Managing Director
MIMCO, LLC

Peter Francis is the managing director of MIMCO, LLC, an investment company formed to manage two investment partnerships as well as direct ownership interests in real estate, leverage-buyout, natural gas royalty, and private-equity funds. He directly owns interests in more than four dozen small businesses.

He retired as the board chair in 2008 and president and CEO in 2009 of J.M. Huber Corporation, a privately held global supplier of engineered materials, food ingredients, natural resources, and technology-based services with annual sales of approximately $1.5 billion. He joined Huber in 1992 as vice chairman, before assuming his operating roles in 1994.

In his previous career, Mr. Francis owned and operated three companies. He lived and worked outside the United States for eight years and has held various positions in marketing, engineering, R&D, manufacturing, and general management with both large and small companies.

Mr. Francis is on the board of the Dover Corporation, a NYSE-listed diversified industrial manufacturer, where he is currently a member of the compensation and previously of the audit committees. He is on the board of trustees of Tabor Academy. He formerly sat on boards for Rumson Country Day School, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and AMS Acquisition Corporation.

He received a BA in psychology, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Middlebury College in Vermont. He later received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, graduating as an Arjay Miller Scholar.