Bio

Brian has been a co-founder and Managing Director at Seabrook Partners since January 2011. Prior to Seabrook Partners, he spent five years as a Managing Director and National Head of the Capital Strategies Group at Citigroup and then Morgan Stanley following the sale of Smith Barney by Citigroup to Morgan Stanley. The Capital Strategies Group provided M&A services to middle-market companies in the U.S. During the five years Brian ran the Group, it completed more than 110 transactions with aggregate value exceeding $3 billion. Prior to Citigroup, Brian was a co-founder and Managing Director of Claris Capital LLC, a FINRA-registered broker-dealer in McLean, VA. Claris Capital provided M&A and capital raising services to middle-market government services and technology companies in the Mid-Atlantic region. Before Claris Capital, Brian spent three years at Aether Systems, first as Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and later as President, Enterprise Solutions Division, Aether’s largest operating division. Brian was instrumental in transforming Aether from a 20-person private company with an annual revenue run rate of $1 million into one of the leading wireless data companies in the world with annual revenues in excess of $100 million. He was responsible for managing the company’s acquisitions, joint ventures and public equity and debt offerings. Previously, Brian was a Managing Director at Smith Barney in New York where he worked from 1988-1998. During his tenure at Smith Barney, he ran the firm’s East Coast technology group and technology mergers and acquisitions practice. Brian began his investment banking career at E.F. Hutton in 1986 and later worked for Robertson, Colman & Stephens in San Francisco.