David W. Dupree - Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
202-530-8300
ddupree@thehalifaxgroup.com

Prior to co-founding Halifax in 1999, Mr. Dupree was a managing director and partner with The Carlyle Group, where he was primarily responsible for investments in healthcare and related sectors. Prior to joining The Carlyle Group in 1992, Mr. Dupree was a principal in Corporate Finance with Montgomery Securities. Prior to that, he was co-head of Equity Private Placements at Alex Brown & Sons Incorporated. Mr. Dupree is a member of the Boards of Directors of the following Halifax portfolio companies: IASIS Healthcare Corporation, North American Video, Inc (chairman), CR, LLC (parent entity for Trio, Inc.), Nutrition Physiology Company, LLC, and Animal Supply Co., LLC. Mr. Dupree also served on the boards of Meineke Car Care Centers, Inc., InSight Health Services Corp., Universal Hospital Services, Inc, PolyPipe Holdings, Inc., PJ United, Inc., and Soil Safe, Inc. Mr. Dupree is also a managing member and member of the management committee of Salem Halifax Capital Partners, a Small Business Administration mezzanine lending company sponsored by Halifax. Mr. Dupree is a Director Emeritus of Whole Foods Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI and a Fortune 500 company) where he served as a director from 1997 until 2008. As a Whole Foods director, he served on the Audit Committee and was chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committee. Mr. Dupree also serves on the Board of Primo Water Corporation. Mr. Dupree holds a Small Business Administration approval certificate, and is a qualified vendor services provider to gambling entities in substantially all of the major jurisdictions in the U.S.

Mr. Dupree earned a B.S. from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received his M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University. Mr. Dupree is currently a trustee of Wake Forest University and is the incoming chairman of the Investment Policy Committee for the Wake Forest Endowment. He is also vice-chairman of the Board of Visitors of the Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University. In the recent past, Mr. Dupree served as a trustee for St. Patrick’s in Washington, D.C. where he was also chairman of the Finance Committee. He is a member of the Audit Committee at St Patrick's Episcopal School.

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