Alan Austin - Senior Partner
Mr. Austin was a principal with the Capital Corporation an investment banking firm for ten years. Over the last ten years, Mr. Austin has led both M&A advisory transactions as well as private financing transactions to include senior debt, mezzanine financing and private equity. Mr. Austin has also been active in preparing business valuation reports for a variety of purposes.
- Prior to his investment banking experience, Mr. Austin had direct experience working for a Private Equity-owned company as Assistant Treasurer at Sterling Diagnostic Imaging for five years.
- He also served as Treasurer for a publicly traded diversified media company, Multimedia, Inc. (MMEDC:NASDAQ) for six years. In both of these corporate positions he was responsible for structuring large syndicated credit facilities; negotiated various interest rate hedges and participated in various corporate acquisitions and divestitures.
- Mr. Austin began his career in commercial banking with C&S National Bank of SC (now part of Bank of America) where he was responsible for sourcing, structuring, underwriting and servicing commercial loan transactions for corporate clients in a wide variety of industries.
- Mr. Austin received his undergraduate degree at Furman University with a B.A in Economics and Business Administration (concentration in Corporate Finance).
- He received a post-graduate certificate from the Stonier Graduate School of Banking.
- Mr. Austin has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst Designation (CFA) and holds Series 7, 27 and 63 securities licenses.
- Mr. Austin is an active member in the following organizations:
- Association for Corporate Growth
- The Institute of Business Appraisers, Inc. (IBA)
- CFA Institute
- The Atlanta Society of Financial Analysts