C. A. Burkhardt

Prior to joining HT Capital Advisors, Mr. Burkhardt was a general investment banker for over ten years with Janney Montgomery Scott, the investment banking subsidiary of Penn Mutual Life.
He began his career as a financial analyst with Aetna Life and Casualty's Private Placement Financing Department and subsequently was elected an officer and became manager of Aetna's Corporate Development Department which deployed over $500 million into various acquisitions.
His corporate experience also includes three years as Director of CBS' Acquisition Department, where he was also involved with venture capital and strategic alliance activities.
Previously he was with Deloitte Touche's Corporate Finance Group, where he was responsible for merger/acquisition and valuation services.
Mr. Burkhardt has been involved with a full-range of corporate finance activity as investment banker and corporate executive.
He has been responsible for over 50 debt and equity public offerings and private placements, and merger and acquisition transactions in a wide range of product, service and distribution industries, primarily for middle market companies.
In addition, he has extensive experience rendering corporate valuations, including over 25 fairness opinions in connection with "going private" transactions.
Mr. Burkhardt has also had extensive experience advising privately owned companies in several consolidating industries, including the wholesale electrical distribution industry and various segments of the healthcare, food and beverage, packaging, and building product industries.
Mr. Burkhardt holds an A.B.
from Brown University, an M.B.A.
from Columbia University Graduate School of Business and an L.L.B from Duke University School of Law, and is a U.S.
Army Veteran.