Excel Management Team: John D. Jenkins

John Jenkins joined the Comtel Telcom Assets team in conjunction with Sowood Capital Management. Upon successful bid on the Vartec/Excel assets, John Jenkins was named Chief Administrative Officer. As CAO, Mr. Jenkins was integral in negotiating and closing the transaction requiring settlements with several hundred-trade partners and gaining PUC approvals in all fifty states.  Mr. Jenkins has leveraged his investigative and legal background to streamline the legal and regulatory process within Excel and continues to keep Excel in compliance in this heavily regulated industry.

Mr. Jenkins was most recently the President of First Advantage CoreFacts, a stand-alone division of the First Advantage Corporation (FADV), a leading risk mitigation and business solutions provider with tens of thousands of clients globally. He is formerly an executive at both Kroll Associates and DSFX International. Mr. Jenkins specialized in due diligence investigations of officers, directors, and key employees of target companies and initial public offering candidates, instituting, managing and monitoring corporate compliance programs, conducting internal fraud investigations and providing litigation support. He has managed a number of high-profile investigations including the SEC receivership inquiry into PinnFund, USA, one of the largest securities frauds in U.S. history. He was the outside compliance officer to several companies including Pacific Coin, LLC, one of the largest pay telephone operators in the U.S.  He also served as Counsel to the Rampart Independent Review Panel, a body created by the Los Angeles Police Commission, which was responsible for reviewing the Los Angeles Police Department's Board of Inquiry Report and conducting a comprehensive examination of the police department in the wake of the Rampart corruption scandal. Mr. Jenkins was a Deputy District Attorney in Orange County, California and an attorney at Troop, Meisinger, Steuber & Pasich and Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, two large Los Angeles, California–based full service law firms.