger, he was a Vice President in the Merchant Banking division at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette from 1997-1999. Prior to DLJ, he worked in the Leveraged Finance Group of First Chicago (dba JP Morgan).

He has served or currently serves as a board observer of sixteen portfolio companies including Caribbean Restaurants, CB Richard Ellis, Deffenbaugh Industries, Driven Brands, Harlan Labs, Neff Corp, PSSI, The SI Org, USS Corp, Wastequip, Rough Country, Nutraceutical, L.B. White, Denali, HK Solutions, and HemaSource.

Mr. Harper has been working in the private markets since 1990. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BS in Finance from the University of Illinois.