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Leadership — CalTex Capital

Leadership That Delivers
Superior Results

Leadership grounded in operational expertise, disciplined execution, and enduring partnerships.

Investment Capital Operational Expertise Corporate Advisory Enduring Partnerships
Managing Partner

Forrest Reynolds

Forrest Reynolds has spent more than three decades advising, investing in, and leading companies across a broad range of industries. Mr. Reynolds' experience spans principal investing, public company board membership, corporate restructuring, investment banking, and executive leadership — bringing both strategic vision and deep operational expertise to every opportunity.

Biography

Investor, board member, advisor, and executive leadership.

Forrest Reynolds formed CalTex Capital, LLC as a vehicle to provide private capital and corporate advisory to emerging and middle market companies located in the United States and certain regions abroad.

Mr. Reynolds has over thirty years of business, finance, investment, and management experience. Over the course of his career, he has advised numerous leading public and private companies across a broad range of industries, including technology, telecommunications, media, entertainment, healthcare, life sciences, industrial manufacturing, traditional and alternative energy, natural resources, real estate, and gaming.

Prior to forming CalTex Capital, Mr. Reynolds served as Chief Restructuring Officer for Centaur Gaming, LLC. In that capacity, he managed a $1.0 billion Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. Prior to that, Mr. Reynolds spent more than fourteen years in investment banking, holding various positions with several multinational financial institutions, including Credit Suisse, BT Alex Brown (Deutsche Bank), and UBS. In that capacity, Mr. Reynolds completed more than seventy transactions totaling over $15.0 billion in value, including high-yield offerings, leveraged bank financings, recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, convertible offerings, initial public offerings, follow-on and secondary equity offerings, private debt transactions, and private equity placements.

Mr. Reynolds currently serves as a director of Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTI) and has previously served on the boards of several privately held companies.

Mr. Reynolds graduated from The University of Texas at Austin, where he earned both a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.

Career Highlights

Selected experience and transaction highlights.

Experience
30+ Years of investing, board membership, business, finance, and executive leadership experience.
Transactions
70+ Completed Transactions representing mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, leveraged financings, leveraged buyouts, equity and debt offerings, recapitalizations, and private placements.
Transaction Value
More than $15.0 Billion in aggregate transaction value across public and private markets.
Partnership

Investing with alignment, discipline, and a long-term perspective.

Our investment philosophy reflects the same principles that have guided Forrest Reynolds throughout his career: disciplined analysis, operational engagement, and long-term partnership.

We believe enduring value is created by combining investment capital with operational expertise, sound judgment, and an unwavering commitment to the long-term success of our portfolio companies, management teams, and investment partners.

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