John Pless

Mr. Pless joined Snow Phipps at the inception of the Firm and became a Partner in 2012. Prior to joining Snow Phipps, Mr. Pless worked at Guggenheim Merchant Banking. Previously, he was an Associate Director in the Financial Institutions Group at UBS Investment Bank, the investment banking arm of UBS AG, where he worked on a wide range of mergers and acquisitions and capital raising transactions for banks and specialty finance companies. Mr. Pless currently serves on the boards of BlackHawk, Cascade, EnviroFinance Group, HCTec, Ideal Tridon, Kele and Velocity Commercial Capital. He received a B.A. in Economics from Middlebury College.