Board of Governors
2022-2023 SBIA Board of Governors
The SBIA governance structure consists of a Board of Governors that is made up of its Board Officers, Regional Presidents, At-Large Board Members, and designated Council Chairs.
SMALL BUSINESS INVESTOR ALLIANCE OFFICERS |
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AT-LARGE BOARD MEMBERS |
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Melinda Jackson manages Cadence Bank’s Alternative Investment platform and focuses on investments in Small Business Investment Companies (“SBIC’s”) and other Community Reinvestment Act-driven (“CRA”) investments. She oversees the Bank’s limited partner investments in SBIC’s and merges that activity with the Bank’s CRA investment efforts.
David Kocen is a founding partner of Bluehenge Capital Partners. Mr. Kocen joined Stonehenge Capital Company (predecessor to Bluehenge) in 1998, and from 2001 to 2015, he managed that firm’s New York office and directed the firm’s Northeast regional investment strategy. Mr. Kocen’s experience covers a variety of investment stages and sectors, with concentrations in manufacturing, service, consumer and other industrial concerns.

Steven Lilly is Chief Financial Officer of FS KKR Capital Corp. as well as other BDCs advised by FS/KKR Advisor, LLC and serves as a Managing Director at FS Investments. Previously, he served as Chief Financial Officer and member of the Board of Directors of Triangle Capital Corporation, a publicly traded BDC sold to Benefit Street Partners and Barings, LLC in 2018.







*Denotes SBIA Executive Committee Member
REGIONAL PRESIDENTS |
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COUNCIL CHAIRS |
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Patrick Weston is a Founding Partner of Route 2 Capital Partners and has spent the bulk of his nearly three-decade career sourcing and managing lower middle market private equity investments across the South. He previously worked at Liberty Capital Advisors (an investment management subdivision of Liberty Corporation), Transamerica Mezzanine Financing, Inc, and most recently Azalea Capital, where he was Managing Partner and helped raise four private equity funds focused on lower middle market investments.
Brian Lueger joined Konza Valley Capital, Inc. in September 2011 and currently serves as a Principal where he is responsible for deal generation, structuring, due diligence, closing, and monitoring both debt and equity portfolio investments. Brian is a Certified Public Accountant and is a member of both the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Kansas Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Ann Ferreira has over 25 years of experience in corporate finance and private equity. She is a co-founder of Lake Country Capital (LC2), an investment firm dedicated to the lower middle-market. She has held senior investment roles throughout her career including through her own firm, Good Harbor Capital and at Churchill Capital, where she led and managed junior capital investments in lower middle-market businesses. She spent the first 14 years of her career within the investment banking divisions of Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown, Bank of America, and at Chase Securities, where she was in a variety of corporate finance roles including senior M&A and restructuring advisory positions.