Our Team
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Steven T. Berg / Partnersberg@castaneapartners.com |
Steve joined Castanea as a Partner at the firm’s launch in 2002. He has fifteen years of private equity and strategy consulting experience in consumer products and retail brands.
Prior to joining Castanea, Steve was an investment professional at Bain Capital, a leading private equity firm. While at Bain Capital, Steve worked on a variety of new investments in addition to having significant operational involvement with Bain Capital portfolio companies. His experience at Bain Capital included transactions and operational involvement with Domino’s Pizza, Sealy Mattress, totes-Isotoner, Wesley-Jessen, Mattress Discounters, Bentley’s Luggage, and several other companies.
Prior to Bain Capital, Steve was a consultant with Bain & Company, a leading strategy consulting firm. At Bain & Company he served clients in consumer products, retail and manufacturing in the United States and Europe.
Steve received an MBA with distinction from The Wharton School of Business, where he was a Palmer Scholar. He received a B.S. Engineering, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan.
Steve has an active interest in philanthropy. He founded Bain & Company’s volunteer program with Habitat for Humanity; managed the Bain Capital Children’s Charity; and was a board member and Treasurer for New England Scores, an after-school soccer and creative writing program for underprivileged children in Boston.