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John Rooney is the Managing Partner at Capital Partners, a middle market financial advisory group specializing in capital raises, private equity, sell and buy side advisory, special situations and restructuring. Mr. Rooney brings over twenty five years of experience in sell side, buy side, capital advisory/financing, financial restructuring, and turnaround operations management for middle market companies. Mr. Rooney has provided financial advisory services to companies ranging in size from $30 billion in sales to middle market and small companies. John has personally been involved in over 1200 middle market companies during his career. Mr. Rooney is formally a Partner in VVP, a middle market investment bank specializing in financial advisory & sell side advisory services for middle market ready companies including a major pet company and a $200 million food/fruit distribution company. Chairman and CEO of MailMark Direct Marketing which provided customer relationship management for national clients including: Sears, Jiffylube, Pepboys, Teleflora, Shell Oil, 1-800 Dentist, Valvoline, and thousands of other businesses processing 45 million data records weekly. John led the effort to restructure the business, grow revenue, and EBIDTA earnings over 25X and facilitated the sale to Trader Ventures. President and CEO, publicly traded frozen food manufacturer for Claim Jumpers, Wolfgang Puck, Milton’s Costco, Safeway, Ralphs, and many other well known food companies. In a two year period, John successfully restructured the company from negative earnings to profitability and facilitated the sale to an international private equity group. President and CEO of a major Business Development Corporation for twelve years. John expanded the organization in 11 offices which assisted over 30,000 companies with, capital raises, restructuring, financing, buy-sell advisory entrepreneurial training, and management consulting. The U.S. Department of Commerce awarded the organization as the best economic development program in the western United States. Chairman, breakthrough partners Mr. Rooney led a group of 30 high-growth companies in partnership with Merrill Lynch successfully leading the efforts to expand these companies significantly. Mr. Rooney has been quoted and featured in over fifty major newspapers, television, radio and business magazines nationally and internationally as one of the country’s prominent middle market company experts. John was awarded the Good Guy award by the National woman's political caucus for his work with women owned business. Former Faculty Member USC’s Marshall School of Business in the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, The program has consistently ranked among the top programs in the nation and has been ranked #1 by Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine. Business Week with U.S. News and World Report labeled the program as "one of the best Entrepreneurship programs" in the country. Mr. Rooney holds a BS in Entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, an executive degree in real estate development from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business where he graduated with national honors. | 