Barry A. Baker
1022 Anderson Street
Durham, NC 27705
Phone: (877) 814-4115
Cell: (919) 699-2929
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2010 – Current
CapVal, LLC
Member of business appraisal, litigation support and financial advisory firm assisting attorneys and their clients in the areas of business appraisal, damages calculations, mergers and acquisitions and related financial advisory services.
2003 – Current
The Cobble Hill Group LLC, Durham, NC
President and Founder of merchant bank that provides research-driven, outsourced business development services to private equity investment groups and their portfolio companies. Cobble Hill’s clients acquire companies with annual sales between $10 million and $125 million located throughout the U.S. Cobble Hill helps its clients identify attractive industries and companies in which to invest, conducts direct marketing campaigns to contact company owners on their behalf, and screens interested companies to determine fit with financial performance, valuation and other criteria. Cobble Hill also co-invests in companies acquired by its clients.
1998 – 2002
American Home Centers Corporation, Raleigh, NC
Co-founder and President of a retailer of manufactured homes that operated twenty sales centers in the Midwestern U.S. with combined sales of approximately $75 million. Responsible for the valuation, due diligence, negotiation and documentation of seven acquisitions. Initiated and maintained dialogues with more than 60 other acquisition candidates and completed valuations and preliminary due diligence for the majority of them. Overall responsibility for most financial functions including financial reporting, budgeting, cash management, real estate, insurance, and investor and lender relations. Also served as Executive Vice President of American Home Centers Finance Corporation, a subsidiary of AHC, which specialized in providing mortgage services to buyers of manufactured and modular homes.
1992 – 1997
Prime Charter Ltd., New York, NY
Senior Vice President and co-founder of corporate finance department that served emerging growth and middle market companies primarily in the healthcare, environmental, information technology and consumer product and service industries. Transactions included private equity placements, public equity offerings and mergers and acquisitions.
1984 – 1992
Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. (now part of UBS), New York, NY
Vice President of investment banking firm. Provided M&A, corporate finance and financial advisory services to a client base of multinational corporations. Based in New York for five years, Tokyo for two years and London for one year. Transactions included corporate divestitures, corporate sales and defense advisory assignments, buy-side advisory assignments, fairness opinions, public offerings, and private placements of debt and equity.
PROFESSIONAL STANDING & ASSOCIATIONS
Candidate for the Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) designation from the American Society of Appraisers.
Candidate for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation from the CFA Institute.
NASD (FINRA) Series 7 and Series 63 (inactive).
Member of the Association for Corporate Growth (Raleigh-Durham Chapter).
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, B.S. in Economics with majors in Finance and Accounting, 1984.