Glenn Porter
Director of Business Development

“It's all about revenue/profit growth. At the end of the day that is what defines the value of a business. Without growth, the elements of the business are stagnant.”

Glenn Porter is a senior corporate executive whose career spans thirty-five years of experience in Sales, Marketing, and Business Development. Mr. Porter has proven skills in all phases of general management and a very successful track record in business development. His role, in business development, includes partnerships, joint ventures and alliance formation, product marketing and marketing strategy.

Mr. Porter�s experience includes Management Buy Outs (MBOs), Recapitalization, Debt Financing and Acquisition Funding for domestic and international clients in the fields of:

• Technology
• Telecommunications
• Publishing
• Manufacturing
• Specialty Chemicals
• Insurance
• Real Estate
• Service industries

He has developed an extensive network of C level executives and business owners in both privately held and public companies that range in size up to $150,000,000 in revenue. Mr. Porter has ongoing relationships with private equity firms, consultants, lenders, attorneys and finance professionals.

Key Successes:

• Sorgenti Investments: Obtained financial commitment from the Cypress Group for specialty chemical firm valued at $100,000,000.
• Guam Telephone Authority Privatization: He was team leader with the Carlyle group on $152,000,000 leveraged buyout of this 40,000-line, independent telephone company.
• Deville Properties: Advised on $52,000,000 residential apartment strategic initiative.
• Grupo Trebo: Advised on a $20,000,000 cross boarder acquisition of a specialty chemical business.
• Rusmar Chemicals: Advised and provided funding on a $4,000,000 acquisition.
• Startup Software Company: Obtained $500,000 financing from Angel Investors and Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Porter has an MBA from the Shidler School of Business at the University of Hawaii and a BS from the Villanova University Business School. He is a retired Naval Officer who spent five years as a Surface Warfare Officer and had significant war time duty at the Navy Command Center during the First Gulf War. Additionally, Mr. Porter has been a contributor to Forbes.