Christopher Smith

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Biography

Mr. Christopher Smith serves as a Partner at Cottonwood Acquisitions. Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer at Road Cases USA. He has spent his career first advising, and then investing in and operating mid to large-sized businesses. He began his career at Brown, Gibbons Lang & Company, a Cleveland, OH-based middle-market investment bank that advised businesses worth between $20 million and $250 million on a sale. After Brown Gibbons Lang, he joined Merrill Lynch's mergers & acquisitions group in New York, acting as an adviser to multi-billion dollar companies such as Omnicare, AOL, Nordstrom, and York Intl. In 2002, he joined Protostar Partners where he made investments of $20 to $50 million in mid-sized companies such as General Products, Camp Systems, and Walter Engineering. Following his experience at Protostar Partners, he joined Olympus Partners, a Stamford, CT-based private equity fund. At Olympus Partners, he focused on investments of $50 million to $300 million in the business services, consumer, manufacturing & food sectors. He is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University, where he received his B.S., and Columbia University where he received his M.B.A.