Chairman

Douglas Rodgers

Vice President, Holland & Knight Consulting, LLC. President and CEO, Corcentric, Inc. CEO, Global Software Corporation. President and CEO, Perfection Equipment.

Industry experience:

Advertising, PR & marketing; Aerospace & defense; Agriculture; Automotive; Beverages; Building & construction; Business services; Clean technology; Education and training; Electronics; Energy & renewables; Financial services; Food; Healthcare; Information technology; Insurance; Leisure; Life sciences; Luxury goods; Media, printing, and publishing; Plastics; Recycling; Retail and franchising; Security; Steel, metal, and woodworking; Telecom; Textile & clothing; Trade; Transport & logistics; Wholesale.

Managing Director

Rick Thomas

Vice President, VSI. Manufacturing Engineer, General Motors. M&A Executive Lecturer and Adjunct Faculty Member for NCCE and The George Washington University. US Representative to South African Companies.

Member of the Business Services Industry Group.

Industry experience:

Automotive; Education and training; Engineering; Food; Information technology.

Principal

Michael Birmingham

Michael Birmingham, a Principal at FOCUS, joined the firm in 2021 and is a member of the Information Technology and Government, Aerospace, and Defense Groups. He is responsible for execution on sell-side and buy-side transactions, financial modeling and analysis, and assisting in business development.

Previously, Michael worked at Donovan Capital Group where he was responsible for originating and evaluating investments in middle-market aerospace, defense, and government technology companies. He started his career within Ernst and Young’s Government and Public Sector Consulting Practice working with defense and civilian clients on various performance improvement projects.

Michael is registered with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) as an Investment Banking Representative and General Securities Representative (Series 79, 7 and 63). Based in the Washington metropolitan area, Michael holds an M.B.A. from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and received his Bachelor of Arts from Dickinson College.

Industry experience:

Aerospace & defence; Information technology.

Managing Director

Marco Chan

Managing Principal & CEO, V2 Leadership Group Inc.

Managing Director, Global Supply Chain Logistics, FedEx. Managing Director & General Manager, China, FedEx. Managing Director, Business Logistics Services, Asia Pacific, FedEx. Managing Director, US Ground Operations, FedEx.

Managing Director

James W. Hawkins

MBA. Ph.d. CEO, Metaphor Biopharmaceuticals, LLCPresident, and CEO of Synthecell Corporation in conjunction with serving as President and CEO of Genetic MediSyn Corporation. Co-founded and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed scientific journal. Antisense Research and DevelopmentConsulted for companies rang.

Industry expertise:

Healthcare; Life sciences.

Managing Director

Eric Oganesoff

President and CEO, TracerNET, Inc.

CEO, GreenStone Industries, Inc.

President, Washington Resources Group, Inc.

White House appointment to NASA.

Industry expertise:

Aerospace & defence; Building & construction; Energy & renewables; Government; Information technology; Telecom.

Managing Director

Kelly Kittrell

Kelly L. Kittrell has more than 30 years of merger & acquisition and corporate finance experience.  He advises business owners on sell-side and buy-side transactions, valuation analysis, corporate finance and equity and debt financings. He is based in Dallas.

Prior to joining FOCUS, Mr. Kittrell served as Ankura Consulting’s Head of Development and Acquisitions.  His main responsibility at Ankura was completing acquisitions of companies in the professional services and consulting industry.  He reviewed dozens of acquisition targets while at Ankura, preparing valuation analyses, negotiating financial and legal terms in letters of intent and closing documents, and performing due diligence. Ankura grew by acquiring six professional services firms during his tenure.  Mr. Kittrell also served as Ankura’s CFO from inception through 2016.

Before his work at Ankura, he held the following high-profile M&A positions:

As Managing Director at Bank of America’s private company advisory services,  he was a mergers and acquisitions advisor for clients in the strategy, analysis, and sale of client businesses.  Mr. Kittrell developed and made presentations to clients and bank associates and generated sell-side mandates and valuation assignments, as well as led execution teams.

As a Director in Ernst & Young’s Corporate Finance practice, he provided strategic advice for clients in all aspects of M&A transactions, advising sellers in diverse industries including the sale of a large automobile retail chain and a newspaper publisher.  He performed valuations on more than 50 going-concern companies, including a major commercial airline.

In addition to his M&A experience, Mr. Kittrell served as a Senior Litigation Consultant at Dallas law firm Bickel & Brewer, where he analyzed companies in litigation to determine valuations and damages, identified and worked with expert witnesses regarding financial testimony, and determined fallacies in opposing expert valuations, financial reports and damage claims.  He also served as the Chief Investment Officer for a private investment family office and as the Chief Financial Officer for one of its portfolio companies, a publicly traded acquirer of direct selling businesses.

Industry experience:

Financial Services.

Associate

Evans Love

Board of Directors of the Tombstone Historama Corporation. Treasurer of the O.K. Corral Museum and Tombstone Epitaph Newspaper. FINRA Series 7 License.

Industry expertise:

Healthcare; Life sciences.

Managing Director

Jorge A. Maceyras

Investment Officer & Portfolio Manager, Loan Programs Office at the U.S. Department of Energy. Managing Consultant at IBM Global Business Services. FINRA-licensed securities research analyst and broker at FBR Capital Markets. Manufacturing Engineer at Human Genome Sciences, Inc.

Industry expertise:

Automotive; Engineering; Media, printing, and publishing; Telecom.

Managing Director

Bob Maiden

Bob Maiden, a FOCUS Managing Director, has extensive experience in public accounting, corporate finance and human capital management roles.  Prior to joining FOCUS, Mr. Maiden was a partner at Stony Hill Advisors in the Philadelphia area where he founded and led the firm’s Human Capital Management M&A practice.

Mr. Maiden was co-founder and President of Maxwell Training Centers, a brick-and-mortar workforce training firm later transformed with a web-based SaaS model.  Under his leadership, the Company earned four Wharton/Philadelphia Business Journal Top 100 Awards for being a Fastest Growing Privately Held Business.  After 16 years of growth, Maxwell was acquired by inVentiv Health. Subsequent to the sale Mr. Maiden managed the integration, and led additional growth of the Company, staying with inVentiv for seven years. After his departure in early 2014 he launched his M&A advisory practice, focused on middle-market staffing, recruiting and HR technology companies.

Mr. Maiden has developed an extensive network of staffing firm owners/leaders from small private firms to the largest public firms across the U.S. and Canada, in every segment of the market.  He is an active member of the American Staffing Association, New Jersey Staffing Alliance, Alliance of Merger and Acquisition Advisors and Association for Corporate Growth.  Mr. Maiden has served as a judge and mentor on many entrepreneurial initiatives including Comcast Business Innovation-4-Entrepreneurs; Temple Fox School of Business Be Your Own Boss Bowl; The Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!); Mercy Vocational High School; and has taught workshops at Drexel University’s Close School of Entrepreneurship on “Accounting for Startups.”

Mr. Maiden graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Accounting and a minor in Manpower Management.

Managing Director

Michael J. McGregor

Managing Director at Robertson & Foley Investment Bank. Founder of 3 start-up businesses. Corporate and field experience at Bridgestone/Firestone.

Industry expertise:

Automotive; Business services; Healthcare; Life sciences; Retail and franchising.

Managing Director

Richard Pierce

Director in the Communications and Media Group of Stifel Nicolaus. Member of the Telecommunications Group at Legg Mason. Officer in the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Corps.

Industry experience:

Building & construction; Business services; Engineering; Information technology; Telecom.

Managing Director

Fred Rock

Managing Director of Source Growth Capital, LLC. Accounting and Auditing Shareholder with Alpern Rosenthal. Partner at Touche Ross.

Industry expertise:

Energy & renewables; Engineering; Retail and franchising; Transport & logistics.

Principal

Cyril Schlup

Expert in Finance and Working Capital Improvement. Led major organizational transformation and performance improvement projects for large multinational corporations. Extensive corporate and consulting experience across Europe and the USA.

Industry expertise:

Automotive; Business services; Healthcare; Media, printing, and publishing; Retail and franchising; Telecom.

Partner

Manan K. Shah

Vice President, Strategic Solutions & Services. President & CEO, Creative Technology. Vice President, Digital Reach. Principal, Cap Gemini.

Industry expertise:

Aerospace & defense; Business services; Engineering; Government; Healthcare; Information technology; Telecom.

Partner

John Slater

More than 200 successful M&A and CorpFin deals completed in excess of billion (USD). Leads team often focused on Advanced Manufacturing & Automation. Metal Fabrication, Additive Manufacturing, Automation, Advanced Materials, Industry 4.0.

Industry expertise:

Aerospace & defense; Business services; Engineering; Information technology; Media, printing, and publishing; Transport & logistics.

Member of Advanced Manufacturing Industry Group.