Omar Simmons

Director

Omar Simmons is a Director for BCC Investment Corp. Mr. Simmons is the Co-Founder of Exaltare Capital Management (“Exaltare”) and serves as a Managing Director at Exaltare since September 2011. Mr. Simmons also serves as the Executive Chairman of ECP-PF Holdings, one of the largest Planet Fitness franchises, since December 2012 and led ECP-PF Holdings as Chief Executive Officer from December 2012 to August 2015. Prior to co-founding Exaltare, Mr. Simmons has served as a Director at Windjammer Capital Investors, a leading middle-market private investment firm with over $2 billion under management, from March 2008 to September 2011. Before joining Windjammer Capital Investors, Mr. Simmons was a co-founder and has served as a Managing Director at Reliant Equity Investors, a $120 million private equity firm based in Chicago, from May 2001 to March 2008. Mr. Simmons has also worked at leading private equity firms such as Summit Partners from July 1995 to July 1997 and McCown DeLeeuw from June 1999 to August 2001. He started his career as an Associate at Marakon Associates from July 1992 to July 1995, helping Fortune 500 businesses as a management consultant. Mr. Simmons earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an A.B. in Public Policy from Princeton University.