Edward J. Sanz, CFA - Managing Director   704.578.8088 sanz@naviscentgroup.com

Ed has nearly twenty-five years of experience in operations as a CFO and as a consultant in leadership positions serving business owners, Boards of Directors and senior management.  He has helped companies facing rapid growth and tough operating/financing challenges in the manufacturing, distribution, retail, printing, media, construction, restaurant, service, higher education, and software/technology industries.  Prior to joining NaviscentGroup, Ed provided turnaround services for Fort Dearborn Partners, a leading middle-market turnaround/corporate finance services advisory firm.  As a turnaround advisor and Chief Restructuring Officer he has helped stabilize and reinvigorate companies by improving cash flow, restructuring debt, and returning them to sustainable profitability.  He has provided CFO advisory services with NaviscentGroup and as a partner with Tatum LLC, a national financial advisory firm, and was the CFO for two international textile manufacturing concerns which included a three-year expatriate assignment in Mexico.  He served as a commercial lender with SunTrust Bank and in Bank of America’s finance group managing projects associated with the bank’s acquisitions and mergers. Ed’s consulting experience also includes business valuation services with Ernst & Young and a regional accounting firm serving middle-market companies in the Charlotte region.

Ed received his BS in Commerce from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and his MBA from Emory University as a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society.   He also holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation.  Ed is the incoming President of the Carolinas Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association and a member of the CFA Institute, the Association for Corporate Growth and the National Funding Association.  He also serves on the Boards of Junior Achievement of the Central Carolinas and Mecklenburg Open Door.