Charles A. Bryan co-founded the firm in 1991. He specializes in and manages Bengur Bryan’s investment banking services in mergers and acquisitions and private placements for companies in the consumer, transportation and business services industries, and related e-commerce businesses. Mr. Bryan has advised clients ranging from a multi-billion dollar transportation company, Yellow Corporation; and industry consolidators like RailWorks, Inc.; to early stage e-business services companies. Mr. Bryan has over 20 years of investment banking experience with emerging growth companies and with companies undergoing change. Prior to forming Bengur Bryan, Mr. Bryan was an industry group head in the Investment Banking Division at Alex. Brown & Sons (now Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown), which provides investment banking services to emerging growth companies. His activities included the coordination and execution of public and private equity offerings, private placements, mergers and acquisitions, and financial restructurings.

He is also a General Partner of Patriot Management Company, the merchant banking affiliate of Bengur Bryan & Co., Inc.

Mr. Bryan is a member of the Washington Baltimore Chapter of the Young President’s Organization, serves as a director of PJPA, LLC, a Papa John’s Franchisee in Pennsylvania; and is on the Board of Directors of Accuship.com, Inc., a logistics information services company.

Previously, Mr. Bryan worked in the Private Business Advisory Services Group in the New York office of KPMG Peat Marwick. A certified public accountant, he holds a B.S. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar, and an MBA from Harvard University.

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