ACG Houston Deal of the Year
Deal of the Year Awards Ceremony: April 20, 2021
2021-04-20 06:00:00
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Ken

Ken Wiles, PhD, CFA

Executive Director, Hick, Muse Tate & Furst Center for Private Equity Finance

Ken is the Executive Director of the Hick, Muse Tate & Furst Center for Private Equity Finance, and a Clinical Associate Professor of Finance at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance Economics, Financial Management, The Journal of Empirical Finance, Financial Analyst Journal, and The Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, and in The Wall Street Journal.

Ken has also been the COO or CFO of several companies, two of which were taken public by JP Morgan and Bear Sterns respectively, and one was sold to Oracle Corporation. Ken founded and led a restructuring firm, was the managing partner of a money management firm, has worked at three investment banking firms, and was a finance professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for 17 years. Ken is a certified valuation and interest rate expert in federal bankruptcy court. He was the Chief Restructuring Officer of Turnberry/MGM Grand Towers, LLC, which concluded a multi-year bankruptcy process in 2017. He is also on the Investment Committee at LBJ Wealth Advisors and on the Board of Lawclerk.legal.

Ken was appointed by Governor Brian Sandoval and, from 2011 until 2018, was the Chairman of the Nevada Economic Forum, which estimates the level of state revenues used to establish the Nevada state budget. He is also on Investment Committee for the LBJ Family Wealth Advisors.

He holds a PhD in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

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Deal of the Year Award
ACG Houston’s fourth annual Deal of the Year event is focused on celebrating Houston’s booming middle-market deal community – honoring the deals and dealmakers who drive middle market growth – resulting in job growth, capital formation and the advancement of meaningful business relationships.
Important Dates
Nomination Deadline: March 12, 2021
Finalists Announced: April 6, 2021
Award Ceremony: April 20, 2021

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