Bradford Mead

Brad Mead is the President of Delta Capital Group, the largest New England investment banking firm dealing with companies doing less than $50 million in sales. Mr. Mead has extensive experience in executing corporate turnaround and restructure and has served as Board advisor or interim CFO for over 150 manufacturing and service companies. These activities have included taking over as CEO of a major ski resort in Idaho, restructuring a Slovakian Bank, negotiation with Middle East governments for border security equipment and acting as an expert witness in numerous bankruptcies.

Additionally, Mr. Mead is a frequent speaker to many business organizations and is a current instructor for Lorman Educational Services for their Merger and Acquisitions Program. Mr. Mead is also an infrequent columnist for INC Magazine.

Mr. Mead is also co-founder of Better World Products, a non-profit foundation that imports products to the US from third-world countries. Better World's mission is to create good jobs in the third world and reinvest profits from the business into the local communities through Christian Missionary Teams.

Mr. Mead founded Delta Capital Group in 1993 after selling his founding share of Baron Capital Group, a nationwide consulting and hospitality real estate firm he founded in 1984. Baron owned and/or operated 25 hotels, inns and restaurants and employed over 1200 people.

Prior to Baron, Mr. Mead was Director of International Commercial Programs for the Grumman Aerospace Corporation in Bethpage, New York. He developed and packaged Grumman technologies for license and joint venture programs overseas; negotiated programs in 45 countries in technological areas ranging from satellite systems to mushroom packaging; and was the youngest program director in Grumman history to be invited to attend the Grumman Senior Management Development Program.

While at Grumman, Mr. Mead was also Chairman of the Export Trade Committee for the Renewable Energy Industry, an industry association board in Washington, DC. Through his activities with this industry, Mr. Mead was asked to serve on two Presidential Commissions, as well as, on the International Energy Administration (IEA) based in Paris. He assisted in negotiations, at the request of the Department of Energy, on six bilateral energy agreements in third world countries and testified before both Houses of Congress on eleven occasions regarding matters of trade and energy.

Mr. Mead is a graduate of The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania and lives with his wife and three children in Simsbury, Connecticut. His hobbies include mountaineering in every major mountain range in the world, skiing, sailing and hydroponic gardening. He is also very active as a youth soccer coach, Boy Scoutmaster, and a past commissioner of Zoning Board of Appeals and a current commissioner of the Simsbury Planning Commission.