{"id":9814,"date":"2019-01-15T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devgrowthink.wpengine.com\/?page_id=9814"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:25:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:25:46","slug":"eddie-clay","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/www.growthink.com\/team\/eddie-clay","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>\u201cIn the end, it\u2019s not the years in your life that count. It\u2019s life in your years.\u201d \u2014Abraham Lincoln<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 22px;\">Biography:<\/h2>\n<p>Eddie is passionate about partnering with business entrepreneurs and executives to help them become more successful. \u00a0He is dedicated to providing strategic and financial expertise for their companies&#8217; most pressing challenges and new market opportunities and is driven to deliver transformative, high impact results that exceed client expectations. \u00a0Eddie works with the firm\u2019s innovation practice, along with the M&amp;A practice of Growthink\u2019s wholly-owned subsidiary investment bank, GT Securities.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Growthink, Eddie spent more than 15 years in investment banking and financial advisory services, most recently as Director of Mergers &amp; Acquisitions and Business Development at Phillip Roman &amp; Company, \u00a0a Los Angeles-based M&amp;A advisory consulting firm specializing in private, middle market transactions. \u00a0More specifically, he focused on sourcing a robust pipeline of fully-vetted acquisition targets for private equity firms via directly engaging with CEOs of middle market companies with $10M to $1B+ in revenue. \u00a0Prior to Phillip Roman &amp; Company, Eddie was an executive search professional serving Corporate America and Wall Street clients, as well as a Divisional CFO and internal corporate consultant at Countrywide Financial. \u00a0He also spent two years at Goldman Sachs in high net worth wealth management and three years at Intel Corporation as a manufacturing supervisor. \u00a0Eddie started his career as an officer in the U.S. Army at a munitions platoon leader.<\/p>\n<p>Eddie holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Management from the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 22px;\">CliftonStrengths\u2122:<\/h2>\n<p>Strategic, Relator, Learner, Responsibility, Restorative<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 22px;\">Values:<\/h2>\n<p>Family, Health, Integrity, Curiosity, Autonomy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn the end, it\u2019s not the years in your life that count. 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