Stephen R. Haynes

Chairman, Founding and Managing Partner


Mr. Haynes is a founder, Managing Director and Chairman of the board of Glengary and is responsible for managing the investment decisions of Glengary and its day-to-day operations. Mr. Haynes has over 25 years of senior leadership experience as a principal and agent in all areas of private equity, venture capital and investment banking.

Prior to Glengary, Mr. Haynes was a General Partner of Key Equity Capital (KEC), a partnership with KeyCorp Bank, where his emphasis was on providing equity capital to growth companies and in leveraged buyout transactions with equity commitments ranging from $1 million to $20 million per transaction. In addition to serving on the boards of KEC portfolio companies, Mr. Haynes served on the Advisory Boards of Kirtland Capital (Cleveland) and Healthcare Equity Partners (Chicago). Preceding KEC, Mr. Haynes served in the Corporate Finance Department of McDonald & Company, most recently as Senior Vice President. Mr. Haynes was involved in all areas of corporate finance including public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, mergers and acquisitions, and divestitures. Mr. Haynes served as an investment banker for many regional growth companies, most notably STERIS, AcroMed and OfficeMax. In his role as President of McDonald & Company Venture Capital, Inc., he managed the private equity investments of McDonald & Company. Earlier in his career, Mr. Haynes was a member of the Small Business Consulting Group of Price Waterhouse where he founded the Cleveland office transaction support group focused on capital formation for growth companies and due diligence for corporate mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Haynes has been actively involved with the Association for Corporate Growth and the NorTech Early-Stage Task Force. He is currently a board member of the Ohio Venture Association and a member of the Technology Review Board for The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Mr. Haynes is a frequent speaker on the topic of capital formation and venture capital.

Mr. Haynes is a board member or observer of Predictive Service, Neuros Medical, SironRX Therapeutics, OnShift, EndoSphere, and Cardiox. He was a founding board member of Cleveland HeartLab.

Mr. Haynes received his B.S. in Accountancy from Miami University and is a Certified Public Accountant.