CEA Consulting provides comprehensive corporate finance advisory services by networking with other industry professionals, all experts in their field. Please click on the following links to learn more about CEA Consulting's professional team.
Chevenry (Chevy) Arnold - President
CEA Consulting, Inc.
Chevenry (Chevy) Arnold founded CEA Consulting, Inc. (CEA) in April 2006 to provide corporate finance advisory services to companies with revenue under $10 million. She also assists middle-market investment banks and private equity firms with transactions on a contractual basis.
Over the past 15 years, Ms. Arnold has advised start-up to Fortune 500 companies during her investment banking and management consulting careers. She has assisted management teams in streamlining business strategies, preparing business plans and investor memorandums, developing financial models and performing business valuations.
Prior to founding CEA, Ms. Arnold was a Vice President with The Lenox Group LLC (Lenox), a middle market investment bank in Atlanta, where she raised capital and performed merger and acquisition advisory to companies with revenues under $100 million. Before joining Lenox in May 2003, she was a Vice President in the Mergers & Acquisitions practice at Ernst & Young Corporate Finance LLC (EYCF). While at EYCF, Ms. Arnold worked on several consumer products, manufacturing and financial services sell-side transactions, as well as numerous strategic advisory assignments.
Prior to EYCF, she was an Associate in the Global Corporate Finance practice at Arthur Andersen LLP where she gained valuable experience working on cross-border M&A transactions as well as senior debt, mezzanine and equity capital raises. Before Arthur Andersen, Ms. Arnold worked as an Associate for Wachovia Bank N.A. and Wachovia Securities, Inc. During her time at Wachovia, she did rotations through the Leveraged Finance, Investment Banking, and U.S. Corporate divisions.
Before earning her MBA, Ms. Arnold spent four years in management consulting, working in the Healthcare Consulting practice at Ernst & Young LLP and the Technology practice at Andersen Consulting LLP.
Ms. Arnold graduated from the University of Florida with Honors in 1993 with a BSBA degree in Finance and a minor in Economics. She earned her MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University in 1998.
Ms. Arnold is an active member of the Women's Finance Exchange, Executive Women of Goizueta and Atlanta Women in Transaction Services. She contributed to the July 2008 Deal Book Edition of the Beauty IOD Report series (http://beauty.iodcenter.com). She was also quoted in the October 2006 issue of PINK, a national magazine for business women (www.pinkmagazine.com). "Dress It Up and Move It Out" highlights steps to selling a business.
Professional Alliances
Meredith Damm, ASA - President
Fountainhead Advisors, Inc.
Ms. Damm founded Fountainhead Advisors in May 2003 after practicing business valuation for over ten years. Fountainhead Advisors provides business valuation services for mergers and acquisitions, estate and gift tax planning, litigation and financial reporting (FAS 141/142, 123R) purposes. Our clients range from small, privately held companies to Fortune 500 corporations in a variety of industries. Please visit www.fountainheadadvisors.com for more information.
Katie Goodman - Partner
Grisanti, Galef & Goldress
Ms. Goodman joined GGG, one of the oldest turnaround consulting firms in the United States, in 2001. Since then, she has worked with more than 50 public and private companies, focusing in particular on middle-market firms in the Southeast. Ms. Goodman is experienced in dealing with companies in bankruptcy (Chapter 11 and Chapter 7) and has successfully sold companies under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code. Please visit www.gggmgt.com for more information.
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