Stephen C. Tardio

Mr. Tardio joined HT Capital Advisors in 2001 when he opened the Chicago office.
He has extensive experience providing transaction advisory services to clients in a wide variety of manufacturing, distribution and service industries.
His clients have ranged from closely held private companies to large, publicly traded corporations.
Since joining the firm, he has managed a wide variety of engagements involving mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings and recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, fairness opinions, valuation analyses, and venture capital investments.
He has spoken at industry seminars on the subject of mergers and acquisitions, and has authored and been quoted in articles on acquisitions, valuation, and transaction strategy.
Mr. Tardio has represented clients in a number of industries including food and beverage, medical products and services, wholesale distribution, computer and communications systems resale and integration, plastics manufacturing and aerospace/defense.
Recent representative transactions include the sale of the Meat Snacks Division of Double B Foods to Jerky Snack Brands, the sale of value-added reseller NST, Inc. to Incentra Solutions, Inc., and the sale of medical device maker UreSil, L.P.
to a management-led group.
Prior to joining HT Capital Advisors, Mr. Tardio was a Manager of Technology Integration Services with Andersen Consulting (subsequently Accenture) in Chicago.
There he consulted with Fortune 100 clients such as Sears Roebuck, Caterpillar, and Bank One (subsequently JPMorgan Chase).
Mr. Tardio holds an M.B.A.
with a concentration in corporate finance from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, and a B.S.
in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He has completed the Mergers and Acquisitions Executive Education Program at The John E.
Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, and The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.