As GrowthPoint Solutions’ founder, Christine Sullivan has over eighteen years of investment banking experience, with transaction and client experience that spans from a start-up company’s first capital raise to leveraged buy-outs requiring billions of dollars of financing.

Christine began her career at Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Company in 1989, where she helped structure mortgage- and asset-backed securities. In 1994, she joined Bankers Trust Company in the Financial Sponsors Group, where she was responsible for structuring and negotiating debt and equity transactions on behalf of some of the largest private equity firms in the U.S. Between 1994 and 2000, she completed over 25 transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $10 billion.

While her practice was generalist in nature during these years, she began focusing on telecom and technology when the firm merged with Alex. Brown in 1999 and she joined the firm’s Media & Communications group. With this industry concentration came a focus on equity products as well as mergers & acquisitions related advisory assignments.

In 2000, she joined the Technology group at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and later that year, after the Credit Suisse merger, joined UBS Warburg. At UBS, she was a Director in the Technology group and was responsible for running the firm’s wireless services practice.

In 2003, she joined a boutique investment bank, Hadley Partners, which was founded by a group of former colleagues from BT Alex. Brown. As a Partner at the firm, Christine focused on advising early stage companies on the right time to raise capital and make other strategic decisions, helping to find the right financial partner and assisting clients in transitioning through critical growth stages. She also completed several merger and acquisition advisory assignments in the technology, internet and food and beverage sectors.

Christine received an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, where she concentrated in Finance. She also holds a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy from Wellesley College. She lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son.