Bio

Michael Collins is a partner and Managing Director of Building Industry Advisors, LLC. Working fromthe Chicago office, he leads the firm’s building products M&A advisory and capital placement practice. His research includes publishing benchmark surveys for the window and door industry, conducting semi-annual webinars on the state of the window and door industry, tracking the level of foreign competition in a dozen different building products segments and writing for numerous industry publications. He is also a frequent speaker at industry associations and trade shows. Mr. Collins began his career in 1995 as an investment advisor at what was then Dean Witter Reynolds. Several years after that company’s merger with Morgan Stanley, Michael was part of a small group of advisors that were invited to join the high net worth client division of Morgan Stanley. In the Private Wealth Management Group, Michael focused on meeting the complex investment needs of entrepreneurs and high net worth families. He joined Jordan, Knauff & Company in 2003, where he led the successful completion of numerous building products transactions. Mr. Collins earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree in Finance from Central Michigan University in 1994. At CMU, he was a member of the first class of Centralis Scholars and studied in Tokyo, Japan. In 2004, he received a Master of Business Administration degree with an emphasis on finance and entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago.