Washington,
DC (September 12, 2006) -- FOCUS Enterprises, Inc., a national middle market investment
banking firm providing merger, acquisition, and corporate finance
services, announced that their Managing Partner, Southeast Region,
George Shea, has been named to the Atlanta Venture Forum’s
(AVF) Board of Directors.
George Shea has over thirty years of broad industry experience
in acquisitions and divestitures, corporate finance, business
development, strategic planning, marketing, sales and operations
for public and private companies. Utilizing a unique combination
of operating management expertise and major M&A, financing
and business development experience, he has acted as a principal
or facilitator in over 100 transactions. Mr. Shea has been
an active member of AVF for the past 15 years. This past month,
Mr. Shea was asked to become a member of AVF’s Board
of Directors.
“The Atlanta Venture Forum is pleased to have George Shea
join our Board of Directors. He brings years of solid investment
banking and business operating experience to our organization
as well as a new mezzanine fund to the region. George is a welcome
addition to our Board.” said John Huntz, founder and President
of AVF and Executive Director of Arcapita Ventures., a major
international private equity group.
Membership in the Atlanta Venture Forum is limited to venture
capital and private equity investors and those groups that provide
products or services to these investors, including attorneys,
commercial banks and investment bankers. The Board is comprised
of an elite group of 25 anaging partners from venture capital
and private equity firms.
About the Atlanta Venture Forum
The Atlanta Venture Forum was founded in November 1984 to foster
closer professional relationships among the members of the
Southeast venture community through the exchange of information
and ideas. The Forum conducts monthly member-only breakfast
meetings where invited speakers address issues of interest
to private equity investors. They also sponsor enterprise scholarships
at local universities for the purpose of encouraging enterprise
education. The Atlanta Venture Forum has grown into the largest
trade association for private equity nvestors in the Southeast.
About FOCUS Enterprises, Inc.
FOCUS Enterprises, Inc. provides a range of middle market investment
banking services across the U.S. with an emphasis on mergers,
acquisitions, divestitures and corporate finance. The firm
also has its own mezzanine fund, Focus Mezzanine, and is a
Managing Partner in Seraphim Capital, a transborder venture
fund based in London. FOCUS is headquartered in Washington,
DC, with regional offices in Atlanta, Chicago and San Francisco.
FOCUS specializes in transactions for entities with $5-300
million in revenues, serving entrepreneurs, corporate owners,
and various types of investors. All 23 FOCUS partners are seasoned
operating and financial executives with extensive transaction
experience. FOCUS publishes a monthly complimentary email newsletter.
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