Mark A. Greenberg
Partner
Mark brings 30 years of senior executive operating and transaction expertise and experience to Silverstone. He has been a group and division level senior executive and operating president of units in Fortune 500 companies and a CEO and Chairman of middle market and high growth, venture capital-backed companies, as well as an investment banker and consultant serving middle market, high growth entrepreneurial and financial institution clients nationwide.
As a principal investor, advisor and transaction team member Mark has participated in nearly 100 M&A and capital funding transactions in the last 30 years. These transactions have included multiple hundred million dollar operating units of Fortune 1000 companies, middle market companies and high growth venture funded businesses, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars of borrowed and invested capital .
Mark maintains an active investment banking and strategic financial consulting practice advising and representing corporations, boards of directors, company stakeholders and shareholders and financial institutions. He is frequently called upon in engagements to engineer and review deal structures, represent and execute capital raising and M&A transactions and to develop valuations for businesses contemplating transactions- whether M&A or new share issuance or buy/sell agreement related. Mark also has significant experience in distressed situations, providing workout and bankruptcy related advisory services to both creditors and debtors within and outside of bankruptcy, including acting as investment banker of record in 363 sales under Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Most recently Mark was a Managing Partner of Ludlow, Ward & Greenberg Capital Partners, a Midwest boutique investment banking firm and broker/dealer providing merger and acquisition, capital sourcing and related consulting services for middle-market and earlier stage companies throughout the United States.
Prior to joining Ludlow Ward & Greenberg, Mark was Chairman & CEO of Atomic Dog Publishing, a venture funded digital technology company pioneer serving the North American higher education markets. Originally a board member, Mark was asked by the Board to assume control of the company and under Mark’s leadership, Atomic Dog revenue grew at average of 40% annually. In March 2006, Mark sold the company to Thomson Higher Learning (now Cengage), a division of the Thomson Corporation.
For six years prior, Mark was Chairman & CEO of the Industrial Technologies Group where he acquired eight strategically aligned companies in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States providing specialized integrated distribution, engineering and maintenance services to the process manufacturing, oil refining and power generation industries. At the end of six years, Mark sold the company to a New York City-based private equity fund.
In the five years prior, Mark was Chairman & CEO of the Paige Maren Group, Inc. which owned and operated three regional business newspapers. After five years of exceptional growth and profitability, Mark sold the company to the national newspaper chain, American City Business Journals, achieving a significant, plus 100% internal rate of return for the company’s shareholders.
Mark speaks and writes frequently on a range of business topics including transaction finance, mergers and acquisitions, business strategy and economics. Mark’s articles appear regularly in business journals and newspapers in the Midwest and nationally. Mark is a magna cum laude graduate of Boston University. Mark is active in the Greater Cincinnati Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) and the TriState Association for Corporate Renewal (TACR).