Cary is a senior advisor and board member of High Bluff. He is currently EVP & COO of Utz Quality Foods, LLC, the largest privately-held, branded salty snack food company in the U.S. Prior to Utz, he was a managing director at Metropoulos & Co., working alongside Anand Gowda to make investments in branded food and beverage companies. With Anand, Cary co-founded and helped lead HBK Private Equity, LLC, the private equity arm of HBK Capital Management, and SilverStream Capital, a single-family platform with several billion of assets under management. Earlier in his career, Cary worked for Jordan Industries, Inc., an affiliate of The Jordan Company focused on middle‐market buyouts across multiple sectors. Cary’s experience also includes UBS Investment Bank and Price Waterhouse, LLP. Cary graduated from the University of Illinois, magna cum laude, and received his MBA from the University of Michigan with high honors.