Stacey Anderson, General Partner
Stacey began her career as an analyst and pricing manager with The Capital Group in Los Angeles, California. Subsequently, she became a trader and portfolio manager for fixed income money management firm, Patterson Capital Corporation, which manages over $3 billion in retirement and pension fund assets.
After earning her MBA in Finance from Emory University, Stacey joined Equifax Inc., where she was responsible for mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, competitive intelligence, data acquisition and vendor management. During her eight-year tenure there, Stacey led a number of key strategic initiatives including: the $250 million acquisition of Polk’s Direct Marketing business, the divestiture of Equifax’s Spanish commercial credit business, the building of the industry’s first small business credit database, and the formulation and execution of new industry strategies into brokerage, insurance, predictive analytics and database management.
In 2004, former Equifax CEO, Tom Chapman was asked by Georgia Governor Sonny Purdue to be the Vice Chairman of a $2 million non-profit, public/private partnership known as Hemisphere Inc. This entity was responsible for driving Atlanta’s effort to become the headquarters of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Tom Chapman asked Stacey to come on board to create the strategy and eventually led the operations for the effort. The Board of Directors included Georgia Governor Sonny Purdue, Mayor Shirley Franklin, Executive Director Jose Gonzalez, the Georgia Department of Economic Trade & Tourism, the Metro-Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and the Who’s Who of Atlanta CEO’s.
Stacey received her BA in Economics from University of Virginia where she was also a full-scholarship volleyball player with All Region and All-Conference distinctions.
Steven Fanning, General Partner
Steven began his career in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Credit Suisse First Boston (“CSFB”) in New York where he focused on financial institutions and completed over $10 billion in transactions including Star Banc Corporation’s $8.3 billion merger with Firstar Bank and Northwestern Mutual’s $1.2 billion acquisition of mutual fund manager the Frank Russell Company. At CSFB, Steven also completed over $500 million of lead-managed high yield underwriting, $2 billion of bank debt origination and $250 million of equity offerings.
Since 1999, Steven has worked as an Investment Professional in the principal investing arena, most notably with Thayer Capital Partners (a $1.1 billion dollar Washington, DC based private equity firm) and RBC Capital Partners (the New York based principal investing arm of the Royal Bank of Canada). In this capacity, Steven has led senior debt, mezzanine and equity investments in over ten different companies including Reef (a $100 million dollar footwear company), Berkley Industries (a $110 million dollar packaging company) and United Site Services (a $120 million dollar on-site construction services company).
Steven is an honors graduate of Washington and Lee University with B.A.’s in Economics and European History.
Mark Hoffman, General Partner
Mark began his career in 1988 in the systems integration group at Arthur Andersen (now Accenture) developing and implementing logistics and distribution information systems. After earning his MBA from The Harvard Business School in 1993, he joined The Boston Consulting Group’s Chicago office and subsequently helped launch BCG’s Atlanta office in 1995. Mark was elected Vice President and Director in 2000.
Over the course of 14 years at BCG, Mark worked across a broad range of industries, including consumer goods and retail, industrial goods, forest products, transportation, power generation, health care, travel and tourism, and education. His functional expertise includes business strategy, growth strategy, competitive analysis, profit improvement, sales and marketing, service strategy, organization design, portfolio strategy/post-merger integration, global competition and cost reduction. He led the Industrial Goods and Operations Practice Areas for the Southeastern United States and the Atlanta office’s recruiting and career development processes. Key client engagements include developing and implementing consumer and industrial packaging strategies for a global leader in the forest products industry, distribution strategies for a global leader in consumer and commercial tires, organizational restructuring/profit improvement for a major U.S. railroad, service strategy and growth for a leader in global power generation, supply chain strategy for a leader in the outdoor gas grill industry and turnaround/growth strategy for a major tourist resort in South Georgia.
In 2007, Mark joined Monolith Capital Partners to provide strategic, marketing and operational expertise to current and future portfolio companies. As his experience crosses multiple industries and disciplines, he can offer invaluable insights to entrepreneurs looking to jump start their companies’ sales and earnings growth.
Mark is an honors graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in Economics.