Mark McKinsey

Bio

Mr McKinsey is Chairman, CEO of Bluegrass Capital, an investment-banking firm. Bluegrass Capital assists clients in both acquiring and divesting businesses. The firm’s client portfolio includes both domestic and foreign companies, and range in size from small privately owned businesses to large multi-national companies. McKinsey has led over 75 successful financial turnarounds of manufacturing companies, over 100 acquisitions and more than 50 divestitures. Mr McKinsey has over forty years’ executive level experience in general management, administration, marketing, and finance. His background includes strategic business planning, and functional responsibilities in sales, manufacturing, and finance with particular emphasis on operational turnarounds, divestitures and acquisitions, and corporate development. He is active in training executives in the art of M&A, divestitures and corporate development. Mr McKinsey has served as a corporate officer, director, and advisor to Boards of Directors, including Hamilton Cosco, Dictaphone Corporation, US Filter, WR Grace, Riverside Furniture, Underwriters’ Laboratories, Infonational, Metropolitan Greeting Cards, Dolly Madison Industries, Aetna Bearing and others. Mr McKinsey received his Bachelor of Science at University of Oklahoma, his MBA from Harvard Business School, and served in the US Navy on active duty as a line officer on the USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) and as a pilot.