A New Season for M&A: ACG's M&A 2024 Recap & 2025 Outlook (Webinar)

Bob Dunn is managing director for GF Data, leading all aspects of the business for its new owner, the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG).

Prior to joining GF Data and ACG, he served as Chief Development Officer and General Manager of Portfolio Management Research for With Intelligence (FKA Pageant Media). Prior to that he ran Hedge Fund Intelligence and Institutional Investor Intelligence for Euromoney Institutional Investor. Prior to that he ran Dow Jones Private Markets for Dow Jones & Co. with oversight of product management.

Bob has experience in both corporate and start-up environments, and an in-depth knowledge of private and public markets, including asset management, corporate finance, private equity, venture capital and hedge fund industries.

Bob began his career as a journalist covering private equity. He received his BA from Bowdoin College, and his MS in journalism from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.

Ramsey W. Goodrich is a Managing Partner at Carter Morse & Goodrich and brings nearly 30 years of experience advising owners of family-held and founder-led middle market companies on M&A and capital transactions. Over the course of his career, Mr. Goodrich has advised on more than 125 transactions totaling more than $4.5 billion in value.

He is an active speaker on M&A and Capital transactions, having given dozens of presentations to corporations, associations and trade organizations and is a regular speaker at industry conferences across the country. In 2019, he was awarded the Thomas Farrell Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award from The M&A Advisor given “to the individual chosen by their peers to have made the most generous contribution to the advancement of our industry.” He also was awarded of the ACG Global Meritorious Service Award in 2013 recognizing those “ who contribute to the organization's long-term success through extraordinary volunteer service and achievement.”  

Outside of the office, Mr. Goodrich is the current Chairman of the Exit Planning Exchange – TriState Region (2015 – Present), following his terms as President of XPX Connecticut (XPX-CT) chapter (2013 – 2015).  He is currently also the Chairman Emeritus (2012 – Present) and Past President (2005-2011) of the Connecticut Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG-CT). He was also a Global Board Member for the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG Global – 2013-2016) where he was involved with a major strategic planning effort and then Chaired the 2017 ACG annual Intergrowth Conference in Las Vegas.   

Prior to joining Carter Morse & Goodrich in 2005, Mr. Goodrich was a Managing Director of Spinnaker Group Capital Advisors LLC, an investment banking firm based in Darien, Connecticut and a Vice President of E&Y Corporate Finance, an affiliate of Ernst & Young, in their M&A and capital markets group where he co-founded its financial sponsors group.