The Team
Seth Eliot Wilson
SWilson@HeadhaulCapital.com
917-848-3360
Seth Eliot Wilson is a Founder and Managing Partner of Headhaul Capital Partners LLC. Prior to founding Headhaul Capital, Mr. Wilson was a Partner and Managing Director of Jefferies Capital Partners LLC where he worked for 20 years since its founding in 1994. Mr. Wilson headed the Transportation & Logistics investing practice for Jefferies Capital Partners and was a member of the Investment Committee. From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Wilson was employed in the Investment Banking Division of Furman Selz LLC. Mr. Wilson has previously served on the boards of directors of Arnold Transportation Services, Inc., Aurora Trailer Holdings LLC, Epic Gas Ltd. (including as Chairman of the Board), K-Sea Transportation LLC, IDB Carriers (BVI) Ltd. (the predecessor to Pacific Basin Shipping Ltd.), New Century Transportation, Inc. and R&R Trucking Holdings, LLC. Mr. Wilson also serves on the board of NYC Outward Bound, a charitable organization that operates a network of public schools in partnership with the New York City Department of Education. Mr. Wilson received an A.B. from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Mindy Luxenberg-Grant
MLG@HeadhaulCapital.com
917-817-0694
Mindy Luxenberg-Grant is a Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Headhaul Capital Partners LLC. Prior to founding Headhaul Capital, Ms. Luxenberg-Grant was the Chief Financial Officer of Jefferies Capital Partners LLC from 1997 to 2009. Ms. Luxenberg-Grant was a Manager with Coopers & Lybrand where she specialized in business assurances and tax services as part of its Entrepreneurial Advisory Services group, and serviced exclusively venture capital and private investment fund clients. Ms. Luxenberg-Grant also spent two years as the Chief Financial Officer of a venture capital fund which invested in small and medium-sized companies based primarily in the Ukraine. Ms. Luxenberg-Grant received a B.S. cum laude from the School of Management of Syracuse University.
Farrukh A. Bezar
fbezar@lynwoodpartners.com
(571) 214-8578
Farrukh has been a consultant at Headhaul Capital since 2016. He has over 25 years of industry, consulting and investment experience in the transportation and logistics industry, including the railroad, trucking, small parcel, last-mile, shipping, freight forwarding and air cargo sectors and to both public and private sector clients.
He is currently the Chief Strategy Officer of CSX Corporation, one of the country’s largest Class 1 railroads. Prior to joining CSX, he was the Founder and Managing Partner of Lynwood Partners, a leading transportation and logistics strategic advisory firm. Prior to founding Lynwood, Farrukh was a Partner at The Clarendon Group and at Oliver Wyman Consulting and a Principal in Booz Allen Hamilton’s Global Transportation Practice where he led their North American Maritime Practice. Prior to Booz Allen, Farrukh was a Principal in A.T. Kearney’s Transportation Strategy Practice, where he led engagements across the spectrum of the transportation and logistics space for corporate and private equity clients. Early in his career, Farrukh worked in various sales and marketing positions with The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and as a financial analyst at Chase Manhattan Bank.
Farrukh received a BA in Economics and Political Science from Northwestern University and an MBA in Management, Marketing and Transportation from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.