Mr. Carson has over thirteen years of investment banking and financial consulting experience in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, fairness opinions, capital structure and valuation analyses and general financial advisory services for private and public companies. Prior to joining Western Reserve Partners, Mr. Carson served as a Senior Vice President at KeyBanc Capital Markets and McDonald Investments Inc., where he focused on providing leading middle-market industrial companies with mergers and acquisitions advisory services and raising private and public equity and debt.

Representative clients of Mr. Carson include Adorn, Inc., Advance Mixer, CNI, Inc., Crossmann Communities, Ferro Corp., Finishmaster, FirstEnergy Corp., Gould Electronics, H.H. Gregg, Johnson Oil, Inc. (d/b/a Bigfoot Food Stores), LDI, Inc., NiSource, Inc., Quality Dining, PVC Compounders, Inc., Red Simpson, Inc., SEMCO, Inc., Spartan Stores, Inc. and Stonehenge Partners.

Mr. Carson was graduated cum laude from Miami University with a B.S.B.A. in Accounting and also received his M.B.A. from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Mr. Carson is a Certified Public Account (inactive). Mr. Carson has also served on the Board of Directors for the Indianapolis Chapter of Habitat for Humanity.