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Biography:
Dr. John L. Chapman is an economist with extensive experience in corporate finance and investment advisory work, with a focus on asset valuation, competitive strategy and business development issues. His prior background includes tenures in sales, marketing, corporate strategy, and economic research and consulting. M&A assignments have included a variety of clients differing in scale, scope of operations, and industry type, ranging from the private equity-owner of a European telecommunications software provider pursuing a merger with a U.S. competitor, to Hewlett-Packard in its acquisition of Compaq Corp. (specifically, evaluation of Compaq's telecom business unit). Prior acquisition engagements included work for Kinetic Concepts, Inc. in durable medical equipment consolidation, Warner-Lambert in confectionary products, and IBM Corp. in software.
Previously, Dr. Chapman was a Vice President of Oxford Associates, a strategy consulting firm, and has tenures in sales, marketing, and corporate planning with IBM and PepsiCo. From 2006-2010 Dr. Chapman was a research fellow and adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, D.C., where he was involved in analytical work dealing with private equity, and he wrote extensively on topics ranging from monetary policy to economic growth. His works have been published in national publications including the Wall Street Journal, and he has done numerous interviews and speeches on current topics in finance and monetary economics. In addition to his work with GCM, he is a research economist at Hill & Cutler Co., an economic consulting firm dedicated to promoting sound money (viz., a commodity such as gold) and low-tax rates on capital and corporate profits as the cornerstone of a stable, high-growth economy. There he is completing his AEI signature project, a book on the history of private equity and its impact on economic growth. Dr. Chapman holds a B.A. with high honors in Economics from Wake Forest University, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Georgia. He is also a CFA candidate. |
