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Adam Greenberger is a successful investor, manager and entrepreneur. Drawing on his extensive international management, consulting and finance expertise, Adam frequently works with small and mid-size businesses to help them achieve their growth goals. Adam has developed a strong expertise in general and international management, growth financing and networking and has worked with small and mid sized businesses in a wide variety of industries. Prior to founding Albright Partners LLC in 2003, Adam worked at Deutsche Bank Securities in corporate finance as a member of the Industrials Group, covering companies in the homebuilding and building/home products sectors. In addition to working on a number of middle market M&A assignments, Adam was involved in detailed strategic and financial analysis for numerous LBO's by leading financial sponsors. Adam also worked on a number of innovative public financings, including cross-border transactions, and had the opportunity to work on a number of projects based in China. Before working at Deutsche Bank, Adam spent 7 years working for legendary investor Jack Dreyfus at his Dreyfus Health Foundation. While there, Adam hired, built, evaluated, and worked with local coordinating teams as well as with senior government officials and UN agencies to create multi-sectored development projects in 16 countries in Africa and 4 in Asia. In addition, he led a team in creating a sustainable health information network in partnership with IBM covering 9 of Africa's poorest countries. One of Adam's key initiatives in Asia was to conduct a comprehensive program audit, and build new a management structure to oversee over 300 projects across China. Adam is also a Partner at Centerstone Development. Adam got his BA from Middlebury College and his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. While at Wharton, Adam worked with a number of local businesses and taught courses for entrepreneurs as a consultant at the Wharton Small Business Development Center. Adam also serves a judge for the annual Wharton Business Plan Competition which awards start-up financing to a number of Wharton students every year. Adam attended the Nichols School in Buffalo NY, where he met his business partner John Giardino, who was volunteer teaching a senior elective, in 1989. Adam lives in New York City. |
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John Giardino is a successful lawyer, businessman, and community leader. Drawing upon his experience in legal matters and business enterprise, he is frequently called upon to lead or participate in large-scale projects and complex transactional work. John has developed strong expertise in structured financings, public private partnerships and financial transactions designed to provide capital for public, institutional and privately owned businesses. John is the Chief Executive Officer of Centerstone Development. Centerstone is a designated developer for Fortune 100 companies such as Sodexho and Siemens, actively developing major projects in New York and other eastern states including historic buildings, brownfield redevelopment, urban renewal plans, and mixed use projects. John is also a partner in the Buffalo law firm of Lippes, Mathias, Wexler, & Friedman LLP. The firm is known for it representation of highly successful entrepreneurs as well as Fortune 500 public companies. John was previously managing partner of Giardino & Schober, where he handled business litigation and complex financial transactions primarily for middle market companies. John has won several precedent setting verdicts. John's most recent accomplishments include a shared services center for Western New York area hospitals and the development of the Buffalo Schools Modernization Program including structuring complex financing to raise the $1 billion of capital required. John has been appointed as one of only three private sector representatives to the City of Buffalo's Fiscal Control Board. John also acted as lead negotiator in the innovative historic Olmsted Parks merger and management plan. New York Governor George Pataki appointed John to serve as Treasurer for the newly formed Niagara River Greenway Commission. The Commission is responsible for the redevelopment of the Niagara River shoreline from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. John has served as President of the America Board of Trial Advocates, Vice President of the American Inns of Court and a member of the State and local Bar Associations. He has served as the Chairman of the Buffalo Niagara Jobs Initiative and serves as a Board Member of the Buffalo Urban League, Buffalo Zoo, National Conference for Community and Justice, Olmsted Conservancy, and many other community organizations. John is a graduate of Kenyon College and earned his juris doctorate at the University of Buffalo Law School. John is also a graduate of the Nichols School where he was volunteer teaching when he met Adam Greenberger in 1989. John resides in the City of Buffalo with his wife, Mary Beth, and has 5 children. |
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