Leadership Team
Our vision is to bring our extensive transaction experience to help you make better decisions at every stage of the M&A process. We don't advocate transactions for the sake of transacting; rather, we help you understand how (or how not) a transaction might fit your corporate strategy objectives.
Timothy A. Christie, CFA
Managing Partner
Tim has over 25 years experience across a wide variety of industries and disciplines. His focus is on helping companies make the right strategic decisions and creating a framework for greatly increasing the probability of success. His experience across the broad sector of M&A (including organic growth, alliances, joint ventures, partnerships and venture investment) comes through when evaluating opportunities for clients.
Tim's previous experience includes Corporate Development roles with RBC Bank (Royal Bank of Canada) and First Data, and consulting experience in Fintech, Financial Services, Payments, Industrial Products and Non-Profits. An excellent facilitator, he has spoken at numerous conferences and seminars on topics ranging from International Business through Mergers & Acquisitions.
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Tim completed his MBA at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, and his Undergraduate Degree in Political Science and Economics at Queen's University (Canada). He is a Charterholder of the CFA Institute, and serves on the Technology Association of Atlanta (TAG) Corporate Development Society Board.
Christy L. Rushing
Partner
Christy is a career Management Consultant with a Big 4 consulting background and 25+ years of experience in M&A, Corporate Strategy, and Corporate Development. To date, she has led mergers and acquisitions valued in excess of $45 billion across a variety of industries, company types and deal sizes ranging from $50M to $15B.
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Over her extensive career, Christy has supported a variety of company types, sizes, and operating models and has focused the past 10 years on supporting Private Equity and middle market companies. Christy has leveraged the “best of” her Big 4 experience to develop an M&A acquisition and integration methodology that meets the unique needs and expectations of the PE environment and, most importantly, accelerates speed to value capture.
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​Christy also serves as the Chairman of the Board for the Corporate Development Society of the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). In her personal time, Christy loves spending time with her family and playing golf!​
Syed Haider
Partner
Syed’s corporate strategy and M&A experience spans over two decades of leadership positions at multi-national and middle market companies in a wide array of industry verticals. His career has been defined by working on company-wide projects addressing issues of strategic importance, in close partnership with senior leadership at organizations like Home Depot, Texas Instruments, Anthem BCBS, TSYS, McLarens, Crawford, PRGX, Imation, and Frost Securities.
With a record of 30+ executed transactions and $10 billion in deployed capital, Syed has a broad-based understanding of the M&A process, including target identification, valuation, due diligence, deal execution and post-merger integration.
Syed holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University, and MS & BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He served as a Board member for the Technology Association of Georgia’s Corporate Development Society and currently serves at Board member at EverLaith Foundation, a non-profit aimed at the welfare of children and animals. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and daughter and loves playing tennis in his free time.