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Neil H. Powell serves as Senior Advisor to Kaufman &
Company. From 2002 until he retired in 2004, Mr. Powell
served as a partner of the private equity firm of Crescent
Private Capital, a Small Business Investment Company, which
he helped create and fund.
From 2000, when he retired from SPP Capital Partners LLC,
Mr. Powell was engaged as private consultant to several
small-to-medium sized businesses, including Milberg Factors,
Inc., a New York City-based financial services company. Mr.
Powell also advised several other private equity firms on
their capital raises in addition to Crescent, including HO2
Capital Management, Dallas, TX.
In 1989 Mr. Powell founded SPP Capital Partners, a New York
City-based private investment bank. He served as its
Chairman and CEO before becoming a Senior Managing Partner
in 1999 when the SPP management team completed a buyout of
his shares and those of Hambro & Co., LTD, a public
London-based merchant bank which, until its sale in 1998 was
SPP’s 50% partner. Serving largely middle-market public and
private companies, the firm advised on over $15 billion of
external capital raised by its clients during his tenure.
From 1980 until departing to form SPP in 1989, Mr. Powell
was managing director and head of private placements for
Bankers Trust Company (later acquired by to Deutsch Bank).
Under his leadership, Bankers Trust grew to become one of
the top ten institutional placement agents. It was during
this period Mr. Powell was elected to the Instutional
Investor Magazine’s Hall of Fame as the industry’s leading
private placement professional.
Mr. Powell worked for several organizations before joining
Banker Trust, including Bank of America as its chief of
private placements, the investment department of John
Hancock, BankBoston and Chase Manhattan Bank.
Mr. Powell earned his B. A. from the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, MA and presently sits on three
not-for-profit organizations; Alliance Francaise de
Westchester, the Bronx River Sound Shore Audubon Society and
Choral Arts New England.
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