|  James
C. Harper, a FOCUS Managing Director, brings to FOCUS
over 30 years of financial advisory expertise plus extensive
management and investment banking experience in both large
and smaller company operations as a senior executive, advisor
and investor. Mr. Harper’s unique skills and solid background
provide the firm with an expanded ability to both evaluate
and assist firm clients with financial and operational issues
as well as with investment banking and financial advisory
matters across a broad range of industries.
Prior to joining FOCUS, Mr.
Harper was Director of Investment Banking with Westminster
Securities Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange member brokerage
and investment banking firm, where he completed a number of
financing, advisory and Merger and Acquisition engagements
for small to middle market firms in the telecommunications,
technology, manufacturing and healthcare industries.
Previous assignments include heading a firm
supplying financial and operational advisory services to a
number of small to middle market entities and serving as CFO
of JMJ Technologies, a medical software company, which grew
during his tenure from a start-up to operational with $5 million
in revenue.
From 1971 to 1996, Mr. Harper served in various
financial and senior operating positions with BellSouth Corporation.
His positions included five years as CFO of the billion-dollar
Bellsouth Advertising and Publishing company, two years as
CFO of a network integration start-up where sales rose from
$200 thousand to $2 million in six months and four years as
Vice President of Bellsouth International. He also served
as Executive Director, BellSouth Enterprises, responsible
for financial planning and mergers and acquisitions for the
non-regulated and international entities of BellSouth.
Mr. Harper, a CPA, received a B.S. in Business
Administration and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University
of Florida. He is a former member of the University of Florida
MBA advisory board and past Vice Chairman. He also is a member
of the Georgia Society of CPAs.
Contact Information:
James C. Harper
3353 Peachtree Rd., NE Suite 1160
Atlanta, GA 30326
Main: 404.504.8620
Direct:404.963.8251
Cell: 404-317-1225
Fax: 404-504-8629
jim.harper@focusbankers.com
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