Mr. Beaurline began serving as an advisor to ATS in February 2006. Mr. Beaurline has 31 years experience working with middle market businesses including 21 years of investment banking and venture capital experience.

Mr. Beaurline has served as VP Corporate Development for Central Garden & Pet. Prior to 2004 Mr. Beaurline served as Sr. Vice President Corporate Finance with Sucsy Fischer & Co. (SFCo) an investment-banking firm headquartered in Chicago. Mr. Beaurline has served SFCo for 19 years and has been involved with all aspects of developing and managing a middle-market investment banking practice. Mr. Beaurline has extensive experience providing all types of financial advisory services to privately held companies. He has successfully completed corporate merger sale acquisition management buy-out private equity placement and debt financing transactions. At SFCo Mr. Beaurline is also responsible for the firm’s valuation services practice. He has significant experience providing formal valuation reports on corporations partnerships and individual securities. Mr. Beaurline has also provided fairness opinions and has served as an expert witness regarding valuation issues. Mr. Beaurline also has operating experience serving as interim CFO for clients when requested. Prior to joining SFCo Mr. Beaurline was an investment officer with First Chicago's Institutional Venture Capital Fund and a Senior with Arthur Andersen & Co. (Minneapolis) in tax and audit divisions. Mr. Beaurline has served as a director for several companies and ended his board position in 2006 after eight at Nserve Corporation an extended warranty contract underwriter with annual revenues of $125 million.

Mr. Beaurline is a C.P.A. and earned an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago with a specialization in business economics and concentrations in marketing and finance. He also earned a B.S. in Accountancy (with honors) from the University of Illinois.