The Granbury Backer: Wine’s New Heavyweight Player

The backer behind the recent acquisitions of WineWare, eWinery Solutions and WineWeb is an über-savvy, successful, no-nonsense, straight-talking M&A and corporate turn-around player with a personal bankroll big enough to go eye-to-eye with Bill Foley.

He earned big-time street cred while at Cerberus and since, has rolled through one success after another with a no-frills talent for buying companies and bringing them to profitability.

If previous success is a predictor of future performance, the only thing that could derail his ascendance as a major industry force might be to fall prey to the romance and glamor of wine that has seduced others in his position into spending more money than they would in a more mundane sector.

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• A CERBERUS HOME RUN

• THE $44 MILLION BOOTSTRAP JET PACK

• RULE #1: BUY CUSTOMERS & MARKET SHARE

• ON COMPETING: “CRUSH THE OPPOSITION”

• JET PACK MONEY ON THE TABLE, PAYS OFF

• THE GRANBURY MOTHER SHIP

• MIDWEST BASE,  CALIF & WORLDWIDE PRIVATE EQUITY ROOTS

• INVESTMENT CRITERIA FOR COMPANY ACQUISITION

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