30+ years of banking, commercial finance, investment banking and advisory experience
 

Involved in over $400MM of successful financing transaction
 

Former Partner of Capital Strategies Group, a boutique investment banking firm
 

Founding Partner in Southern Capital Strategies, a corporate crisis management firm
 

Former President of Aegis Business Credit, a lower middle market alternative finance company
 

Former Vice President of Finance at Equitable Capital Management, a lower middle market private investment firm
 

Most recently, Executive Vice President of Cogent Bank leading the Specialty Finance Group

Formal credit training through SunTrust (now Truist) Management Associate Program
 

Active member in Association for Corporate growth (ACG)
 

Current member and former Board member of the Florida Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA)
 

Former Chairman of Planning and Zoning and former Vice Chairman of Historic Preservation Board for the City of Sanford, Florida
 

M.B.A. in Finance from the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College
 

B.A. in Economics from University of Wisconsin‐Madison