Sam Horgan has over 30 years of financial and operational experience with both public and private enterprises, in a broad set of service and manufacturing industries. He began his career with a Fortune 100 company where he was involved in both accounting and plant operation’s management. He has held the positions of CFO, COO and CEO of various sized firms including several multi-national public listed companies. Many times he has been called upon to help build or rebuild a business’s internal finance, IT and other back office infrastructure. He has lead the successful implementation of several enterprise systems coordinating the back office and IT functions to achieve new levels of growth while minimizing complexity.

He has significant M&A experience having been involved in over 40 transactions valued in excess of $800 million. He has also successfully lead several restructuring efforts including restructuring a $700 million services firm and as the COO and CRO of a regional construction firm looking to continue its expansion. As well, he supported a chemical company in various roles in both its pre and post bankruptcy filing needs through the sale of its key salable assets and preparing it for liquidation. He has negotiated DIP funding as well as restructured debt agreements and leasing agreements so as to avoid bankruptcy, as well as work with various taxing and other regularity authorities to help reposition a company to succeed in the future. Recently he was involved in a team from GGG on the wind down of a large regional building supplier with significant bank debt and most recently he was involved in the restructuring and stabilization  of several distressed over the road freight haulers in the mid-west. He has also been the advisor to several firms as they evaluate their options in regards to repositioning themselves to meet changing market conditions.

Mr. Horgan is a hands on executive with strong and unique leadership skills where he is comfortable in dealing with all facets of a business relationship internally from rank and file employees to board of directors as well as dealing effectively with various outside constituencies. He possesses both strong operational experiences as well as strong strategic planning skills.

Mr. Horgan graduated from Youngstown State University with a degree in business administration.