Aria Ziatabari received his MBA from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University with an emphasis in finance and entrepreneurship.
He gained his initial transactional experience in the private equity space, working for Lionfish Advisors, a sell-side advisory service specializing in the sales of businesses with revenues between $2M-$20M. After his time at Lionfish, Aria has spent most of his career in operations focusing on day-to-day management and process improvement, primarily focusing on Salesforce.com implementations. This part of his career began at Kerrigan Industries (http://kerrigancapital.com/) where he focused his time and energy on building up recently acquired portfolio companies and emphasized his focus on Alta Environmental (http://www.altaenviron.com/). |
Thereafter, Aria teamed up with Jake Bergman at TBG Equity which purchased Cadence Power (www.cadencepower.com), a distribution company targeting the power utility market in California. He is currently serving as Chief Operating Officer for Cadence.
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