Joseph McInerney
Cardinal Growth, LP
Joe's entire career has
been dedicated to working with small to mid-size businesses. He began his career
in 1985 as a Small Business Consultant for Arthur Andersen & Company. His
responsibilities included financial/tax planning and preparation of business
plans for small, closely held businesses. From there, he worked for two
high-net-worth families serving in a variety of operational and investment
capacities. Joe has been a successful private equity investor since 1993. His
investment experience has covered a wide variety of industries, including
printing, aviation, lumber products, agribusiness, construction materials and
equipment rental. Joe is a Certified Public Accountant. He holds a B.S. in
Accountancy from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and a M.B.A. from
the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business.
Mark Zweig
Vice Chairman, ZweigWhite
With more than 25 years in
the industry, Mark knows A/E/P and environmental consulting firms inside and
out—first as a design firm manager, then a principal in an ENR 500 A/E firm, and
then as the founder of ZweigWhite. In addition to his work with ZweigWhite, Mark
teaches entreprenuership at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the
University of Arkansas. Mark received both his MBA and B.S. degree in
Organizational Behavior from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale,
Illinois. He was named to the SIU-C College of Business Hall of Fame in 1992,
elected to the College of Business Board of Advisors in 1999, and named Chairman
of the Advisory Board in 2002.
Scott E. Chappell
BIA Digital Partners
Scott is a member of BIA
Digital Partners Investment Committee and joined the firm in 2001. Prior to
joining the BIA Digital Partners, Mr. Chappell was a member of the Media and
Telecommunications Corporate Finance team at Thomas Weisel Partners, a San
Francisco-based merchant bank with over $2 billion in capital. Previously, Mr.
Chappell was an investment banker with First Union Securities (Now Wachovia
Securities), working in the High Yield and Private Placement Groups. Mr.
Chappell holds a B.S. of Business Administration degree from the University of
Georgia, where he graduated with honors, and a MBA from the Fuqua School of
Business at Duke University, where he was a Fuqua Scholar.
