Bio

Brandt has over twenty five years of experience in financial services. Prior to forming EFA, he was with GE Capital’s Media, Communications and Entertainment business for eight years. His most recent role with the group was as a Vice President of Originations to the entertainment unit that closed and managed over $3 billion of transactions to the entertainment sectors including film exhibition (theatres, digital cinema, 3D), leisure (theme parks, ski resorts, FECs, sports), production (film, video games) and casinos. In this role, Brandt served as GE Capital’s sole sales and relationship manager for film exhibition and established strong relationships with most theatre operators and digital cinema companies. Prior to this, Brandt served in several other capacities in GE Capital’s media division. In 2005, he moved to London to lend his media and entertainment expertise to the newly formed European media and entertainment group as they established a presence in these sectors. During 2004, Brandt helped form GE Capital’s Special Situations Group, where he focused on originating and closing deals for companies with distressed capital structures. This role included establishing relationships with many of the major debt brokerages and financial intermediaries in order to identify opportunities. From 2000 through 2003, Brandt served in a risk capacity where he underwrote new debt and equity deals and managed a portfolio of transactions across many sectors, including film exhibition, television programming, sports franchises, radio/television broadcasting, publishing and telecommunications. Before joining GE Capital in 2000, Brandt served as a controller of a technology company serving the auto parts industry. Prior to that, he spent five years as an auditor for Ernst & Young, where he managed financial audits for media, communication, healthcare and manufacturing companies. Brandt is a licensed CPA in the state of Georgia. He has Series 7 and 63 licenses and is an investment banking representative under FINRA. He received his accounting degree from Samford University in 1995. He, his wife, and their three daughters currently reside in Atlanta, Georgia.