Nicholas Memmo, Partner, joined Kline Hawkes in 1999 and serves as a member of the investment committee for Kline Hawkes Pacific, L.P.  Mr. Memmo leverages his operations and direct line experience as an accomplished COO to pursue and manage investments in business services, consumer services and specialty manufacturing industries.  Mr. Memmo is Chairman of the Board of Rayne Corporation, Environmental Services Group and IPMobileNet, Inc.  He has had board seats and board observer positions for the following companies: Casestack, Keylime Software, National Water & Power and PrimeSource Surgical. 
 
Previously, Mr. Memmo was a Founding Executive and member of the Board of Directors of USFilter Corporation (NYSE: USF), a Fortune 300 company and the leading global provider of water and wastewater treatment systems, products and services. Mr. Memmo was at the center of USF's strategy to consolidate the water industry and played a key role in the growth of the company's revenues from $17 million to $5.2 billion. He was President & COO of the Process Water Group, the industrial process water equipment and services division of USF.  Previously, he was employed by Hercules Incorporated, a specialty chemical company, first in engineering and product development, and later in sales, marketing and distribution positions. 
 
He received a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he was a Venture Capital Fellow.  He currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the UCLA Anderson School’s Entrepreneurial Studies Center and was a recipient of the Drexel University 2001 College of Engineering Alumni Circle of Distinction Award.