Fortress Paper appoints Ezra Gardner to the Board of Directors of the Company.
Mr. Gardner is a co-founder and a partner of Varana Capital Partners, LP, a New York based investment partnership. Prior to founding Varana in 2009, Mr. Gardner was Lead Project Manager and Managing Partner at KCPS/Omnium Capital Management, a $500 million asset management fund based in Tel Aviv, designed to develop the fund management industry in Israel.
Mr. Gardner also held the position of Head of Equity Proprietary Trading within UBS' New York based Fundamental Investment Group and served as a member of the U.S. Trading Committee, where he managed a team of portfolio managers and support staff and over $1 billion of investments. Mr. Gardner also held roles at MSD Capital (Michael Dell's family office) and JP Morgan Investment Banking focusing on M&A and capital markets.
Fortress Paper operates internationally in two distinct business segments: dissolving pulp and security paper products.
