Charles Harper

Charles Harper is a Managing Director and serves as Head of Junior Credit at Future Standard. Mr. Harper is responsible for overseeing the firm’s private debt businesses, including junior credit and credit secondaries. In this role, he helps steer the origination, underwriting and portfolio management functions within private debt, as well as helping manage key firm LP and GP relationships.  

Mr. Harper has been working in the private markets since 1990. Prior to joining Future Standard in 2013, Mr. Harper was Co-Head of DLJ Investment Partners at Credit Suisse. Prior to the DLJ and Credit Suisse merger, he was a Vice President in the Merchant Banking division at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette. Earlier in his career, he worked in the Leveraged Finance Group of First Chicago.

He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BS in Finance from the University of Illinois.

Mr. Harper has served or currently serves as a board observer of sixteen portfolio companies including Caribbean Restaurants, CB Richard Ellis, Deffenbaugh Industries, Driven Brands, Harlan Labs, Neff Corp, PSSI, The SI Org, USS Corp, Wastequip, Rough Country, Nutraceutical, L.B. White, Denali, HK Solutions and HemaSource.