Art is Chief Development Officer on the Centers of Excellence (COE) team at Shore Capital, a lower middle-market private equity firm focused on partnering with companies that have between $1-10 million of EBITDA. Art’s responsibilities center on working with investment, board, and management teams to build successful business development functions within companies.

The COE is part of the Portfolio Performance Group, a strategic investment in over 50 people providing access to Fortune 500-caliber resources designed to work with your company over the life our partnership. The COE focuses on “transformation” to help you scale during the partnership. These highly experienced and accomplished executives have functional expertise in IT, HR, M&A, sales, marketing, data, RCM, lean manufacturing, and payor strategy.

Prior to joining Shore Capital, Art worked at Southern Veterinary Partners (a Shore portfolio company) as Sr. VP, Business Development. Over his 5-year tenure with the company, Art built BD processes, systems, and teams that led to the successful execution of 265 transactions totaling over $750M of Revenue and over $150M of EBITDA.

Art received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences from Northwestern University.