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Middle market private equity investor and strategic financial executive with almost twenty years of combined principal investing, investment banking and accounting expertise. Primary experience in Technology, Media and Telecom with diverse industry experience across Business and Information Services, Education, Energy, Healthcare, Pharma and Consumer. Investment experience is primarily through leveraged buyouts accompanied by transaction experience including leveraged recapitalizations, hostile takeovers, takeover defenses, sell-side auctions, buy-side and sell-side negotiated transactions and equity offerings.
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PartnerRidgemont Equity Partners Mar 2019 - PresentCharlotte, North Carolina, UsRidgemont Equity Partners ("REP") is a middle market private equity firm that has provided over $4 billion of buyout and growth capital to private companies and new business platforms since 1993. As of March 2019, REP has made 148 investments and is currently investing out of its 2019 REP III fund with $1.65 billion of committed capital.As a Partner at Ridgemont Equity Partners I am responsible for sourcing new investments in the Technology and Telecom group from thesis formation to opportunity identification, executing equity and debt financing transactions and harvesting investments. As a Board Director I work actively with management teams to drive value creation through corporate strategic planning, mergers & acquisitions, capital project financing, talent management, finance and accounting professionalization, treasury optimization and sales and marketing performance improvement. -
Chairman Of The Board Of DirectorsSmartshift Sep 2023 - PresentBoston, Ma, UsSAP Custom Code & Intelligent Automation -
Chairman Of The Board Of DirectorsSoftdocs Jan 2021 - PresentColumbia, Sc, UsSoftdocs develops document management, electronic forms, workflow automation, and print customization solutions for the higher education and K-12 markets. The company’s Etrieve platform, and complementary solutions, empower institutions to work more efficiently, communicate more effectively and collaborate more freely. Education-focused and SOC 2 Type I and II compliant, Softdocs is a trusted partner of nearly 700 organizations. Softdocs is headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina -
Chairman Of The Board Of DirectorsHealthmark Group Nov 2019 - PresentDallas, Texas, UsHealthMark Group is a leading provider of software and technology-enabled health information management solutions for healthcare providers across the country. By leveraging technology to reimagine the business of healthcare, HealthMark transforms administrative processes into seamless digital solutions. From patient intake technology supported by OTech, to HealthMark’s proprietary MedRelease platform for Release of Information, the company is pioneering an efficient, compliant, and patient-centric approach to support the entire spectrum of the patient information journey. HealthMark Group was founded in 2006 with corporate headquarters in Dallas, TX and has been named to both the Dallas 100 and the Inc. 5000 for multiple years in a row as one of the fastest growing companies in the region and in the country. -
Chairman Of The Board Of DirectorsEri Solutions Llc Nov 2018 - Mar 2019Wichita, Kansas, UsFounded in 2007, ERI Solutions Inc. is a leading provider of Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S), Non-destructive Testing (NDT), sustainability and risk control solutions. Our risk control consultants provide services to help our clients eliminate avoidable risks and reduce or transfer unavoidable risks of employee injury, liability, property damage and regulatory non-compliance. -
Member Of The Board Of DirectorsDynamic Quest - Managed It Services May 2018 - Mar 2019Greensboro, Nc, UsFounded in 2000, Dynamic Quest (www.dynamicquest.com) is a managed service provider for IT services to enterprises and mid-sized businesses. The Company’s services include hosted cloud services, disaster recovery, managed IT, service plans, software maintenance, application support, virtual CIO and security services. The Company’s headquarters is in Greensboro, North Carolina and houses a data center facility that was built in 2007. Founded in 2000, Dynamic Quest currently has 119 full time employees and satellite offices in Winston-Salem and Cary, North Carolina and Clark, Philippines. -
Member Of The Board Of DirectorsVector Media New York Nov 2016 - Mar 2019New York, New York, UsFounded in 1998, Vector Media (www.vectormedia.com) is an innovative Out-of-Home media company, specializing in large-format transit advertising, traditional Out-of-Home media and the creation of interactive brand experiences. The company’s current inventory of over 20,000 Out-of-Home faces includes bulletins, street furniture and over 6,000 transit advertising faces, including double decker buses, airport shuttles, custom route coach vehicles, trolleys, jitneys and taxis. Vector Media maintains the only double-decker advertising network in North America, which includes inventory in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston, Washington, DC, Houston, Miami, San Diego, San Antonio, Phoenix, Austin and Dallas. Vector’s rapidly growing experiential division, VM2, integrates its Out-of-Home assets with dynamic brand experiences and its publishing arm produces two of the top travel and lifestyle magazines in New York. -
Member Of The Board Of DirectorsSurgent Mccoy Cpe, Llc Dec 2013 - Mar 2019Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, UsFounded in Devon, Pennsylvania in 1985, Surgent Tax & Accounting Education (“Surgent”) is a trusted and innovative provider of continuing professional education services to organizations and professionals in the accounting, auditing and taxation industries. Surgent has built long term relationships with state accounting societies throughout the United States as a leading provider of live seminars, web based video instruction and self-study materials to state society members. Surgent is also a leading provider of continuing education to public accounting firms and directly to CPAs through its webinar, webcast and self-study offerings. Surgent serves a market that includes more than 1,200,000 accounting professionals, which are required to complete accredited continuing professional education each year. -
Partner, Private EquitySpire Capital Partners Feb 2009 - Mar 2019New York, Ny, UsFounded in 2000, Spire Capital is an active and experienced private equity firm with an investment focus on lead and control investments in companies within the business services, information services, media, education and communications sectors. Spire Capital leads buyout investments in its areas of expertise and believes its deep industry experience and network of relationships are invaluable in helping its portfolio companies to grow and create value. As of March 2019, Spire Capital was investing out of its third fund and has managed over $900 million in private equity commitments since its founding. -
Member Of The Board Of DirectorsPan - Performance Assessment Network, A Psi Company Feb 2013 - Feb 2017Glendale, California, UsFounded in Carmel, Indiana in 2000, Pan is a SAAS based provider of hiring assessment solutions that allow its customers to more effectively and efficiently recruit, manage and retain their workforce. The Company offers a comprehensive online catalog of professionally developed talent assessments including content from more than 50 leading publishers as well as proprietary content web-enabled for customers. Pan services a growing base of more than 2,500 clients by providing convenient online delivery of talent assessments leveraging their best-in-class technology platform in both remote as well as proctored testing environments through an expansive network of more than 600 test centers across the United States. -
Member Of The Board Of DirectorsVelocity Technology Solutions Apr 2010 - Aug 2012Andover, Massachusetts, UsVelocity Technology Solutions, Inc. is a leader in enterprise and business application hosting services which are fully-managed and protected within a virtual private cloud. Velocity lowers operational costs, provides world-class customer experiences, and delivers application access at top levels of performance and availability. Velocity's expertise managing software 24/7, combined with its proprietary infrastructure design and cloud management platform, guarantee the availability, security, and control over software. Velocity is the trusted partner for rapidly deploying application software into a secure and resilient virtual private cloud. Velocity is headquartered in New York with facilities in North America, Europe, and Asia. -
Board ObserverCertiport Feb 2009 - May 2012American Fork, Ut, UsCertiport, is an education technology provider that develops, markets and distributes education and certification software testing programs in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environment for end-users of Microsoft, Adobe, Intuit, Autodesk, CompTIA, HP and Digital Literacy programs in the academic, corporate and workforce segments worldwide. Certiport develops proprietary electronic certifications and operates a worldwide marketing and distribution network, consisting of more than 12,000 testing centers with secure online access to Certiport’s applications. -
Associate, Mergers & AcquisitionsCitigroup Aug 2006 - Feb 2009New York, New York, UsParticipated in all phases of M&A transaction processes for buy side and sell side negotiated deals, sell side auctions and hostile takeover attempts including Fairness Opinion, Board of Director, client and counter party presentations. Led co-advisors, PR firms, legal counsel, clients and various groups within Citi to execute deals. Extensive merger modeling experience and stand-alone valuation analyses on discounted cash flows, comparable companies, precedent transactions, leveraged buyout and sum-of-the-parts methodologies.Select Publicly-Disclosed Transaction Experience includes: Hercules / TODCO ($2.4 billion sell-side); Payless / Stride Rite ($850 million buy-side); Sun Capital / Kellwood ($762 million hostile buy-side); Roche / Ventana Medical Systems ($3.4 billion hostile buy-side) and Alcoa Inc. / Alcan Inc. ($33 billion buy-side). -
Senior AssociateErnst & Young Llp Oct 1999 - Aug 2004London, GbManaged audits and quarterly reviews of SEC registrants and private companies in the technology, communications, entrepreneurial services, manufacturing and government contracting industries. Advised client’s executive management on complex financial accounting issues such as purchase accounting, asset impairment, revenue recognition and bankruptcy accounting. Collaborated with executive management of private companies to develop the financial infrastructure and accounting controls necessary to support the reporting requirements of a public company and worked closely with public company management teams on the implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley.
Anthony Cassano Education Details
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Duke University - The Fuqua School Of BusinessFinance -
James Madison UniversityAccounting
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Anthony Cassano attended Duke University - The Fuqua School Of Business, James Madison University.
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