John Ferrara is Founder and President of Capstone Partners (IMAP Boston). In 2002, he purchased the practice and rebranded it to form Capstone Partners. John has dedicated his 25 year career to serving as a trusted advisor to privately held businesses.  Representative of over 200 engagements, he has acted as investment banker, management consultant, interim executive, investor and board member. Under his leadership, Capstone Partners has expanded to 10 offices in the US and UK and been recognized as Global Investment Banking Boutique Firm of the Year. John started his career as an investment banker with Lehman Brothers in New York, London and Riyadh. Later, he served as a founding member of Rodman & Renshaw’s M&A practice in New York.  After a break to play baseball in Australia, John joined Deloitte’s management consulting group in Los Angeles. He then moved to Arthur Andersen in 1996 to start a corporate finance practice in Boston.  John became a Partner and Regional Managing Director with Andersen and held various national and global leadership positions.

Practice Areas: Mergers & Acquisitions and Merchant Banking.

Sector Expertise: Business Services, Consumer Products, and Health & Medical.

John has an MBA from The Anderson School at UCLA and the London School of Economics and a  BA from Wesleyan University. John has been recognized as one of the Top 50 M&A advisors in the US and honored as an M&A Advisor Hall of Fame inductee.

Steve founded Dresner Partners (IMAP Chicago) in 1991 to provide Wall Street investment banking services to middle market businesses. Prior to founding Dresner Partners, he held management positions with First Chicago Corporation (JP Morgan Chase), Arthur Andersen (corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions practices), Heller Financial and GE Capital Corporation. 

Steve´s distinguished corporate finance career spans nearly 30 years, including mergers, acquisitions, debt and equity financing, restructuring and turnarounds, recapitalizations and international transactions. In addition to his transactional experience, Steve has led numerous valuation, fairness opinion and strategic financial consulting engagements.  Steve´s sector expertise in the: Healthcare, Business Services, Building Products, Textiles, Industrial Manufacturing, Retail, and Media.

Steve holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a B.S. Economics, with Honors, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.