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Gabrielle Elise Greene

Gabrielle E. Greene has been a professional in the financial services industry for over 15 years. Ms. Greene is a General Partner of Rustic Canyon/Fontis Partners, a private equity fund based in Pasadena, California. Prior to joining RC/Fontis, she was Chief Financial Officer of Gluecode Software, a venture-backed open source software company, which was sold to IBM in May 2005. Previously she was CFO of Crown Services, a California based consolidation of commercial contractors.

Before joining Crown Services, Ms. Greene was a general partner of the Citigroup sponsored BE/Greenwich Street Equity Fund. Prior to joining BE/Greenwich Street in 1998, Ms. Greene was a principal of HPB Associates, a New York based hedge fund, where she invested in both public and private companies, and also served as CFO of one of the HPB portfolio companies. From 1992 to 1994 Ms Greene was the founding managing director of the Commonwealth Enterprise Fund in Boston, a private equity fund formed by a consortium of New England Banks. From 1987 to 1992 Ms. Greene was a principal at UNC Partners in Boston, where she was responsible for private equity investments in diverse industries. Prior to completing her graduate school education, Ms. Greene worked for several years as an associate consultant at Bain & Company, a strategic management consulting firm based in Boston.

Ms. Greene received her B.A. from Princeton University in 1981, where she graduated from the Urban Studies program at the Woodrow Wilson School. In 1987, she received her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and J.D. from Harvard Law School. Ms. Greene serves on the board of IndyMac Bank, Bright Horizons (NASDAQ: BFAM) where she serves on the audit committee and Whole Foods (NASDAQ: WFMI), where she is chairman of the audit committee and serves on the compensation committee. She has served on several non-profit boards, including the Boston Children’s Museum, and the Boston Partnership, where she chaired the audit committee. She has also served on numerous private company boards. Ms Greene is a member of the Massachusetts State Bar, and is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

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