Michael Howe

About Michael Howe

20+ years of leadership positions in the financial services sector on both the buy side & the sell side and 10+ years in engineering, product management, business development & finance positions for technology-driven businesses. Investment management, investment banking, research, sales and compliance experience at Mufson Howe Hunter, Susquehanna International Group, Foley Mufson Howe, and Butcher & Singer. Direct oversight of, and involvement in, a $200+MM private equity fund as well as over 150 financing and M&A advisory transactions. Client & investor relationships in U.S, Europe and Asia. Hands-on experience in starting, financing, growing and selling businesses. Founded two investment banking firms. Extensive presentation, deal structuring & negotiation experience at both executive and board levels with clients & counterparties. Registrations: Series 24, 8, 79, 7, 63 and 16 (previously).Earlier in career, management & individual contributor experience at GE, Honeywell, General Signal and AII (an RCA spin out). Diverse product design & development, technology acquisition & spin off, operational assessment & control, product management and financial processes / systems experience in several technology-driven sectors including avionics test equipment, satellite-based navigation / communications systems (prototypes of GPS & Loran systems), telecommunications testing (forerunner of Fortel), robotics/industrial automation & control systems for in-plant, undersea and aerospace applications (including the control system for the Space Shuttle Robot Arm) and process measurement & controls. Undergraduate degree from Villanova in Electrical Engineering (BEE in control systems and communications) and graduate degrees from University of Pennsylvania in Systems Engineering (MSSE in simulation & optimization) and in Business (MBA in strategy & management). Specialties: Private Equity, M&A, Deal Structuring & Negotiations, Operational & Financial Due Diligence

Experience

1. Managing Principal & Founder

   Mufson Howe Hunter

   Oct 2002 — Present · Philadelphia, PA, US

   Mufson Howe Hunter was founded to provide middle-market companies unbiased strategic guidance and flawless transaction execution. The firm’s senior investment bankers each has over two decades of professional experience across hundreds of client transactions, and each of them is committed to bringing their extensive experience to bear in creating a high-performance middle-market boutique. Our professionals have experience in a broad array of transaction structures and our practice at MHH is largely focused on mergers & acquisitions as well as the private placement of growth capital. Mr. Howe oversees MHH’s Manufacturing and Industrial Services activities. He brings 25+ years of sell-side and buy-side financial services experience in M&A, capital markets, equity research and investing as well as more than a decade of technical & management experience in engineering, manufacturing, marketing & finance.

Education

• The Wharton School and The Moore School of Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania

  MBA and MSEE

• Villanova University

  BEE: Electrical Engineering - Control Systems & Communications

• The Moore School of Engineering - University of Pennsylvanis

  Graduate Engineering Degree, Command & Control (C3, C4I) Systems and Operations

• University of Pennsylvania

  MSE: Systems Engineering - Modelling, Simulation & Optimization

• The Wharton School

  MBA: Strategic Planning & General Management

Skills

• Trading
• Corporate Finance
• Options
• Asset Managment
• Start-Ups
• Cleantech
• Business Strategy
• Alternative Investments
• Risk Management