Our Team
Gregory W. Houghtaling
J. Brent Mann
Kurt G. Keene
Andrew Pappas
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 Gregory
W. Houghtaling
Founding Partner
Partner - Vista Private Equity Group
Greg is a founding Partner of the
Vista Group of entities and co-manages the activities of Vista’s
Private Equity Group. Prior to co-founding Vista in 2006, Greg
served as a Managing Director for 10 years with RSTW Partners, a
Houston-based private equity firm which invested mezzanine and
equity capital totaling $850 million through three institutional
investment funds. At RSTW, Greg was responsible for managing the
entire investment process on transactions that he led, including
transaction sourcing, structuring, due diligence,
negotiations/closings, post-closing management and coordinating
investment exit scenarios. Greg served on the board of directors for
a variety of RSTW portfolio companies, and he actively managed the
financial, strategic and operational oversight of numerous RSTW
portfolio companies.
Greg began his career with Ernst
& Young, an international professional services firm, where he
provided accounting, consulting and transaction advisory services to
Fortune 500 and middle market companies in a wide variety of
industries. Greg held the position of Senior Manager with Ernst &
Young, where he worked from 1985 until 1994, when he left to pursue
his interest in operations management. From 1994 to 1996, Greg
worked as a senior financial executive for two separate operational
turnarounds – one involving a large global operating division of a
Fortune 100 company and one involving the previous leveraged buyout
of a middle market specialty molding company. Through his
operational management positions, as well as in connection with
certain RSTW investments, Greg has substantial experience in
managing distressed restructurings and turnaround situations.
Greg holds a B.B.A. degree from
Texas A&M University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude, and is a
former practicing CPA. He is married and has three children.
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