Brian Nelson

Brian has over 20 years of M&A and advisory experience. He was previously a Managing Director at Greif & Co., where he advised founders and entrepreneurs through a wide range of corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity capital raises and special situations. Previously, Brian was a Vice President at Guggenheim Securities. He also held investment banking positions at Citigroup Global Markets and Focalpoint Partners, working with both large cap and middle-market companies.

Brian’s transaction experience spans a diversified group of industries including manufacturing and distribution, real estate, consumer & retail, technology, media and telecom. Select clients include businesses such as Envision/Ecoplast, FDSI Logistics, W.P. Glimcher, Costco, Hewlett Packard, Nordstrom, and SAIC, among many others. He began his career in New York on the commercial mortgage-backed securities trading desk at JP Morgan.

Brian earned an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a B.A. in Business Economics from Brown University, where he played on the football team.