Finance, Legal, Compliance, & Accounting

Jesse Morris

Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Managing Director

Jesse Morris is our Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Morris also serves as a member of our management team’s executive committee. He has management responsibility over the firm’s internal operations and is also a Senior Managing Director on our lower middle market investment team where his responsibilities include managing a portfolio of lower middle market investments where he is an active board member and assists those companies with various strategic initiatives, capital raises and M&A activity. Mr. Morris is also responsible for originating and executing new investments for the firm. Mr. Morris has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since joining Main Street in 2019 and previously served as Main Street’s Chief Financial Officer from 2021 until August 2024. Mr. Morris has also served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of MSC Income since October 2020 and previously served as MSC Income’s Chief Financial Officer from 2021 until July 2024. Prior to joining Main Street, Mr. Morris served in various roles of increasing responsibility with Quanta Services, Inc. (NYSE: PWR) from 2014 to 2019 including most recently as Executive Vice President – Finance and President – Infrastructure Solutions. In this position, he oversaw the accounting, treasury, tax and financial planning and analysis activities and led Quanta’s public-private partnership (P3) concession and private infrastructure investment activities. Prior to joining Quanta, Mr. Morris served in various financial and accounting positions of increasing responsibility with Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY) including as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer – Foodservice Operations and Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer – Broadline Operations. Mr. Morris began his career as a certified public accountant and was an Experienced Manager with Arthur Andersen.

Jason Beauvais

Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary

Jason Beauvais is our Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary. Mr. Beauvais also serves as a member of our management team’s executive committee. He has management responsibility over the firm’s legal, compliance, human resources and technology functions. Mr. Beauvais has served as General Counsel and Secretary since joining the firm in 2008, as Chief Compliance Officer since 2012 and as Executive Vice President since 2021. Since October 2020, Mr. Beauvais has also served as General Counsel and Secretary of MSC Income and as Executive Vice President since 2021. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center, a non-profit urban nature sanctuary. Prior to joining Main Street, Mr. Beauvais was an attorney with Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: OXY), an international oil and gas exploration and production company. Before that, Mr. Beauvais practiced corporate and securities law at Baker Botts L.L.P., where he primarily counseled companies in public issuances and private placements of debt and equity and handled a wide range of general corporate and securities matters as well as mergers and acquisitions.

Ryan Nelson

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Ryan Nelson, a certified public accountant, is our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and has served in these roles since August 2024. Mr. Nelson previously served as our Chief Accounting Officer since March 2023 and joined Main Street as our Vice President of Finance in December 2022. Prior to joining Main Street, Mr. Nelson spent four years with Conn’s, Inc. (NASDAQ: CONN), a furniture, mattress, electronics and appliance store chain, where he worked in several leadership roles, including Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer. Prior to joining Conn’s, Mr. Nelson spent seven years with EnLink Midstream Partners, a midstream energy services company, where he worked in several leadership roles in their accounting group. Mr. Nelson started his career at KPMG LLP.

Cory Gilbert

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Asset Management Business

Cory Gilbert, a certified public accountant, is the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of our Asset Management Business and has served in these roles since August 2024. Mr. Gilbert previously served as the Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of our Asset Management Business since 2020. Prior to joining Main Street in 2019, Mr. Gilbert served as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer for OHA Investment Corporation, a publicly traded business development company externally managed by Oak Hill Advisors LP. Prior to joining Oak Hill Advisors LP, Mr. Gilbert worked at RED Capital Group, the commercial mortgage banking arm of ORIX USA, where he most recently served as their Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that, from September 2008 to August 2013, Mr. Gilbert served as a line of business controller of ORIX USA. Mr. Gilbert began his career at KPMG LLP and was a manager in KPMG’s financial services practice in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Ryan McHugh

Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer

Ryan McHugh, a certified public accountant, is our Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer and has served in these roles since August of 2024. He also serves as MSC Income’s Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer and has served in these roles since August of 2024. Mr. McHugh previously served as our Vice President of Finance since May 2024. Prior to joining Main Street, Mr. McHugh spent eight years with Academy Sports + Outdoors (NASDAQ: ASO) where he worked in several leadership roles including Vice President and Corporate Controller. Prior to joining Academy, Mr. McHugh held various accounting and leadership roles at Glori Energy (NASDAQ: GLRI) and Stewart Title Company (NYSE: STC). Mr. McHugh started his career at Grant Thornton in the assurance practice. Mr. McHugh graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in Economics and holds a Master’s degree in Accounting from the University of Texas at San Antonio. 

Kate Silva

Vice President and Assistant Treasurer

Katherine Silva, a certified public accountant, is our Vice President and Assistant Treasurer. Ms. Silva has served as Vice President since 2015, with responsibility for managing Small Business Administration (“SBA”) matters and several administrative functions, and Assistant Treasurer since 2010, with responsibility for managing day-to-day treasury activities. Since October 2020, Ms. Silva has also served as Vice President and Assistant Treasurer of MSC Income. She also serves as special assistant to Mr. Foster. Ms. Silva has worked at Main Street since 2005 and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Georgia.

Charlie Rosenstein

Controller

Charles P. Rosenstein, a C.P.A., has served as our Controller since 2010 and has been at the firm in various roles since 2008.

Prior to joining Main Street, Mr. Rosenstein was a Financial Analyst with Mariner Energy, Inc. where he was involved with all aspects of SEC reporting and management analysis. Prior to Mariner Energy, Mr. Rosenstein served as a senior SEC Auditor for the accounting firm Malone & Bailey, P.C. In this position, he was responsible for planning, supervising and completing audits for SEC clients and training and supervising entry level staff. While at Malone & Bailey, Mr. Rosenstein worked extensively with clients in the oil and gas industry.

Paul Marlow

Vice President of Tax

Paul B. Marlow has served as our Vice President of Tax since September 2020.

Prior to joining Main Street, Mr. Marlow served as Vice President of Tax at Sanchez Oil and Gas Corporation, an independent oil and gas exploration and production company focused on the Eagle Ford Basin from 2017 to 2020. Previously, Mr. Marlow served as Senior Tax Director at Rice Energy, Inc., an independent natural gas producer focused on the Appalachian Basin from 2014 to 2017. Prior to 2014, Mr. Marlow served in a variety of tax roles in the energy sector focusing primarily on publicly traded partnerships. Mr. Marlow began his career as a certified public accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Mr. Marlow received a B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Houston and a J.D. from South Texas College of Law.

Alejandro Palomo

Vice President

Alejandro Palomo re-joined Main Street in June of 2021 as a Vice President after spending several years with Hines Interests Limited Partnership (“Hines”) in various roles in support of Hines’ credit investment business. Mr. Palomo joined Hines in August 2012 as a Director-Investment Management and was promoted to Managing Director-Investment Management at Hines in August 2016. From June 2019 until October 2020, Mr. Palomo has served as Chief Investment Officer of MSC Income Fund, Inc and Mr. Palomo served as the lead member of the investment committee, as senior portfolio manager, and as a member of the valuation committee for HMS Adviser, LLC from his arrival at Hines in 2012 until April 2021. In these roles, Mr. Palomo was involved with the evaluation and approval of MSC Income Fund, Inc.’s investment opportunities as well as the monitoring of investment performance and valuation of the portfolio. Prior to joining Hines, from March 2008 to August 2012, Mr. Palomo was a Director at Main Street involved with the origination, underwriting and valuation of investments within Main Street’s lower middle-market portfolio. Before joining Main Street, from January 2005 to March 2008, Mr. Palomo worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in the transaction services group and the audit practice. He holds a B.B.A and a Masters in Accountancy from the University of Texas at El Paso and is a certified public accountant.

Terrence Brownell

Director of Accounting and Valuations

Terrence Brownell, a certified public accountant, is a Director in our Accounting and Valuations group and has been with the firm since 2018 in various roles. 

Prior to joining Main Street, Mr. Brownell spent eight years in the Financial Services group at PwC Houston.  While at PwC, Mr. Brownell worked on various asset management clients auditing large mutual fund complexes, private equity, and hedge fund clients. Mr. Brownell received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting degree and a Master in Professional Accounting degree from the University of Texas at Austin. 

David Marquardt

Director of Valuation, Accounting, and Finance

David Marquardt, a certified public accountant, has served as our Director of Valuations, Accounting and Finance since May 2023.

Prior to joining Main Street, Mr. Marquardt was Assistant Controller (Management Company) at The Sterling Group, LP, where he helped lead the firm’s accounting function and drove operational and reporting efficiencies for both the management company and portfolio companies.  Prior to joining The Sterling Group, Mr. Marquardt spent six years in the financial services and energy audit groups at Grant Thornton, LLP.  While at Grant Thornton, Mr. Marquardt worked on various asset management clients, namely BDCs and REITs, as well as both upstream and midstream clients within the firm’s energy sector.

Mr. Marquardt received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Texas A&M University and a Master of Science in Finance from The University of Oklahoma.

Kayla Heap

Senior Manager

Kayla Heap, a certified public accountant, has served as our Senior Manager of SEC Reporting since June 2023. 

Prior to joining Main Street, Ms. Heap spent over ten years in the assurance practice at PwC Houston, where she left as an experienced Senior Manager. While at PwC, Ms. Heap primarily worked on publicly traded clients in various industries. Ms. Heap received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting degree and a Master in Professional Accounting degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Amber Johnson

Senior Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis

Amber Johnson, a CFE, is the Senior Manager of our Financial Planning & Analysis group. Mrs. Johnson has been with the firm since 2018, supporting our Lower Middle Market teams with additional review and analysis of portfolio company financials. Mrs. Johnson’s role also includes the implementation and maintenance of OneStream to support our portfolio companies. Previously, Mrs. Johnson worked at Deloitte in the audit group to assist with quarterly and annual audits, as well as internal control audit procedures.

Mrs. Johnson holds a Master’s of Science in Accounting degree from Lamar University.  

Lauren Smith

Senior Manager

Lauren Smith, a certified public accountant, has served as Senior Manager within our Asset Management Business since July 2023 and has been with the firm in various roles since December 2021. Prior to joining Main Street, Mrs. Smith worked for PwC Houston as an auditor in the financial services division from 2014 to 2021, with increasing degrees of responsibility and left as an Experienced Manager. Mrs. Smith began her career at Deloitte, South Africa, where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant CA (SA) and subsequently moved to Houston.

Mrs. Smith holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting degree as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Accountancy from Rhodes University in South Africa.

Elizabeth Winkelmann

Senior Manager – Tax

Elizabeth Winkelmann, a certified public accountant, has served as on our tax team in various roles since 2021.  Ms. Winkelmann oversees the tax compliance and financial reporting obligations for Main Street and advises on structuring and general tax matters for the portfolio companies.

 Prior to joining Main Street, Ms. Winkelmann spent eight years in the Business Tax Services group at KPMG LLP in Houston, most recently serving as a Tax Senior Manager.  While at KPMG, Ms. Winkelmann spent most of her time assisting clients with federal tax compliance and planning, financial accounting for income taxes, performing complex tax research projects, and serving as a tax specialist team member on SEC and private audit engagements. 

 Ms. Winkelmann received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting degree and a Master in Professional Accounting degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Conner Plunk

Manager

Conner Plunk, a certified public accountant, is a Manager in our Accounting group and has been with the firm since 2020 in various roles.

Prior to joining Main Street, Mr. Plunk worked as a Senior for Deloitte in their Audit and Assurance group.  While at Deloitte, Mr. Plunk worked on various clients with a primary focus being in the retail sector for both public and privately held companies. Mr. Plunk received a B.B.A in Accounting degree and a Master in Accounting degree from the University of Arkansas.