Mar 03 2016 | By DI Wire
FS Investment Corporation III, a publicly registered non-traded business development company sponsored by Franklin Square Capital Partners, appointed James Brown to serve as an independent member of the board of directors.
Brown was appointed to serve for a term expiring at the company’s 2016 annual meeting of stockholders. With his appointment, the size of the board increased to 10 directors, seven of whom will be independent directors.
Brown served as the chief of staff to United States Senator Robert Casey, Jr. (D-PA) from January 2007 to February 2016. Before joining Senator Casey’s staff, he was a founding partner of SCP Private Equity Partners from 1996 to 2006 and a managing director of CIP Capital, a private equity firm, from 1994 to 2006.