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Bart Houlahan

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Bart Houlahan Co-Founder, B Holdings, B Lab President, AND 1 Bart Houlahan, 38, is currently working with his partner, Jay Coen Gilbert, to co-create two related organizations: B Lab and B Holdings. B Lab is a non-profit organization whose mission is to build the For-Benefit sector. The For-Benefit sector is a new sector of the economy, sitting between the for-profit and non-profit sectors, which harnesses the power of private enterprise to create public benefit. The For-Benefit sector is comprised of a new type of corporation -- the B corporationTM -- which exists for the benefit of all stakeholders, not just shareholders. B Holdings is a For-Benefit holding company whose mission is to provide purpose-driven capital for purpose-driven companies. Partnering with talented entrepreneurs, B Holdings will buy and build sustainable, scalable, diverse, profitable B corporations. B Holdings will be the Berkshire Hathaway for purpose-driven investors. Prior to B Lab and B Holdings, Bart was CFO, COO and President of AND 1, a $250 MM basketball footwear, apparel and entertainment company. As the principal operator of the business, Bart joined AND 1 in its second year, when revenues totaled just $4 MM. Over the course of the next 11 years, Bart helped to finance, operate and scale the business to $250 MM in brand revenues with distribution in 35 countries world wide. AND 1 undertook a leveraged recapitalization in 1999 with TA Associates, and eventually was sold in May, 2005, to American Sporting Goods out of Irvine, CA. Before AND 1, Mr. Houlahan was an investment banker with Stonebridge Associates, BNY Associates, and Prudential-Bache Securities, specifically focused on providing corporate finance and merger and acquisition services to small-cap businesses ranging in size from $20 MM to $300 MM. Bart, a graduate of Stanford University, now resides in Devon, PA with his wife Chrissy and daughters Molly, 14 and Carly, 12.