ACG Announces 2018-2019 Global Board of Directors

CHICAGO  - The Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), the global organization focused on driving middle-market growth, added ten new board members and new executive officers to the Global Board of Directors. Among the chapter representatives is John Sweeney, managing director of Hilliard Lyons and an ACG Kentucky board member.

Angela MacPhee, CEO of RGL Forensics and a member of ACG Denver, will lead ACG Global Board of Directors in 2018-2019. MacPhee most recently served as the board Vice-Chairman and succeeds the 2017-2018 Chairman J.B. Dollison, of Crutchfield Capital and a member of ACG Houston. MacPhee’s leadership experience through for-profit and not-for-profit organizations primed her for this role.

“The next year will be particularly exciting with the addition of ten new members who bring a breadth of new experiences, a diverse range of geographies, professions, and perspectives,” said MacPhee. “ACG members have an unwavering commitment to driving growth. I’m honored to be part of this robust middle market ecosystem, and I’m humbled to be leading ACG.”

ACG’s Global Board is comprised of 27 members, including five officers and 22 directors. Directors are nominated by their peers or their chapters, vetted by the nomination committee, and serve three-year terms.

ACG Kentucky's representative is Sweeney, managing director of Hilliard Lyons Investment Banking. Sweeney joined Hilliard Lyons Investment Banking in 1997, and again in 2010.  Sweeney was a partner with Southern Capital Corporation, a Richmond-based private equity firm and previously worked in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group of Morgan Stanley Investment Banking and with the FIG-Insurance Group at CS First Boston. Mr. Sweeney received his MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, and his BA from Amherst College.

Dollison will serve as a member of the board’s executive committee as ACG’s Immediate Past Chairman. Also serving on the ACG’s executive committee are Martin Okner, President and COO of dpHUE and a member of ACG New York, who will serve as Vice Chairman; Brent Baxter, Managing Partner of Clayton Capital Partners and a member of ACG St. Louis, who will continue to serve as the Chairman of Finance; and Steve Castino, a Partner of Vestal & Wiler and a member of ACG Orlando, who will serve as the Corporate Secretary. Additionally, John Connery, Shareholder of Hill Ward Henderson and a member of ACG Tampa Bay, Andrew Apfelberg, Partner of Greenberg Glusker and a member of ACG Los Angeles, and Jeff Noland, the Co-Founder and COO/CFO of DartPoints, LLC and a member of ACG Dallas, complete the 2018 – 2019 Executive Committee.

Of leading this powerful professional network, MacPhee said, “ACG continues to be an important network where we have found trusted advisors that have helped us drive growth and who have recently advised us through a transaction of our own.” RGL Forensics recently announced a strategic merger with Baker Tilly.

MacPhee added that the most important goal in the coming year is the adoption and execution of a new strategic plan. “For more than a decade our strategic plan has served as a compass for board strategy and ACG Global’s operations. As a board, it’s our responsibility to ensure the plan’s intent is realized.”

The Directors at Large on the ACG Global Board are:

• Tim Bryan, Partner, Duane Morris LLP, ACG Maryland
• Mike DiPiano, Managing Director, NewSpring Capital, ACG Philadelphia
• Rick Gebert, Board Member and Audit Committee Chair, Grant Thornton LLP, ACG Atlanta
• David Gershman, Partner and General Counsel, Trivest Partners, ACG South Florida
• Mark Hollis, Partner, Centerfield Capital Partners, ACG Indiana
• Brent Kulman, Director of Business Development, Five Points Capital, ACG Charlotte
• Cassandra Mott, Partner, Thompson & Knight LLP, ACG Houston
• Christine Nowaczyk, SVP, BOK Financial, ACG Arizona
• Walter O’Haire, Managing Director – Business Development, Valuation Research Corporation, ACG San Francisco
• Nate Olsen, Managing Director, Insperity, ACG Houston
• Aaron Polack, Head of Business Development, Lion Equity Partners, ACG Denver

In addition to Sweeney, the ACG Chapter Representative Directors include:

• Frederic Borras, Partner, Morera Asesores & Auditores, ACG Barcelona
• Bob Brickman, Director/Shareholder, Postlethwaite & Netterville, ACG Louisiana
• Shane Dunn, Partner and Senior Vice President, Ernst & Young, ACG Calgary
• David Hellier, Partner, Bertram Capital, ACG New York
• Josh Hollingsworth, Partner, Barnes & Thornburg, ACG Indiana
• Matt Laffey, Principal, Heritage Capital Group, ACG North Florida
• Steve Smith, Principal Consultant, SBS Structured Solutions, ACG Toronto

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Media Contacts:

Karen Craven
Association for Corporate Growth
(773) 230-8785
kcraven@acg.org

Terry McWilliams

ACG Kentucky Executive

(502) 410-2113

acgkentucky@gmail.com

About the Association for Corporate Growth and ACG Kentucky
Founded in 1954, ACG has 59 chapters across the globe. ACG’s worldwide network comprises 90,000 professionals within the middle market, including 14,500 members who serve as the investors, lenders, owners, executives and advisers to growing middle-market companies. ACG’s mission is to drive middle-market growth. 

ACG Kentucky was formed in 2008 to serve professionals in Greater Louisville and Southern Indiana, promoting middle-market business growth by attracting private equity capital sources to the region and facilitating active merger and acquisition deal making. The chapter's events feature industry leading speakers and provide active networking opportunities.

For more information about ACG, please visit www.acg.org and www.acg.org/kentucky.