John Ferrara Capstone Partners

This one is as action-packed and varied in scene as a James Bond movie. John Ferrara is founder and CEO of Capstone Partners, the middle market investment bank. John’s story rolls through his upbringing in hardscrabble Brockton, MA to college at liberal arts enclave Wesleyan to an early career stop with Lehman Brothers on Wall Street, to two years of professional baseball in Australia. Then business school at UCLA, partnership at Arthur Andersen and, in 2002, the founding of Capstone. John discusses his ambitious early plans for a new investment bank, the buildup of Capstone through a series of acquisitions, and the decision to sell to Huntington Bank in 2022. John and the hosts wrap up discussing some personal challenges and life philosophy that applies to but transcends the world of finance.