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Our professionals remain at the forefront of valuation theory and application. We stay current on emerging valuation issues and we study their implications on future valuation analyses.
Please click on the following links to learn more about the professionals at Fountainhead Advisors:
Meredith Damm, ASA - President
Meredith is the President and Founder of Fountainhead Advisors, Inc.
She has twelve years of business valuation and investment banking
experience. She is an Accredited Senior Appraiser ("ASA") in business
valuation with the American Society of Appraisers and is certified by
the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' ("AICPA")
business valuation certification program.
Prior to founding Fountainhead Advisors, Meredith was a Senior Manager
and Director at a boutique business valuation and investment banking
firm. In addition, she was a Corporate Finance Specialist for Wachovia
Capital Markets where she advised companies on financing and exit
strategies. Prior to Wachovia, she was a Senior Associate in the
Corporate Finance Group of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, a "Big 4" accounting
and consulting firm.
Meredith received an MBA in finance from Georgia State University and a
BS in marketing from Birmingham-Southern College. Meredith is a
frequent speaker on business valuation topics and has authored several
articles including: “Selling a High Tech Company”, “Considering ESOP’s
as a Liquidity Option”, “Proactive Estate Planning”, and “Will
E-Commerce Obsolete the Mall?” She also co-authored a national business
valuation course (NBV6) titled Mergers & Acquisitions – Case Study.
Meredith is involved in the following professional organizations:
- Planning Committee and Grant Making Committee for the Atlanta Women’s Foundation
- Member of the Women's Finance Exchange - Board of Directors member and Membership Committee
- The Financial Network - Founding member
- Steering Committee for the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers’ Women Mean Business conference
- Board of Directors Network
- American Society of Appraisers – Senior Member
- Robinson MBA Alumni Group
- The Entrepreneurship Institute – Advisory Board for the President’s Forum
- Technology Association of Georgia
Susan Banner, CPA - Analyst
Susan has over ten years of accounting and corporate finance experience with Deloitte & Touche, Post Properties and Winter Properties. Her experience includes financial analysis and modeling, reviewing business valuations, implementing FAS standards, preparing compliance documents, conducting market research and preparing position papers for the IRS. Susan received a BBA from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a Masters of Taxation from the University of Texas - Austin. She is a Certified Public Accountant with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Tom J. Newsome, CFA, PE - Analyst
Tom has
practiced business valuation for over four years at boutique business
valuation and financial advisory firms. His experience includes the
valuation of closely held businesses, service contracts, promissory
notes and non-compete agreements; economic loss assessments; cost
segregation studies; purchase price allocations; litigation support;
and fairness opinions. Tom successfully completed his Chartered
Financial Analyst (CFA) designation from the Association for Investment
Management and Research and is a Licensed Professional Engineer. He has
degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Bachelors of Chemical
Engineering) and Georgia State University (Master of Science in Finance
and a Master of Science in Business Economics).
Katie Goodman - Partner
Grisanti, Galef & Goldress
Ms. Goodman
joined GGG, one of the oldest turnaround consulting firms in the United
States, in 2001. Since then, she has worked with more than 50 public
and private companies, focusing in particular on middle-market firms in
the Southeast. Ms. Goodman is experienced in dealing with companies in
bankruptcy (Chapter 11 and Chapter 7) and has successfully sold
companies under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code.
Chevy Arnold - President
CEA Consulting, Inc.
CEA Consulting, Inc. provides business planning and corporate finance advisory services to companies with revenues under $10 million. In addition, the firm offers transaction support to middle-market and boutique investment banks. Ms. Arnold founded CEA Consulting in April 2006 after spending eight years in investment banking and four years in management consulting, working with start-up to Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries. Please visit www.ceaconsulting.net for additional details on service offerings and client experience.
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