As founding partner, I also serve as the firm's Chief Investment Officer with more than 25 years of capital markets experience, including an extensive background in sales and trading of a broad variety of equity, fixed income, and private placement securities. I have held portfolio and risk management positions at First Union Securities, Inc., J.C. Bradford & Co, William R. Hough & Co, New Japan Securities International and Bankers Trust Company. Additionally, I have experience in project and structured finance at U.S. Generating Company. I received an MBA through the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University and an A.B. in English and Political Science from the University