Jeff Germanotta's Investment Banking Course (FINA 4081) to be Offered in the Fall and Spring Semesters
In 2015, Marquette’s Applied Investment Management (AIM) program
formally announced the creation of a second track – Investment Banking andPrivate Equity.
Dr. David Krause, director of the AIM program, said “We are
pleased to add Mr.
Jeff Germanotta to our staff. Jeff possesses more than 35 years of experience
in investment banking, commercial banking and corporate planning, including
extensive experience with commercial services, distribution, industrial and
logistics business models. He will teach the investment banking and private
equity courses in the Department of Finance.”
This fall – and again in the spring semester – Germanotta will
teach FINA
4081: Investment Banking. The course focuses on developing essential skills
necessary to succeed in investment banking, private equity and corporate
development roles. Additionally, according to Mr. Germanotta, “It’s a
course that is beneficial for students pursuing careers in upper middle market
and larger corporate banking environments, as they’ll likely engage with such
professionals over the course of their careers.”
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Through texts, classroom discussion, current events
presentations, case study and guest speakers, FINA 4081 provides Marquette
finance students the theory, analytical tools and hands on experience to
begin careers as analysts engaged in merger and acquisition advisory and
debt and equity capital markets services. The course further examines
various types of private equity transactions.
Dr. Krause added, “A key element of the learning experience in
Jeff’s IB course is the participation of numerous practitioners within the
classroom; carrying on the traditional of the AIM program.”
The guests in FINA 4081 include bulge
bracket and mid-market investment banks, speciality investment banks, and
senior executives who have undergone leveraged and management buyouts.
Each of these professionals brings a differing career experience.
Their firms also operate in diverse aspects of the
financial markets and students learn from the real-world case studies
they share. Krause concluded, "Jeff will again be travelling with us to New York City in October when we visit our alumni who work in the investment banking and asset management industry. He's a valuable member of the AIM program and soon you'll hear interesting news about a new Finance Department initiative."
Jeffrey S. Germanotta’s Bio
Adjunct Instructor, AIM Program
Marquette University
Jeffrey S. Germanotta Mr. Germanotta possesses more than 35
years of strategic and financial management experience in private equity,
investment banking, commercial banking and corporate planning. His current
activities include:
- Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Adjunct Instructor, teaching investment banking and private equity courses within the Applied Investment Management Program (2015 – present).
- Member, Association for Corporate Growth – Wisconsin Chapter (since 2015).
- Limited Partner and Special Advisor to Greenbrair Equity Group LLC; a New York based private equity firm investing in the global transportation, logistics and distribution industries (2013 – present).
- Limited Partner and member of Supply Chain Equity Partner’s Advisory Board, also Investment and Audit Committees. A Florida-based private equity firm established to invest in lower middlemarket North American supply chain service businesses (2010 – present).
- Opportunity International’s Board of Directors; a leading global not-for-profit microfinance organization headquartered in Chicago, Illinois (involved since 2003). Co-head of the Audit and Finance and Risk Committees. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Opportunity International Colombia S. A.
Prior to his retirement in 2013, Mr. Germanotta was a
Principal and Managing Director of William Blair & Company LLC, a
Chicago-based global investment-banking firm. While at Blair, Mr. Germanotta
was CoHead of the Supply Chain Services practice within the Corporate Finance
Department and Co-Group Head for the Equity Research Department’s Business
Services and Industrial practice.
As an investment banker, he assisted clients with the
formulation and execution of strategic initiatives, including capital raises
and M&A activities.
As an equity analyst, Mr. Germanotta was consistently
recognized in the Financial Times/StarMine “World’s Top Analysts” rankings.
Mr. Germanotta holds a B.A. in Business Administration from
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an M.B.A. from Marquette University.
