Mr. Benjamin has 27 years of investment banking, corporate finance advisory, principal investing and restructuring experience.
Before co-founding Atlanta Equity, Mr. Benjamin served as a Managing Director with Navigant Capital Advisors, LLC (“NCA”), the
Corporate Finance practice group of Navigant Consulting Inc. (NYSE:NCI), where he directed the activities of NCA’s Investment
Banking Practice, along with leading the group’s Private Equity advisory activities. Prior to joining NCA, Mr. Benjamin was a
Senior Managing Director with Casas, Benjamin & White LLC, a nationally recognized restructuring and merger and acquisitions
advisory firm, which was acquired by Navigant in 2005. Mr. Benjamin previously served as CEO of a boutique mergers and
acquisition advisory firm, and as CEO of Premier Healthcare, Inc., a healthcare services venture management and development firm.
Mr. Benjamin also served for ten years as Managing Partner and Director of Corporate Finance Services for Williams, Benjamin,
Benator, & Libby, a 60-person Atlanta-based CPA firm that Mr. Benjamin co-founded in 1982. Mr. Benjamin began his public accounting
career serving as a Senior Accountant in the Atlanta office of Ernst & Young.
Mr. Benjamin currently serves on the boards of American Pad & Paper, LLC, OfficeImages, Inc., National Dental Services, Inc.,
and The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. Mr. Benjamin is a CPA and attended the University of Kentucky on a full tuition
music scholarship, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting (Lexington-1979), where he was named a Coopers & Lybrand
Scholar.