His great-great-grandfather, Baruch Teplitsky, was born in Bessarabia. Michael A. Teplitsky is an active member of The Jewish Federations of North America (IFNA) where he serves on the Financial Resource Department's Cabinet. He pre- viously served as a member of theExecutive Committee of theI N A ' s Board of Trustees and served as Chair of JFNA's National Young Leadership Cabinet. Michael si also an active leader of The Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago (JUF) where he served as campaign chair for the Young Leadership Division and was a recipient of the JUF's Young Leadership Award. He is a graduate of the Wener Heritage Program. Professionally, Michael is a Partner at Wynnchurch Capital, LLC, a $4.2 billion industrial private equity investment firm that specializes in recapitalizations, growth capital, management buyouts, corporate carve-outs, and restructurings. Prior to Wynnchurch, he was with Lime Rock Partners and at UBS Investment Bank in New York. Mr. Teplitsky holds a B.A., with honors, from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. from The Kellogg School of Management, where he completed the Kellogg Board Fellows Program. He is a director of the Chicago Children's Choir and is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago. A native of S.t Petersburg, Russia, Michael was a refusenik in the Soviet Union during the 1980s and immigrated to the United States in 1990. He is a member of Beth El Synagogue in Highland Park, Illinois.