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William F. Pinney, M.B.A., B.Sc Eng. (Mining), ARSM
Principal
pinney@mayfairsecurities.com
Phone: (213) 576 1050
Mr. Pinney has over 30 years of
experience as an investment banker,
financial advisor and private investor focused on middle market and
emerging growth companies. Throughout his financial career, Mr.
Pinney has provided sell-side and buy-side advisory services, arranged
private and public equity and debt financings, performed valuations and
provided other expert support services for companies ranging in size
from start-ups to Fortune 1000.
Mr. Pinney began his investment banking career with Security Pacific
Corporation in 1979 and then joined PaineWebber where he worked on merger and acquisitions and numerous initial and secondary public offerings and
fairness opinions. Since 1988, he has pursued a more entrepreneurial
career advising and investing in private and public companies. Since 2002, he has
been a Principal of Mayfair Associates, LLC and in 2009 acquired 100% of Mayfair Securities LLC.
Prior to attending business school and entering the financial world, Mr.
Pinney was an operations manager at NCCM Ltd, the leading company in
the Zambian copper mining industry.
REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS
• Burtin Family Divestiture Program (Exclusive Financial Advisor) –
Urethane manufacturer and blender with downstream consumer
product businesses including Line-X Franchise Development
Corporation. Managed the sale of the family’s key holdings over four
years.
• OneNeck IT Services (Exclusive Financial Advisor) –
IT services outsourcer specializing in managing Enterprise Resource
Planning software platforms. This highly successful management
buyout was recapitalized with minority private equity four years after
the initial acquisition.
• International Gold (Investor, Advisor) – Gold mining and exploration
in Ghana and other parts of West Africa. Sold to Ashanti Goldfields.
• Collectech Systems (General Partner of Investor Group, Investor,
Board Observer) – Outsourced collection services for high volume,
low balance services providers such as telephone and paging
companies. Sold to a private equity consolidator of business
services.
• PricewaterhouseCooper (Expert Witness) – Litigation support
relating to a precious metal refining business.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
• Descanso Gardens Guild (Past Chairman and Board Trustee) – A
non-profit guild which operates a Los Angeles County owned display
garden and provides educational services to the public schools and
handicapped children.
• Multiple Sclerosis Society (Past President of young professional fund raising group)
EDUCATION
• Harvard Business School, Masters in Business Administration (1979).
• Imperial College, London University, United Kingdom, Bachelor of Science (Honours), Mining Engineering (1973).
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS:
• FINRA, Registered Principal.
• Jonathan Club, (Member), Los Angeles, CA.
• Valley Hunt Club, (Member), Pasadena, CA.
SPEECHES AND ARTICLES
• Panelist: University of Southern California’s “Entrepreneur Program”.
• Panelist: Cal Tech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Seminar on Wireless Companies.
• Article: Six Big Faults That Cripple: Business Plans for Startups – Los Angeles Business Journal
• Article: The Defense Contractor Dilemma: Lessons from Dot-Coms, E-Commerce and Vaporware – The Journal of Electronic Defense
Mr. Pinney was born in Dorset, England but spent his childhood in
Kenya. Educated in the United Kingdom, he started his career
as a Mining Engineer on the Zambian Copper Belt in Central Africa. He
came to the United States to attend Harvard Business School and
moved to Los Angeles in 1979. He resides in La Canada/Flintridge with
his wife and twin daughters. In his spare time, he enjoys mountain and
road bicycling, fly fishing, food and wine. |
