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About Charles McKenna Rial

The recipient of a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Georgetown University, Charles Mckenna Rial became president of Alaska Consulting Group in 1979 and served in this position until 1983, during which time he developed a turn-around plan for a prominent natural foods chain based in the northwest US. He also helped the Alaska Commercial Co. streamline its distribution system. Charles Mckenna Rial then founded his own financing and commercial real estate firm, which was acquired by Shorebank Corporation in 1987.

Following the acquisition, Mr. Rial served as founding managing director of Shorebank Advisory Services. He spent 6 years in this position, and increased consulting engagement by 800 percent from its first year. The firm worked with partners like The Ford Foundation, Bank of America, and John Hopkins Medical Institutions. He later held executive roles with Shorebank Cleveland Corporation, The Riverside Company, and Babson Capital Management, LLC, before establishing Bass Creek Advisors, Ltd., in 2006.

In his role as principal of the firm, he helps private equity and development companies raise investment capital. To date, Bass Creek has helped the leveraged buyout firm Hammond Kennedy Whitney & Company raise hundreds of millions of dollars for HKW Capital Partners III and IV.