AlpInvest Partners

As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Saratoga Investment Corp., a publicly traded business development company, Chris Oberbeck brings over 25 years of experience in leveraged finance, from distressed debt to private equity, to the position. Mr. Oberbeck’s wealth of experience stems from originating, structuring, negotiating, consummating, managing and monitoring investments in a wide variety of middle-market businesses. In addition to his aforementioned roles, Mr. Oberbeck is the Managing Partner of Saratoga Partners, a middle market private equity investment firm, and has served on its investment committee since 1995. In 2008, he assumed management responsibility of Saratoga Partners. Prior to joining Saratoga, Mr. Oberbeck served…

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the fact that no matter what a number of sexual partners one may have, there is a double standard. Being a male, one would be considered a “stud” for being able to attract multiple sexual partners, while a female will be deemed a “slut”. This social phenomenon of the double standard of name calling to degrade one person with harsh words due to her actions as her male counterpart receives praise. This situation will lead on a to a debate on whether society is taking action into ending this social…

your partner quickly. Hiramine includes in her article that “...ballroom dancing master Alex Moore proclaimed that he had ‘never seen anything uglier.’” Because Moore was partial to the ballroom dancing of his generation, he was inclined to disapprove of the new variations. Richard Powers writes in “Teen Dances of the 1950’s,” that “Teens’ dancing during the 1950s was widely varied in steps and styling.” It is also important to note, the 50’s introduced Elvis Presley’s hip thrusts which were…

Expertise, or simply a hobby, what matters, in this case, is the passion we have for a specific interest. I decided to share with the class a recent interest I have for Salsa dancing. I enjoy the rhythm that allows me to embrace both upper and lower body movement, with that Latin flare. For that reason, the purpose for the assignment was to incorporate a how to basic dance step routine that could roughly define Salsa dancing. I am quite content that I communicated primarily through my…

Universally, people are prone to use emojis on their specialized devices such as, smartphones, tablets, or computers. Furthermore, among the various categories of emojis that is offered there is an emoji called “Dancing Girl,” which is an eminently well known symbol for the literal meaning of dancing. The original intention was to be used as gender-neutral also, “Woman Dancing was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name ‘Dancer’ and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015” (Emojipedia) . Not…

Some basic steps for salsa are the basic forward and back, backwards basic, and side basic (ArtsEdge). When you dance salsa, you find the beats in salsa music you are given and dance on the phrase labelled as “1, 2, 3” and “4, 5, 6” (Salsa Dance Patterns) (HowcastArtsRec). You can start on the one-beat and you do two quick steps and then a slow one and repeat to fill the 8-count (ArtsEdge). With a partner, the woman is only “marking the time” and “helping the man to execute the steps” while…

and response is bourgeois in tango music, different instruments will go back and forth with each other. Questions are typically more compassionate and sensitive. Following the question comes the answer which is discreet and tends to be hesitant. Minor key is the way most tangos start out; this makes the song sound serious. Question and answer in music help provide a steady flow in the music. Travelers to Uruguay would find the tango on the streets or at the milonga. A milonga is a place where…

ambience. Arriving ten minutes early allowed me to look over the program and get ready for the curtains to open. Each performance was unique and I look forward to speaking about each of them. The First dance was Oh My Love, which seemed to be lyrical or modern. There was eight dancers, equally men and women. The dance was mainly partner work which I enjoyed because it was very passionate as they move as one and come together in embrace. The costumes for this dance fit…

plays a specific role in ballroom dance. The instructors teaching the social dance class made sure that the females always danced with the males and this was ensured by having the females rotate in the inner circle while the males stood in their position on the outer circle. That way, every female always danced with a new male. The males always lead and the females always followed. During the class, the instructors always stressed that female dancers are not to “back-lead.” In other words,…