Additional Board Members Boost Local Chapter’s
Experience and Expertise in M&A
ACG Boston, the Boston Chapter of the Association for Corporate
Growth (ACG) announced that the ACG Boston board has elected three
new members to its Board of Directors, strengthening the chapter’s
leadership in investment banking, finance, corporate development
and family offices. The new board members are Alan
Fullerton, Partner, Mirus Capital Advisors; Gus Phelps,
Vice President, Summit Partners; and John H. Silva,
Director, Corporate Development, 3BL Holdings.
ACG Boston serves over 500 Boston members who are directly
involved in M&A transactions – including private equity
investors, intermediaries, corporate development professionals,
family offices, lenders and service providers – and is dedicated to
helping middle-market M&A professionals build and maintain
trusted and productive relationships through membership and event
opportunities.
“ACG Boston is committed to supporting the New England
dealmaking community, and by continuing to add talented and
experienced representatives from our core deal making
constituencies, we will ensure that ACG Boston provides programs
and events that are responsive to the changing needs of our core
members,” said Josef Volman, President, ACG Boston. “The
backgrounds and personal experiences of our new board members in
investment banking, lending, corporate development and family
offices will allow them to have an immediate impact and help shape
the direction of our organization. We are extremely fortunate to
have such a strong board of impressive dealmakers.”
Background – ACG Boston’s New Board
Members
Alan FullertonPartnerMirus Capital Advisors
Alan Fullerton has been an investment banker to large
corporations, middle-market firms and family-owned firms since
1997. Before joining Mirus, he was Managing Director in the
investment banking group of Newbury Piret, a regional firm, where
he led and managed dozens of M&A and financing transactions in
a variety of industries.
Alan is senior advisor to management teams and business owners
with significant experience in arranging equity financings ($5
million to $100 million) and executing buy-side and sell-side
M&A mandates. Alan has been a sector finalist for several
national M&A Advisor Awards for his transactions in industrial
services, healthcare, consumer products, business services, travel
services, and highly engineered industrial products, including for
deals closed with Fortune 500 and Global 500 corporations, private
equity-backed companies, closely-held businesses, and middle-market
publicly traded companies.
In addition, his advisory experience includes fairness opinions
for venture-backed and publicly traded companies; he is a member of
the Mirus fairness opinion committee, a position he also held at
his previous firm.
Before his investment banking career, he was a member of
technical staff and project leader with the 2500-person engineering
consulting firm TASC. During his tenure with TASC, he was a project
leader on strategic planning, engineering, operations and policy
engagements.
Alan holds a BS from M.I.T. in Mechanical Engineering, an MS
from Brown University in Electrical Engineering, and an MBA from
the Ecole des Ponts of Paris, France. He holds Series 7, 24, 63 and
79 certifications from FINRA.
Alan lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with his wife, son and
two daughters. In his spare time, Alan enjoys reading, traveling
and playing games with his kids.
Gus PhelpsVice PresidentSummit Partners
Gus is a member of Summit Partners Credit Advisors, which
addresses the borrowing needs of small and large companies. He is
responsible for originating new opportunities and handles business
development for financial sponsors and investment banks.
Prior to joining Summit, Gus was a founding partner at Seacoast
Partners, and worked for Wachovia Securities and Tucker
Anthony.
Gus is the former president and long-time board member of the
Boston Securities Traders Association, the regional chapter of the
Securities Traders Association.
Gus holds a BA from Trinity College and an MBA from Cornell
University.
John H. SilvaDirector, Corporate Development3BL
Holdings
John Henry Silva is an experienced investor, operator and
corporate development executive. He serves as Director, Corporate
Development at 3BL Holdings, a subsidiary of a diversified
portfolio of companies focused on Sustainability, CSR/ESG, Media
and Marketing, Healthcare Services, and Human Resources. He
previously held corporate development roles at Tufts Health Plan,
iRobot Corporation, and Aga Khan Development Fund.
He co-founded ReMed Life Sciences, a regenerative medicine
company commercializing IP from the University of Tokyo. After
double digit annual growth, he negotiated the company's sale to a
private equity firm. He founded Cambridge Executive Academy, an
executive education company for international executives at Fortune
500 companies, which he sold to a national competitor.
Silva served in the US Marine Corps at The White House, and
completed his Bachelor's Degree with honors from Harvard
University.
Upcoming ACG Boston EventsACG Boston is hosting its New
England Fall Conference on September 18 & 19 with ACG
Connecticut in Newport, Rhode Island. For more information and to
register, visit www.acgboston.org.
About ACG BostonACG Boston (www.acgboston.org) is one of
57 local chapters around the world that form the international ACG
organization, which focuses on corporate growth, corporate
development, and mergers and acquisitions. With over 500 members,
ACG Boston offers 35+ events per year geared towards this audience,
including the annual DealFest and DealSource Select, speaker series
aimed at highlighting hot topics in the deal environment, events
for women and young and mid-level professionals, and more.
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