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ABOUT OUR CONFERENCE CHAIR

TACC CHAIR
Colt Luedde
Managing Director
GulfStar Group
[email protected]

Colt has 30 years of investment banking and corporate finance experience. Throughout his career,
Colt has completed approximately 200 merger and acquisition transactions helping entrepreneurs
obtain liquidity via the sale of their business to either a strategic buyer or to a private equity firm. In
addition, he has completed numerous merger and acquisition advisory assignments helping business
owners expand their business by acquiring other companies and, in many cases, has also raised
the capital required to complete the acquisition via the private placement of both equity and debt.
He has deep transactional experience advising the owners of manufacturing, distribution, service
and software businesses in the industrial and energy sectors of the economy. He has also worked
extensively in other sectors such as aerospace, business services and consumer. Colt serves on
the board of, and is a past-president of, the Association for Corporate Growth (Houston Chapter).
Additionally, he is a former board member of the Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Center for Private Equity
Finance at The University of Texas at Austin.

Colt earned a B.B.A. in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin.

GulfStar is one of the leading middle market investment banking firms in the United States,
with deep experience in mergers and acquisitions, private capital placement and general
corporate finance to companies with enterprise value ranging from $25 million to $350
million. Since its formation in 1990, GulfStar has completed approximately 750 transactions
in 36 states and 17 foreign countries across a variety of industries. Our senior investment
bankers have the industry experience and transactional leadership to consistently deliver
superior results.GulfStar has deep domain knowledge and transactional expertise across a
broad range of industries, including consumer products and services; energy, power and
infrastructure; healthcare; industrial, distribution and manufacturing; software, technology
and IT services; specialty distribution; transportation and logistics; and business services.