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Richard Mead

Mr. Mead, a Managing Director with The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI), represents Business-to-Business (B2B) Media companies in an M&A advisory capacity and and has helped the firm become the leading M&A advisor in this sector.

Since joining JEGI in 1997, Mr. Mead has played an instrumental role in the successful completion of more than 75 transactions, including a number of the firm's signature transactions as follows:

Major portfolio restructuring advice for large domestic and international B2B Media clients, including: Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT); Jupitermedia Corporation; Pearson; Penton Media; Primedia Business; Reed Elsevier; The Economist Group; United Business Media; and VNU;
Dispositions of platform businesses for leading Private Equity funds including the sale of Commonwealth Business Media (RFE Partners and Bariston Partners) to United Business Media, and 101communications (Frontenac) to 1105 Media in 2006;
Sales of entrepreneurially owned B2B Media companies, including Naylor Publications to Clarity Partners and ZelnickMedia; and Duke Communications to Penton Media; and
Strategic advisory, valuation and M&A engagements for commercial banking and law firm clients.
Educated and trained as a Chartered Accountant in the UK, Mr. Mead brings to client engagements a broad cross-section of experience as buyer, seller and advisor to public and private companies. He has participated in more than 300 transactions of all sizes and complexities since moving to the US in 1983.

Previously, Mr. Mead served as senior vice president at Dow Jones/Teleres, a commercial real estate database business. His publishing and financial industry experience includes serving as president and chief executive officer of Black's Guide, Inc., vice president of finance of Advanstar Communications and an international M&A partner at Ernst & Young in New York and KPMG in New York and London.

Mr. Mead earned a BA Honors in Economics and Accounting from the University of Bristol, UK and a Master of Science in Management Science and Operational Research from the University of Warwick, UK. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons in the City of London. Mr. Mead is a member of the International Committee of American Business Media.