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As the leader of the firm’s transaction advisory practice for the Rocky Mountain region, I’ve been involved in hundreds of transactions on both the buy and sell side, including quality of earnings, working capital targets and resolution, profitability analysis, and carve-out financial statements. For 25 years, I’ve served clients in manufacturing and distribution, healthcare, professional services, consumer products, technology, and real estate.

My focus is serving my clients and doing what it takes to get the job done. But, I also believe you have to do so with a sense of humor and a smile. What I enjoy most about my job is the variety of my clients and projects. Every deal is different, and my role is to help clients achieve their unique goals. I enjoy digging into the details and using my creativity to craft a story behind the numbers.

I’m regularly asked to speak at conferences on panels about business transition planning and transactions. Memberships include the AICPA, the Colorado Society of CPAs, Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors, and I’m the board president of the Association of Corporate Growth – Denver Chapter. My alma mater is the University of Illinois at Chicago where I graduated with a B.S. in accounting.

I enjoy watching sports, hiking, and spending as much time as I can with my children and dogs.

Mr. Snape is President of BDO Capital Advisors, LLC, BDO USA’s wholly-owned investment bank. Mr. Snape oversees all of BDO Capital’s investment banking and special situations activities and also serves as the firm’s Chief Compliance Officer. Mr. Snape has more than 29 years of investment banking experience including M&A, debt and equity. Mr. Snape has successfully executed more than 150 sell-side M&A advisory engagements representing more than $10 billion of aggregate transaction value for a variety of clients including family-owned businesses, Fortune 500 corporations and leading private equity firms. Mr. Snape has experience in leveraged recapitalizations, corporate divestitures, go-private transactions, management buy-outs and exclusive sales. Mr. Snape has completed cross-border transactions, private placements and fairness opinions, and provided strategic advice on dividend policy and share repurchases. In addition, Mr. Snape has experience providing advice on a wide range of special situations and has advised debtors and creditors on numerous in-court and out-of-court restructuring and turnaround M&A transactions.

Prior to joining BDO Capital in 2010, Mr. Snape was a Managing Director and Senior Investment Banker within the Global Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Banc of America Securities LLC. During his 12-year tenure at Banc of America Securities, Mr. Snape was a founding officer and led the firm’s middle market M&A advisory practice and served as Head of Middle Market Investment Banking with national M&A origination and execution responsibilities. Mr. Snape also served as a Group Head and Managing Director at Scott-Macon, Ltd., a middle market investment banking firm. Earlier in his career, Mr. Snape served as a Director at KPMG Corporate Finance LLC where he executed M&A transactions for KPMG’s international client base. Prior work experience includes The Vista Group, an international venture capital firm, and J.P. Morgan.

Stacey has more than 25 years of assurance and advisory experience and serves as an advisor to her clients, helping them interpret and apply complex accounting rules in a practical way, specific to their businesses. With deep experience in the middle-market arena, she assists public and private companies with private placements, buy/sell-side due diligence, fraud investigations, debt and equity offerings, and construction cost recovery investigations.​

She is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Private Company Practice Section. Additionally, she has served as a national continuing professional education (CPE) instructor and been published in the Practical Accountant and Colorado Real Estate Journal. Her work in the industry has not gone unnoticed: She was recognized as a Leader of Note by the Colorado Society of CPAs and as an Outstanding Woman in Business Finalist by the Denver Business Journal.​

An industry trailblazer, Stacey became the youngest woman ever to make partner at BDO in 2001. She’s a firm believer that diversity in leadership should be the norm, not the exception. She is an advocate for working mothers and strives to create a business environment that uses innovation and compassion to help everyone thrive.

Chris Picardi began his career at KeyBank in 2011 and currently serves as a Senior Vice President in the Colorado Commercial banking group where he focuses on M&A transactions. Prior to KeyBank, Chris was an Institutional Sales Associate for D.A. Davidson’s Equity Capital Markets Division. Chris graduated from Colorado State University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Finance and Real Estate and earned a Masters of Business Administration degree with a focus on Finance from the University of Colorado Denver.  Chris is a Board Member and serves on the Executive Committee of the Young Americans Center for Financial Education, a non-profit whose mission is to teach young people about finances, economics and business, enabling them to become financially literate and ensure long-term stability for themselves and their families. Chris was named as a Top 40 under 40 Business Professional in 2020 by the Denver Business Journal. Chris also enjoys spending time with his wife and two young children.