Founder and Chairman of the Board

Bud has 38 years of entrepreneurial, operational, transactional and international experience with numerous private equity and debt investment scenarios. He is Founder of Kirchner Private Capital Group, composed of Kirchner Investment Management Corporation, provider of private equity advisory and investment management services; Kirchner Transition Management, Inc., focused on reorganizations and workouts, and Kirchner and Company, Inc. an operationally-oriented boutique investment bank engaged with small and mid-cap companies.

Bud has started and successfully exited companies in industries as diverse as financial services, agribusiness, airline and consulting, and has conducted corporate transactions in 30 countries. He has been a principal or agent in over 150 successful financings, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, workouts, and turnarounds. Bud has served as an officer and director of many public and private companies and is an advisor and confidante to a number of institutions, portfolio managers, and high net worth individuals.

In 1994 Bud was named Ernst & Young, et. al, Entrepreneur of the Year in for recognition of the turnaround of a bankrupt company to a profitable industry leader. This company under Bud’s management went on to receive numerous distinctions including ranking fourth overall in a nationwide survey of all industries for profit gain over a five-year period as well as ranking in the “top 20 wealth creation companies” in a survey conducted by the Corporate Renaissance Group of all Canadian public companies. During this same timeframe over fifty direct competitors failed. The next year Bud was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Quality Institute of Canada in recognition of transforming a domestic business into an internationally-competitive company. This included a citation for: “entrepreneurial vision, leadership, commitment and innovation.” He is the only individual awarded both of these senior awards for entrepreneurship.

Bud is the designer and architect of several proprietary business method models including “Crystallizing Value In Intellectual Property” as well as other models related to enhancing the value in individual companies and portfolios. He is active in a variety of philanthropic activities and co-founder of the Christopher Douglas Hidden Angel Foundation, a charitable organization devoted to enriching the lives of individuals with cognitive, emotional, and/or physical impairments through programs centered on the use of multi-sensory environments.