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Meet The Team

Trusted Advisors

 

The majority of our business is from repeat customers or referrals. This stems from the fact that engaging Nations Media Partners brings more than twenty years of experience representing a seller to a buying group that has the same or greater. Typically, our clients only sell a company or subsidiary once, so their knowledge is limited. Nations Media levels the playing field– not only acting as an intermediary in the negotiations, but being ACTIVELY involved from engagement, through contract negotiation, and diligence to closing. 

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Paul Spurgeon

MANAGING PARTNER

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Jim Blair

MANAGING DIRECTOR

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Matt Rice

MANAGING DIRECTOR

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Chris Raby

DIRECTOR

Nations Media Alumni

We're proud of the many folks who started their career with Nations Media Partners

We've never really hired bankers from other firms.  We look for "outside the box" thinking and an unyielding curiosity.  Banking (and m&a advisory in particular) is life and "finance" remains a politically neutral substrate - a meeting ground where we as bankers can solve the seemingly unsolvable.   

- Paul Spurgeon, Founder

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Mayor, Overland Park, Kansas 

Hon. Curt Skoog

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Houlihan Lokey

Clayton Funk

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Senior Vice President

Investments/ KU Endowment 

James Clark

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Co-Portfolio manager Scout Funds

Derek Smashey, CFA

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