Jeff Wright Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis

Corporate Finance Associates (CFA) is a FINRA registered investment banking firm specializing in managing mergers and acquisitions for middle market companies. We particularly like working with founding entrepreneurs as all of the partners in the CFA Minneapolis office have been business owners and have navigated their own successful business exits. My work at CFA integrates many of my previous experiences in marketing, business development, company ownership and finance.

Midwest Wind Finance partnered with independent wind developers offering them development expertise, development capital and help arranging permanent project financing. My role was to raise capital, expand the firm's pipeline of wind developments and recruit a professional staff.

During my tenure, Greer & Associates was a highly creative integrated marketing/advertising agency specializing in working with growth oriented clients at key junctures in their businesses. My role was to manage the business for profitability and growth, recruit top tier talent and raise the profile of the firm.

When created through the merger of Kauffman Stewart Advertising and CTS Creative Graphics, Periscope was conceived as a groundbreaking integrated marketing agency, combining more client resources under one roof than previously with Twin Cities agencies. My role was to help run the company and ensure the success of the merger both culturally and in realizing the planned synergies. Periscope as grown to be one of the top three advertising agencies in the Upper Midwest.

Kauffman Steward was a highly awarded creative driven advertising agency that I owned and managed. The firm grew from a staff of nine, to 36 during my tenure. I managed the merger of this firm with CTS Creative Graphics to create Periscope, now one of the top three agencies in the twin cities.

At this leading Minneapolis-based advertising agency, I managed many accounts and supervised a team of account executives. Campaigns I manged won four EFFIE awards from the American Marketing Association for proven effectiveness.