Middle Market Musings
Middle Market Musings
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Episode 89 Morgan Witham, Ficus Advisors
Morgan Witham, a stellar product of the Harris Williams “coaching tree,” stops by Middle Market Musings – akin to starting your career with the New York Yankees and ending up in the dugout with Ricky Vaughn and Willie Mays Hayes. Morgan r...
Episode 88 Emily Holdman, Permanent Equity
Emily is a Managing Director at Permanent Equity, a St. Louis-based private equity firm that his made its reputation as its name suggests – by investing out of 30-year funds that enable longer term holds and relationships with founding entrepre...
Episode 87 John Ferrara, Capstone Partners
This one is as action-packed and varied in scene as a James Bond movie. John Ferrara is founder and CEO of Capstone Partners, the middle market investment bank. John’s story rolls through his upbringing in hardscrabble Brockton, MA ...
Episode 86 Rocky Pontikes, Mesirow Financial
Rocky is Senior Manager Director and Co-Head of Investment Banking at Mesirow, the Chicago-based employee-owned, diversified financial services firm. A Chicagoland native who survived Eastern stops for college at Penn and a first job at M...
Episode 85 Rick Horowitz, Chairman & CEO, RAF Equity
Rick Horowitz misses the off ramp and ends up on a podcast in the bad part of town. Rick is chairman and CEO of RAF Equity, a Philadelphia-based private equity fund formed as a family office in 1979. Rick has three singular stories ...