Experience

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  Chestnut Partners, Inc.

  • Managing Director

    • Mar 2022 - Mar 2024

    Patrick rejoined Chestnut Partners in 2022. Mr. Ford has spent over a decade in the financial services industry working with Boards and senior executives. Most recently, he served as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of NextGen Acquisition Corporation, which took Xos, Inc. (NASDAQ: XOS), a manufacturer of commercial battery electric vehicles, public, and NextGen Acquisition Corp. II, which took Virgin Orbit Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: VORB), an air-based satellite launch company, public. Mr. Ford also served Director of Investments of Glen Capital Partners, LLC, an investment manager with a private equity approach to public equities across the healthcare, industrials, technology, financial, and business services sectors. Mr. Ford began his career with Chestnut Partners in 2010, where he advised healthcare, technology and industrial clients on equity and debt placements, M&A advisory, financial planning & analysis, valuation and tender defense. Mr. Ford is a CFA® charterholder. Mr. Ford holds a B.A. in Russian with honors from Middlebury College.www.chestnutp.comRegistrations: FINRA Series 7, 79 and 63

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  Glen Capital Partners

  • Waltham, MA

  • Director

    • Sep 2015 - Mar 2022
    • Waltham, MA

    Glen Capital Partners LLC is an investment manager that takes substantial ownership positions in undervalued small-cap public companies in the healthcare, financial services, business services, industrial, and technology sectors. Glen Capital Partners is a long-term investor that is particularly interested in companies undergoing significant operational, capital structure, or strategic change.http://www.glencapital.com/

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  NextGen Acquisition Corp. II

  • Chief Financial Officer

    • Mar 2021 - Dec 2021

    Brought Virgin Orbit public (VORB/VORBW).

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  NextGen Acquisition Corporation

  • Chief Financial Officer

    • Oct 2020 - Aug 2021

    Brought Xos public (XOS/XOSWW).

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  Chestnut Partners

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Vice President

    • Jul 2010 - Sep 2015
    • Greater Boston Area

    Chestnut Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer in the private placement of equity and debt securities and in certain financial advisory transactions. Through Chestnut Partners, Inc., the company also acts as a private merchant bank serving public and private corporate clients with investment banking services. The firm specializes in providing financial advice relating to start-up consulting, private debt and equity capital formation, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offering advisory services, financial consulting, and merchant banking activities. By focusing its attention on a small group of public and private clients in the healthcare and technology fields, the firm offers an exceptional level of senior involvement, speed of execution, confidentiality and respect for the importance of each assignment.www.chestnutp.comFINRA Registrations: 7, 79, 63