Dale Killmeyer
Managing DirectorStone Pier Capital Advisors, LP
Dale Killmeyer is a finance professional who has not always been an investment banker. Dale began his career with a large CPA firm (he sometimes introduces himself as a “recovering CPA”) then served as Treasurer of a large family office and a venture capital firm. Dale spent years inside lower middle market companies, so he knows what it’s like to meet a payroll as well as satisfy demanding shareholders, bankers, customers and employees. Although always in and around capital transactions his entire career, in 2007 Dale decided to focus the second half of his career in investment banking. He gets extreme satisfaction from guiding business owners through the complex, emotional process of selling their company and other high level strategic challenges. More…
Charlie Schliebs
Managing DirectorStone Pier Capital Advisors, LP
Charlie Schliebs is a co-founder and Managing Director of Stone Pier Capital Advisors, a Pittsburgh-based boutique M&A advisory firm and investment bank serving a variety of industries, especially those with long histories in the region or those served by Stone Pier’s principals across their careers. These industries include manufacturing, business services, healthcare/life sciences, construction, and energy, both traditional energy (oil and gas; nuclear) and alternative energy (hydrogen, renewable methane, utility-scale battery storage, solar, wind). First as a lawyer (until retiring from Jones Day as an international M&A and securities partner and Firmwide practice group head), and then as a private equity investor and now investment banker, Charlie has had significant exposure to a broad range of industries and their ups and downs over decades. While at Jones Day Charlie’s work was with Fortune World 50 and Fortune 500 companies; however, his legal experiences prior to Jones Day and his private equity and investment banking work since Jones Day have focused on family-owned or family-controlled companies. It is this long experience with family-dominated businesses that helps both Stone Pier principals deal so effectively, time after time, with its clients, their needs and desires, and their companies in transition.
Charlie is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (BS from the Wharton School and BA in Russian and Slavic Studies), which he attended on a competitive merit scholarship from the Pipe Fitting & Air Conditioning Council for children of pipefitters; and he is a graduate of the Vanderbilt University School of Law, which he attended as the Elliott E. Cheatham Scholar, at the time the school’s largest merit scholarship, providing full tuition and living costs.
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