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Jim Sowers

Managing Director
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Highlights

Sell side Investment Banker for over 15 years

Highlights

Three buyside corporate acquisition roles

Highlights

Regional CFO for $400 million division

Highlights

FP&A roles with PepsiCo and GE

Highlights

Engineer with MBA

Industry Expertise

Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages

Industry Expertise

Food Manufacturing and Distribution

Industry Expertise

Government Contractors

Industry Expertise

Government Defense

Industry Expertise

Industrial Manufacturers

Industry Expertise

Packaged Consumer Products

Industry Expertise

Restaurants

Industry Expertise

Variety of Business Services

Industry groups

Industry groups

Industry groups

Jim Sowers, a FOCUS Managing Director located in Richmond, Virginia, has over 30 years of experience in investment banking and corporate finance. He specializes in the Food & Beverage, Government & Defense, and Business Services industries.

Prior to joining FOCUS, Mr. Sowers was a managing director with Transact Capital Partners, a boutique M&A firm, where he successfully represented dozens of business owners selling their companies in a variety of industries, including government services, consumer products, business services, staffing, and industrial manufacturing. Before that he was a vice president at BB&T Capital Markets, where he worked on numerous IPOs, sell side transactions, fairness opinions, and capital raises, mainly for consumer products companies and restaurants.

Mr. Sowers began his career as an engineer in the defense industry.  After receiving his MBA, he worked in the treasury departments of IBM and PepsiCo on corporate acquisitions and debt financing. After moving to operating companies, he worked in both financial planning and analysis, corporate development, and as a regional CFO. Mr. Sowers found his corporate development roles at PepsiCo particularly valuable, as each division had a strategic acquisition plan coupled with a disciplined valuation process. Mr. Sowers also previously worked in corporate finance and corporate development at General Electric and LandAmerica.

Mr. Sowers received a B.S. in systems engineering from the University of Virginia and his MBA from the Darden School of Business at UVA. He is a long-standing member of the Henrico County Grand Jury, treasurer of his church, a member of the Association for Corporate Growth, and the advisory council of Virginia State University’s Reginald F. Lewis College of Business.

Mr. Sowers holds FINRA 7, 24, 28, 63 & 79 licenses.

Contact Information

Jim Sowers
Managing Director
Phone: (804) 525-8541
Office of Supervisory Jurisdiction: Atlanta, Georgia
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