Bio

Jim Westman is owner and CEO of The Octex Group of Companies, a leading medical-technology, engineering, and contract manufacturing solutions provider based in Sarasota, Florida. Mr. Westman is an investor in several other privately held companies and serves on the Board of Directors of Vytron Corporation, a Loudon, Tennessee based plastic extrusion company, and Prime Technological Services, a printed circuit board manufacturer based in Lawrenceville, Georgia. ​From 1997 through 2009, Mr. Westman was Managing Director of The RiverHawk Group, a boutique merchant banking firm he co-founded. In this role, Mr. Westman led the successful acquisition, disposition, or recapitalization of dozens of middle-market companies. Mr. Westman started his career in the Financial Advisory Services Group at Ernst & Young, LLP and has a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Florida and an MBA from Emory University. Mr. Westman obtained the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 1993.