Mr Brian Colton

KANDO id: 12436

Bio

Brian has over twelve years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and evaluating and executing private equity investments with a focus on smaller businesses. Prior to co-founding GEI, Brian was an investment professional with Allied Capital, a $6 billion publicly-traded private equity firm focused on equity and debt financings for middle-market companies. Previously, Brian served as a consultant at Weston Nurseries, as an investment professional with Swander Pace Capital, a $340 million investment fund focused on later-stage private equity investments in consumer product companies, and as an investment banker in the Mergers and Acquisitions group at Salomon Smith Barney. Brian has been a consultant to numerous small businesses and is the author of a family business case study currently being taught in leading graduate business schools. Brian earned a B.A. from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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