| Gail Crane has been a managing
director of both an M&A advisory group and a merchant banking,
alternative financing firm. She was formerly a co-founder and
member of Hamilton Capital Group, LLC, the boutique investment
advisory group.
She brings more than 25 years of experience working with
public and private companies, from Fortune 500 to emerging
entrepreneurial companies, to find them resources as they
were developing and commercializing highly advanced technologies,
including IT. As a former registered Congressional lobbyist,
she guided both private and public sector entities, securing
international, federal, state and local government funding.
As vice president, business development, for a Philadelphia
investment banking firm, she was responsible for new client
business, evaluating potential for placement of private equities
in small market cap public companies, developing investor
relationships and negotiating and placing transactions with
strategic investors for clients. She was also the senior
vice president of a private equity Fund of Funds.
During the 1980s, Ms. Crane co-owned or managed a number
of successful consulting organizations specializing in political
and government affairs, federal contracting and research
grant assistance. Her clients included Bechtel Corporation,
Unisys, CertainTeed, Babcock & Wilcox, Lukens Steel Inc.,
Conwal, Inc. and a consortium of major universities including
New York University, University of Virginia, Ohio State University
and others. She also worked as a consultant on special assignment
for several Executive Branch agencies including the Appalachian
Regional Commission, Departments of Labor and Veterans Affairs
and served on the Coordinating Committee for Juvenile Justice
and the Small Business Administrations’ Initiative
on Women’s Business Ownership.
She has been the focal point in sourcing and placement of
recent and pending private equity transactions for client
companies in physician billing services, healthcare software,
polymer-based applications for agricultural products, industrial
products, advanced metals injection molding and homeland
security technologies.
Gail has been listed among “Who’s Who Among
American Women” since 1990. Ms. Crane was also a registered
broker with Series 7 license with the National Association
of Securities Dealers. She has served on numerous non-profit
and private companies’ boards of directors and has
been honored by a number of organizations for her contributions
to the communities they serve. Most recently she has agreed
to serve as a strategic advisor to the locally-based International
Security Group, Inc. in Philadelphia. |
