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| David M. Traversi is an executive coach, strategic advisor, author, speaker, and serial entrepreneur, and former Wall Street investment banker, corporate chief executive, and lawyer.
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| Prior to co-founding 2020 in 1999, Mr. Traversi served as President of Sirrom Capital Corporation, an NYSE-listed specialty finance company. Sirrom was the nation's leading provider of mezzanine capital to private growth companies in amounts less than $5 million. Its portfolio of over 250 investments totaled over $600 million. Sirrom was sold in 1999. |
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 Prior to Sirrom, Mr. Traversi was a General Partner and Managing Director in the Corporate Finance Department of Montgomery Securities (now Banc of America Securities LLC), the nation's premier investment bank serving growth businesses in the 1990s. There he founded and ran two highly successful industry groups. Over the course of seven years at Montgomery, Mr. Traversi managed over 75 major transactions totaling over $3 billion, including initial public offerings, secondary stock offerings, private placements of debt and equity, public debt offerings and mergers and acquisitions. |
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| Subsequent to Sirrom, in a 2020 merchant banking engagement, Mr. Traversi co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of PRE Solutions, Inc. With the financial backing of ITC Holding Co. (the financial sponsors of MindSpring, Telecom USA, Powertel, Intercall, HeadHunter.net, Knology, ITC DeltaCom, and a number of other successful telecom and technology companies in the Southeast), PRE Solutions built the nation's largest electronic processor of prepaid telecom products, with a distribution base of over 70,000 retail locations across the nation. PRE Solutions achieved revenue of $30 million in its first full year of operations and had an annual run rate of over $300 million when it was sold in 2006. |
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| Subsequent to PRE Solutions, in another 2020 merchant banking assignment, Mr. Traversi co-founded and served as Active Chairman of Sensor Platforms, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company providing integrated circuit solutions to the sensor industry. Mr. Traversi was responsible for arranging Series A angel ($1.33MM) and Series B venture capital ($6.6MM) financing and handling a number of other executive functions for the first two years of its operations. |
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| Mr. Traversi has an M.B.A., Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, a J.D., University of California, Davis, and B.S. in Business Administration and Finance, California State University, Chico. Mr. Traversi has also practiced as a business lawyer and mediator in California and Alaska. He serves on a number of for-profit and non-profit boards of directors and is a frequent speaker on a variety of business and leadership topics. |
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| Mr. Traversi's revolutionary, highly acclaimed book on leadership, The Source of Leadership: Eight Drivers of the High-Impact Leader was released by New Harbinger Publications in 2007. His "Daily Source", a daily email with a tip designed to help recipients stay on top of their leadership game, has attracted a global, rapidly growing audience. |
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| 2020 Growth Partners was co-founded in 1999 by David M. Traversi and Carl W. Stratton. Mr. Stratton has since launched one of the largest regional bookkeeping services on the East Coast (www.carltonservices.com), although he often collaborates with Mr. Traversi on 2020 engagements. |
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