William D.Coluccio - President

Mr. Coluccio is an entrepreneur and investment banker with a unique blend of experience encompassing both privately held and public companies. His success over the past 24 years spans both the domestic and foreign business arena and enables him to involve Amdel's clients with investors and business professionals that are leaders in their respective fields.
As an entrepreneur, Mr. Coluccio has built and subsequently sold several businesses including a chain of retail franchises, a telecommunications distribution company, and seminar based financial services firm. Early in his career, Mr. Coluccio fulfilled a series of senior executive positions in some of the largest corporations in the world including the role of Special Advisor to Accenture, Managing Director for KPMG, the Vice President in charge of the Investment Banking Group of Mitsui Bank, a Director position at the Geneva Corporation, and a Manager of Operations for Philip Morris Companies.

Mr. Coluccio has represented an impressive list of fortune 500 companies in the U.S.A., Japan, and Europe. He has raised significant equity capital and successfully negotiated and structured the purchase and/or sale of many privately held businesses in the $10 million to $600 million dollar valuation range. In addition, Mr.Coluccio has provided specialized advisory services to national franchisers seeking to expand their market in both the U.S. and abroad.

Mr. Coluccio has been interviewed and/or quoted in Fortune Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The N.Y. Times, The Japan M&A Reporter, and the Los Angeles Daily Journal-Law Business. Mr. Coluccio received a BBA degree in Accounting and Finance from The Lubin School of Business at Pace University and an MBA degree in Taxation from the Pace University Graduate School. He is a registered securities representative and an active member of the Association for Corporate Growth, the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, and the Council of Franchise Suppliers.


Dr. Robert Swaim, Ph.D - Sr. Vice President

Dr. Swaim combines over thirty-five years of practical business experience with a distinguished record of teaching graduate level research in the field of management and organization development. Dr. Swaim is currently on assignment in Beijing, China as a professor of Graduate Business Studies at the Bright China Institute. In addition to his teaching and research work, Dr. Swaim serves as a managing partner of The CotoGroup , a consulting and financial services firm providing merger and acquisition , employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), and corporate finance services to both privately held and public companies. Dr. Swaim has also provided Fortune 500 companies with specialized advisory services related to transition management issues to ensure successful new business combinations.

Dr. Swaim has held executive positions with several companies, including Occidental Petroleum where he was instrumental in completing the second largest acquisition in U.S. history at the time.
Dr.Swaim completed his doctoral work at Claremont Graduate University (Drucker Management Center) and also holds an MA in Management from Claremont; an MBA from Pepperdine University; and a BBA from the University of Pittsburgh . He also served as Associate Professor of Management and Organization Development for the University of San Francisco Graduate School and continues to serve as Adjunct Professor of management for the California State University Industrial Distribution Program.


Patrick W. Condren - Managing Director

Mr. Condren is a specialist in the transportation industry and brings Amdel's clients a unique set of expertise. As a business owner , Mr. Condren owned and operated transportation, transit and tour companies for twenty-five years, where his focus was administration, marketing, operations and finance. His firms included tour and regular route operations, in addition to several large special events including two Olympic games in North America. He also founded, developed and operated private sector operations in public transit in New York City.

Since 1996, Mr. Condren focused on providing management advisory expertise and transactional experience in mergers & acquisitions as well as the formation of strategic alliances for enterprises with revenues ranging from $3 million to $120 million. In addition to representing some of the leading transportation enterprises in the United States, Mr. Condren has represented both domestic and international buyers and sellers within public and privately owned firms spanning several industries.

Based in New York City, Mr. Condren also consults with air, land, rail, and maritime operators, in a variety of transport related matters. He possesses comprehensive knowledge of regulatory and compliance matters pertaining to operating authority statutes in many venues. As an entrepreneur, his business experience provides a strong understanding of the business environment that face many business owners. He is a graduate of St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights New York City with a Bachelor of Science degree.


Thomas Pellegrini, CPA - Managing Director

Mr. Pellegrini has had extensive financial experience working as an Accounting Manager for Warner Brothers Studios, a Controller for Eneric Petroleum Corp., and for the Westinghouse Beverage Group. He was also the Vice President of Finance for Premier Telecommunications, a telecommunications start-up company and Chief Financial Officer for Africa Expeditions, a safari and remote logistics company in East Africa.

Mr. Pellegrini has spent the past several years in management consulting with The Farrell Group and Accenture. During this time he has had extensive experience in a wide variety of industries developing integrated quality based management systems, company valuations, customer and employee satisfaction studies, performance measurement systems, multi-location/self-directed work team programs and business process architectures.

Mr. Pellegrini received his Masters in Business Administration from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA and is also a Certified Public Accountant.


Anthony Brendel - Managing Director

Mr. Anthony Brendel brings over thirty five years of commercial finance, asset based lending and merger and acquisition experience to Amdel's clients. Mr. Brendel is a Director and Board member of several manufacturing and marketing companies including his most recent assignment as Director of the Country Place Health Mgt. Group in Connecticut. Mr. Brendel holds a bachelors degree in Accounting from Bowling Green University.


Clifford E.McFarland - Managing Director, McFarland, Grossman & Company

Mr. McFarland co-founded the Watkins Group, a merchant banking firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he served as managing director until late 1991. Mr. McFarland has a solid base of management advisory expertise in the areas of analysis, development and implementation of strategic corporate financing plans for high - growth, private, entrepreneurial companies.
For more than 12 years, Mr. McFarland has been engaged as a strategic corporate advisor at the senior management and board level to more than one hundred growth oriented companies in over 25 different industry classifications, with growing operations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and the Pacific Rim.
Mr. McFarland's active participation with client companies in successfully implementing, structuring, and executing strategic financing plans for corporate growth has resulted in an ever expanding network of professional financial relationships . McFarland, Grossman & Company has extensive domestic and international institutional equity and debt capital sources, both private and public.

Mr. McFarland graduated from the University of Houston/Clear Lake with a Bachelor of Science in Business/Public Affairs.


Cary Grossman CPA - Managing Director, McFarland, Grossman, & Company

Mr.Cary Grossman is a Certified Public Accountant and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Texas in 1976.
Prior to entering the investment banking field, he spent 15 years practicing public accounting. His public accounting career began with Weinstein Spira & Company, a regional firm based in Houston, Texas. He then successfully formed and operated a local accounting firm for 10 years. During that time he served as a financial and accounting advisor to numerous entrepreneurial companies in many industries and was involved in planning, structuring, and arranging financing for many businesses and real estate transactions. In 1989, Mr. Grossman became affiliated with the Watkins Group, and in 1991, he opened a Houston office for that firm.

In addition to being a CPA, Mr. Grossman holds a general securities representative license with the National Association of Securities Dealers and is a licensed real estate broker in Texas.