Jon founded and built one of the country’s top-ranked advisory firms – Burke Capital. It became the preeminent bank advisory firm for nearly fifteen years in the Southeast, being well known as having unequaled access to most of the leaders of the banking industry. Prior to founding Burke Capital, Jon was a senior officer at The Robinson Humphrey Company, where he led the banking and financial institution research effort. Jon played a critical role in assisting Robinson Humphrey’s various commercial banking offerings including corporate finance and trading. He was particularly known for assisting in bank M&A and capital assignments. Jon is considered one of the leading authorities on banking and financial institutions in the Southeast largely due to his role as advisor on key transactions in the market. Jon is a CFA and holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of Georgia and an MBA from Georgia State University.

Bill has been with Jon and Denny since late 2008 and is a co-founder of The Burke Group. He was most recently a Managing Director in the FIG banking practice at Morgan Keegan. He has worked at FSI Capital, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and Bank of America (fka NationsBank) as well as spending six years in the insurance industry. While at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Bill conceptualized and led the bank trust preferred efforts resulting in $1.8 billion of private capital transactions in eighteen months for community banks. He has been a frequent speaker for the FFIEC in Washington, DC and served as an expert witness on the securities industry. He has spoken at various banking industry and state banking conferences on capital raising and mergers and acquisitions. Bill received a BBA in Finance and Insurance from Eastern Kentucky University and an MS in Finance from Boston College.

Denny has broad experience in advising on M&A and corporate finance transactions and founded Burke Capital with Jon. Denny began his career at Arthur Andersen & Co., where he was a partner in the firm’s Atlanta office. While at Arthur Andersen, his experience included advising middle market companies on corporate finance matters and working on M&A transactions. Prior to joining Jon in 1996, Denny was a senior executive for a multi-divisional manufacturing company with sales in excess of $400 million. As a co-founder of Burke Capital, Denny has served as the Managing Principal of the firm’s broker dealer subsidiary and led a number of M&A and capital raising projects. He is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) and holds a BS in Business Administration from The Ohio State University and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin.

Matt joined The Burke Group in 2014 and currently serves as a Director. Prior to joining The Burke Group, he was a Senior Associate at Deloitte Corporate Finance as a result of Deloitte’s acquisition of McColl Partners, where he worked as an Associate in the firm’s Financial Institutions Group. While at Deloitte Corporate Finance and McColl Partners, Matt worked on a broad range of middle market corporate advisory assignments in the financial services and community bank industries. Matt started his career as an Investment Banking Analyst with Morgan Keegan in Atlanta, where he worked in the Financial Institutions Group. Matt received a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.