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Directors & Associates

T. Patrick Hurley, Jr.

 

Patrick founded MidMarket Capital Advisors after serving as head of Fleet M&A Advisors Philadelphia office. He previously served as Partner and Director of M&A for Howard, Lawson & Company, which was acquired in 2000 through a series of transactions and became the M&A unit of FleetBoston's capital markets group. Patrick originally joined Howard, Lawson in 1979 and held positions of increasing responsibility. He holds an MBA from Drexel University, a BBA from Temple University and is a NASD Registered Securities Principal.

Mr. Hurley is the former Chairman of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) which has 11,400 members in 48 chapters throughout North America and Europe. He also serves on the board of directors of American Refining Group, Inc. and the Family Firm Institute.

 

In addition to serving as a Managing Director at MidMarket, with direct responsibility for guiding client engagements, Graeme also manages various investments and handles international activities. Graeme was a principal of the Corporate Finance Institute and IPO Vital Signs, an advance IPO research analysis tool. He founded Howard, Lawson & Company in 1972. He also is a former vice chairman of Monster Worldwide. Graeme holds an L.L.B. from Yale Law School and a BA from Amherst College and served as a navigational officer in the U.S. Air Force.

 

Frank served as Corporate Development Vice President at Kraft Foods and Senior Director of Acquisitions at Northwest Industries prior to posts in investment banking at Legg Mason and Rutherford Brown and Catherwood, and restructuring activities at Penn Hudson Financial. He holds an MBA from Northwestern University and a BA and MA from University of Notre Dame.

 

Mr. Tsai, a Partner of the firm, comes to us with a rich background in financial analysis, restructuring, strategy development, business development, acquisitions and international dealings.

His experience has been most recently as a Senior Analyst with a firm specializing in corporate restructuring and merchant banking located in Plymouth Meeting. Telu’s previous experience includes management in firms located in Taipei, Taiwan and Hong Kong, China. He holds a MBA from St. Joseph’s University as well as a BS from the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.

Jian Zhang

 

 

Mr. Zhang, a Director of the firm, joins us with background in financial analysis and pharmaceutical industry.

He graduated from Smeal MBA program focusing on corporate financial analysis and investment management in Smeal College of Business at Penn State University.