Mr. Sobotka is the Managing Partner at Durational Capital Management. Prior to co-founding DCM, he was a Portfolio Manager, focusing on the consumer sector, and Investment Committee Member of Eminence Capital, a long / short equity fund. Prior to Eminence, he worked at Lehman Brothers in leveraged finance and Lazard Asset Management.

Mr. Sobotka is a former captain of the University of Pennsylvania Men’s Varsity Tennis Team and serves on the Penn Tennis Alumni Committee. He currently serves on the board of Bojangles’, Inc. and Garage Beer. and, in addition, is an active member of the board of directors of Urban Upbound, a non-profit organization dedicated to delivering sustainable prosperity to housing development communities through infrastructure building and skills development of its residents. Mr. Sobotka holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Khayat is a Partner at Durational Capital Management. Prior to co-founding DCM, he was a Vice President at The Carlyle Group (Emerging Sovereign Group), a long / short equity Tiger seed hedge fund. Previous to The Carlyle Group, he was a private equity investor at Apax Partners focused on evaluating investments in the consumer sector. Prior to Apax, he worked at Miller Buckfire, where he specialized in complex restructuring transactions. He currently serves on the board of Bojangles’, Inc. and Garage Beer. Mr. Khayat graduated Magna Cum Laude from Georgetown University with a B.A. in Economics.

Mr. Hall is a Principal at Durational Capital Management. Prior to DCM, he was an Associate at The Carlyle Group focused on evaluating investments in the consumer, media and retail sectors. Previous to The Carlyle Group, he was an analyst in the Financial Sponsors Group at J.P. Morgan. Mr. Hall holds a B.A. in Global Affairs and Economics, with distinction, from Yale University.

Ms. Adler is a Senior Associate at Durational Capital Management. Previously, she was a private equity investor focusing on Consumer, Media and Retail investments at the The Carlyle Group. Prior to The Carlyle Group, she worked in Industrials investment banking coverage at Morgan Stanley. She received her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and holds an A.B. in Statistics, with a language citation in Mandarin Chinese, from Harvard College.

Mr. Zheng is the Vice President of Finance and Operations at Durational Capital Management. Prior to joining DCM, he was a Senior Manager at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co and a Senior Accountant at Ernst and Young LLP. Mr. Zheng graduated from Fordham University, where he received a B.S. in Accounting and is currently a Certified Public Accountant in New York State.