Team
Ben Holloway
Co-Founder & Partner
Ben a Co-Founder and Partner of Main Street Legacy Partners. He brings over a decade of relevant experience in private equity, executive leadership, restructuring, and finance to the team.
Prior to Main Street, he was an investor and operator at Areté Capital Partners, a boutique restructuring advisory and investment firm, focused on providing independent fiduciary and stewardship services to companies experiencing significant growth pains, complex organizational change, or existential crisis. He served in multiple roles in a variety of businesses, from multi-unit franchises to public media companies.
Prior to Areté, he was a Vice President at Turn/River Capital, a technology-focused private equity firm. He managed and led several transactions with an aggregate value of $1B+. He held multiple board observer roles and worked very closely with the management teams.
Prior to joining Turn/River Capital, he started his career as a member of Intuit’s Rotational Development Program, where he spent time in Corporate Finance, Product Management, and Corporate Strategy & Development. During his time at Intuit, he led financial planning and budgeting processes, internal cost improvement initiatives, revenue optimization strategies, and M&A transactions.
Perhaps most importantly, he grew up in and around family businesses. The first was with Holloway Brothers Tools, an industrial distribution family business and later, Signature Furniture, a regional furniture installation business, where he spent many summers moving furniture in the sweltering Mid - Atlantic heat.
He earned his B.A. from Hamilton College and his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth.
ben@mainstreetlegacypartners.com
TUYEE YEBOAH
Co-Founder & Operating Partner
Tuyee is a Co-Founder and Operating Partner at Main Street Legacy Partners with over a decade of experience in executive leadership, finance, business development and strategy in the US and Africa.
Prior to Main Street, Tuyee served as CEO for three companies within the Crown Peak Holdings portfolio across multiple industries including technology, gaming, and food and beverage.
Before here, he was a Vice President at Citizens Bank and J.P. Morgan where he led various corporate strategy efforts.
Prior to Citizens and JP Morgan, Tuyee was an associate at Antares Capital where he guided the structure and syndication for $30M to $1B+ senior secured cash-flow credit facilities supporting private equity buyouts.
Tuyee also runs an investment vehicle that provides funding to start-ups.
Tuyee holds a BA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from UW – Madison and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
tuyee@mainstreetlegacypartners.com
STEVE SHEIN
Co-Founder & Partner
Steve is a Co-Founder and Partner at Main Street Legacy Partners and brings over a decade of executive operating and venture capital experience.
Steve’s experience is represented most recently by his work with OCA Ventures, one of Chicago’s original pioneering Venture Capital firms, focusing on investing in Fintech and Enterprise Software.
Prior to OCA Ventures, Steve founded ReVal Trading, a fintech company that deployed capital in the derivative space and offered a data-analytics SaaS solution allowing subscribers to analyze financial markets without needing to build proprietary infrastructure or store large amounts of historical data. ReVal was acquired by a strategic buyer.
Prior to that, Steve spent several years as a macro trader.
Steve received his degree in Finance, Investment & Banking; Real Estate Economics from the Wisconsin School of Business. He completed his MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and is a CFA Charterholder.
steve@mainstreetlegacypartners.com
NICK BROWN
Senior Associate
Nick is a Senior Associate at Main Street Legacy Partners, focusing on deal sourcing and execution. He brings experience in private equity, financial research, product management, and commercial due diligence to the team.
Prior to Main Street, Nick attended the MIT Sloan School of Management. While in business school, he worked part-time with various startups in B2B outsourced services and B2C entertainment products. He completed a summer internship with EY Parthenon's Software Strategy Group, which provides technical and commercial due diligence supporting software-focused private equity firms.
Prior to business school, he was an Associate at Ares Management, a leading global alternative investment manager. During his time at Ares, Nick spent time in both the firm's investment team and its quantitative research group.
Nick holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and a BA in Economics and English from Brown University.
nick@mainstreetlegacypartners.com