Bio

Shari Overstreet, Managing Director of The McLean Group’s Austin, TX office, has more than 25 years’ financial, accounting, business valuation and M&A experience. She performs business valuations for many Austin-based companies, most of which are technology based. Ms. Overstreet began her public accounting career in the audit and tax divisions of a regional and then a national accounting firm before working as an independent consultant for such clients as Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). As a financial services manager for one the nation’s largest gas distribution companies, Ms. Overstreet was deeply involved in a corporate restructuring that doubled the company's customer base while tripling its earnings per share (EPS) and stock price. Ms. Overstreet subsequently worked as financial planner/divisional controller with a publicly-traded NASDAQ firm where she served on the cross-divisional financial planning staff and performed M&A analyses. She also was appointed director of finance, administration and operations for a publicly-traded firm that develops and markets high-performance, multi-function videoconferencing systems. Ms. Overstreet is an author and speaker on various mergers and acquisitions, capital formation and business valuation topics. She was a 2010 Nominee for the Profiles in Power & Women of Influence of Central Texas Award. A CPA, Ms. Overstreet holds a BBA with a finance concentration from the University of Texas at Austin.