ROGER KNIGHT

Roger Knight is founder and Managing Partner of Lakewood Capital. Prior to forming Lakewood, Roger was Managing Director of Ardshiel, Inc., a $150 million private equity firm, whose funding was provided by GE Asset Management and the GE Pension Trust. Formerly Managing Director and founding member of Coopers & Lybrand Securities Management Committee, Roger has focused on the middle market for nearly twenty-five years.  Roger brings to Lakewood’s investments and its partners a broad background in financial services including banking, credit, M&A advisory, financing and private equity investing.  He has worked on numerous transactions involving both privately-held family businesses and divisions of Fortune 500 companies as well as international enterprises.  This broad base of experience enables Roger to appreciate, analyze and manage through the unique qualities often associated with mid-sized transactions.  

Roger currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Eliason Corporation, a leading provider of doors to over 6,000 accounts active in a variety of industries, including restaurants and other food service, retail, education, health care, general industrial, and government/military.  He previously served as Board Member and head of the Compensation and Audit Committees, for the Atrium Companies, a $600 million designer, manufacturer and distributor of windows and doors in the United States, and Member of the Board and the Audit Committee of HB&G, a specialty manufacturer of synthetic building products, including small and large scale columns for use in residential as well as commercial markets, including hotels.

Roger received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Trinity College - Hartford, CT, and a Masters of Business Administration with distinction from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

In addition to leading Lakewood Capital, Roger is the President of Rowayton Little League, founder and Tournament Director of the Eastern States Platform Tennis Championships, and leads the Strategic Planning team as an elder of the Noroton Presbyterian Church.