Executive Profile
Gerald (“Jerry”) F. Toth Jr., CAA’s Managing Director and President, has 32 years of diverse corporate finance, sales/marketing and general management experience. He has closed a wide range of significant financial transactions with clients in more than 75 different industries. In addition to working for large and sophisticated corporate financial services companies in both corporate commercial banking and investment banking capacities (American National Bank-Chicago, Continental Illinois National Bank-Chicago, Manufacturers Hanover-New York, Credit Du Nord-Paris, France), Mr. Toth has also bought, managed, and sold his own industrial specialty chemicals distribution company. He is intimately familiar with the issues and challenges of running, selling, and financing middle-market businesses.
From his interaction with sophisticated investment bankers, accounting firms, buyout groups, venture capitalists, and business valuation consultants working on large corporate finance transactions in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, Mr. Toth could foresee that there was a significant opportunity to provide to smaller companies the same level of transaction sophistication and professionalism that is readily available for large corporations. This is what led Mr. Toth to form Capital & Acquisition Advisors, Inc. in 1995. Mr. Toth received his B.S (Economics) from Villanova University in 1968, his MBA from Cornell University (with Honors) in 1973, and was an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1968 - 1971. Mr. Toth is an active member of Midwest Business Brokers and Intermediaries Association (www.mbbi.org).