Mr. Mayer has over ten years of investment banking and financial advisory experience. This includes work on sell-side and buy-side M&A transactions, corporate divestitures, fairness and valuation opinions, and general financial advisory services primarily for leading middle-market companies.

Prior to joining Western Reserve Partners, Mr. Mayer was a Vice President within the Mergers and Acquisitions group at KeyBanc Capital Markets and McDonald Investments. Prior to that he worked for Thayer Capital Partners, a middle market private equity firm based in Washington, D.C. and Robertson, Stephens & Co., an investment banking firm based in San Francisco, CA focused on emerging growth companies.

Representative clients of Mr. Mayer’s include public and private companies as well as private equity firms, including: Aleris International, A.O. Smith, Chemtura Corporation, Data Circuit Systems, Delta Petroleum Company, Flo-Tork, JRB Company, Oatey Co., Saugatuck Capital, TTM Technologies, and The Riverside Company.

Mr. Mayer received a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University and his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and serves as a board member of the Yale Alumni Association of Cleveland.