Bio

John Tolmie has been an investment banker and businessman for almost 25 years. Mr. Tolmie is a Managing Director involved in all phases of Cypress’ business, including mergers and acquisitions advisory services, restructuring and bankruptcy advisory, capital raising and litigation consulting. Mr. Tolmie has worked on many of Cypress’ most high profile transactions, including Energy Transfer Partners’ acquisition of Titan Energy, the purchase by COM DEV International’s acquisition of the passive microwave devices product line from L-3 Communications, the trust preferred offering of Reading International, ITI Group’s sale of its controlling stake in Grupa Onet (Internet portal) to TVN, the sales of numerous physician practice management businesses, the restructuring and sale of ChemRx, the §363 acquisition of PJ Finance by Gaia Real Estate, the management buyout of Case Pomeroy & Co., representing the Special Committee of Aristotle Corporation in its proposed sale to Geneve Corporation, Cenveo’s sale of Supremex to the Supremex Income Fund, representing the 100% equity owner in the Chapter 11 case of Venture Industries and representing the Official Committee of Unsecured creditors of Ingersoll. Mr. Tolmie has worked on every fairness opinion issued by Cypress and is a member of Cypress’ management committee. Mr. Tolmie joined Cypress following his employment at OutPurchase.com, a business-to-business internet supplier where he was Vice President in charge of Corporate Development. At OutPurchase, Mr. Tolmie was heavily involved in the capital raising process and development of strategic relationships with marketing partners including American Express, ADP, All Bases Covered and Epicor Software. Prior to OutPurchase, Mr. Tolmie was an Associate in the investment banking group of Furman Selz LLC where he focused primarily on M&A and financial sponsor coverage in a wide range of industries, including media and entertainment, insurance and industrial manufacturing. Mr. Tolmie received his B.A. Cum Laude from Harvard College.