Mr. Annas’s 17-year career spans operations, advisory work and principal investing. Before joining Atlanta Equity, he was most recently a Managing Director with Patriarch Partners, LLC, a $6 billion New York and Charlotte based private investment firm. At Patriarch, he managed a portfolio representing over $1 billion in exposure for the firm. Before that, he worked as an investment banker with Casas, Benjamin & White LLC, a boutique restructuring and M&A firm based in Atlanta, Georgia. His investment banking experience began with Ernst & Young Corporate Finance in Atlanta. He also has ten years of operating experience in a variety of industries including transportation, manufacturing and consumer products.
Mr. Annas received both his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and his Master of Accountancy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.