BOSTON, Oct. 9, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Austin Carter has joined IGS to lead the
firm's investment banking coverage efforts. Austin will focus on helping IGS expand and
deepen IGS' many relationships within the investment banking
community, to help our expanding network of clients with their
sell-side processes. Prior to joining IGS, Austin was the Vice President of Business
Development at Silver Oak Services Partners, a lower middle market
private equity firm based in Evanston,
Illinois. Prior to Silver Oak, he served as a Vice President
in Wells Fargo's Technology, Media, and Telecom Investment Banking
Group in New York City. Over the
course of his investment banking career, Austin executed dozens of financial advisory
assignments. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Yale University.
"Austin is a critical addition
to lead our Business Development efforts, focusing on expanding and
enhancing our relationships with our investment banking partners.
We are thrilled to have him join the firm,"
explains Rob Lordi,
Senior Managing Director.
As part of IGS' continued growth and expansion of its
leadership team, Chad Benoit, Ben
LaPres, Peter Lee and
Lori Popescu have been promoted to
Principal. Chad, Ben, Peter, and Lori each bring
unparalleled experience to the senior management team.
Since joining IGS in 2016, Chad
Benoit has advised clients on hundreds of engagements across
a wide variety of industries, with a focus on healthcare and
technology. Throughout his tenure at IGS, Chad has led consulting
teams that provide insights about the unique characteristics of a
diverse set of markets. Through assessment of these dynamics, Chad
advises clients on investment opportunities and guides their
strategic initiatives. Chad graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Social
Studies.
Ben LaPres has been a leader on
IGS' diligence and strategy engagements since 2017 and his
experience spans engagements in industrials and manufacturing,
logistics and consumer goods, professional services, and technology
businesses, among others. Ben brings deep domain expertise from his
background in engineering, where he held a number of program
management and manufacturing operations leadership roles with
multinational aerospace and defense firm CAES (formerly Cobham plc,
recently acquired by Honeywell). Ben earned his M.B.A. from
Harvard Business School and a B.S. in
aerospace engineering from the University of
Notre Dame.
Peter Lee joined IGS in 2018 and
has been serving clients in both commercial diligence and strategy
engagements, as well as actively building new client relationships.
Peter's experience primarily revolves around tech-enabled business
and professional services across a range of end markets. Prior to
joining IGS, Peter worked in Davy Group (Dublin, Ireland) as part of the Portfolio
Construction team, focusing on equity research, investment
selection, and asset allocation. Peter holds an M.B.A. from
Boston College and a Bachelor of
Commerce from the National University of
Ireland Galway.
Lori has more than a decade of experience in investment banking
and private equity consulting. Since joining IGS, Lori has advised
clients in investment diligence across sectors as well as providing
strategic advisory across several hundreds of engagements. Lori
continues to be an integral part of developing new client
relationships as well as leading teams in diligence and strategy
reviews for private equity and corporate clients in a range of
industries. Lori brings her experience in investment banking at
Citi where she advised C-suite teams across sectors on M&A,
capital markets transactions, optimizing debt levels and other
strategic questions. Lori earned her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in mathematics
and economics from Colby College.
"These well-deserved promotions reflect the important
contributions each individual has made to the success and growth of
our firm. Chad, Ben, Peter and Lori have been integral members of
our management team and we look forward to their continued
development and future contributions to the
firm," adds Mindy Berman, Senior Managing
Director.
Investor Group Services (IGS) is an industry leading
private equity consulting firm specializing in M&A commercial
diligence, portfolio value creation and sell-side industry
analysis. The Company was founded in 1998 and conducts
comprehensive business evaluations, covering key issues such as
addressable market size, growth, competitive positioning, value
creation and performance improvement. IGS specializes in key high
growth end markets including business services, software, media and
telecom, consumer products and services, financial services and
healthcare, plus specialty manufacturing and industrial
solutions.
For additional information, please
visit www.igsinsights.com
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