Leonard A. Potter has been a director of SLR Investment Corp. and its predecessor fund since 2009. Mr. Potter has also been a director of SLR Senior Investment Corp. since its inception in February 2011 and a director of SCP Private Credit Income BDC since its inception in May 2018.
Mr. Potter is currently the president and chief investment officer of Wildcat Capital Management, LLC, a registered inestment advisor, since its inception in 2011. From 2009 until joining Wildcat, Mr. Potter served as a consultant to Soros Fund Management LLC (“SFM”) and as the chief investment officer of Salt Creek Hospitality, a private acquirer and owner of hospitality related assets that was sponsored by an affiliate of SFM. From 2002 through 2009, Mr. Potter was managing director at SFM where, from May 2005 through July 2009, Mr. Potter served as co-head of the Private Equity group and a member of the Private Equity Investment Committee. From September 1998 until joining SFM, Mr. Potter was a managing director of Alpine Consolidated LLC, a private merchant bank, and from April 1996 through September 1998, Mr. Potter founded and served as a managing director of Capstone Partners LLC, a private merchant bank. Prior to founding Capstone Partners, Mr. Potter was an attorney specializing in mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Mr. Potter has previously served, and continues to serve, as a board member of several public and private companies. Mr. Potter has a BA from Brandeis University and a JD degree from the Fordham University School of Law.