Mr. Hank Torbert is the Managing Partner and Founder of Avondale Ventures, LLC. He
founded the firm in 2006. Mr. Torbert is responsible for investment selection
and analysis, transaction structuring, and portfolio management and monitoring.
He has extensive experience in private equity, advisory, and investment banking
as well as in financing, developing, and operating small and middle market
businesses in the media and telecommunications, technology, and transportation sectors.
From 2004 to
2006, Mr. Torbert served as an Executive Vice President and Chief Operating
Officer at Broadcast Capital. He was responsible for the company’s investment
strategy, portfolio management, and operations. Mr. Torbert also expanded
Broadcap’s focus from investing in broadcasting to also include digital and
converged media, outdoor advertising, content and programming, and other
sub-sectors.
From 1999 to
2004, he was an Investment Banker at JPMorgan Chase. Mr. Torbert served as a
Vice President of the Financial Sponsor Group in middle market banking at
JPMorgan Chase Bank and also covered media and telecommunications clients in
the Equity Capital Markets Group. There, he was a Member of a four-person team
that covered the bank’s top tier middle market private equity clients.
Mr. Hank Torbert was
responsible for sourcing and financing private equity investment opportunities
for financial sponsors investing in the middle market, with a special industry
focus on media, healthcare, telecommunications, and consumer products
transactions. Additionally, he completed over $100 billion in transactions in
the media and telecommunications and technology sectors as a Senior Associate
in the Equity Capital Markets Group at JPMorgan Securities. Mr. Torbert also
has held positions at AIG Capital Partners, where he focused on analyzing
global private equity investments and on raising capital for its Global
Emerging Markets Fund and New Africa Advisers.
He played an
integral role in developing and launching its private equity and open-end fund
products. As a founding investor and Board Member, Mr. Hank Torbert played an
integral role in the launch, development, and IPO of Mood Media. In addition,
he has played a vital role in the formation and growth of several other middle
market-sized companies including HorrorNet and MixcastTV. Mr. Torbert also
served as a Strategic Advisor at Seven Echo.
He serves as a Director at
Midas Medici Group Holdings, Inc. since February 28, 2011. In addition, Mr.
Torbert is currently on the Board of Directors of dLs Group and Consonus
Technologies, Inc. He also has an active Director or Advisory role at Celeritas
Management, Inc. Mr. Torbert serves as a Director at Strive DC and Medstar
Research Institute. He is a Trustee, Director, and Alumnus of The Taft School.
Mr. Hank Torbert speaks regularly at media industry seminars on venture capital and
other investment-related topics and is a recipient of the Network Journal’s Top
40 Under 40 Award. He holds a Masters degree in International Finance, an M.B.A.,
and a B.A. from Columbia University.