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CONFERENCE CHAIRS








TACC CO-CHAIR: TACC CO-CHAIR:
Sean Murphy Jeff Noland

Principal, Deal Advisory Private Managing Partner & CFO/COO,
Equity , KPMG LLP DartPoints Holdings
sdmurphy@kpmg.com jnoland@dartpoints.com



Sean leads the relationships for some of KPMG’s Jeff has honed his understanding of operational
largest U.S.-based private equity clients and has finance and leadership over the course of two
significant sector experience in financial services, decades in finance, real estate and technology. Prior
energy, cable and food & beverage. to co-founding DartPoints in 2012, he served as Chief
Financial Officer of a Southwest-based commercial
Sean has over 18 years of experience in leading finance firm, where he oversaw a mid-eight figure
and coordinating global and domestic transaction balance sheet and negotiated and closed a $30 million
related engagements for private equity and corporate non-recourse credit facility during the height of the
buyers in connection with mergers, acquisitions 2008-10 credit crisis. He also led the acquisition and
and dispositions. Sean is dedicated to providing development initiatives for a California-based real
due diligence and deal advisory services to private estate private equity firm, creating millions of dollars
equity buyers and certain highly acquisitive corporate in value through negotiation and asset management
buyers. Sean’s representative list of delivered services efforts. Jeff also spent several years in Silicon Valley
includes directing buy-side and sell-side financial due negotiating dozens of technology licenses and
diligence, assisting with purchase and sale agreement strategic partnerships with leading software and
negotiation, commenting on transaction structuring, hardware vendors, after beginning his career in
providing bankruptcy support and leading post-merger investment banking.
integration activities. Sean has performed buy-side
due diligence projects on domestic and international Jeff is also a leader in the Dallas business community,
transactions ranging in enterprise value from $10 having served as Chapter President for the DFW
million to in excess of $5 billion. Countries in which Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth
Sean has led transactions include Argentina, Australia, (ACG) and as an Adjunct Professor of Finance at both
Brazil, Canada, England, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Southern Methodist University and the University
Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Russia, Singapore, of Texas at Dallas. In addition, Jeff was recently
Switzerland, Trinidad & Tobago and the United States. appointed to join the Board of Directors for ACG
Global.
Representative Clients
Audax Group, CenterOak Partners, Crestview In his spare time, Jeff enjoys distance running, playing
amateur baseball, skeet shooting, playing the guitar
Partners, Hicks Holdings/Hicks Equity Partners, KRG and spending time with his wife and two children,
Capital, Liberty Media/Ascent Media, Lincolnshire usually on a ball field of some sort. He earned his BS
Management, Lion Capital, Mark Cuban Companies, in Finance from Miami University (Ohio) and his MBA in
Metropoulos & Co., The Sterling Group, Stone Point Entrepreneurial Management, Electronic Commerce,
Capital, Tinicum Partners and Tyson Foods.
and Finance (triple major) from the Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania.





















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