As Managing Director with CFA’s Houston office, Jim is a proven business leader with multiple successes in President/CEO/GM positions with emerging technology companies serving a broad array of industries and markets. He is known for transforming businesses by building value in turnarounds and by growing market share under intense competition. With extensive and direct hands-on experience in all aspects of acquisitions from initial strategic planning through assessment, negotiations, due diligence and post-acquisition integration of businesses, he has worked from both the buy-side and sell-side of many transactions in small as well as large multi-national company environments. His work experience also includes:
- broad functional and operational experience in manufacturing and materials management, worldwide sales and distribution, marketing and business development, engineering and multi-site project management
- increasing responsibilities with the US Army, Texas Instruments, Baker Hughes, Thermo Electron and VMETRO
- management consulting focusing on strategic transformation of businesses through development and implementation of growth and turnaround strategies
Jim’s educational background includes a Bachelor of Science degree in General Engineering from the US Military Academy at West Point, a Master’s in Business Administration from Saint Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, and a Ph.D in Management Science/ Operations Research from The McCombs Business School at The University of Texas at Austin.
Professional affiliations
- Association for Corporate Growth
- Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship
- Houston Technology Center
- MIT Enterprise Forum New Ventures Clinic
- M&A Forum- Houston
- West Point Society of Greater Houston
