
Michael Skat
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Finance Experience
30+ years
Operating, Advisory and M&A Experience
Additional Highlights
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30+ years of banking, commercial finance, investment banking and advisory experience
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Involved in over $400MM of successful financing transaction
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Former Partner of Capital Strategies Group, a boutique investment banking firm
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Founding Partner in Southern Capital Strategies, a corporate crisis management firm
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Former President of Aegis Business Credit, a lower middle market alternative finance company
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Former Vice President of Finance at Equitable Capital Management, a lower middle market private investment firm
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Most recently, Executive Vice President of Cogent Bank leading the Specialty Finance Group
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Formal credit training through SunTrust (now Truist) Management Associate Program
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Active member in Association for Corporate growth (ACG)
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Current member and former Board member of the Florida Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA)
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Former Chairman of Planning and Zoning and former Vice Chairman of Historic Preservation Board for the City of Sanford, Florida
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M.B.A. in Finance from the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College
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B.A. in Economics from University of Wisconsin‐Madison